CNN.com's Political Ticker has broken an enourmous story that is not being covered by the MSM. Unless of course you count CNN.com.
Apparently, there are only two actors who support Republican Presidential candidates!
How is this possible? Simple. Hollywood is a dirty hippy, liberal, vegan, homosexual commune out of touch with the rest of America.
Or maybe CNN didn't finish their research.
Take a look at the lists. There are 53 individual donors on their lists for 7 Democratic candidates: Clinton, Dodd, Edwards, Gravel, Kucinich, Obama, and Richardson.
There are only two donors for Giuliani who is the only Republican listed. They are Melissa Gilbert who played little Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie and Tony Sirico, who was Paulie Walnuts on The Sopranos.
What is a loyal reader to think? That no other Republican has celebrity donors? Maybe all the Republican celebrities are holding out for Fred Thompson.
A quick search of the most recent FEC filings shows that indeed, Mitt Romney's campaign has no prominant donors that identify themselved as actors. But he does have Mark Victor Hansen, the creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise. Giuliani has a few others, but no one I would have recognized without imdb.com. He's also got Richard Childress who you probably won't know unless you follow NASCAR. McCain has a few that were not mentioned, including Rip Torn, and Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Seabiscuit. Ron Paul roped in a few including David Pasquesi, who you may recognize from Strangers With Candy, and (sob) Barry Manilow. In all fairness to Mr. Manilow, he donates primarily to Democratic candidates. I suppose it's possible he missed the racist, xenophobic parts of Ron Paul's platform.
Thought clearly there are more celebrities donating to Democrats, I wonder why Rip Torn and Barry Manilow were not listed. Maybe because it doesn't fit with the liberal Hollywood theme.
In any event, celebrities are supporting Democrats in much larger numbers.
Danny DeVito, Tom Hanks, and Tobey McGuire are Clinton supporters.
Val Kilmer, Bette Midler and Steven Spielberg gave to Bill Richardson.
Some are hedging their bets and donating to multiple campaigns.
Ben Stiller gave to Clinton and Edwards. Jodie Foster gave to Obama and Richardson. Paul Newman gave to Clinton, Obama and Richardson.
So check out the list and see where your favorite celebrities stand and who they are giving their money to.