Obama to celebrities: “You’re the ultimate arbiter” of this country’s direction
posted at 5:56 pm on June 15, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the home of actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick for a joint fundraising appearance on Thursday night, during which the president offered the gathered stars a rather frightening piece of flattery.
The intimate dinner banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,000 each. …
Speaking in a dimly lighted, art-filled room, Obama told supporters they would play a critical role in an election that would determine a vision for the nation’s future.
“You’re the tie-breaker,” he said. “You’re the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes.”
Among the celebrities on hand to hear Obama’s remarks were Oscar winner Meryl Streep, fashion designer Michael Kors and Vogue editor Anna Wintour…
The president and Mrs. Obama also headlined a second glitzy fundraiser in Manhattan Thursday night that included a performance from singer Mariah Carey and remarks by singer Alicia Keys. The 250-person dinner yielded the Obama campaign at least $2.5 million.
Let me be clear.
ar·bi·ter
[ahr-bi-ter] noun
1. a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.2. a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.
Who knows whether The One meant to merely butter up the glamorous group of One Percenters assembled specifically to give him gobs of cash, or if he actually believes what he just said — but either way, consider me outrageously outraged. I don’t think I could come up with a group of people less suited to the task of passing the “ultimate” judgment on the state of our nation.
I’m not knocking what celebrities do for a living — I enjoy the artistry of movies, music, and fashion as much as the next gal. But, if Mitt Romney is ostensibly “out of touch” with the middle class and “removed” from the issues concerning the common man because he was a movin’ and shakin’ businessman who earned a large fortune… I don’t even know what to say. The hypocrisy confounds me.
These wealthy Hollywood types seem to dearly love their Occupy-solidarity and their “war on women” and their extreme environmentalism, issues about which most Americans don’t care at all. President Obama heeds their opinions at his own peril, writes Michael Barone:
But there is one group of people Obama has to listen to: the people who give him large sums of money. He recently attended his 150th fundraiser. That’s more than the number attended by the last four presidents put together.
Obama has seen enough Architectural Digest-type interiors in Park Avenue triplexes and Beverly Hills mansions, and on the block in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, where every house is owned by a billionaire, to develop an expertise in Louis XV walnut commodes and Brunschwig & Fils fabrics.
He’s also had plenty of chances to absorb the advice of the kind of rich liberals who like to give money to Democratic presidents. And the evidence that he has taken some of that advice is his initiatives on three controversial issues…
If the same-sex marriage reversal seems somewhat risky politically and the contraception mandate considerably riskier, the Keystone pipeline decision seems downright foolish politically. Voters tend to favor it by 2-1 margins, and if they’re not aware of it, the Republicans (and maybe the pro-pipeline unions) will make sure they are.
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Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from obama’s tyranny
UltimateBob on June 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM
What Obama is saying is that these people have a significant role in forming the view of people. They have a huge psychological role in determining how people view things, what they see as good and bad, right and wrong, etc.
crosspatch on June 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM
Hollywierd degenerates are the biggest kissers of OBOZO’s butt, so he’s just returning the wet kisses on theirs.
TeaPartyNation on June 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM
Ugh, never could stand the woman in the picture. One of the most obnoxious people on this planet. Look at that self-important squint. Ugly as all hell, too.
I don’t much like Sarah Jessica Parker either.
Gingotts on June 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM
nice reference to the little boy after the dentist erika, you scamp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs
t8stlikchkn on June 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM
What was it that libfreeordie was saying the other day about politics and money again? Someone refresh my memory . . . . .
tdpwells on June 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Speechless…
OmahaConservative on June 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM
ah you went queen, i was thinking aldo nova.
t8stlikchkn on June 15, 2012 at 6:01 PM
“Will it be hay or oats? Hay? Good, because we can’t afford oats anymore.”
The Romneys’ horse is going to the Olympics. Obama’s is acting as the ultimate arbiter of the nation.
forest on June 15, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Help us George Clooney, you’re our best and only hope.
Flange on June 15, 2012 at 6:02 PM
God, Michelle O. is ‘beautiful’.
Schadenfreude on June 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM
O’s infatuation with vacuous celebrities, and vice versa, is the tip of the iceberg on what is upsetting independents. And it goes way way beyond the economy.
