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Amy Schumer: My Liberal Politics May Hurt My Career, But I Don’t Care (Chuckie's Niece Is SO Brave!)
Newsbusters ^ | | August 22, 2016 | 4:10 PM EDT | By Geoffrey Dickens

Posted on 08/22/2016 2:17:20 PM PDT by drewh

Comedian and actress Amy Schumer absurdly claimed if only she kept her “mouth shut” about her “real feelings about politics or gun violence” that “career-wise” it “would be financially better for me, but I don’t care.”

This is coming from someone who currently can be seen all over your TV in a national ad campaign for Bud Light, which even includes a commercial that spouted progressive talking points.

The star of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and last summer’s box office hit Trainwreck came on Friday’s edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show to promote her new book The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, and proudly told Rose she’s not afraid to offer her political stances on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and gun control. Because, you know, taking lefty stands takes so much courage in liberal, progressive Hollywood.

Schumer also said that if she found out a personal friend was supporting Trump that would be a deal-breaker for her: “I would really pull back from the friendship. That’s such a huge — that’s such a huge line.”

The following are the relevant exchanges as they were aired on the August 20 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show:

AMY SCHUMER: I have an expectation for myself to be honest and be proud of how I’m living. So, do I think, do I think it will hurt my ticket sales on the road that I am so vocal about being a Hillary supporter? Yes. I think —

CHARLIE ROSE: But do you care that much? Do you, are you so —

SCHUMER: About Hillary being elected?

ROSE: No. I know how much you care about that. You’ve made that very, very clear.

SCHUMER: Right. About?

ROSE: Do you care about how it affects ticket sales. Or do you, are you —

SCHUMER: Not enough to not say it.

ROSE: Exactly.

SCHUMER: Yeah. No, I’m gonna say what I mean and what I think, and living the way I’m proud of.

ROSE: But, do you really think the people — I mean, I think people come to see you because they find you really entertaining, and funny and smart and interesting.

SCHUMER: Right. Thank you.

ROSE: Well, that’s true. And your politics are not going to keep them from being entertained by you.

SCHUMER: It —

ROSE: It does?

SCHUMER: But it does, somewhat. Yeah. It’s people who, you know? Just in the same way if I found out right now that one of my good friends from high school was planning on voting for Trump.

ROSE: You would?

SCHUMER: I would, I would really pull back from the friendship. That’s such a huge — that’s such a huge line.

ROSE: A value? It’s a value defining —

SCHUMER: Value, and just —

ROSE: Character?

SCHUMER: Yeah. All of it, so, you know, I think, I think that people — I think if I kept my mouth shut about my real feelings about politics or gun violence, I think, financially, financially and career-wise, it would be, it would be financially better for me, but I don’t care.

Later on in the interview, Schumer gushed over Hillary Clinton:

ROSE: Is your, is your attraction to the candidacy of Hillary more about her or more about — and the values and, and the position she has more so than the fact that she is a historic candidacy?

SCHUMER: Oh, yeah. That’s a good way of saying that. I don’t care that she’s ever gotten her period or had a baby. I care about what a great candidate she is.

ROSE: Because you identify with someone who —

SCHUMER: I’ve loved her for so long. I have been a fan of hers forever, and I think the work that she’s done, and she’s so crazy overqualified, and it’s not because I want a woman in the White House. I really don’t care about that. I think that’s an exciting thing and that it will be good for little girls and whatever, just in the same way I wasn’t interested in the race of Obama. It’s like, I wanted him to win. It’s, it’s her.

Obama also got some love from Schumer:

ROSE: How do you think he’s [Barack Obama] been as president?

SCHUMER: I love him. I’m gonna miss him so much. I’m so sad.

ROSE: What are you gonna miss? The style? The, the intelligence?

SCHUMER: His smile. No. His —

ROSE: His playlist?

SCHUMER: Yeah, no, I thought his playlist was a little weird.

ROSE: Did you really? Why?

SCHUMER: I don’t know. It’s just like a little — whatever! That’s not what’s important. But yeah, I’m not a —

ROSE: I know it’s not important but it’s interesting.

SCHUMER: Yeah. I’m not like “he can do no wrong.” No it was good, he had some D’Angelo on there. It was cool, but I just — I don’t know. It was so all over the place.

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And finally, Rose couldn’t let the interview finish without nudging Schumer into taking a few parting shots at Trump:

ROSE: Yeah how much of how you feel, politically, is anti-Trump?

SCHUMER: Almost entirely.

ROSE: I mean, I know people — they don’t really care about him. It’s not so much they’re —

SCHUMER: No it’s —

ROSE: They’re not really —

SCHUMER: Well who even really knows what he stands for? It’s such a —

ROSE: Or does he mean what he says?

