Hey Joe
hey joe where are you going
with that gun in your hand
going down to shoot my old lady
—cher
They must be rolling their eyes at the DNC when the phone rings and some Hollywood celebrity bonehead is on the line offering advice.
The Corner today linked to a story in which Cher called for Joe Lockhart to be fired or demoted. Aha, I thought. She must have been peeved at Lockhart’s insulting remarks directed at Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during his recent trip to Washington:
The ugliest treatment of all came from Mr. Lockhart, the former Clinton White House spokesman. After the Allawi-Bush press conference Thursday, Mr. Lockhart said that “The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips.”
Er, no, that wasn’t it. Apparently Lockhart’s corporeal bulk is entirely too much for the fastidious diva:
During preparation for the debate, Bob Shrum, Kerry’s top strategist, had a telephone conversation with singer Cher to thank her for holding a fund- raiser for Kerry. Cher took the opportunity to advise Shrum to pull Joe Lockhart, the campaign spokesman, off the air.“He’s too heavy,” the sturdy Lockhart, with chagrin, quoted Cher as saying. “You need thinner people on TV.”
I’d love to overhear a strategy session between Cher and Babs Streisand as they attempted to get their neurons firing. It’d probably sound like a battle of defective lawn mowers.
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