Let 'em eat tenders

By all accounts, the Oprah Winfrey fundraiser for Barack Obama was an affair to remember for those who ponied up the minimum $2,300 campaign cash necessary to enter her elegant Montecito estate. And we presume that those who were on the outside looking in --- covering the event, or simply gawking --- aren't likely to soon forget it, either.

But even in the world according to Oprah, perfection --- while no doubt sought --- can prove elusive. Which brings us to the gathering's one apparent flaw: the eats.

Variety's Ted Johnson, in the last paragraph in his story on the gala, reports that "some guests, while noting a classy atmosphere overall, said they were less than impressed with the food selection: corn on the cob, mini hamburgers, chicken tenders."

Chicken tenders! We hope that at the least, a variety of sauces was available.

The prosaic menu isn't on Oprah. As Johnson notes, federal election law required that Obama's presidential campaign --- not the candidate's hostess --- pay for parts of the party.

So the Hollywood elite had to rough it; money saved on victuals, after all, is money that can be spent on one last television ad the night before the Iowa caucuses.

-- Don Frederick

Comments

[lets be honest here]

The wealthiest blacks in the entertainment industry back the first "pretend viable" african american candidate for President....and the political press corps ...pretends that there will be some vaunted "Oprah Effect".

Puleeze...this event, as ive heard it described around our company's 'water cooler" is not any help in Obama's mission to represent ALL of America...not just its celebrity African American crowd and our nation's facebook (ie kids) crowd.
The words used to describe this foray into billionaire land dont include...inclusive...
Oprah, Oprah, Oprah...what do you get for the woman who has everything? (well, probally 3 of everything...) You get her - her very own first african american President. Yay! Lets do it for Oprah...and all those othe "O-pressed" black movie stars and singers and moguls who had to schlep to oprahs soiree in their Bentleys and stretch limos...
no justice, no peace indeed...