Try as I might, I just can't seem to figure out who it is that's the bigger jerk off, Bill Maher or Jon Leibowitz. Leibowitz, as you may or may not know, regularly bashes American multimillionaires for their wealth while ignoring completely the rather awkward fact that, he’s one of them. Yup, even though Leibowtiz does his best to distance himself from those evil "one percenters", and seems to take great pleasure in bellowing over their extravagance, his bank accounts bear all the marks of those very same multi millionaires that he so enthusiastically mocks. The 49-year-old Leibowitz, makes more than 300 times the median American salary, owns three luxury homes and sometimes doesn’t bother to pay his taxes. All of which make up the hallmark of any good liberal!
It was back in January that Leibowitz literally exploded on-air over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s income level. “That’s almost — that’s almost $57,000 a day!” he gushed. But Leibowitz’s own income level brings him and his wife Tracey approximately $41,000 a day, which ain't exactly chump change. The celebrity income-handicapping website Celebrity Net Worth lists Leibowitz's annual salary as $15 million and estimates his net worth at being in the neighborhood of $80 million. Now while $80 million doesn’t yet put Leibowitz into the same wealth bracket as Romney, it certainly is a pretty good neighborhood to be in. And, he is already on pace to be richer than the former Massachusetts governor when he reaches his age.
At his current earning rate, The Daily Show host’s net worth could very well be around $320 million by the time he turns 65, which by the way is Romney’s current age. And that total doesn’t include increases in property value or of other assets which our friend Leibowitz might accumulate or acquire in the meantime. And then there are the houses. When Arizona Sen. John McCain ran for president in 2008, he was criticized for not knowing how many houses he owned. (The answer: seven.) Stewart is well on his way into McCain country, with three opulent mansions whose combined value is over $12 million. And he doesn’t technically own those homes, instead he uses a little trick mastered by many of his fellow one-percenters, the properties were purchased by private trusts.
Leibowitz’s trusts are named after his pets. It's pretty much become common practice for the super-wealthy to make big-ticket purchases through trusts in order to protect their other assets from lawsuits, diminish estate tax liability, and avoid public scrutiny. So Leibowitz, who fancies himself a modern day version of Will Rogers, as well as a sociopolitical commentator of sorts, started his little real estate empire in 2005 when The Stanley Monkey Trust — named after his cat Stanley and one of his pit bull terriers, Monkey — purchased a two-story Manhattan penthouse for $5.8 million. That deluxe apartment in the sky spans 6,000-square-feet and has 40 windows, a 600-foot terrace, and a 1,200-foot private roof, or so the New York Observer reported in 2005.
Another legal entity, something called The Shamsky Monkey Trust, purchased two more houses in 2009 and 2010. The lakefront mansions Leibowitz bought in 2009 and 2010 are in Red Bank, New Jersey. They cost him $3,800,000 and $3,200,000 and — for reasons TheDC was unable to determine — are next door to one another. Online real estate search engines show that the Shamsky Monkey Trust also owns a $675, 000 house in North Haven, New York. Public records indicate that Leibowitz’s older brother, Lawrence Leibowitz, lives there. So as we can very plainly see, Leibowitz has become pretty handy at using the same tricks, as he likes to refer to them, that are used by those usually on the receiving end of what's described as being his political wit.
So in demonstrating what has become very typical behavior for liberals, our buddy Leibowitz quickly becomes very easily recognizable as being just another hypocrite as well as a pathetic fraud. He lies in his effort to create some sort of façade that would have him appear, at least to those who tune in to he imbecilic little television show, as being something other that what he most definitely is. Here we have a guy, who is not only a complete fraud in his personal life regarding the amount of wealth he has amassed, but also in his professional life. Look, you could train a monkey to do this guys 'job'. He is able to make a ridiculous amount of money for doing nothing more than to sit in front of a television camera while he then proceeds to read words that have written for him by other people. What a deal! Where exactly does he get off saying anything about Romney, who actually worked for his money?
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