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Amy Schumer: My Liberal Politics May Hurt My Career, But I Don’t Care (Chuckie's Niece Is SO Brave!)
Newsbusters ^ | | August 22, 2016 | 4:10 PM EDT | By Geoffrey Dickens

Posted on 08/22/2016 2:17:20 PM PDT by drewh

Comedian and actress Amy Schumer absurdly claimed if only she kept her “mouth shut” about her “real feelings about politics or gun violence” that “career-wise” it “would be financially better for me, but I don’t care.”

This is coming from someone who currently can be seen all over your TV in a national ad campaign for Bud Light, which even includes a commercial that spouted progressive talking points.

The star of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and last summer’s box office hit Trainwreck came on Friday’s edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show to promote her new book The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, and proudly told Rose she’s not afraid to offer her political stances on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and gun control. Because, you know, taking lefty stands takes so much courage in liberal, progressive Hollywood.

Schumer also said that if she found out a personal friend was supporting Trump that would be a deal-breaker for her: “I would really pull back from the friendship. That’s such a huge — that’s such a huge line.”

The following are the relevant exchanges as they were aired on the August 20 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show:

AMY SCHUMER: I have an expectation for myself to be honest and be proud of how I’m living. So, do I think, do I think it will hurt my ticket sales on the road that I am so vocal about being a Hillary supporter? Yes. I think —

CHARLIE ROSE: But do you care that much? Do you, are you so —

SCHUMER: About Hillary being elected?

ROSE: No. I know how much you care about that. You’ve made that very, very clear.

SCHUMER: Right. About?

ROSE: Do you care about how it affects ticket sales. Or do you, are you —

SCHUMER: Not enough to not say it.

ROSE: Exactly.

SCHUMER: Yeah. No, I’m gonna say what I mean and what I think, and living the way I’m proud of.

ROSE: But, do you really think the people — I mean, I think people come to see you because they find you really entertaining, and funny and smart and interesting.

SCHUMER: Right. Thank you.

ROSE: Well, that’s true. And your politics are not going to keep them from being entertained by you.

SCHUMER: It —

ROSE: It does?

SCHUMER: But it does, somewhat. Yeah. It’s people who, you know? Just in the same way if I found out right now that one of my good friends from high school was planning on voting for Trump.

ROSE: You would?

SCHUMER: I would, I would really pull back from the friendship. That’s such a huge — that’s such a huge line.

ROSE: A value? It’s a value defining —

SCHUMER: Value, and just —

ROSE: Character?

SCHUMER: Yeah. All of it, so, you know, I think, I think that people — I think if I kept my mouth shut about my real feelings about politics or gun violence, I think, financially, financially and career-wise, it would be, it would be financially better for me, but I don’t care.

Later on in the interview, Schumer gushed over Hillary Clinton:

ROSE: Is your, is your attraction to the candidacy of Hillary more about her or more about — and the values and, and the position she has more so than the fact that she is a historic candidacy?

SCHUMER: Oh, yeah. That’s a good way of saying that. I don’t care that she’s ever gotten her period or had a baby. I care about what a great candidate she is.

ROSE: Because you identify with someone who —

SCHUMER: I’ve loved her for so long. I have been a fan of hers forever, and I think the work that she’s done, and she’s so crazy overqualified, and it’s not because I want a woman in the White House. I really don’t care about that. I think that’s an exciting thing and that it will be good for little girls and whatever, just in the same way I wasn’t interested in the race of Obama. It’s like, I wanted him to win. It’s, it’s her.

Obama also got some love from Schumer:

ROSE: How do you think he’s [Barack Obama] been as president?

SCHUMER: I love him. I’m gonna miss him so much. I’m so sad.

ROSE: What are you gonna miss? The style? The, the intelligence?

SCHUMER: His smile. No. His —

ROSE: His playlist?

SCHUMER: Yeah, no, I thought his playlist was a little weird.

ROSE: Did you really? Why?

SCHUMER: I don’t know. It’s just like a little — whatever! That’s not what’s important. But yeah, I’m not a —

ROSE: I know it’s not important but it’s interesting.

