{"id":7693,"date":"2010-01-05T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:59:23","slug":"nukes-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7693","title":{"rendered":"Nuke’s Disarmament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh <\/a>throws the mother of all political curveballs.\u00a0 Or did he?<\/p>\n

With the speed\u00a0of Ferdinand Magellan on crack strapped to an Apollo rocket engine, news that actor\/liberal activist icon Tim Robbins had contributed thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to conservative Republicans <\/a>candidates – including Minnesota’s own Michele Bachmann – circumnavigated the blogosphere.\u00a0 To Robbins’ ideological allies, the news proved more shocking than learning that Susan Sarandon is actually Robbins now former lover, and\u00a0not mother:<\/p>\n

Loyal Dems would undoubtedly be gobsmacked to learn that, if Federal Election Commission records are to be believed, Robbins has not only donated regularly to Democratic candidates over the past 18 years, he also has written checks to conservative Republicans. In the 2006 election cycle, according to public records, the actor gave $5,000 to 10 Republican candidates for the House and Senate\u2014including, most shocking of all, Minnesota\u2019s resident wingnut, Rep. Michele Bachmann. Why such largesse to the enemy? Former GOP congressman J.D. Hayworth of Arizona, who lost in 2006 despite Robbins’ $500 donation, was baffled and surprised when I reached him over the weekend. “Maybe because I covered the Durham Bulls as a sports broadcaster in the late 1970s and early ’80s?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The concept that the former Bob Roberts<\/em> actor would have willingly contributed to any candidate with an ‘R’ next to their name is admittedly disarming – especially in light of Robbins and Sarandon’s past support for such candidates as Ralph Nader (leading Robbins to pen an op-ed defending his vote in the Nation<\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 But the FEC doesn’t distinguish between individuals and simply names submitted by a campaign committee from a check.\u00a0 While a search for Tim Robbins in California produces results as seen below…<\/p>\n

ROBBINS, TIM<\/strong>
\nLOS ANGELES, CA 90064
\nSELF EMPLOYED\/ACTOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0BACHMANN, MICHELE<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIA<\/strong> BACHMANN FOR CONGRESS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n10\/23\/2006<\/td>\n500.00<\/td>\n26930598736<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CASEY, ROBERT P JR<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIA<\/strong> BOB CASEY FOR PENNSYLVANIA COMMITTEE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n10\/23\/2006<\/td>\n500.00<\/td>\n26021043528<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0JOHNSON, NANCY L.<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIA<\/strong> JOHNSON FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n10\/26\/2006<\/td>\n500.00<\/td>\n26930600160<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TAYLOR, CHARLES H<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIA<\/strong> CHARLES TAYLOR FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n11\/02\/2006<\/td>\n500.00<\/td>\n26930713029<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WELDON, CURTIS W.<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIA<\/strong> WELDON VICTORY COMMITTEE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n10\/23\/2006<\/td>\n500.00<\/td>\n26930719616<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WILSON, HEATHER A.<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIA<\/strong> HEATHER WILSON FOR SENATE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n10\/24\/2006<\/td>\n500.00<\/td>\n26940802299<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

…it also gives other, less entertainment-related results for multiple Tim Robbins living in the Los Angeles\/Beverly Hills area.\u00a0 Considering Robbins lists himself supposedly as anything from self-employed to a producer, or director, or actor and there are at least 7 different Tim Robbins in the industry<\/a>, the possibility that multiple Robbins have been lumped together is not only\u00a0feasible but likely.<\/p>\n

And perhaps the most likely reality is that Robbins, well, simply goofed.\u00a0 Almost all of Robbins’ supposed Republican donations took place in 2006, suggesting anything but a longstanding pattern of support to conservative candidates or causes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unless Robbins suddenly starts showing up at Bachmann rallies and publicly endorsing her, I’m chalking this up to error – either on Robbins’ part or on overly zealous writers for The Daily Beast<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh throws the mother of all political curveballs.\u00a0 Or did he? With the speed\u00a0of Ferdinand Magellan on crack strapped to an Apollo rocket engine, news that actor\/liberal activist icon Tim Robbins had contributed thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to conservative Republicans candidates – including Minnesota’s own Michele Bachmann – circumnavigated the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,105,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-first-ringer","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7694,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}