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03/14/2004 Archived Entry: "So, other than that, how was the theater?"
So, other than that, how was the theater?
Ge whillikers, what a rip-roaring patriotastic night it must have been!
George W. Bush rocked his head in time to "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and a medley of other patriotic tunes Sunday night during a benefit for the Ford's Theatre, which ended with six aging, award-winning soldiers saluting the current commander in chief."This evening is even more special because we are joined by the six war veterans who earned the Medal of Honor," Bush told the crowd of politicians, Cabinet members, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Interior Secretary Gale Norton, and other members of the Washington establishment. "Each of these gentlemen gave great service to our nation, above and beyond anything that could have been asked of them."
The annual event raised $1.4 million for the theater where Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot in 1865. Red-white-and-blue bunting hung from the balcony, and the box where Lincoln regularly sat was draped with American flags.
No word on whether Bush demanded part of the take, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
Replies: 6 people speak up
Um, your heading is more than a little inappropriate.
Posted by ymr049c @ 03/15/2004 10:02 AM NY
Okay, I changed it. Lord knows I don't want to offend anyone.
I know - you work for Clear Channel, right?
Posted by editor @ 03/15/2004 10:41 AM NY
Lol, now I am curious as to what the title was...
Posted by George Johnston @ 03/15/2004 11:05 AM NY
Hi, George,
Can't tell you. don't want to give anyone the vapors....
Posted by editor @ 03/15/2004 11:57 AM NY
File this under cultural trivia: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" was FDR's favorite movie.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/15/2004 12:52 PM NY
Down towards the bottom of today's Froomkin:
Unintentional-Joke Watch
Richard Leiby, in The Washington Post's Reliable Source column, has the skinny on the Ford's Theater gala Bush attended Sunday night.
Referring to one of the performer's role on MTV's "Newlyweds," Bush told the audience, "Jessica Simpson is here with us, which means we've finally introduced reality TV to the Lincoln Theater."
Writes Leiby: "He meant Ford's Theatre, of course, but everyone knows President Lincoln was shot there."
And "Simpson, whose verbal gaffes are also legendary, pulled another one Sunday visiting the White House, our sources say. The singer was introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton and gushed: 'You've done a nice job decorating the White House.' "
(Not sure here if Simpson mistook Norton for Lawa Bush or thought that decorating was what the "Secretary of the Interior" did.)
BTW Fords Theater is a VERY hard nut to crack, information-wise. The building itself is a National Park Service site (thus explaining Norton's attendance, presumably) and they run the Lincoln Assassination museum in the basement. However the upstairs, the theater part itself, is the domain of a separate entity which puts on shows. Click on their lists of "board of governors" and "board of trustees" and see how much firepower we're talking about here. Theoretically as a nonprof they should have to file on where money comes from and goes, but it would be a bitch to find.
And a round of hollow laughter at the thought that any of these funds would wind up back with the NPS, which Bushco has been screwing over under cover of lies (big surprise there.)
Posted by Xan @ 03/16/2004 11:32 AM NY
