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Sarah Palin’s Super Pac is in a fight with Barack Obama’s Super Pac and nobody likes
any of Mitt Romney’s Super Pacs. Why can’t all these Super Pacs just get along?
This chapter began when comedian Bill Maher gave a million dollars to Barack Obama’s
Super Pac. Now normally I wouldn’t talk about another comedian with a better career
than me, especially one that could employ me as a writer, although he does not, but
Bill Maher crossed the line when he gave a million dollars to a Super Pac. He became
a participant instead of an observer. He became a set up for one of my punchlines.
Now, I could have used that million dollars, but that’s not the point. That’s not why
I’m talking about Bill Maher and I want to make that perfectly clear. I’m all for
it. Get that money out of Hollywood. Send it to Washington and Madison Ave.
Oh sure, I have a one man show, which I could probably produce for only $950,000. That’s
$50,000 in Bill Maher’s pocket! And if he wants to give that to Obama’s Pac, he should
go right ahead, although I do have a short film I’d like to direct for funnyordie.com
which I’m sure I could bring in at $49,727. And fifty cents.
Seventy-three dollars in Bill Maher’s pocket. Seventy-two-fifty.
But that’s not the point I’m trying to make. I’m sure the President of the United
States could use the money. Oh sure, I have a sitcom pilot I wrote for myself which I
could probably produce for a flat million, but I guess Clear Channel could use that money
too. Anyway, that’s not the point I was trying
to make. The point I was trying to make is that conservatives preach that money is free
speech. Bill Maher exercised his right to their kind of free speech by giving a million
dollars to Barack Obama’s Super Pac and Sarah Palin used the millions from her Super
Pac to try to cancel out his million dollars. Why not just give it to me? I have a nice
middle school recital about Alaska I could produce for only $400,000. But again, I digress.
Anyway, in an effort to deflect attention from the Republican’s “War on Women”
and Rush Limbaugh’s attack on a woman far more intelligent than himself, Sarah Palin’s
Super Pac, ShePac, produced a short attack ad on Obama for accepting money from Bill
Maher because of some joke he made about her “frisky” daughter.
In the commercial, Palin’s Pac violates copyright law by stringing together a series
of very funny Bill Maher monologue jokes which I hadn’t seen before because I don’t get
HBO, in which he told jokes about Palin and her daughter. Palin was so offended by these
jokes that she paid someone to edit them together so she could illegally rebroadcast them to
an audience larger than the original HBO audience. Sarah Palin is really hoping you’ll watch
this video that derides her daughter. "Thanks mom!"
I feel sorry for Bristol. Her mother and the Republican Party have used her to spout propaganda
written by others since the 2008 election. In a new, slick multimedia blog which is being
produced under Bristol’s name, which she began only weeks ago, “Bristol” attacks
Obama for accepting Maher’s donation. The blog embeds ShePac’s video and chances are
the blog entry is coordinated with her mother and ShePac.
You can fool some Republicans all of the time... You know what the best thing about this video
is? When it’s over, the YouTube suggested links are to Bill Maher’s most recent free
stand-up special “Crazy, Stupid Politics” in which I’m sure there are bound to be
Palin jokes and to Alexandra Pelosi’s recent documentary short that was shown on “Real
Time” about Mississippi tea partiers, which was less than flattering.
Thanks for the free advertising, ShePac! Don’t forget to say, “Fridays at nine!”
When Super Pacs start advertising about other Super Pacs, it’s time to pack in the Super
Pacs! I’m James Tripp and I’ll be back next
week with another Trippitorial!