What Would Wink Do?

July 16, 2003 2:33 PM

The Bush/Cheney campaign lets you look up campaign donors on their web page. With its help, we can now answer the burning question "Forget about me...who does the incredibly popular, beloved-by-millions television personality Wink Martindale support?" Now we know.
posted by Vidiot (19 comments total)

Interestingly enough, though his mother and father have contributed, his brother Jeb doesn't seem to have.
posted by Vidiot at 2:34 PM on July 16, 2003

errr, here's the link for Barbara.
posted by Vidiot at 2:35 PM on July 16, 2003

Ah, to bask in Wink World for but a moment, is a grand thing indeed.

I wonder where all of the Whammy's money is going. Sharpton?
posted by mathowie at 2:36 PM on July 16, 2003

I like how the front page is optimized for 800 pixels so that when you stretch your window wider, you can cut Dubya in half. Yes, simple pleasures for me today, thank you.
posted by muckster at 2:42 PM on July 16, 2003

Excellent... their donate page is down!
posted by DenOfSizer at 2:42 PM on July 16, 2003

From the main page:

WELCOME TO THE TEMPORARY GEORGEWBUSH.com

One can only hope.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:05 PM on July 16, 2003

fess up vidiot, yer a wink fanboy, right?
posted by quonsar at 3:53 PM on July 16, 2003

Hey everybody: go to Wink's website and check out his written words of wisdom. My personal favorite was the piece entitled "What Andy Rooney Might Have Said." Just go to "Wink's Readings."
posted by crazy finger at 3:57 PM on July 16, 2003

I was a contestant on the short-lived gameshow Debt and all the people who worked on the show kept saying "oh, just wait till you meet Wink. He's the best." And sure enough, he was. Classy fellow, that Martindale.
posted by herc at 4:00 PM on July 16, 2003

Dubya -- and his wife; whatshername -- doesn't appear to have contributed to his own re-election*. (But, then again, the prodigal son has never played with his own money, so...)

(*The first couple do not show up either in results from TX or DC.)
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 4:22 PM on July 16, 2003

well jesus, lupus_yonderboy - the first couple is only making $400 grand per annum! that's peanuts compared to what dubyuh was able to scam out of the taxpayers for his baseball stadium. life was better when he was self employed.
posted by quonsar at 4:37 PM on July 16, 2003

Well, one supposes someone named "Wink" can't be all bad, despite his/her thoughtless political sympathies.

~wink~

The money is being generated by a roll call of top leaders in the finance, insurance, law and construction industries, all of whom will have used their powerful networks of friends and colleagues to "bundle" small donations into much larger total contributions....In addition, the Bush campaign will be able to draw from a pool of donors that includes many Wall Street executives who were forbidden by securities regulations from contributing to the 2000 campaign, when Mr. Bush was still the governor of Texas. (The rule forbids people in the financial industry from contributing to anyone with influence over bond issues.) These newly eligible donors alone will account for nearly $1 million in bundled contributions at the New York fund-raiser...."George W. Bush’s fund-raising is going to haunt him in this Presidential campaign, because the only Americans he’s helped as President are his contributors," said David Wade, a spokesman for Senator John Kerry’s Presidential campaign. "The Rangers and Pioneers he’s rewarded with special-interest tax policies love George Bush, but it’s the 2.7 million Americans who lost their jobs on his watch who aren’t so happy."

-- Josh Benson, New York Observer
posted by fold_and_mutilate at 4:42 PM on July 16, 2003

Heh heh heh heh...He said "Wink." Heh heh heh heh.
posted by Samizdata at 5:25 PM on July 16, 2003

the first couple is only making $400 grand per annum! that's peanuts compared to what dubyuh was able to scam out of the taxpayers for his baseball stadium. life was better when he was self employed.

When I was self-employed I would always cut myself on jagged pop tops and pull tabs.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 5:47 PM on July 16, 2003

Actually, Bush makes--including non-wage income--about $2 million/year.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:09 PM on July 16, 2003

Ach, never mind Wink Martindale...Who's Soupy Sales putting his money behind, that'll swing it for me.
posted by jonmc at 7:41 PM on July 16, 2003

I interviewed Wink once... real gentleman. The whole time, though, I'm thinking, "Goddam, listen to that voice."
posted by ph00dz at 7:54 PM on July 16, 2003

Actually, Bush makes--including non-wage income--about $2 million/year.

not for being chief nation trasher he doesn't. for that we only pay him 400 grand.
posted by quonsar at 9:09 PM on July 16, 2003

I think it's the deck of cards thing.
posted by y2karl at 10:11 PM on July 16, 2003