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‘Dr. Ben Carson, Inc.’ And The Conservative Circle Of Scam
It was a good scheme while it lasted, but now that the suckers are played out, token brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson is moving on. After a disappointing performance in last Tuesday’s primary balloting, the Carson campaign first suspended, then ended its operations. His bizarre statements, and questions about the veracity of his biography, had […]
Circle Of Scam: Conservative PACs Waste $50 Million On Themselves
John Hawkins of Right Wing News has set conservative activists buzzing with his report yesterday on the unregulated PACs which raise tens of millions of dollars without really helping any of the candidates they are supposed to benefit. Did you know that despite the fact that it raised a staggering 13 million dollars, The National Draft […]
Sal Russo And The Conservative Circle Of Scam
Video: filling in for Rachel Maddow last night, Steve Kornacki talked to Kim Barker about Sal Russo’s schemes Yesterday, Kim Barker of ProPublica exposed the “pro-troop” charity Move America Forward as a thinly-disguised money machine for longtime Republican consultant Sal Russo, the founder of Tea Party Express (TPE), who used it to give his PACs rent-free space […]
The Tea Party Circle Of Scam Is Complete
The Washington Post reports that Jenny Beth Martin, president of Tea Party Patriots, received twice as much in consulting fees as her organization’s super PAC has spent promoting Matt Bevin, the tea party primary opponent of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Out of the $37.5 million spent so far by the PACs of six major tea party organizations, […]
The Conservative Circle Of Scam Goes Too Far For Allen West, But Not The FEC
Hey kids! Looking for a nifty new way to scam people that is completely legal? Just raise money in the name of any prominent, well-liked member of Congress. According to the Federal Elections Commission, you do not even have to actually spend a single dime of that money on the candidate as long as you […]
“Senators For D’Souza” And The Conservative Circle Of Scam
Senators Charles Grassley, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee want “transparency” to dispel perceptions that fraudulent author Dinesh D’Souza was targeted for his fraudulent documentary about President Obama. When D’Souza was charged, supporters immediately denied he had done anything wrong and denounced it as political payback. On Friday, the four senators responded to his fans’ concerns by sending […]
Selling Ideology: Entrepreneurs In The Circle Of Scam
At ThinkProgress, Zach Beauchamp tells the amazing story of Allen Baler, a marketing entrepreneur who sells “survival foods” and crummy advice to very gullible right wing paranoiacs by pretending to be one himself. We recommend that you read the whole thing, but we want to highlight the penultimate paragraphs: The interesting innovation in Reboot’s Patriot Alliance […]
Is The Dark Money Circle Of Scam Inherently Unstable?
According to Politico, Citizens United has not unleashed the expected flood of corporate political spending. It has instead allowed an unexpected flood of dark money political spending by the people who own and invest in American corporations. Of course, no Beltway story on this topic would be complete without a quote from Dan Backer at the […]
Karl Rove’s Perfect Circle Of Scam
Karl Rove raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 election cycle, though less than two percent of that money backed winning candidates. Even with campaign finance laws looser than ever in a Citizens United world, Rove apparently managed to break the law in the process. But the Federal Election Commission recently […]
Chris Hayes Discusses The Circle Of Scam With Alex Pareene
When Paul Waldman wrote an excellent editorial last week for The American Prospect about the “Circle of Scam” that is the modern conservative movement, we hoped that “liberal” media would give this problem some notice. We have not been disappointed. Politico unearthed the scandal that is the Senate Conservatives Fund two days later, and yesterday Alex […]