Eleanor Clift: Independents Souring on Obama
“Listening to these voters for over two hours, it was clear that their assessment of the economy is not as bleak as one would suppose, given their disaffection from Obama…”
Their disaffection with Obama springs from issues beyond the economy, or, in which the economy is just a part of the bigger equation. Indeed, a clear distinction needs to be made, the election is about an out of control govt, not the economy. How is it out of control? Reckless runaway spending, and so many other ways.
While it would be a significant plus for Romney if the economy goes further south, don’t hang our hat on the economy. Hang our hat on the bigger issue, to which the economy is a subset.
anotherJoe on June 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM
Train wreck.
Punchenko on June 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM
So much … waste.
Axe on June 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM
OK…
NO need to run the Sunday Obamaturism poll this weekend.
THAT is the hands-down winner…wiener…
Ragspierre on June 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM
Oh, and…..
FIRST!!!
:-)
UltimateBob on June 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM
beard convention and echo chamber for the monied NPD set.
but it makes sense as POTUS is talentless, vapid, self absorbed celebtard himself.
mittens on June 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM
Anna Wintour is a wardrobe consultant for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”. Because she was alive 100 years ago… unlike now.
BHO Jonestown on June 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM
And this is the same the guy who was outraged by Romney being a gracious guest and saying to his host
” Nice house” ???
burrata on June 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM
I’d go with something like shepherd or navigator myself, but for the most part he’s right. Conservatives long ago left steering the culture to the liberals.
DFCtomm on June 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM
Schadenfreude on June 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM
What’s wrong with SJP’s nose in that picture? It looks awful.
Punchenko on June 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM
..yeah, because we all want to have the important aspects in our life decided by a woman who is married to Ferris Beuller and spends her last red cent on $1,000 Jimmy Choo high heels.
The War Planner on June 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM
The ship is sinking and the Dems are looking at professional fantasy makers for comfort. Not a good trend for them.
dec5 on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Make them all cry in Nov. Maybe then they’ll all shut up and sing/act.
Schadenfreude on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
I’d like to say to Sarah Jessica Parker (quoting Sarah Palin):
Why the long face?
UltimateBob on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
What’s wrong with SJP’s nose in that picture? It looks awful.
Ragspierre on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Yeah, it always looks awful when it’s attached to her face like it is in the picture.
Gingotts on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Time to turn off the tube, stop reading most newspapers and magazines, and stay away from the theaters and concert halls.
You’ll be saving money and doing your brain a world of good.
Rixon on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
There are lots of ultimate arbiters of which way this country goes.
About 120 million of us, and we don’t all agree.
But all of our voices count, just as much as those celebrities.
Steve Z on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Did Jon Lovitz make the social event ?
Was he invited ?
“Thats not the ticket”… anymore…… yeah.
FlaMurph on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
man he’s really counting on a razor thin margin telling the 0.01% they will swing the election
touch, he’s out of it dahling
DanMan on June 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM
I was going to say she looks like Mr. Ed but that nose is a cross between Karl Malden and Jimmy Durante.
Heh, heh, heh, I’m mortified!
Rixon on June 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM
Won’t he run out of celebrities at some point? How many celebrities fund-raising can he possibly have? How many celebrities do we have around these days? Aren’t celebrities a limited resource?
joana on June 15, 2012 at 6:09 PM
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy…and then Sarah Jessica Parker shows up to finish off the oats.
DanMan on June 15, 2012 at 6:09 PM
Somewhere in that room, the ghost of Pauline Kael is having a very good laugh.
Rixon on June 15, 2012 at 6:10 PM
She kissed Moochel’s ample posterior after Moochel had had a big bean burrito
burrata on June 15, 2012 at 6:10 PM
My bet is on the big lie. No executive experience, but in fabrication truth, he has lots of it.
This has gotten to the point of being surreal. Everything that comes out of his administration is nightmarish.
jazzuscounty on June 15, 2012 at 6:10 PM
The academics and journalists fancy themselves to be the liberal ruling class, but no dice. They may be Party Members, but the real Nomenklatura of the Regime are the celebrities. They have image, they have money, plus Obama isn’t the most ignorant person in the room with these people around. It’s the trifecta. I hope the eggheads aren’t too disappointed, but they really aren’t that important to Obama.
forest on June 15, 2012 at 6:10 PM
beard.
funny.
t8stlikchkn on June 15, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Oh, they aren’t going to shut up. When Zero is swept into the dustbin of history where he belongs, the shrieking vitriol and accusations of racism will be louder than ever.
