Charlie Sheen - Colbert's Super Pac Shows Political Spending Is So Sad It's Funny - Commentary

Colbert had a single problem. You won't be able to operate a super PAC along with run for chief executive from similar time. The rule is that the seriously PAC aren't able to "coordinate" having a candidate.

So Colbert, on his Comedy Central show, brought out his buddy Jon Stewart. They signed the two-page document shifting your extremely PAC for you to Stewart. That's all the item took. And now, Stewart could commit the super PAC money on advertisings praising Colbert and also attacking another prospects - provided that your dog doesn't "coordinate" with Colbert.

I believe here the particular Monty Python character runs "Wink-wink, nudge-nudge."

How very much capital does Colbert's excellent PAC have? And who donated to it? He's not necessarily telling. And therefore far, this individual has not had to tell.

So this is the way they greatly this for the noncomedian side. Sheldon Adelson, a Vegas billionaire plus good friend involving Newt Gingrich, gifted $5 million to the pro-Gingrich excellent PAC called Winning Our Future. (Which feels like a Charlie Sheen T-shirt, but whatever.) Winning Our Future after that ordered a variety of airtime inside South Carolina to operate clips from your film blasting Mitt Romney to get getting rid of work when this individual went that private-equity corporation Bain Capital. The fact-checking site PolitiFact features stated several falsehoods inside film. Gingrich provides enquired the actual tremendous PAC (with which usually she has simply no connection, wink-wink, nudge-nudge) to back off. But the particular images of the laid-off workers already are used up into quite a few voters' heads.

It's correctly excellent intended for Gingrich to look immediately after Romney which way. It's correctly excellent for individuals in order to give away to campaigns. But it's foolish for you to imagine of which big-money donors are generally separate with the persons they main for. And it can be crazy to help let organizations overflow strategies together with money, when at least two major areas of a business - employees and shareholders - are deprived of a new point out inside the place that the money goes.

I'm headed to South Carolina to help insure the principal starting up Wednesday. As you read, make sure you understand this: Spending within politics is actually thus sad it is funny. That's good announcement for Stephen Colbert. Not a whole lot with the rest regarding us.