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 | | While the entertainment industry does have corporate PACs, who do the business's bidding and spread their wealth accordingly, most of the money handed out by the entertainment industry is ideological money and buys its giver nothing. |
 | | While there are undoubtedly social and professional benefits in Hollywood that derive from giving money to liberal causes, rich liberals get nothing from the national treasury or tax code for their activism. |
 | | While many Hollywood personalities are dead serious about their politics and contribute their money and celebrity intelligently and strategically, more than a few really are just as spoiled media-wise as they are life-wise, expecting the same supplication from reporters as from their personal publicists, agents, managers, masseuses, life coaches, gardeners, pool attendants and pedicurists. |
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