UltimateBob on June 15, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Her stable boy strapped her feedbag on to tight.
Flange on June 15, 2012 at 6:12 PM
sausage king of chicago.
t8stlikchkn on June 15, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Anna Wintour has believed this very thing for years. Sarah Jessica Parker, though, was surprised. She though her national authority ended with shoes and accessories.
The most unbelievable month of an unbelievable presidency. Every outrage one can imagine against the Constitution, against divided government, against allies, against national security, against our national solvency and international regard, and yet…this one just might stick with me the longest.
What sort of President of the United States do we have , who would say such a moronic thing to a room full of people like this? Actors, fashion pundits, over-bejeweled self-impressed urban elites. Poorly educated trendenistas.
We’re in bizarro-world. Maybe we switched into an alternate universe, and Richard Feynman just didn’t tell us. Rod Serling would love this stuff but I am totally dis-oriented.
MTF on June 15, 2012 at 6:14 PM
SJP looks more and more like Cruella everyday…
PatriotRider on June 15, 2012 at 6:15 PM
Bring in the Tuvan throat singers!
Rixon on June 15, 2012 at 6:16 PM
What is up with her mouth? Is she sticking her tongue out, or what?
AZCoyote on June 15, 2012 at 6:16 PM
What’s wrong with SJP’s nose in that picture? It looks awful.
Punchenko on June 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM
When did it look better :)… The woman always looked more like a man…
jimver on June 15, 2012 at 6:16 PM
They usually avoid taking pictures from this angle because she has a big schnauz…in other words she’s a horse-face. Pass the hay….
gracie on June 15, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Obama proudly announces the end of “one man, one vote.” Goodbye democracy. You had a nice run.
munseym on June 15, 2012 at 6:17 PM
that never gets old
DanMan on June 15, 2012 at 6:17 PM
i mentioned last night wrt Speilberg that artists follow their own muse…which is charming in its own way
but we should not be governed by the sensibilities of vaudevillians.
These people actually are just the propagandist arm of the left..the political theater. Barry is not a hard core totalitarian…however, if this country devolves into that, these people will know very plainly who they serve.
some of them may relish being the face of the proletariat…but in China, the artists aren’t so happy. Years ago during Mao (i guess) there was some sort of great book authored by his ‘literary’ cadre that he employed.
Recently the chi-coms more or less ‘asked’ today’s literati to re-copy the book as a celebration…each taking a chapter..most complied. Many felt the stab of betrayal..that no, they really weren’t all that free…and they complied.
r keller on June 15, 2012 at 6:17 PM
Well put, Erika. It does indeed boggle the mind. The sad part is 40% or more of voters are plugging their ears & shouting “la-la-la-la-la … Bush! … Forward! … Hope and Change! … la-la-la …”.
KS Rex on June 15, 2012 at 6:18 PM
Not sure about the nose, but she sure has that “f*ck me already” look on her face. These Obama sycophants are truly disturbed.
antipc on June 15, 2012 at 6:18 PM
“There are 2 Americas. You Hollywood Gods, and unwashed filthy masses.”
-Precedent BH O
portlandon on June 15, 2012 at 6:19 PM
Let’s all put Obama stickers on our cars after the election and drive ‘em nuts.
DanMan on June 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Do you mean Ed Morrissey or the Talking Horse?
KS Rex on June 15, 2012 at 6:21 PM
And Moochelle’s got too many teeth and a big tongue (macroglossia)so it hangs out because it doesn’t fit in her mouth so…she’s a cow-face.
gracie on June 15, 2012 at 6:22 PM
I thought the illegal immigrants (under 30) who illegally registered and voted were going to be the arbiter’s of the next election.
KenInIL on June 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM
The woman in the photo wearing the red dress makes me think of the old woman in the fable, The Three Wishes.
Mason on June 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM
Do they have tape of Obama making this “arbiter” statement? Because I think it would make an awesome commercial; That sentiment, in a nutshell, says it all: Barry wants the Hollywood plastic poseurs to declare American policy. Surely that’s worth at least 51% of the electorate’s disgust.
BettyRuth on June 15, 2012 at 6:25 PM
No one wants to admit he actually takes political counsel from Matthew Brodderick.
Yeah. Who told him that Godzilla would be a great career choice.
