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money for Democrats than just about any celebutard worth his Screen Actors Guild card. This has given her permission to produce a personal Web site in which she’s made a slew of horrifying goofs that would cause a woman with an ordinary sense of shame to blush crimson. But we’re talking about Barbra here.
    Her site is a spellbinding mix of giant ego and complete lack of an internal mirror. It features dozens of soft-focus pictures of the star trying to look serious. The purpose of the thing seems to be to give the public, clamoring for all things Barbra, insight into a mish mash of her political views, as well as piquish responses to tabloid reports (which she calls Truth Alerts). And in case you still haven’t realized whom this site is about, her press releases, including one in which she endorses Hillary Clinton for president, include this helpful description: “Legendary filmmaker, artist, and Democratic activist Barbra Streisand.” No wonder the makers of Comedy Central ’s show South Park routinely prod her like a pinata. She’s too easy.
    On September 25, 2002, Streisand, along with her “political consultant” Margery Tabankin, faxed a memo to House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, urging “Democrats to get off the defensive and go on the offensive” against Republicans and the war on terror. The problem is, the memo was addressed to Dick “Gebhart,” a laugh riot first reported on the DrudgeReport. Also misspelled in the memo is Saddam Hussein—as “Sadam,” and al-Qaeda as “Al Queda.” Worse, on her Web site, Barbra admitted a tiny goof—the memo was faxed initially not to a Democratic politician such as Gephardt (Gebhart to Babs), but to the office of a Republican. (Tabankin used the classic chick excuse: She said she and Barbra were “emotional” during the faxing.)
    La Streisand handled her gaffe the time-tested celebutard way: She blamed an underling. In a Truth Alert, Barbra explained that she dictated her memo over the phone to a new staffer. “THE IRONIC FURTHER TRUTH,” the alert continued—a posting evidently not dictated to a staffer but posted by the illiterate diva herself—“Hidden in this example of diverted news priorities is the fact that Barbra Streisand is a great speller, meticulous in her written communications!”
    She continued, “The incident illustrates how the Democratic message concerning the failures of this Republican administration are repeatedly pushed aside in the media, pre-empted by silly side-issues. The real truth, the really important and relevant truth” (as opposed to the really unimportant and not terribly significant truth) “is having a hard time getting through.”
    Days later, an unbowed Babs was onstage at a National Democratic Gala in Hollywood when she opened her yap, and thus made herself into an even bigger fool.
    “I find George Bush and Cheney frightening,” Streisand said. “Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening…I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable—and very, very frightening…” Good, Barbra. You’ve studied the names of cabinet members.
    But then, she said, “You know, really good artists have a way of being relevant in their time…but great artists are relevant at anytime. So, in the words of William Shakespeare, ‘Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind…And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.’”
    She continued, “Imagine that was written over 400 years