SCHUMER: Right. It’s just a — it’s such a farce. It’s, it’s awful. It’s — I — you know, I felt, I think we all thought it was kind of funny —

ROSE: Right.

SCHUMER: — when it started. It was like “Oh my God, Trump, that’s hilarious.” And then —

ROSE: The man from The Apprentice is going to be president.

SCHUMER: Yeah. And then once it became a reality that he was the candidate, it was just — it’s so disturbing. It’s Idiocracy. I don`t even talk about Trump in my stand-up because it just shooting fish in a barrel.

ROSE: Too easy?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: miss marmelstein
George Carlin had talent. That's why his career lasted for 40 years.

When doing an interview, he was asked about his politics.

He said:" I lean right on some things, left on others. But overall more to the left."

Totally true.

Sure he could bash conservatives, but when he started bashing liberals, he held nothing back.

He seemed particularly angry about political correctness.

Schumer's "career" will NOT last 40 years.

She's already tiresome.

81 posted on 08/22/2016 4:07:48 PM PDT by boop (And then Hillary fell into a deep sleep for 11 months...)
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To: drewh

A prostitute who tells jokes. We don’t expect her to vote republican.


82 posted on 08/22/2016 4:11:43 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: boop

Exactly. I would go so far as say Carlin was a genius. And that is why he lasted so long. This Amy person is only famous because of her awful relative. She will fade as surely as McCain’s fat daughter will fade.


83 posted on 08/22/2016 4:16:04 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: drewh

Because, you know, taking lefty stands takes so much courage in liberal, progressive Hollywood.

Actually it is one of the first signs of being Brain Dead, Why doesn’t Hollywood move to Bernizuela where everyone is equal like they want.


84 posted on 08/22/2016 4:21:54 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: drewh

But, would LAZ hit it?


85 posted on 08/22/2016 4:28:22 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: drewh

Her complete lack of talent might hurt her career. Her hard left liberal politics is probably the only thing keeping her lame career afloat.


86 posted on 08/22/2016 4:43:13 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: drewh

amy
lame dimwit
chuck
lame dimwit
NEW YORK LOVES LAME DIMWITS
and elects them repeatedly


87 posted on 08/22/2016 4:57:02 PM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: drewh
If Ben Rothlisberger had a sister...

I was in a BAM store today and the barely 18 year old clerk breathlessly pointed this pig's new book out to me, exhorting me to buy it.

Yeah, as if.

When I commented to her that I thought she (Schumer) looked like Ben Rothlisberger, I got a blank stare.

I took her by the arm, led her over to the sports section and found a picture of Rothlisberger.

She went into hysterical laughter and grabbed everyone within reach...pointing the resemblance out to them.

Kinda funny.

88 posted on 08/22/2016 5:02:19 PM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: drewh

She’s vile.


89 posted on 08/22/2016 5:13:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: gaijin; drewh

What An Oinker !!!


90 posted on 08/22/2016 5:50:24 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Oratam

Chuck The Schmuck is her cousin..


91 posted on 08/22/2016 5:57:11 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: gaijin

Feh!


92 posted on 08/22/2016 5:58:22 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: mowowie

“Speaking of Ms. Schumer i wonder if she puts out...”

Yes, but you have to bring your own bag of flour...


93 posted on 08/22/2016 6:14:54 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: drewh
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life young lady". --</Dean Wormer>
94 posted on 08/22/2016 6:59:05 PM PDT by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: drewh
Schumer's shtick is nothing new.

Quote the Krusty:

Krusty_The_Clown_1

"Then you got these lady comics talking about stuff that would embarrass Redd Foxx--God rest his smutty soul. Who they slept with. What time they sit on the can. This is supposed to get you a husband?"

95 posted on 08/22/2016 6:59:22 PM PDT by silent_jonny ("No right, no wrong, no rules for me, I'm Hillary!")
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To: gaijin

She claims that mess is a size 6-8.
Only if somebody is cutting out the 12-14 tags and replacing them.


96 posted on 08/22/2016 7:05:20 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: drewh

Oh, ok honey, you dont care shariah is going to hurt your career. Suicide it is then


97 posted on 08/22/2016 10:32:07 PM PDT by lavaroise (s)
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To: drewh; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; stephenjohnbanker; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; Bender2

BS, this fugly pig’s commercials air every 15 seconds, being a libtard is great for her career.


98 posted on 08/22/2016 11:26:21 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery, Never Schumer, Never Pelosi)
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To: drewh
SCHUMER:...if I found out right now that one of my good friends from high school was planning on voting for Trump.

ROSE: You would?

SCHUMER: I would, I would really pull back from the friendship. That’s such a huge — that’s such a huge line.

what a bigot.

99 posted on 08/23/2016 1:46:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: jessduntno

lol
good one!


100 posted on 08/23/2016 4:09:24 AM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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