CELEBRITY POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
by Maggie Van Ostrand
There's a massive amount of bull in politics. Teddy Roosevelt came up with the name "bully pulpit," which meant a great platform from which to "persuasively advocate an agenda," but now we appear to be taking the phrase more literally. Politicians are stumping in neighborhood churches in an effort to gain support. What they are spouting from these pulpits is known as bull, and a far cry from Teddy Roosevelt's definition. Prepare yourselves, there's more coming.
Living in this high-tech age, we're in a hurry to find out what will happen before it does happen, and we've come to rely on political polling as facts-in-advance. But polls do not always portray the end result, as has been shown in New Hampshire. Furthermore, some people appear to believe that caucuses and primaries are like the actual election, especially since the media is now referring to the day specific states hold primaries as "Super Tuesday." All we need to recognize that Super Tuesday as as much of a game as the Super Bowl, would be a cheering squad. Oh wait, we already have a cheerleader in the White House. He's the giggling Protestant recently seen in the middle east wearing a yarmulke. No wonder most of Hollywood is a Democrat.
In a never-ending quest for truth, here are the facts, actual donations made by celebrities to political candidates. They are not "Super Facts," they are not based on polls, they are from public information sourced by the Federal Election Commission.
Jennifer Aniston
$2,300 to Barack Obama
Hank Azaria
$2,300 to John Edwards
Tyra Banks
$2,300 to Obama
Angela Bassett
$2,300 to Obama
Halle Berry
$2,300 to Obama
Valerie Bertinelli
$2,300 to Obama
Pat Boone
$800 to former Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback
$1,000 to Mitt Romney
Zach Braff
$2,300 to Obama
Christie Brinkley
$2,150 to Hillary Clinton
$1,000 to Obama
James L. Brooks
$2,300 to Obama
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Clinton
$1,000 to former Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson
Jackson Browne
$2,300 to Obama
Jerry Bruckheimer
$2,300 to John McCain
Chevy Chase
$2,100 to former Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd
$4,600 to Clinton
Cher
$2,100 to former Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
John Cleese
$2,300 to Obama
George Clooney
$2,300 to Obama
Harry Connick Jr.
$4,600 to Obama
Gary Cole
$2,300 to Edwards
Larry David
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Obama
James Denton
$4,600 to Edwards
Danny DeVito
$2,300 to Clinton
Paul Dooley
$2,300 to Obama
Michael Douglas
$4,600 to Clinton
$4,600 to Richardson
$1,500 to Kucinich
$4,600 to Dodd
$4,600 to Obama
Fran Drescher
$2,300 to Clinton
Hector Elizondo
$300 to Kucinich
Linda Evans
$2,300 to Obama
Morgan Freeman
$2,300 to Obama
Jamie Foxx
$2,300 to Obama
Jeff Garlin
$250 to Obama
Louis Gossett
$2,300 to Obama
Kelsey Grammer
$2,300 to Giuliani
Seth Green
$4,600 to Edwards
Jasmine Guy
$2,300 to Obama
Tom Hanks
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Obama
Hill Harper
$2,300 to Obama
Dennis Haysbert
$2,300 to Obama
Edward Helms
$250 to Clinton
Don Henley
$4,600 to Edwards
$4,600 to Clinton
Cheryl Hines
$1,000 to Obama
Quincy Jones
$4,600 to Clinton
Jeffrey Katzenberg
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Obama
$2,100 to Edwards
$2,300 to Dodd
Val Kilmer
$2,300 to Richardson
Norman Lear
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,100 to former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Vilsack
$1,150 to Richardson
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Obama
John Lithgow
$1,000 to Dodd
Seth Macfarlane
$1,000 to Obama
Amy Madigan
$2,300 to Clinton
Tobey Maguire
$4,600 to Clinton
$2,300 to Obama
Branford Marsalis
$4,600 to Obama
Steve Martin
$2,300 to Dodd
Lorne Michaels
$4,600 to Dodd
$2,300 to McCain
Bette Midler
$4,600 to Richardson
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Obama
Eddie Murphy
$2,300 to Obama
Kathy Najimy
$2,300 to Clinton
Paul Newman
$4,600 to Obama
$4,600 to Clinton
$2,300 to Richardson
$4,600 to Dodd
Leonard Nimoy
$2,300 to Obama
Edward Norton
$2,300 to Obama
Rosie O'Donnell
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Obama
$2,300 to Richardson
$2,300 to Edwards
Sean Penn
$2,300 to Kucinich
$4,600 to Edwards
Rhea Perlman
$2,300 to Clinton
Ellen Pompeo
$4,600 to Obama
Sidney Poitier
$4,600 to Obama
Bonnie Raitt
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Kucinich
Lynn Redgrave
$250 to Clinton
Rob Reiner
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Richardson
$2,300 to Edwards
$1,000 to Dodd
Chris Rock
$4,600 to Obama
Susan Saint James
$4,600 to Dodd
Adam Sandler
$2,100 to Giuliani
Brooke Shields
$2,300 to Obama
Elisabeth Shue
$1,500 to Dodd
Paul Simon
$4,600 to Dodd
Will Smith
$4,600 to Obama
Steven Spielberg
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Richardson
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Obama
Darren Star
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Obama
Mary Steenburgen
$2,300 to Edwards
$4,600 to Clinton
Ben Stein
$750 to Giuliani
Ben Stiller
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Obama
$4,600 to Clinton
Barbra Streisand
$1,000 to Dodd
$2,300 to Clinton
$2,300 to Edwards
$2,300 to Obama
Isaiah Washington
$2,300 to Obama
Gene Wilder
$2,300 to Obama
Jerry Weintraub
$2,300 to Richardson
Forest Whitaker
$2,300 to Obama
Oprah Winfrey
$2,300 to Obama
Joanne Woodward
$4,600 to Clinton
$4,600 to Dodd
$4,600 to Obama
Renee Zellweger
$4,600 to Clinton
It's nice to know that celebrities can occasionally put their money where their mouth is instead of their foot.
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