Here is an update to the ‘Hate Bush’ rally:
Internet gossip Matt Drudge gleefully seized upon the “Hate Bush” story yesterday, noting that the meeting will be chaired by Harold Ickes, Bill Clinton’s former White House deputy chief-of-staff and Clinton/Al Gore campaign manager, and Ellen Malcom, founder of Emily’s List, a group dedicated to electing pro-choice, Democratic women. Former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal will also chair, according to an invite obtained by PAGE SIX.
But Ariel “Ari” Emanuel, a founding partner of the powerful Endeavor talent agency, brother of Clinton White House staffer Rahm Emanuel and agent to Larry David and “West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin, bristled at the “Hate Bush” hullabaloo.
“People are assembling over a political issue – the 2004 election,” Emanuel told us. “I didn’t know that free assembly was a bad thing. The invite didn’t say ‘Hate Bush,’ and I don’t think the [Drudge story] was productive.” Emanuel declined to say who he’ll support, but assured us, “It won’t be Bush.”
If this is the case, both Drudge and I owe them an apology.