LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
2010 Webby Award Winner for Best Political Blog
 
February 19, 2012
Log in / Register

 Choose a size
Text Size

Most Read

Krugman to Playboy: Economic Crisis 'Doesn't Have to Be Happening'

Déjà Pooh

The .0000063% Election

The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the Foreclosure Crisis

Truthdigger of the Week: Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
The Lowdown on Fracking
The .0000063% Election

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
Déjà Pooh

Digs
Financial Meltdown 101

Truthdig Bazaar
I Don’t Believe in Atheists

I Don’t Believe in Atheists

By Chris Hedges
$20.75

more items

 
Arts and Culture

Streisand to Lend Pipes to Obama’s Cause

Email this item Email    Print this item Print   

Posted on Sep 8, 2008
Streisand
Keystone / Eddy Risch

Babs for Barack: Streisand will sing for Obama on Sept. 16 in Beverly Hills.

Barack Obama will get the star treatment from Hollywood denizens (or is it the other way around?) once more before the election, at a two-part fundraising extravaganza on Sept. 16. First, Obama will join hosts Steven Spielberg and his DreamWorks co-moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen for an intimate dinner at Beverly Hills’ Greystone Mansion (cost per person: $28,500), and the second will include a performance by songstress Barbra Streisand at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (a steal at just $2,500!).


Variety’s “Wilshire & Washington” blog:

Streisand endorsed Obama after he secured the nomination in June. She had endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primary, and appeared and spoke at a fund-raiser for her in January. She also sang at a concert for John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000.

The timing of this Obama visit is giving new meaning to the words, “quick turnaround,” as organizers have just eight days to put the fetes together.

On her Website, Streisand chimed in last week on John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin, writing, “We are not that stupid.”

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

.

Previous item: Robert Christgau on America's Secret Fundamentalists

Next item: Jane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson's Friendship With Abolitionist



Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By KDelphi, September 17, 2008 at 1:20 pm Link to this comment

McCain will make meat of this. I’m not saying that she shouldnt have done it. (It seems I always have to clarify that now—)

Report this

By optipessi mist, September 16, 2008 at 3:35 pm Link to this comment

Three stacks of the high life($30,000) to see the show.  Are these my fellow grass roots voters.  Where is my $30,000.  Oh yeah that’s what I make a year minus taxes.

Report this

By Ivan, September 15, 2008 at 12:46 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Bless Babs, always up for a good cause.
You are the best!!

Report this

By maneater, September 11, 2008 at 4:51 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

You are a true class act! Merci beaucoup!!

Report this

By DoctorK, September 10, 2008 at 3:53 pm Link to this comment

Thanks, Babs!

Report this

Add Your Comment

Posts by unregistered readers are moderated. Posts by members
are published immediately. Why wait? Register today!






                        Number of characters remaining: 4000

Are you a human? Retype the word you see here.

     

Please read and abide by our comment policy.
By submitting this comment, you agree to this site's terms and conditions.

Newsletter

Get Truthdig in your inbox


 
 
 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
Copyright © 2012 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.