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http://www.nypost.com/seven/08272008/gossip/cindy/the_conventional_wisdom_of_celebs_126254.htm?page=0THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM OF CELEBS
.... OUT of black SUVs, definitely the limo of choice, tumbled Susan Sarandon in cargo pants and Spike Lee and Josh Lucas to see Bill Maher at the Rolling Stone event, which was sponsored by Trojan condoms. Coming from Michelle Obama's speech they arrived late - about when GOP-hating Maher was on a roll with: "Fred Thompson made George Bush look like a professional . . . Bush is not an elitist because he can neither read nor write . . . They asked him to name an alternative fuel. And he said, 'Unleaded' . . . Laura visited the Middle East where the No. 2 killer is breast cancer. The No. 1 killer is her husband . . . The president's health plan used to be called 'Drop Dead' - now it's called 'Go and f - - - yourself.' "
BACK to the glories of being in Denver. Not even Stalag 17 could ever have been as locked up as this town. We're lacking only barbed wire across the sky. It's cops in riot gear so lumped up they can barely walk - boots, batons, rifles, bulletproof masks, bulletproof vests. Who knows what they're to be doing. I only know they're mostly sitting under umbrellas. ....
I ultimately packed it in and made it home on foot, over an hour in the scorching sunshine, to my hotel. I now don't care who gets in. I just want to get out.
I heard Brian Williams also complaining. And trudging in the blinding sun, I fell over Tom Brokaw. He, too, was walking. Growled Tom: "There wasn't this much security even in Beijing."
AND in my hotel lobby, Chris Matthews. "I was supposed to do an AIDS fund-raiser with my wife in Nantucket. I obviously can't get there," he said. So if not in glorious downtown Denver, where would he rather be? "Nantucket." ....
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