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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYahoo Censors Bill Maher’s Criticism of Citizens United
http://www.politicususa.com/en/bill-maher-yahoo-censorshipVideo at site
After the Yahoo replay cuts off, Maher said,
My announcement has to do with campaign finance. I did not mention this is in my set because it is not particularly funny, but I dont know if people realize that a giant change has taken place in American politics since the last time we voted for president. Something called the Citizens United ruling. The Supreme Court ruled you could give unlimited amounts of money. The last time, just the last time, the most you could give was twenty three hundred dollars. This week Sheldon Adelson said that he was prepared to give Newt Gingrich a hundred million, twenty three hundred to a hundred million thats a lot difference.
So, were living in the age of the Super PAC like it or not. Now I am not No, it is youre right. Its super crap, and I am not a billionaire, and I never will be. I just dont have that gene, but Arianna Huffington does, so I would like to invite her to marry me tonight. Thats my surprise. I am marrying her . I would like tonight to announce a donation to the Obama super PAC, which has the very unfortunate tongue-twister name Priority USA Action. I know, it was named by Borat. But tonight I would like to give that PAC one million dollars.
I am doing this because I truly believe that the difference between a country governed by Barack Obama and one governed by Santorum or Mitt Romney is worth a million dollars, but I want to make this very key point. This hurt, okay. I am not really a millionaire, alright. And if there is one takeaway from tonight, you know for all the rich liberals out there, if Bill Maher can do it, you can do it too. If the Republican world that we have seen described in the last year in these debates and over the last hour in my performance for you tonight, doesnt scare the shit out of you, I dont know what does Ill tell you something folks who look I know look at these Republican clowns and think its in the bag. No, its not. Obama could lose. This is America. You only get two parties and half the country is f**king nuts.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and glad to see he isn't out hawking for people to vote 3rd party like he did in 2000. That last line shows that he has figured it out.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Dont you have to turn in your liberal card when you become worth more than $10 million?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)money for liberal causes and are extremely active in liberal causes.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)And how much do they "donate"? Why dont they buy NBC, CBS or a couple of radio stations? The balance of wealthy liberals vs. wealthy assholes is unbelievable.
Bill Mahr is donating $1 million dollars. Adelson is donating $100 million dollars. I think that pretty well sums it up. Now multiple that by 100.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)The list of rich Liberals goes on and on and on.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)money that Rmoney has alone? So Oprah is rich, what does she do to help liberals get in power? It isnt how much money they have, it's what they are willing to do with it.
Just one major network is all I ask.
Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)Bill Gates is, by any reasonable definition, a right-wing ideologue. The fact that he gives money away no more makes him liberal than it made Andrew Carnegie's business practices liberal.
He wants an army of obedient antidepressed middle-class drones, and he wants the working class to be invisible. Right-wing all the way. He even has the right-wing version of civil rights down pat - any race or gender is acceptable as long as they act like middle-class and upper-class whites.
It just goes to show how far America, not just the right wing, has moved to the right since Reagan.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)wealthy people that are absolute assholes, and IMO that is one of the givens with capitalism. Shit floats to the top in most cases. To me, capitalism breeds the worst in most people, but there are definitely exceptions.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)James Taylor
Arlo Guthrie
Mary Tyler Moore
Keith Olbermann
Al Gore
Robert Kennedy Jr.
That's just a few that I can think of, off the top of my head.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)CBS, CNN, The New York Times, Newsweek, or a hundred radio stations. Let me know when their money comes even close to buying off legislators like the Koch Bros. or Adelson. Statistically there is no rich liberal influence in politics.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Not so. My congressman, Maurice Hinchey actually listens to constituents, and does what they ask of him. So you do not always need money to influence people.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)own almost all of the media. It would be nice if some of the rich liberals could own some media and let liberals speak out.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)The Fairness Doctrine? Wouldn't it be better to hear all points of view, by reinstating the edict that was rebuked by Reagan?
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)is the question.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Granted, there's far more wealthy conservatives than liberals, but my question is this: how many of the wealthy liberals are self-made (e.g. Bill Maher, Warren Buffet)and how many are some type of trust-funders (e.g. Romney, Koch-heads)?
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)All Liberals are poor and all Right Wingers are rich.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Buy us one major network, Newspaper, or national magazine. The people that are busy supporting candidates in both parties arent liberal.
marlakay
(11,542 posts)And heard the whole thing. They must have clipped it for looking now.