George Clooney raises $10M for Obama campaign

On Saturday, Clooney told the Wall Street Journal that his fundraising dinner, co-hosted by Obama bundler Jeffrey Katzenberg and organized by his political right-hand Andy Spahn, would raise $10 million for the president’s re-election, “Which is about double anything that’s ever been done before,” Clooney explained to the WSJ at the White House Correspondents Dunner. (Where Obama greeted the actor with a “Hey, George”).

News reports confirm that the $10M is the largest amount ever for a single Obama campaign event. And that exceeds the sum that the Obama campaign raised from the entire entertainment industry in the 2008 presidential race when Hollywood types were slow to embrace Obama as their candidate over Hillary Clinton.

Hollywood moguls are still smarting over what they see as the Obama Administration’s betrayal of Big Media by siding with Silicon Valley and opposing that congressional piracy legislation (Stop Online Piracy Act). The studio chiefs individually and as a group drew a line in the sand on the piracy issue with the Obama re-election campaign and were refusing to give any more donations.

Source: Deadline