Last night, during a stand-up comedy special, Bill Maher presented a check for $1 million to Priorities USA, a super-PAC supporting Barack Obama's re-election. In general, I find the whole super-PAC concept nauseating, just the most blatant evidence that our entire political system is dominated by moneyed interests. However, if someone must buy my leaders, I guess I'd rather it be Bill Maher than, say, the Koch brothers.
Maher's donation reveals two interesting facts:
One, Bill Maher is freakin' loaded! I mean, if he's donating a million bucks to a super-PAC, then he must have at least. . . .Well, close to a million dollars! Probably a little more, assuming he wants to go on eating after making his donation. I could see a million dollar donation from Clooney or Brangelina or, I don't know, Gallagher--but Bill Maher! All he does is make snarky comments about our political system, which brings me to fact number two:
Why don't I have a million dollars?!? (Okay that was more of a question than a fact.) I'm definitely in the wrong business. Or at least the wrong medium.
She said, without fear that anyone would be surprised: "Apparently, I, too, am in the wrong industry."
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