I'm amazed that this information is on mainstream tv. Something's happening here.

and his column attacked the racketeers.

He's at the "respectable" aristocratic end of it instead of the unalloyed grifter end, but he really is in the same business.

If CNN lays it out, if the broadcast news or 60 minutes lays it out ...

Rachel put out the truth WE know, speaking to US.

The moment the whores we call the "liberal press" start to speak to this regularly, we can start to get excited.

Rachel rules.
Thanks Malaise

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they exist to enrich themselves.

"Republican Family Values" come right out of a cesspool.

noted, a big part of the problem is Fox. Since Kristol works for Fox, he's not going to bite the hand that feeds him. Sadly, folks who watch Fox still haven't figured out they're being scammed.

I hit re-wind on DVR and watched it again. Really, someone needs to be charging them with fraud....

I am pretty sure that the laws on these are broad enough to allow all this stuff, and more.

...so what now? Are these scam artists going to be held accountable for this? I'm tired of being told about all the scamming in this country, from Wall Street to former winger politicians who work for FOX. Are these guys, too, going to get off without a whisper? By golly, we've got us a rogue nation here. Yeah, it's a racket. A Rico racket, if you ask me. Can you imagine if anything like what we've experienced in the last 12 yrs had happened back in that hallowed decade of the 1970s? This stuff makes Nixon look like an angel.
"We hang the petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office."---Aesop

The only reason for FOX news and its affiliates is as a means of hyping. The only reason it exists is to recreate the motivations and fears that drive selling Murdoch's false narrative in other forms and the "cures" for them.

Snake oil never sold so well. Billions sold every day.

I suspect the vulture capitalist in him found a way to divert a lot of campaign money into his offshore accounts. It should be no surprise that money-loving Republican political operatives were trying to profit from their politics.

Stephen Colbert had a bit on his show on how Super PACs could take their left-over funds and transfer them to subsidiaries to do anything--ANYTHING--the organizer wants (including buying personal luxuries), and do it tax-free.

She's hitting on a major framing of all kinds of profit-driven enterprises, but she's just scratching the surface of scamming machinery.

Her "Cause devolves to Business devolves to Racket" argument could be made about the military, as well.

This is what is meant by CONservatism. Short con = politics. Long con = religion.

The Protection Racket is the oldest confidence game in human history.

and yes religion is the oldest con

I've been interested in right-wing direct-mail fundraising scams since 2004, when there was a lot of discussion of them here at DU. I recently read an interesting analysis of the whole sorry history of the method and its growing entanglement with mainstream GOP politics:
http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con

The short version is that conservatives appear to be uniquely gullible -- especially when you play on their deep-seated fears of anything strange or different -- and that the con artists have traveled with them every step of the way.

What may be changing now, though, is that the scamming seems to be getting more respectable, to the point where everyone from former presidential candidates to prominent right-wing bloggers thinks nothing of getting into the "Send me money because AMERICA!" game.