Mega Obama Donor Bill Maher: Yeah, Mormonism's a "Cult" By Guy Benson 5/21/2012
Maher's brand of bile is more overt than the preferred approach of his fellow media lefties, but subtlety was never Bill's modus operandi. Via Twitter:
RT @billmaher: Why even listen to #MittRomney on foreign policy? His entire FP experience is 2 years trying to brow-beat Frenchmen into joining his cult
Quick reactions:
(1) Some liberals are already saying that because Maher is a militant, aggressive atheist, he views all religions as cults. Has he called Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ a "cult"? I can't seem to recall that particular smear for some reason.
(2) David Axelrod said just yesterday that Mitt Romney's Mormonism is "off the table" for the fall campaign. Will he encourage Obama's SuperPAC to return Maher's $1 million donation?
(3) But wait, you protest, the Obama campaign can't legally control the behavior and decisions of its Super PAC. True. Over to you, Bill Burton -- director of Obama's SuperPAC:
Priorities USA, a super-PAC that supports President Obama, won't touch on Mitt Romney's Mormonism in its attacks, the group's head told The Hill Monday morning. "We are ruling that out," Priorities USA senior strategist Bill Burton said. "I don't even see the point in engaging in this conversation too much. ... The campaign said they wouldn't engage on it. I haven't heard of any Democrat who has said that should be touched."
Now that he has clearly established that bigotry and religious fear-mongering have no place in the 2012 campaign, will Burton stamp "return to sender" on Maher's massive check? If not, I don't want to hear one single peep from Obamaworld about Mitt Romney's lack of "moral leadership" in the realm of today's escalating politics of repudiation.
(4) Bill Maher is an insufferable hater who's been slamming Mormonism (and other faiths) for years. He explicitly called Mitt Romney's church "a cult" last month:
Yeah, don't expect Billy B. to mail back that seven-figure check any time soon. This is who Bill Maher is, and Team Obama knew it when they accepted his cash. And by the way, Maher is dead wrong that Romney "only" donated to his church. He's also given hefty sums to cancer and MS research organizations, charities for our troops, and children's groups. And Romney's contributions to the Mormon church weren't just to help indigent Mormons, they were to help facilitate the church's philanthropic and humanitarian work around the world -- or as Maher would characterize it, "brow-beating poor people into benefiting from his cult."
UPDATE - No comment Team Obama: "The Obama campaign did not respond to an e-mail from BuzzFeed asking whether they would repudiate Maher's remarks."
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Most people think Mormonism is a cult, so I doubt Maher saying it will have any effect. Also, Romney did spend time in France trying to get people to join the church. So nothing new there either. JMost people running for president don't have a lot of foreign policy experience. Obama probably had more FP experience than GWB and Bill Clinton when they first ran for president, since he served in the Senate. The president will surround himself with people who are experts in FP.
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Albion wrote:I am not much of a fan of Bill Maher...but the Mormon Church's "philanthropic and humanitarian" work around the world?
Its OK to play dumb. This is the Trailerpark.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
I'm curious if the author Guy Benson is the great grandson of you-know-who.
Its OK to play dumb. This is the Trailerpark.
Excellent point Droopy. Were this the Great and Spacious Castle, we would have different expectations placed upon us, including both a dress code and a requirement for much sharper daggers.
DarkHelmet wrote:Most people think Mormonism is a cult, so I doubt Maher saying it will have any effect. Also, Romney did spend time in France trying to get people to join the church. So nothing new there either. JMost people running for president don't have a lot of foreign policy experience. Obama probably had more FP experience than GWB and Bill Clinton when they first ran for president, since he served in the Senate. The president will surround himself with people who are experts in FP.
I am not sure I would agree with that. Obama was only in the senate a couple of years before he started running. I don't know that would have given him very much FP expirience.
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So what if he gives a million to Obama? I don't see how Dan and Droopy think this is in any way comparable to the fact that the vast majority of Romney's donors are wealthy millionaires who are expecting political favors when elected. Nearly half of Obama's donations come from small donors (less than $200) compared to Romney which is something like 15-20% I think. This indicates more every day Americans support Obama and also indicates that Romney is simply out of touch with America. He relies strictly on the uber wealthy for his campaign finance. It is the Republican way. Do favors for the wealthy and corporations and they will shower you with funding. This is why it was so important for the Republicans when the conservative Supreme Court ruled the way they did in Citizens United. It for the first time allowed unlimited political funding from corporations, which put a huge smile on the Republican's faces. Romney is the first Presidential candidate to take advantage of it, since he cannot rely on Americans to support his campaign.