From the Boston Herald's "Crude jokes, insults OK with Kerry camp":

When in doubt, play the Vietnam card. That's long been a tactic embraced by Sen. John Kerry and his aides in the face of political trouble.

It's what the Kerry camp resorted to again Thursday to excuse the vile criticism of President Bush by the Democratic nominee's Hollywood backers at a New York fund-raiser.

"Performers have a right to speak their minds even when we don't agree with everything they say. That's the freedom John Kerry put his life on the line to defend," Kerry spokesmen David Wade said...

That Kerry, by his silence, tacitly endorsed the content of his supporters' remarks says something troubling about the tone of his campaign. That he allowed his military service to be used once again like some prop in a movie, says something even more troubling about his character.

The Herald offers a report on the concert here, the NJ Star Legder weighs in, the NYT offers a music review of the concert here, and the Boston Globe article ("Kerry camp on the defensive after celebrities bash Bush") includes this priceless quote from Meryl Streep:

"I wondered to myself through the shock and awe, I wondered which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our president's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families in Baghdad."

A full guest list is not provided, and it's not known whether ALF, Danny Bonaduce, Maureen McCormick, or Joyce DeWitt were allowed to visit former fellow Square Whoopi.