Join Hussein for a night of BS, if you can afford the ticket

From an entertainment blog called The Defamer:

Uh-oh. Barbra Streisand—referred to among the elite Democratic core as the Black Buttah Widow for the way her endorsements mean the certain kiss of death—will perform at an Obama fundraiser at the ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on September 16. This is a room that holds only 700 people, so attendees will be expected to pony up for the privilege. From Variety.com:

Obama will start the evening with a 5 p.m. dinner event for about 250 people at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, the historic estate once owned by the legendary Doheny family. Tickets for the event are $28,500.

Later, he will attend a reception at the Beverly Wilshire, followed by Streisand's special performance. Tickets for the event are $2,500 per person.

Co-hosts for event include the DreamWorks team of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, as well as political consultant Andy Spahn. It's also being organized with Obama's Southern California finance team.

Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen, too? Why don't they just wheel out a coffin that says "OBAMA 08" and drive a symbolic last nail into it with one of Sarah Palin's spare seal clubs? And speaking of the VP candidate, Streisand has weighed in on her website with an essay on the Brooke Hogan-radar-evader, entitled, "McCain Doesn't Get It: Women are not that stupid." It's a lot more enjoyable a read if you set it to the tune of "The Way We Were."

There are conservative celebrities. John Voight, Gary Sinise, Adam Baldwin (who writes as well as the best political bloggers) and number of others, including most country music performers. The primary difference between the celebrities on the right and those on the left is that those on the left seem to think that their talent as performers somehow invests them with some kind of special insight or ability which makes them more worthy to be listened to than the average person. Yet when they express those opinions in essays on their websites or as posts on friendly venues like the Huffington Post they almost always come off sounding like childish poorly informed mental lightweights.

And of all the left-wing celebrity air-heads only Sean Penn surpasses Barbara Streisand for a completely unearned sense of self importance when it comes to political advocacy.

The only thing that could make this noxious evening an even more perfect swan song for the Obama campaign would be Michael Moore as the master of ceremonies.