Posted on 02/24/2012 9:14:38 AM PST by Steelfish
02/24/2012 Bill Maher Gives $1 Million To Pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA By Dan Eggen
Comedian Bill Maher has pledged $1 million to a super PAC supporting President Obama's reelection bid, some welcome news for a group that has struggled to raise money compared with its conservative rivals.
HBO host Bill Maher, shown on his set earlier this month, announced his donation during a webcast for a Yahoo! standup comedy series. (Janet Van Ham - AP) The gift to Priorities USA Action comes after the PACs dismal fundraising month in January. It managed to bring in only $58,800 while conservative super PACs are bringing in millions.
The group has raised about $4.4 million since last year, $2 million of which came from Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Obama shifted course earlier this month by announcing that he would support Priorities USA Action and would allow aides and Cabinet members to help raise money for it.
Super PACs have come to dominate spending in the GOP primaries because they are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on elections.
The host of HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" announced his donation Thursday during a webcast for a Yahoo! standup comedy series.
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Common thread: All of them are anti-Catholic.
About time he put his money where his mouth is. Will be sweet to see him lose it all...
Now if he’s so flush, let him write a check to the Treasury and “pay his fair share”.
What's that saying? A fool and his money are soon parted...........
Maher will eventually be prostituting for beer money. Hissing and sputtering about this money through missing front teeth.
Uhhh, just curious. Did the check clear?
Yup, the Hollyweird pond scum will fall in line pretty quickly with further donations to their god President Hope 'n Change.
Also included in that list should be Russ Leatherman - aka Mr. Moviefone (moviefone.com) - a movie reviewer who absolutely trashed "Act of Valor" today. He called it a "piece of propaganda for the military" and compared the movie to a stupid video game.
I just read this morning online that Brack has only $170 mil in the bank. That number is probably to be augmented by the party, but it sure isn’t a billion, now is it.
So when a business or trade group donates to a big money pac it is bad but when a leftist citizen donates big money to a pac it is a good thing because the leftist citizens motive are always purely altruistic
The disturbing part of the story is that someone with his amount of talent is able to amass at least one million dollars. Talk about injustice.
Re: “About time he put his money where his mouth is. Will be sweet to see him lose it all...
Now if hes so flush, let him write a check to the Treasury and pay his fair share.”
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Your post is almost word for word what I was going to post just now (until I saw your post) — good work, ‘bigbob’ !!!!
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