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"Hi, I'm Grant. I take pictures with a weird camera, and I write stories about talking animals."Grant, on Grant

Feb 17 '15
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In the last few years, political organizations of various kinds have proliferated, as all kinds of people seek to take advantage of the post-Citizens United world in which money can flow in so many directions. This has provided a splendid opportunity for the participants in an old game, one in which gullible conservatives are scammed out of their money by a seemingly limitless number of con artists.

Some of those con artists are obscure consultants and operators, but some of them are quite famous, which we’ll get to in a bit. But today, John Hawkins of Right Wing News released a report on a group of conservative PACs that took in millions of dollars in contributions in 2014, ostensibly for the purpose of electing Republicans, but spent almost none of it on actual political activity. Instead, the money went into the pockets of the people who run the PACs and their associates. Jonah Goldberg, reacting to the report, calls this the “right wing scam machine.”

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How rich conservatives bilk the rank and file into making them richer .

True story: my friend’s father in law *really* hates Obama. Like, he hates him so much, if you ask him to explain why he hates him, he just sputters a bunch of incoherent rage. It’s like he’s hated him so long that he can’t remember why he hates him.

He also *really* hates taxes. Like, taxes are just wrong and evil and a Democratic plot to take money away from people like him and give it to Those People (I’m not racist but wink wink).

He is constantly glued to the right wing media machine, whether it’s TV like FOX News, radio like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, or websites like Breitbart. Anything that comes out of those sources is the gospel truth, and anything that contradicts it is a liberal plot by the liberal media.

So recently, this guy was railing against taxes and Obama, and proudly announced that he’d sent one thousand dollars to Newt Gingrich, because Newt Gingrich was going to personally stop congress from raising his taxes, but only if people sent Newt Gingrich money.

I forget the exact bill number that Newt Gingrich was going to stop, but my friend looked it up, and showed his father in law that the bill referenced in the e-mail was proposed in 2007, and never made it to the floor of the House.

So this guy, who is old enough to know better, and lives on a fixed income, threw away one thousand dollars, because of the right wing scam machine.

These right wing grifters know exactly what they’re doing, and they know exactly who they’re ripping off, and they don’t care.

But, you know, a fool and his money, as they say.

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