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Karl Rove has redistributed more money from billionaires than Barack Obama ever will.

— Guy Nicolucci (@Nicolucci1899) November 8, 2012

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Sheldon Adelson's Daughter Goes on Camera-Detroying Rampage

It's almost too traumatizing to go into…

The daughter of casino owner and conservative mega-donor Sheldon Adelson grabbed the camera of a Democracy Now! producer outside a sky box at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night.

Mike Burke, senior producer of Democracy Now!, was shouting questions at Adelson as the billionaire made his way to his suite in Tampa, when Adelson's daughter intervened…

This is pretty understandable, actually. If someone's acting aggressively toward your parent, it's not unnatural to step in — even if your parent is one of the handful of guys who will probably decide a presidential election.

Anything else happen?

"And then, from there, [Adelson's daughter] went over to Hany Massoud, our cameraperson, and actually grabbed the camera… And then, at that point, she drops the camera on the ground, and you heard that sound," Burke said.

Well, that's also understandable — how could she see the value in a piece of equipment that isn't even expensive enough to buy an election with?

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Tags: Republican National Convention, Sheldon Adelson

Our Endorsements: Sarah Silverman Cuts to the Chase

* Sarah Silverman's NSFW indecent proposal.

* What is this "Afghanistan" you speak of, from The Onion.

* The New Yorker political cartoon of the day for all you thinkers out there.

* Sean Lennon asks you not to frack his mother on Jimmy Fallon.

* Watch Romney get pulled over during the Seamus incident, from Funny or Die.

Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Daily Links, Environment, Funny or Die, Jimmy Fallon, Mitt Romney, Sarah Silverman, Seamus Romney, Sheldon Adelson, The New Yorker, The Onion, Theodore Roosevelt, Yoko Ono

Mitch McConnell on SCOTUS Reaffirming "Citizens United vs. FEC"

In addition to ruling on Arizona's immigration laws, the Supreme Court announced that it would not be re-visiting its 2010 Citizens United vs. FEC decision which gave corporations unlimited "free speech" in U.S. politics via campaign contributions.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who had some very thought-provoking, non-super-disingenuous points to make about this "important victory for freedom of speech"…

There has been "only minimal corporate involvement in the 2012 election cycle," McConnell wrote in the statement and in a brief filed in support of the group seeking to toss out Montana's corporate political spending ban.

Citing Federal Election Commission records, McConnell said "not one Fortune 100 company contributed a cent to any of the eight Republican super-PACs" as of the end of March.

Those committees are required to report donors; many nonprofit groups that also spend money in elections may keep their donors secret.

Check and mate, liberals! "Not one Fortune 100 company contributed a cent to any of the eight Republican super-PACs" all through the Republican primaries. So, we can assume that the same would hold true through the general elections in which a rabidly business-centric Republican was fighting to unseat a Democratic president. Because those two things are exactly the same.

And, just to set the record straight, let's take a look at the kind of non-corporation that is contributing to to the presidential Super PACs. Just to pull a name of of the proverbial hat, let's say… Sheldon Adelson, who's planning to contribute up to $100 million to Mitt Romney's campaign. Now, he's not a corporation, is he? No! He's a person. A person who runs a corporation, owns several business and has derived his massive wealth from corporations.

Totally, totally different.

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Tags: Citizens United v. FEC, Corporations, Mitch McConnell, Money, Senate, Sheldon Adelson, Supreme Court

Sheldon Adelson to Donate All the Money in the World to Romney

Remember that sack of money with eyeballs that single-handedly kept Newt Gingrich's campaign afloat for months after everybody else gave up on him? Well, his name was Sheldon Adelson, and he's been mourning the death of the impoverished "middle-class" candidate's primary campaign by sinking $10 million into Mitt Romney's general election campaign. (From what I understand, that helps.)

Oh, wait. You think that's a lot? $10 million? That's just the part of the iceberg that sticks out above the water that makes you think it's the whole thing but is really just one tiny little fraction of it. What's it called? Oh, right, the $10 million of the iceberg…

Adelson, who has built Las Vegas Sands into an global casino empire, will do "whatever it takes" to defeat Obama, this source says. And given that Adelson is worth $24.9 billion–and told Forbes in a recent rare interview about his political giving that he had been willing to donate as much as $100 million to his initial presidential preference, Newt Gingrich–that "limitless" description telegraphs potential nine-digit support of Romney.

Adelson, this source continues, believes that "no price is too high" to protect the U.S. from what he sees as Obama’s "socialization" of America, as well as securing the safety of Israel. He added that Adelson, 78, considers this to be the most important election of his lifetime.

Thank god we have patriotic billionaires around to donate massive amounts of money to campaigns of their choosing and save us from Obama's "socialization" of America. Can you imagine how heartbreaking it would be to see any one person with undue power tipping the scales to undermine the basic tenets of democracy?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Citizens United v. FEC, Mitt Romney, Money, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Sheldon Adelson