Christian Toto
Breitbart.com
Big Hollywood
13 Aug 2012
The recent Priorities USA campaign commercial connecting Mitt Romney to the death of a woman from cancer may rank as the most despicable, and downright dishonest, political ads ever created.
Even the increasingly left-leaning CNN torched it. So did The New York Times.
So who is propping up Priorities USA, a Super PAC created to boost President Barack Obama’s re-election chances? Just take a gander at the group’s top 10 donors and three celebrity names jump out.
- Hard-left comedian Bill Maher famously cut a $1 million check for the group.
- Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman, who has grown more political and stridently so since Obama took office, did the same.
- DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg coughed up $2 million to help Priorities USA come up with such unsavory, factually bankrupt ads.
Related: Brock Oppo File on Ryan: The Cure for Insomnia
I literally fell asleep while reading David Brock’s opposition research file on Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for Vice President. The 290-page media cheat sheet, prepared by Brock’s super PAC, American Bridge 21st Century, and released on the Internet so that the Obama campaign could borrow from it without coordinating with the super PAC (wink, wink), is not just boring, but a giant failure, except as a cure for insomnia.
For all the greenhouse gas generated by Democrats wailing about super PACs, Brock’s super PAC is playing a leading role in shaping the Democrats’ media message–not just through American Bridge, but also Priorities USA, the super PAC run by former Obama White House staffer Bill Burton. Brock’s Media Matters outfit was founded to combat media bias, but is now revealed as the soggy foundation of the left’s slime industry…
