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Tea Party PACs Called Out As A Fundraising Scam
In a report out at Politico. Paul H. Jossey finally lets everyone know that the Tea Party was just a greedy fundraising scam by various players in the Tea Party movement. However, that being said, let’s get something else straight. We here at BU have been calling out these organizations, many of which were run […]
‘Sub-Prime Fundraising:’ Chris Hayes On Conservative Scams
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had Nicholas Confessore of the New York Times on his show last night to discuss the circle of scam that is conservative politics. BaseConnect, formerly called BMW Direct, pretends to be a mail order fundraising business for long-shot Republican candidates and veterans, but keeps almost all of the money it raises from […]
Token Brain Surgeon Ben Carson Losing Race With Own Super PACs
To be sure, Ben Carson is an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon, which obviously means he’s intelligent. It’s just one of the qualities that make him so attractive to the conservative grassroots, which can look past his skin color because he makes the right culture war noises and he was unafraid to voice them in President Obama’s […]
Thursday THREATCON – 2 October 2014
It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the birth of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s daughter, our Threatcon Color-Code is AVOCADO GREEN Be sure to pick up the latest issue of Rolling Stone to read Tim […]
Ted Nugent On ‘The Enemy At The Door’ With Paul Vallely
As his racist and violent rhetoric has finally begun to result in consequences recently, Ted Nugent has become even weirder than usual. He called into Glenn Beck’s show last Friday to defend his racist remarks, then appeared at the Big Horn Basin Tea Party picnic to double-down on eliminationism and repeat his new conspiracy theory. “They […]
Thursday THREATCON – 31 July 2014
It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to Orlando Bloom’s failure to knock out Justin Bieber, our Threatcon Color Code is DOUCHEBAG BLUE We have been keeping close tabs on the militia movement’s response to this Summer’s immigration “crisis.” While […]
Doom Quote Of The Day: TX Tea Party “Can Be Had Very Easily”
Instead of turning politically-blue as many demographers and Democrats had predicted, Texas is turning darker red thanks to feckless Democrats and a small, but very active, right wing minority. In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Mark Binelli reports that the Lone Star State’s new, more extreme tea party won’t even elect a gun rights hero like Jerry […]
Chris McDaniel Pals Around With Convicted Felon Ali Akbar
Your eyes do not deceive you. That is indeed Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel, who is currently running a primary challenge against incumbent US Senator Thad Cochran, standing next to our old friend Ali Akbar. For those of you just joining us, Akbar is a convicted felon, an operator of sketchy nonprofits, a possible tax […]
Now Dan Backer Wants To “Disrupt” The Senate By Electing Sarah Palin
Not content with legalizing political bribery, ‘super PAC’ lawyer Dan Backer is trying to draft Sarah Palin to run for the United States Senate against incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. In an email for the Tea Party Leadership Fund, Backer claimed that Palin has a “better grasp on world politics” than Barack Obama and claimed that […]
This Revolution Has Been Monetized: How Breitbart News Covers Tea Party Events
Ken Crow, a Texas tea party activist, has alleged that Breitbart News required substantial payment to publicize an event he was helping to organize, then delivered unsatisfactory coverage. Adding ethical insult to financial injury, none of Breitbart.com’s stories disclosed that the organization was paid to cover the event. Crow said that Dan Fleuette, the person […]