SCHUMER: Yeah. I’m not like “he can do no wrong.” No it was good, he had some D’Angelo on there. It was cool, but I just — I don’t know. It was so all over the place.

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And finally, Rose couldn’t let the interview finish without nudging Schumer into taking a few parting shots at Trump:

ROSE: Yeah how much of how you feel, politically, is anti-Trump?

SCHUMER: Almost entirely.

ROSE: I mean, I know people — they don’t really care about him. It’s not so much they’re —

SCHUMER: No it’s —

ROSE: They’re not really —

SCHUMER: Well who even really knows what he stands for? It’s such a —

ROSE: Or does he mean what he says?

SCHUMER: Right. It’s just a — it’s such a farce. It’s, it’s awful. It’s — I — you know, I felt, I think we all thought it was kind of funny —

ROSE: Right.

SCHUMER: — when it started. It was like “Oh my God, Trump, that’s hilarious.” And then —

ROSE: The man from The Apprentice is going to be president.

SCHUMER: Yeah. And then once it became a reality that he was the candidate, it was just — it’s so disturbing. It’s Idiocracy. I don`t even talk about Trump in my stand-up because it just shooting fish in a barrel.

ROSE: Too easy?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: fuas; hollyweird
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1 posted on 08/22/2016 2:17:20 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Is this farce? And the pig is Chuckie’s niece? Does he watch her show?


2 posted on 08/22/2016 2:18:16 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: drewh

Hollywood loves liberals and liberals love to enrich their heroes so she is just playing the victim.


3 posted on 08/22/2016 2:19:25 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: drewh

Her meteoric rise and near ubiquity is inexplicable.


4 posted on 08/22/2016 2:20:52 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: drewh

Am I supposed to care about this person?...whoever she is!


5 posted on 08/22/2016 2:21:14 PM PDT by lonestar (Texan for Trump)
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To: drewh
The only thing I ever heard Amy say that was LOL funny, was this:

I used to date Arab men, but now,
I'm into consensual sex.

6 posted on 08/22/2016 2:21:51 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: drewh

Her meteoric rise and near ubiquity is inexplicable.


7 posted on 08/22/2016 2:22:08 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: drewh

What exactly is her career? Other than as a snarky porker.


8 posted on 08/22/2016 2:22:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: drewh

Schumer Pig does what a Schumer Pig does.


9 posted on 08/22/2016 2:22:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Our government lies and the media helps them.~)
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To: Oratam
Her meteoric rise and near ubiquity is inexplicable.

Just a name to me, unknown beyond what I read here.

10 posted on 08/22/2016 2:23:37 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: drewh

The more ubiquitous the comedian, the less funny they are.

The ubiquity is due to their being famous for being funny, rather than actually being funny.


11 posted on 08/22/2016 2:24:08 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: drewh

A complete lack of talent might also be hindering her.


12 posted on 08/22/2016 2:24:17 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oratam
+1 on that, I don't know why she is popular other than to liberals who love her tired cliche talking points.. shes the female Jon Stewart without any funny at all


13 posted on 08/22/2016 2:24:20 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

[ ROSE: How do you think he’s [Barack Obama] been as president?

SCHUMER: I love him. I’m gonna miss him so much. I’m so sad. ]

There simply are not enough mental health facilities for people like this.


14 posted on 08/22/2016 2:24:42 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: drewh

Since when did being a big fat liberal hurt anyone’s career in Hollywood? She’s already ready made more money than most honest hard working Americans ever will so what does she have to worry about? Reminds me of the Hildabeast complaining about being poor.


15 posted on 08/22/2016 2:25:03 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: drewh

16 posted on 08/22/2016 2:25:34 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: drewh

17 posted on 08/22/2016 2:25:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: drewh

Oh whatever. You’re a Liberal in Hollywood.


18 posted on 08/22/2016 2:25:48 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Schumer is gonna end up being the female Adam Sandler...


19 posted on 08/22/2016 2:25:49 PM PDT by drewh
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I was thinking the same thing. GMTA


20 posted on 08/22/2016 2:25:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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