Hall of Fame
Jared Kushner ($117,700)
John C Reilly ($3,300)
Gore Vidal ($2,000)
Robert Guillaume ($9,600)
Danny Ainge ($3,550)
Kevin Johnson ($13,400)
Meryl Streep ($26,500)
Brad Faxon ($1,250)
Sophia Bush ($250)
William H Macy ($1,500)
William Hurt ($5,000)
Annie Leibovitz ($8,300)
Chuck Close ($56,600)
Paul Shaffer ($11,000)
Herman Wouk ($44,525)
Anne Rice ($89,583)
Ross Bleckner ($54,770)
Tony Danza ($2,300)
John R Hall ($750)
Catherine Zeta-Jones ($2,000)
Barbra Streisand ($679,275)
Ted Harbert ($52,775)
Matt Drudge ($2,358)
David Fincher ($5,900)
Tony Robbins ($32,290)
Ken Burns ($41,050)
Forest Whitaker ($7,100)
Alanis Morissette ($3,000)
Tom Ford ($24,550)
Brandon Routh ($250)
Dan Rooney ($82,800)
Garry Marshall ($76,900)
Rick Pitino ($2,000)
Joanne Woodward ($218,850)
Billy Baldwin ($22,666)
Matt Groening ($59,450)
Mark Ruffalo ($13,650)
Bruce Vilanch ($8,500)
Kinky Friedman ($250)
Davis Love III ($4,700)
Drew Curtis ($1,500)
Kevin Kline ($13,588)
Cloris Leachman ($1,000)
Lionel Richie ($7,800)
Dick Cavett ($500)
Kristen Johnston ($3,250)
Tom Bergeron ($8,800)
Rick Dees ($2,500)
Robert Greenwald ($46,761)
Will Forte ($500)
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Hall of Fame ► Media
David Talbot
Salon Media chairman
NEWS MEAT Power Rank:
1,632
Election Picks: 1 win, 3 losses
Contributor
Candidate or PAC
Election Result*
Amount
Date
FEC Filing
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Talbot Player, LLC/Media ExecutiveBarack Obama (D) President OBAMA FOR AMERICAWon $200 general 09/05/08
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 salon.com/media executive DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) - $250 primary 10/21/04
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Salon/Media executive DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) - $250 primary 10/01/04
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Salon.com/media executive DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) - $250 primary 09/23/04
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Salon Media Group/JournalistJohn Kerry (D) President JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INCLost $250 primary 06/30/04
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Salon Media Group/JournalistJohn Kerry (D) President JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INCLost $250 primary 06/16/04
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Wesley Clark (D) President CLARK FOR PRESIDENT INC.Lost $500 primary 12/31/03
Talbot, David San Francisco, CA 94110 Salon Media Group/EditorHoward Dean (D) President DEAN FOR AMERICALost $500 primary 04/07/03
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political donations of today's newsmakers
US WAR SHEET
Iraq
Afghanistan
Days
2,426
2,954
GIs Killed in Action
3,475
640
DoD
Non-Hostile GI Deaths
885
193
DoD
GIs Severely Wounded
13,880
2,618
DoD
Current Troop Deployment
124,000
68,000
AP
, AP
Total Cost (approved through Sept 30, 2009)
$711 Bln
$219 Bln
AP
Cost Per Day (Avg)
$298 Mil
$75.2 Mil
casualty status updated November 5, 2009
NEWSMEAT HALL OF FAME
individual donations of $200 or more made after 1977
Political donations made by the powerful, rich, and famous.
• Celebrities (actors, musicians, authors, icons)
• Billionaires
• Sports Stars
• Media
• Business Executives
• Politics (pols, players, pundits, shills)
Data Provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 11/2/09
17,177,929 records (election cycles 1980-2010)
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