Like a typical proggie, Clooney admits what he’s doing is wrong yet does it anyway. Classic “do as I say, not as I do” liberal…
From the Daily Mail: George Clooney, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, broke ranks over campaign financing on Saturday to condemn the ‘obscene’ sums of money in politics and praised Bernie Sanders in the process.
Clooney made the remarks in an interview with Chuck Todd on NBC News’’ Meet The Press the day after he and his wife, Amal, hosted a fundraiser on Democratic Party hopeful Clinton’s behalf Friday night in San Francisco with a price tag of up to $353,400 per couple.
Hillary and Clooney from 2003
Todd asked: ‘Let me start with a dinner you co-hosted on Friday night. A big fundraiser, I know that you have planned for later tonight. ‘Uh, do you look at, uh, how much is being raised, and I think the cost of the Friday night dinner – $353,000 uh, a couple, to be a co-chair – do you look at it yourself and think, “That’s an obscene amount of money?”‘
The Hollywood A-lister responded: ‘Yes. I think it’s an obscene amount of money.’ Clooney added: ‘I think that – you know, we had some protesters last night when we, uh, when we pulled up in San Francisco, and they’re right to protest. They’re absolutely right. It is an obscene amount of money. The Sanders campaign when they talk about it is absolutely right. It’s ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree completely.‘ Yet Clooney CHOSE to HOST a FUNDRAISER with the OBSCENE price tag.
Bernie Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont and Clinton’s rival in the race for the Democratic nomination to run for the White House in the November 8 election, has pounced on former secretary of state Clinton over the big-ticket event and for accepting large sums of money for her campaign.
Sanders told CNN in March: ‘I have a lot of respect for George Clooney. He’s a great actor. I like him. But this is the problem with American politics, is that big money is dominating our political system.’ Sanders said at the time: ‘So it’s not a criticism of Clooney. It’s a criticism of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests — and it’s not Clooney, it’s the people coming to this event — have undue influence on the political process.‘
In response to the dinner, the Sanders campaign on Friday evening sent out an email to supporters asking them to help reach their fundraising goals by chipping in $3.53 a piece, instead.
Clooney and his wife were going to hold at their house on Saturday a fundraiser in Los Angeles, Variety reported. Tickets reportedly cost $33,400 each.
A fundraiser for Sanders was to take place in the area, with tickets going for a far-cheaper $27 a pop, Variety reported.
NBC News reporter Shaquille Brewster tweeted a video Saturday, writing: ‘Bernie Sanders supporters shower @HillaryClinton’s motorcade with [money emojis] as she passes their LA counter-fundraiser.’ Music featuring the words ‘We’re in the money’ can be heard playing during the stunt in the clip.
Sanders’s supporters protest along Hillary’s motorcade
According to Newsbusters, hypocrite Clooney blamed his own fundraising efforts on Citizens United and the Koch brothers, of course. He said, “The Koch brothers would profit if they got their way and that’s what — you know, we have — there’s no profit for us in this… and so our job is to try counter that in some way.”
Clooney can spare me his faux outrage over conservatives spending their money when he’s raising millions for the liberals.
DCG