TMZ is reporting:
John McCain has weighed in over Barack Obama’s reported slap in the face to Lindsay Lohan. The Chicago Sun-Times quotes an unnamed high-level Barack source who says they rejected Lohan’s offer to host an event because she “is not exactly the kind of high-profile star who would be a positive for us.”
Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign tells TMZ, “So let me get this straight — they turned away Lindsay Lohan, but Barack Obama has friends like unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and convicted felon Tony Rezko? Maybe LiLo is just too upstanding for Barack Obama.”
I don’t know much about what’s wrong with the economy right now, but I do know that it doesn’t have a lot to do with Obama’s opinion of Lindsay Lohan. Think maybe you could get back to talking about the issues, Maverick?
On the other hand, it’s nice to see Lohan butting into yet another matter that she knows absolutely nothing about. Why shouldn’t she give politics a try, after failing at acting, music, fashion, romance, substance abuse counseling, being a human…
Hey, I wonder what Scarlett Johansson thinks about all this?
Update: The Lohan campaign responds.
Lady Lynn Forester De Rothschild, formerly a gigantic Hillary Clinton fundraiser and currently an incredibly well-connected snob, made news today by switching her allegiance from the Democratic Party and endorsing John McCain for President.
Why?
The landed-gentry Lady Rothschild told CNN: “This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him. I feel like he is an elitist.”
First of all, I’m picturing her giving that “elitist” comment from the back of a stretch Rolls-Royce while looking in vain for some Grey Poupon to slather on her white truffle and foie gras sandwich (washed down with the tears of orphans).
And second, if I were Obama’s campaign people, I would be sending Rothschild platinum-wrapped candy, a loinclothed virgin male from Togo, or whatever it is rich people get as gifts. And then I would issue a press release saying “Thank you, Scrooge McRichLady, for demonstrating that Barack Obama is too salt-of-the earth for your whiny-ass jet set mind to embrace. Now go home and yell at the hired help for not stomping on the autumn grapes fast enough, and get busy figuring out how to help the guy with seven homes — instead of the ‘elitist’ — win the White House.”
I also like Gawker’s take, which cites the Yiddish translation of Tevye’s “If I Were a Rich Man” from Fiddler on the Roof — which is rendered as “ven ikh bin a rotshild” (“If I Were a Rothschild”).
If you want a sense of just how upper-crust this name-calling twit is, read Lloyd Grove’s October 2007 profile of Rothschild in Condé Nast Portfolio. My favorite question posed to the good Lady: “How did you make your first hundred million?”
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