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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 02:19 AM Oct 2012

Stephen Colbert's super PAC may get last laugh


Colbert's super PAC may get last laugh

Will there be a final, hilarious punchline for Stephen Colbert's satirical super PAC?

The comedian and host of Comedy Central's Colbert Report isn't saying.

But Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, the committee Colbert created that may raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to promote or attack political candidates, was sitting on more than $776,000 going into October, a new filing with the Federal Election Commission indicates.

That's serious money: enough, for example, to produce and broadcast numerous television advertisements from now through Election Day in major presidential swing state markets.

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Full article here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/colberts-super-pac-may-get-last-laugh-139074.html?hp=l2



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Stephen Colbert's super PAC may get last laugh (Original Post) Tx4obama Oct 2012 OP
Glad to hear this is a real thing! octoberlib Oct 2012 #1
Now if only that super pac had The Doctor. Oct 2012 #2
 

The Doctor.

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2. Now if only that super pac had
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 05:30 AM
Oct 2012

access to really brilliant writers and television producers.... that would be awesome!
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