The White House in Wonderland?

I find it interesting that the news of this party is just breaking now... I mean...you'd think if Johnny Depp went to the White House, his fans would have known about it! (Depp, by the way, is a guy who lives in Paris with his wife and kids because he doesn't like the US). Or at least he didn't before Obama was elected.

RUSH: There's another news story that came out. This is in the New York Post, but I guess it's actually been in more places and I just read it first in the New York Post. Jodi Kantor, who is an infobabe reporter for the New York Times, has a book on the Obamas about to come out. It had some excerpts published over the weekend, and they reveal in this book that the White House put on a big Halloween party in 2009 -- right in the middle of the worst of the economic downturn -- and it was an Alice in Wonderland-themed party. They had Johnny Depp come in, in character, and run the whole thing, along with a Hollywood director named Tim Burton. They had vials...

I mean, this was a Hollywood theme party. They had vials of blood. It was just an over-the-top, no-expenses-spared, Halloween party in the White House that they didn't want anybody outside the White House to know about; and the reason they didn't want anybody to know about it is because they were puttin' on the dog and they were spending money left and right, and having a grand old time in the midst of massive economic pain throughout the country. Unemployment, job prospects dwindling for a lot of people. But this private Halloween party that they gave for themselves took place in the State Dining Room.

As I say, the room was decorated by Tim Burton and included costumes. George Lucas actually sent Chewbacca from Star Wars. He actually sent the costume and an actor to be Chewbacca. They drank punch out of blood vials. And Johnny Depp was there in character, the Mad Hatter or some such thing, and -- and the media obviously knew about it and didn't say a word about it. They sat on it, knowing that such extravagance and weirdness might not fly too well in a country in the middle of one of its worse recessions and now it's come out and the White House says, "Well, the media knew about this," which I don't doubt! I don't doubt for a minute the media knew all about this and was hoping to be invited to it.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: This book by Jodi Kantor, New York Times, that reveals this Halloween party in 2009 also talks about the problem that Michelle Obama has with her husband's staff. She didn't get along with Rahm Emanuel; didn't get along with anybody in the West Wing, primarily because Obama's staff is not radical enough. And I have heard fairly credible reliable sources that Obama is influenced by two people, his wife and Valerie Jarrett, that there are two women who basically -- and I don't know, I don't mean to say it disparaging, I'm just describing them, two women, Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama who basically are on this guy's case every day and telling him what to do, where to go, how to do it, so forth and so on. And that Michelle is just profoundly radical. They've kept it quiet. They've done a good job of making her look like she doesn't do much except raise the two daughters, but that she's really an activist in there and not getting along with Obama's staff because they're just not radical enough. They're not moving far enough, fast enough, quick enough to the left to satisfy her. That's all in this book.

Anyway, I'm reading the New York Post expose on this book about this Halloween party, the Alice in Wonderland Halloween party, and my first reaction, "So what, would anybody have cared anyway if the news had gotten out?" I know it's Halloween, October 2009, we're right in the midst of the stimulus not working, but still, in October of 2009 there's still a lot of hope. You don't have a lot of people still with the guts to criticize Obama. They are beginning to be at that point in time some brave souls on the right starting to take shots at the worthlessness of the stimulus and all that, but pretty much is still in this first year honeymoon phase. There's not a whole lot of criticism. The country is hurting. And I read the story and it makes a big deal here how the White House went out of the way to cover this up, to keep this quiet.