J_Crater on June 15, 2012 at 6:26 PM
I thought her tongue hung out like that because she didn’t have sweat glands and she was trying to cool down.
Flange on June 15, 2012 at 6:26 PM
What Obama is saying is that these people have a significant role in forming the view of
peopleignorant, vapid people. They have a huge psychological role in determining howpeopleignorant, vapid people view things, what they see as good and bad, right and wrong, etc.crosspatch on June 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM
FIFY
phxconservative on June 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Pretty soon there will be no reason to even own a television.
I hardly think vapid idiots should decide the country’s fate.
annyinboulder on June 15, 2012 at 6:31 PM
Hey, has anyone noticed how BIG SJP’s honker is in the thumbnail? Yikes.
Also, her face is somewhat horse-like, wouldn’t you say?
MisterElephant on June 15, 2012 at 6:32 PM
The people involved in the film and television industry, as well as the fashion industry, have chronically overestimated to what degree they inform, or even influence, public opinion. The belief they hold that they can and do inform public opinion springs from their own core belief that Americans are really vacuous idiots who lack the ability to think things through and make their own decisions on cultural matters, ideological issues, or even what to wear. They presume that we are, all of us, waiting breathlessly for them to tell us what to think, how to feel, what to value or despise, and what to covet. Its predicated on the assumption that if something is seen on a screen or on the back of a celebrity everyone exposed to that viewing will be inspired to emulate it. In short, we are the thoughtless insipid masses.
Many of these people have no formal education outside of their own area of expertise, or ‘craft’, yet they are anxious to expound on everything from environmental issues to nuclear proliferation and certain that they have acquired the credentials to hold these opinions not through any actual study, but rather through some form of osmosis via their own celebrity. Many of these people are also possessed of a distinctly questionable character and are less than ethical.
For this president to tell them that THEY are the ‘arbiters’ of the direction of this nation… is a direct reflection on his own intellect and character.
thatsafactjack on June 15, 2012 at 6:33 PM
Illegals will vote and riot and kill for him , for the right payment ofcourse.
Celebrities will shape Obama’s policies, after paying the right price to Obama .
Like Shakira and Eva Longoria will decide Obama’s amnesty policy .
Horsey -face SJP will decide his contraception policies.
Julia Luios Dreyfuss will formulate his energy policies.
Beyonce and JayZ will approve his National Security policies.
Harvey Weinstein will control the Pantygone on islamic terrorism.
Clooney will be his advisor on wars in the ME, while Damon will formulate Obama’s education policies.
You get the picture !
burrata on June 15, 2012 at 6:34 PM
I wish I either owned, or owned stock in a shovel company right now. This buttcrumb of a human on whom was bestowed one of the greatest honors of humanity (President, not Novice Peace Prize), is wearing out shovels right and left with the holes he’s digging himself. Bravo, sir, bravo, keep digging, you’ll be in China soon. And since that’s the society you so admire, well precious, I guess you’ll have gotten to the prize at the bottom of the Crackerjack box. Happy digging you POS.
waterytart on June 15, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Rajat K. Gupta, the retired head of the consulting firm McKinsey Company, a former Goldman Sachs board member and a purveyor of campaign contributions to Democrats such as Barack Obama, was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy and securities fraud. He is the most prominent business executive convicted in a wave of prosecutions that followed the government’s sweeping investigation into insider trading on Wall Street.
J_Crater on June 15, 2012 at 6:35 PM
SJP is such a SquarePeg.
portlandon on June 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM
It’s stars we’re out of; celebrities are a dime a dozen.
squint on June 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM
No More ‘Shabby Chic” for you, SJP!
A small battalion of cleaners was spotted scrubbing door handles and windows outside the house. Yesterday, dozens of plump, white roses were delivered along with rental chairs, and a gardener planted mini-ferns out front.
When Rush mentioned this on his show today, I went into gales of laughter. These Hollywood/fashion types really are mental.
PatriotGal2257 on June 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM
“WE SURROUND THEM”, Pretty much the only thing I feel good about in quoting Glen Beck, but it’s true and I’m looking forward to their angst next Nov.
BettyRuth on June 15, 2012 at 6:38 PM
ANd that was the LAST time she was even remotely likeable. shudder.
BettyRuth on June 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Who determines spending policy? Charles Barkley?
