Cho uninvited from convention-week event

[BaysideLiberal]

BOSTON -- Fearing her material might take the focus off gay issues, the Human Rights Campaign has rescinded its invitation to edgy comedian Margaret Cho to headline a gay and lesbian unity event scheduled to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.

"We didn't feel that after speaking with Margaret's publicist that her material was in that spirit, so we decided to make another plan," said spokesman Mark Shields.

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"They got scared, obviously, for whatever reason," Cho spokesman Ken Phillips said of the Unity 2004 organizers. "They're aware of Margaret's material for years. So why did they hire her?"

Comedian Whoopi Goldberg sparked a firestorm after she was criticized for using President Bush's surname to make a sexual remark at a Democratic fund-raiser. Slim-Fast fired her as spokeswoman.

"I am not surprised at the reversal in light of how the Kerry campaign distanced itself from Whoopi's routine in response to the unrelenting media hype and Republican criticism," said Cho's manager, Karen Taussig, in a statement posted Wednesday on Cho's Web site

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http://www.margaretcho.net/

[BaysideLiberal]

1. CHO PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE
KEN PHILLIPS PUBLICITY GROUP, INC.
MARGARET CHO "UNINVITED"
FROM UNITY 2004 EVENT IN BOSTON

COMEDIAN LAUNCHES
"STATE OF EMERGENCY" TOUR THROUGH SWING STATES THIS FALL

ACLU TO HONOR MARGARET WITH
FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 21, 2004 - LOS ANGELES, CA -

http://www.margaretcho.net/unity_soe.htm