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The Republican National Committee isn’t looking to make friends in Hollywood with new attacks aimed at President Obama’s celebrity status and famous supporters on Thursday.
 
In an op-ed written for the influential conservative Red State blog, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus calls Obama the “celebrity in chief” and hammers him for using Hollywood actor George Clooney in a recent fundraising strategy. The op-ed also names names, citing many high-profile Obama supporters who are also Hollywood stars, including Oscar-winning documentary director Davis Guggenheim, and previous party guests Tim Burton and Johnny Depp.
 
“While he’s noshing with notables, courting celebrities and! soliciting stars, the middle class is being squeezed,” Priebus writes.

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