Gingotts on June 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Tie breaker between what? Socialist/Marxist or full blown Communism? That’s what Obummer is talking about. Guess the nitwits in Hollywood will decide. I’m so fking happy that my future is in the hands of a bunch of folks who make a living at pretend, I can feel a tingle up my leg.
they lie on June 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Yup, honker.
http://current.com/groups/humor-culture-blog/93807105_sarah-jessica-parker-held-a-fundraiser-for-barack-obama-and-the-world-didnt-end.htm
RBMN on June 15, 2012 at 6:40 PM
If we all stop celebrating “celebrities,” will they go away sooner?
Rather than celebrating them, most celebrities should be laughed at for their staggering levels of ignorance.
wren on June 15, 2012 at 6:41 PM
I heard (psst, don’t tell anyone), that the reason he’s sucking up to the hollyweed types so badly, is (since they have no orginal ideas) there’s a new incarnation of Different Strokes being bandied about, and he’s aiming to play the adult “Willis”……as in “Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout”. Todd Bridges, look out.
waterytart on June 15, 2012 at 6:47 PM
.
Now that I’ve regained my composure . . . . . . . . . . . . that’s one of funniest ideas I’ve ever heard. : )
It might start a war, but it’s FUNNY.
listens2glenn on June 15, 2012 at 6:47 PM
Would all those “I (heart) Obama” knee pads these 1% goobers clamored for be considered ‘shabby chic?’
locomotivebreath1901 on June 15, 2012 at 6:51 PM
Evidently the “King” thinks he’s talking to the nobility.
Well, if he wants us to go all medieval on his… we can do that.
Olo_Burrows on June 15, 2012 at 6:52 PM
Neigh-neigh I say.
slickwillie2001 on June 15, 2012 at 6:53 PM
I think we need to have a national conversation on what the hell happened to SJP’s hideously deformed nose in that picture.
Punchenko on June 15, 2012 at 6:54 PM
I, for one, welcome our superior citizens edicts.
Tony Soprano on June 15, 2012 at 6:57 PM
So we’re all supposed to blindly follow the lead of a bunch (mostly uneducated) people who make money pretending to be someone else, and regularly go bankrupt after making their millions. Ya right.
dentarthurdent on June 15, 2012 at 6:58 PM
Why do progressives hate the middle and lower classes?
chemman on June 15, 2012 at 7:00 PM
For the “Smartest Man in the World” you certainly are stupid Barry. The ‘ultimate arbiter’ is the voter.
And HOPEFULLY they will CHANGE who is in the White House this November.
GarandFan on June 15, 2012 at 7:03 PM
Only if they are actually soiled and torn, or designed to look that way.
You know, like the fake tuxedo fronts silk screened onto white t-shirts which some might mistake for the real thing. :)
PatriotGal2257 on June 15, 2012 at 7:03 PM
Boortz calls her Sarah Jessica Secretariat.
rickv404 on June 15, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Man, I miss the old studio system. You know, the old ways when the studio heads told the actor/actresses to shut up and read their lines like good employees because nobody wants to hear what a talking mannequin thinks. It’s too bad, really, that SAG broke the studio system down.
totherightofthem on June 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM
That this comment is so mocked and sparks so much outrage here is well indicative of why the left continues to gain ground.
Like it or not, he’s right. Our pop ‘culture’ does influence mores and thought processes of many, many people. It speaks to many who are not influenced by parents or schools or church.
But to acknowledge this would be to acknowledge that there is much heavy lifting for the right re: taking over institutions.
It’s so much easier to pretend that merely blogging about it or voting for Romney will solve our problems.
avgjo on June 15, 2012 at 7:08 PM
Keep screwing the pooch, President Barack Hussein Obama. Please keep screwing that pooch.
FlatFoot on June 15, 2012 at 7:09 PM
And while he was partying with rich, vacuous celebrities, people were being evacuated from and losing their homes due to wildfires. I feel pretty secure in saying that not one person at that soiree, the President included, gave one damn thought to those people.
KateNE on June 15, 2012 at 7:09 PM
Thread Winner!!
Bubba Redneck on June 15, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Is it true that in grade school she used that thing on her chin as a pencil eraser?
slickwillie2001 on June 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM
Bueller and his horse run the country now?
Bubba Redneck on June 15, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Actually, she’s a Dressage Mount.
Tony Soprano on June 15, 2012 at 7:16 PM
She was pretty good in “War Horse”
beancounter on June 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM
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