Tuesday October 23 03:13 AM EDT

HOLLYWOOD'S TIN EAR

The widespread booing of Sen. Hillary Clinton at Saturday night's Madison Square Garden mega-benefit for the World Trade Center victims was regrettable - well, sort of - but hardly surprising.

After all, New York police and firefighters were given prime seats for the all-star concert, and they remember all too well what the state's junior senator has had to say about New York's Finest - pre-Sept. 11, that is.

Her husband, the former president, also took his share of jeers from the crowd, which apparently considered him an inappropriate choice to deliver a tribute to heroism (or even speak of it).

Once again, the booing was a little tacky - yet entirely understandable.

Besides which, we have to wonder: Why do the Hollywood types have to turn even an event like this one into a celebration of Bill and Hillary?

Miramax Films honcho Harvey Weinstein, who organized the concert with Paul McCartney, is one of the Clintons' closest friends and was perhaps their biggest Hollywood benefactor - and his devotion to the former First Couple is legendary, as is his role as one of Tinseltown's top Democrats.

Which may also explain why Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle were featured - while not a single member of the Bush administration appeared, even by remote video.

Even on a fabulous night like this one, the Hollywood types couldn't leave their partisanship at home.

How sad. Barefoot Mailman Normal Bozo Posts: 1681 (10/24/01 2:42:03 am )

Re: HILLARY-BOOING - New York Post Op/Ed

Interesting. I didn't know some of that stuff about who was there and who wasn't.

I missed the show, you see, cuz I was working.

Old Git Mother of All Despots Posts: 3821 (10/24/01 4:41:25 am )

And from PageSix.com

NYPost

Smoke detector

THE reason why Sen. Hillary Clinton was booed at Madison Square Garden on Saturday is the "claptrap that comes out of her mouth," says Mike Moran, the hero firefighter whose brother, Battalion Chief John Moran, died at the World Trade Center. Moran thrilled the Garden audience when he told Osama bin Laden: "Kiss my royal Irish ass!" And yesterday, he explained the crowd's hostile reaction to Hillary to Rush Limbaugh. "When times are good and things are going well, people will sit there and listen to that kind of claptrap . . . when it's serious times and serious men who actually suffered losses, and she wants to get up and spew her nonsense - she doesn't believe a word she says. She says whatever she thinks will fit the moment."

-- Anonymous, October 25, 2001