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(67,190 posts) Wed May 23, 2012, 09:30 AM May 2012

Obama campaign condemns Bill Maher’s Romney ‘cult’ remark [View all]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-campaign-condemns-bill-maher-romney-cult-remark-212707660.html

By Olivier Knox | The Ticket – Mon, May 21, 2012

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign on Monday repudiated comic Bill Maher's description of Mitt Romney's religion, Mormonism, as a "cult."

Maher, a major donor to a super PAC backing Obama, had tweeted "Why even listen to #MittRomney on foreign policy? His entire FP experience is 2 yrs trying to brow-beat Frenchmen into joining his cult." The former Massachusetts governor spent two years in France as a missionary.

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Obama campaign condemns Bill Maher’s Romney ‘cult’ remark [View all] NNN0LHI May 2012 OP

Ridiculous for Obama camp to even answer for anything said by a comedian. blm May 2012 #1

+1, or they're trying to raise the issue themselves...either way it's not worth addressing uponit7771 May 2012 #3

I think it's brilliant. It gives the remark much more attention. n/t Ian David May 2012 #4

Agree. nt Raine May 2012 #5

This was payback NNN0LHI May 2012 #6

exactly--besides it's true. n/t librechik May 2012 #23

Good Job Maher, hopefully this blows up a little snooper2 May 2012 #2

I think it's clever of the Obama campaign JustAnotherGen May 2012 #7

Bill Maher is as irrelevant as ayers and reverend wright SecurityManager May 2012 #8

Maher gave $1M to Obama's campaign. Makes him a little more relevant, I think. godai May 2012 #9

A little reverse psychology. Well played. FarLeftFist May 2012 #10

Maher used the word cult to get attention Life Long Dem May 2012 #11

This will really confuse the Tea Baggers... kentuck May 2012 #12

Liberty University also calls Mormonism a cult. FarLeftFist May 2012 #13

heheh...extra funny because RevMoon the Korean cult leader bailed out Falwell and Liberty University blm May 2012 #16

A win-win. The Obama campaign takes the high road hifiguy May 2012 #14

Good cop, bad cop? Zorra May 2012 #20

+1 hifiguy May 2012 #21

Maher is not biased, he goes after all religions. Democrats_win May 2012 #15

Bill Maher gave 'em some money, and that makes him a surrogate for the Obama campaign? DCKit May 2012 #17

Maher considered every religion a cult JHB May 2012 #18

When I took a comparative religion course in college justiceischeap May 2012 #19

Mormonism is considered a Cult in Right Wing Christianity cr8tvlde May 2012 #22

either call them a cult or throw away your dictionaries. CBGLuthier May 2012 #24