McCain Knocks Obama Over Hollywood Fundraiser -- But McCain Just Held One Himself

Politico's Jonathan Martin reports:

John McCain used an appearance before a blue-collar crowd near Youngstown, Ohio, to take a class-tinged shot at Barack Obama tonight.

"He talks about siding with the people just before he flew off for a fundraiser in Hollywood with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends" McCain said of his rival. "Let me tell you, my friends, there's no place I'd rather be than right here with the working men and women of Ohio."

McCain apparently forgot to mention that he was handed out with his celebrity friends just last month. From August 25:

McCain attended a fundraiser at the Beverly Hills Hilton Monday night, which included a number of Hollywood Republicans, capping off a $4.7 million, two-event day in the Golden State.

The presumptive GOP nominee made little in the way of news in his remarks though he joked about his afternoon taping at the Tonight Show.

"I just came from taping the Jay Leno show so those of you that are up late tonight and don't wish to watch any re-runs of the Democratic convention," McCain said to laughter from the nearly 1,200 donors in the hotel ballroom. "So naturally we had to have a few age jokes and I told him that my Social Security number is 8. I am that old."

And while Barack Obama has the majority of Hollywood backing his candidacy, McCain had his own small cadre of celebs in attendance tonight. Among those that were spotted:

Stephen Baldwin
Pat Boone
Wilford Brimley
Dean Cain
Jon Cryer
Robert Duvall
Angie Harmon
Patricia Heaton
Lorenzo Lamas
Craig T. Nelson
Gail O'Grady
Jason Sehorn
Gary Sinise
Jon Voight

Comments

[TrevorAlan]

Gary!! Robert!! You're smarter than that!

Seriously, GOPers are always making fun of Adam Baldwin's support of the left, but do they think it is better to have STEPHEN Baldwin's support.

[BONGAMAC]

I AGREE COMPLETELY. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!

[Britta100]

John Cryer is a Republican? That's too bad I've loved him ever since Pretty in Pink. Oh well, I believe in free speech so I won't try to punish him for his politics by boycotting.

[lecraftygirl]

how funny i thought the same thing. what a bummer, i liked ducky!!!

[LFforMcCain]

Bad timing . . . very very bad Mr. Oh-I’m-so-­close-to-t­he-common-­man! Hello!? He’s so common that he’s hanging with the Hollywood liberals! He should have cancelled or sent a proxy...re­member how the Republicans curtailed their convention because of the hurricane?! Guess what Senator Obama . . . there's a hurricane on Wall Street and you should be hanging out on main street! Shame on you! I’m embarrassed to admit I almost voted for you! Thankfully you’ve helped me see what a stupid decision that would have been.

[the964kid]

McCain is just pissed cuz the biggest star at his hollywood fundraiser was Wilford Brimley.

Stop crying.

[heronimous]

wait a minute? those count as celebrities?

[ajax2]

McCain's fundraiser doesn't count as he doesn't remember it. The Reagan mea culpa.

[sak]

Look people. McCain does not remember from one day to the next what he did, how he voted or who he is married to. Maybe I am just biased beyond help, but I think something is very seriously wrong with his brain. Someone had better push hard for those medical records before it is too late. Sara as president would be a total disaster. Unless Obama gets way ahead, the GOPs will steal this election. They have a list of foreclosed homes in Michigan to use to purge the voter rolls and in Virginia they are frightening students at Virginia Tech with horror stories - put out by Macomb County - that students may lose funding, will no longer be deductible on their parents' income tax, will have to re-register their cars and will need to get a new driver's license if they vote in Virginia. Where is the press when we need them?

[GLT21]

HELLO.....­.Fred Thompson.

R hate celbs unless they run for Pres.

[pattyfish]

McCain made Palin a CELEB...th­is is the election morphed into American Idol....

[alicante]

worshiping false Gods

[pattyfish]

Obama has real celebs...
McCain has a life on the B list......

[haveitoldyoulately]

Small cadre of celebs or not....how does McCain slam Obama when he has his own little list. Has HE become an "out of touch celeb" 1,200 donors and all they come up with is $4.7 million? Can you spell S O U R G R A P E S.

[AceInTheHole]

Talk about a B LIST of celebrities, I could get a better table at a restaurant without a reservation than these B actors could with one.

[BabsfromKansas]

My exact thoughts - and OLD to boot!

[skatscan]

Let's be fair, Jon Cryer and Gary Sinise are on current hit shows. Of course those shows are on CBS.

[BigMike75]

Just another in a long line of examples, of McCain's rampant hypocrisy. Glad to see you've got Wilford Brimley, and the Snake Eater himself Lorenzo Lamas in your corner...W­hitehouse here we come!

[DASChicago]

This may not be the Proper Blog for this issue but as a journalist mentioned in her article on yesterday and I quote..."L­et let the record show McCain's cheating past"

She writes..."­Carol, McCain's, first wife, wasn't even a comma in the video presentation about McCain's life that was shown to millions of viewers during the Republican convention. But it was Carol who was left behind to take care of the couple's three children while McCain served his country...­.and Carol who stuck with McCain...I­f McCain is a war hero, then Carol is a war herione. Yet she was written off when McCain fell in love with a younger woman...Bu­t what hero could stand to see the wife of this youth and the mother of three of his children written out of his life's narrative as McCain has done?..Wor­st yet, now that the white female vote is proving to be pivotal, McCain has suddely had a change of heart...Mo­nday, McCain thanked Floridians for looking after her while he was a POW..."My children has about 50,000 parents while I was gone, and I'm very grateful," he said...Iro­nically, McCain is depending on working-class women who are much like his first wife to put him over the top in this election. I hope those women will remember Carol."
Now...What the heck does he think of women...I want someone to tell me?

[BuckeyeGal]

>>>Yet she was written off when McCain fell in love with a younger woman...Bu­t what hero could stand to see the wife of this youth and the mother of three of his children written out of his life's narrative as McCain has done?

[Candyland]

Well, that's a bummer. I really liked CSI: NY. Now that I know Sinise is a McCain supporter, I can't watch anymore! I think I've lost respect for every "entertainer" on that list.

By the way - isn't Palin the one signing headshots of herself at all her campaign stops? Isn't that, I don't know... CELEBRITY behavior?

[kimbari]

re: Sinise. Yeah, me, too. Bleah....

[LisainNYC]

Me three. How disappointing.