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Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said Thursday that not calling on the super-PAC supporting his reelection effort to return money from comedian Bill Maher "did not bode well for the president's character."

Maher, who donated $1 million to the organization last month, has been embroiled in controversy after supporters of Rush Limbaugh argued his controversial statements about prominent Republican women â€" including Palin â€" were evidence that the conservative radio host was being held to an unfair double standard. Maher has repeatedly referred to Palin and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann using derogatory terms for women, including "bimbo" and "twat."

"I don't know how anyone can sit in the audience of a commentator like Bill Maher and chuckle and laugh and think that that's entertaining," Palin said on Fox News. "I think it's disgusting and it's dirty money that he has now provided Barack Obama's campaign and I ! don't know how Barack Obama can sleep at night if he really thinks about Sasha and Malia and the treatment of some women today how he can accept that dirty money and, granted, Barack Obama has never been, I think, seen in the conventional, traditional way of we who would describe a man of valor, so it shouldn't surprise us that Barack Obama would accept that dirty money and try to get reelected with it but I think it does not bode well for our president's character to not speak out against that dirty money."

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