George Clooney: Completely Agree With Protesters $353K Price Tag For My Clinton Fundraiser “Obscene”

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

[Kalidurga]

1. George Clooney hosts a 15 million dollar fund raising ad for Bernie Sanders...nt

[roguevalley]

46. Love him most of the time but he's trying to have it both ways. If he thinks that, a good

man would have said no.

[cantbeserious]

2. Mr Clooney - Why Then - Are You Supporting - The Future War Hawk In Chief

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[GeorgiaPeanuts]

3. Maybe he is worried about making Hillary's naughty list...

I heard she is really vindictive to people who cross her. McCaskill is still paying for backing Obama in 2008

[cantbeserious]

5. Why Would Someone As Intelligent As Clooney Fall For That Type Of Manipulation

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[Helen Borg]

24. Narcissism?

ft

[SusanCalvin]

31. Reality. Which I hope will change. nt

[thereismore]

6. Maybe his wife is friends with Huma? I don't know. nt

[ybbor]

41. I so love you cantbeserious

You rock!

[lostnfound]

4. Okay George, you ARE back to being hottest man in Hollywood. 👍

Even if you're raising money for the wrong candidate in this primary, honesty is sooo sexy.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. also confirms there is weak grassroots support for Hillary

or she would not need to raise money from SuperPACS, fat cats, etc

[CoffeeCat]

28. Clinton has half of the individual contributions that Sanders has

so that is exactly right.

Sanders has twice as many individual contributions as Clinton.

She does not have the broad base of "We The People" funding her campaign, like Bernie does. So, she relies on the glitterati and the corporations.

[tomm2thumbs]

32. I'm trying to figure out why because their campaign exhaustedly keep saying they have more votes

are they votes from people who aren't motivated enough to care to send money?

I remember when she was running against Obama, she was close in votes too, but she was making loans out to her campaign while Barack was getting record revenues. It's like a 'put your money where your mouth is' disconnect.

[CoffeeCat]

37. I find this curious as well

Maybe many of her supporters are voting for her based on name recognition/inevitability--and therefore there is a lack of enthusiasm?

I sometimes wonder exactly what is going on. She's got low rally attendance (and always has). She's got half of the campaign contributions as Bernie. The metric that she does have is votes--and I can't help but wonder if she's stealing away across America.

Something just doesn't feel right.

[Vincardog]

44. Most "votes" ignore all the caucus states they don't "Vote" they caucus See how the smear is spread

[Baobab]

40. No, I think Hillary has twice the amount of money

not number of donations, there Bernie has more.

[CoffeeCat]

42. I just changed my post

I think it was confusing.

Bernie has twice as many individual contributions as Hillary.

Hillary does have more money--but half as many individual contributions.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

43. If you include superpac she has more money...

But candidate committee to candidate committee Sanders has outraised her finally since March.

[bkkyosemite]

8. Don't clap too hard. I think this is just a way to get you to watch. He will probably say

something like BUT it takes lots of money to win and Hillary needs to win yada yada yada.

[Dustlawyer]

11. I bet you are right, there had to be the word "but" coming next except it was cut off.

[dchill]

12. Oh, exactly. He deeply regrets what he has to do...

to get the most hated candidate ever into the White House. Again.

But he's going to do it, nevertheless.

[murielm99]

17. Most hated?

Yeah, sure. That's why she has 2.5 million more votes than St. Bernie. That's why she has all kinds of support from people who worked with her in Congress, and Sanders has almost none. Yeah, there is some real hate.

[dchill]

19. Votes = wrong metric. As you know.

The metric is pledged delegates. Caucus states rarely even announce popular vote totals. I state this for reference only, as I'm sure you know it. But false claims are the HRC way, as true claims have an anti-Hillary bias.

And yes, she is the most hated and reviled candidate the Democratic Party has ever fielded. DINJARIE.

[murielm99]

20. She has the most pledged delegates

AND the most votes, as I am sure you know. False claims? Why are st. bernie's supporters so math challenged?

[dchill]

21. Jesus God. The false claim is that she is ahead...

by 2.5 million popular votes. That's not possibly true when many states did not even release popular vote totals. Apparently, even basic math skills are above your head. Insulting, eh?

[murielm99]

22. Goodbye.

You are not worth the effort.

[dchill]

23. I know you are but what am I?

[CoffeeCat]

39. Don't you understand what this person is saying?

Caucus results are not factored into the total number of votes, because the raw vote totals are not released in caucuses.

So, when you say that Hillary has xxx more votes than Bernie--several states are left out of that equation. States that have caucuses.

Bernie won most of those caucuses.

[murielm99]

48. Sanders is even less competitive than he appears:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-is-even-further-behind-in-votes-than-he-is-in-delegates/

[KPN]

35. Good post. Spot on ... 100%

[Scootaloo]

51. I'm going to place my bet on naivety

Very possibly he thinks those big aggregate donations his event collected really are divvied up appropruiately between the campaign, state parties, and DNC. After all, that's the stated premise of aggregate donations.

[SusanCalvin]

9. Uh, George..... Then why did you do it?

Oh right. Clinton enemies list. Well, you're on it now anyway, I assume....

[Duckfan]

10. Redeem yourself George and publically endorse Bernie

Then campaign for him if you think $353,000 is a gross amount of money in politics

[shenmue]

13. Emotional blackmail is fun

[BeanMusical]

16. I'm glad that you're having fun when emotionally blackmailing someone.

[CoffeeCat]

29. I'm laughing as I type

Thank you.

Well played!

[BeanMusical]

45. You're very welcome.

[SusanCalvin]

27. Good grief. nt

[zeemike]

15. He can't be a traitor to his class.

And his class wants Hillary.

[Geronimoe]

14. He did expose Hillary for who she is

Bernie advising the pope on moral economics, while Hillary is collecting more money from fat cats.

[Ed Suspicious]

25. It's ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics . . .

. . .But it is what it is and the way it is tells us that in order to compete we need to raise this ridiculous kind of money therefore and raise that money we shall because we have to.

[SusanCalvin]

26. Whoa. In spite of the event, he's on the Clinton's €©£¥ list now! nt

[CoffeeCat]

30. Just a thought, but maybe

Clooney is doing some damage control?

His name is attached to these two "obscene" fundraisers. Both events have received enormously bad publicity and they epitomize everything that is wrong with our corrupt-campaign finance system--and he's at the epicenter of all of this.

There were protests at both events.

Maybe he's worried that his brand is being damaged or diminished?

[SusanCalvin]

33. No doubt.

He's on the Clinton's list anyway. Hopefully she won't win and it won't matter.

[SusanCalvin]

34. Oops, dupe. Stupid computer.

[bjo59]

36. That sounds about right.

[KPN]

38. Yup.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

50. I understand already...

...he's no longer welcome at some establishments...

https://m.

[ReRe]

47. Yeah, yeah, yeah....

.... but look at the s-t-u-p-i-d look on Check Todd's face. I don't think he expected that answer out of George's mouth. Eat some doo-doo, Chuck!

[progressoid]

49. So he admits to being part of something ridiculous and obscene.

Was there a follow up question like, "then why are you doing it?"