Hillary's B-List Endorsements
The Washington Times has a funny story about some of the less-than-desirable endorsements to come out of Hollywood. Most of them, according to the story, anyway, have gone Hillary Clinton's way so far. Among the names: Madam to the Stars Heidi Fleiss and porn queen Jenna Jameson.
Fortunately for Republicans, they don't have to worry about anyone in Hollywood -- good, bad, or otherwise -- backing them. Although I'm sure the various GOP candidates have already put in phone calls begging Ted Nugent to endorse someone else after this performance.
But the best line of the Washington Times pieces comes not from a Hillary backer, but an Obama booster -- Oprah Winfrey. Oprah is hosting a star-studded fund-raiser for the Illinois senator here in September, but she knows it's not her (considerable) money that will affect this campaign. It's her influence:
"My money isn't going to make any difference. My value to him, my support of him is probably worth more than any other check that I could write," Miss Winfrey said.
Scary, but true. Millions of people will buy a book, vote for a candidate, and pretty much do anything else Oprah asks of them. Now that's an endorsement worth having.
This woman is an arbiter of books (always populist, of course), politicians (ditto), and sets herself up as a surrogate shrink to people who actually respect her advice -- and she's not even a high school grad, from a horrific background.
I can't decide if this is proof of our country's making possible every type of upward mobility, or proof that the masses can be led by anyone who has a platform on tv, and hence, a proof of the decline of our "civilization." Both, I guess.