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Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Achieves $60.5 Million (2009)
Reuters ^ | 9/7/2009

Posted on 09/07/2009 6:27:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/07/2009 6:27:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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You know you have to wonder. Where are the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys? Where are the A listers who make small fortunes for six months worth of work? They are ubiquitous when it comes to polar bears and snail darters, but seem invisible when it is real children they can help.


2 posted on 09/07/2009 6:32:16 PM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Curious if anyone heard what he had to say about Ed McMahon.


3 posted on 09/07/2009 6:35:32 PM PDT by kempster
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"They are ubiquitous when it comes to polar bears and snail darters, but seem invisible when it is real children they can help."

Are you surprized? Talk is cheap and that's all they do.

4 posted on 09/07/2009 6:37:42 PM PDT by WHBates
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It's a real good cause and I usually contribute, but I won't reduce myself to watching Jerry Lewis. I don't even speak French. The fire department where I live collects money in their boots during the telethon. They don't speak French either.
5 posted on 09/07/2009 6:38:04 PM PDT by KarinG1 (You're just jealous because the voices don't talk to you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I didn’t even know people still watched this thing.


6 posted on 09/07/2009 6:39:15 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: mort56

Brad Pitt is building gerbil houses and Clooney is making Nazi movies


7 posted on 09/07/2009 6:39:44 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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Ya gotta respect Jerry. He’s been doing this for 44 years.


8 posted on 09/07/2009 6:40:04 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pack it in Jerry. You must have taken abput $1 billion, icluding interest, from us already. Some people must be getting awafully rich & still no cure. Am I alone, or are their others growing weary of Jerry & his beloved Telethon?
I can say a prayer for nothin’. I say pack it in, call it a lifetime.


9 posted on 09/07/2009 6:44:09 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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Pardon typos.


10 posted on 09/07/2009 6:45:11 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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Most modern Liberal do-gooders would like the less than perfect people to die and decrease the surplus population. Raising money to help the sick is the opposite of what they’re about. They support Obama.


11 posted on 09/07/2009 6:47:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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I was watching some of Jerry’s old movies on YouTube about a month ago...

he was clever and extremely funny...


12 posted on 09/07/2009 6:50:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Beloved Levinite

Yikes, you are rough tonite. I cant even begin to know where we stand with MD but I think what Jerry Lewis has done is admirable. It doenst seem cool anymore, “The Telethon” but it doesnt mean it isnt important.


13 posted on 09/07/2009 6:53:56 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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This just shows that Americans are a GIVING people. We’re still very generous even during hard economic times.


14 posted on 09/07/2009 6:54:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: kempster
Curious if anyone heard what he had to say about Ed McMahon

They did a tribute to him at the beginning of the telethon.

15 posted on 09/07/2009 7:04:49 PM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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I haven't watched it in years.

A couple of times, a few years back, I put a tape in the VCR (am I dating myself) and let it run all night. I figured I could see more entertainment that way and skip through a lot of stuff. It was painful.

One year I got taped segments from Branson.
Another, I got the guy from Hollywood Squares and some muppets -- and not even A-list muppets -- hosting, and some really bad acts.

16 posted on 09/07/2009 7:11:30 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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By the way, I’m old enough to remember when he did it in New York City before moving to Vegas.


17 posted on 09/07/2009 7:12:09 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks to all those who contributed and to Jerry Lewis for doing this for so many years.


18 posted on 09/07/2009 7:17:40 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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what has all this to do with anything....While Americans were raising 60 million dollars to try to cure a disease.....the muslim community was blowing up a girl’s school and destroying a country’s hope for freedom...it figures


19 posted on 09/07/2009 7:17:45 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: Beloved Levinite

Jerry Lewis’ annual MDA drives are a national scam, an embarrassment. A bunch of freeloaders have made millions on this bs, while a ridiculously low percentage of the money raised ever goes to research. There are so many better places to donate money. Not to this swindler.


20 posted on 09/07/2009 7:54:31 PM PDT by raptor29
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