Faux Spent Weeks Promoting Apparent Tea Party Scam

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Fox Spent Weeks Promoting Apparent Tea Party Scam

Posted by Matt Gertz, Media Matters for America at 2:40 PM on December 31, 2009.

Just when you think it can't get worse.




TPM Media's Zachary Roth reported earlier in the week that the political action committee that organized the Tea Party Express -- Our Country Deserves Better PAC -- funneled almost two-thirds of its spending from July to November back to the political consulting firm from which it was spawned, Russo, Marsh, and Associates. More than $850,000 of the money the supposedly grassroots PAC collected went to the firm of GOP political operatives who ran it.

For those who may have forgotten, the Tea Party Express was the faux-grassroots operation that Fox News hopped aboard in late August, after the network's promotion of the health care town hall meeting disruptions but before they started flogging the 9-12 protest. (It's so hard to keep Fox's political activism straight!) It was a nationwide bus tour organized by a political action committee whose mission is to oppose President Obama and other Democrats; with a pedigree like that, how could Fox resist?

Fox News heavily promoted the Tea Party Express; the Our Country Deserves Better PAC even used Fox's promotion in a fundraising email. Then Fox's Griff Jenkins hit the trail with the Express, following that bus around the country, throwing journalistic integrity aside as he declared its riders "the America that Washington forgot."

But somehow, Jenkins missed out on the real story: how loyal tea-party-goers were separated from their hard-earned cash, which was funneled to fat cat Republican political consultants. Russo, Marsh, and Associates salutes you, Fox News. They could have scammed the tea partiers without you, but it probably wouldn't have been nearly as lucrative.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144889/fox_spent_weeks_promoting_apparent_tea_party_scam/

Remember when Aleister Crowley told his good friend L. Ron Hubbard that if he wanted to get rich he should start his own religion?

These days the surest path to easy money is to start a fake political movement.

the Democratic Party who chose him as a candidate,
then I got my money's worth, and then some!

Other than his foreign policy which is great, I can't think of much to applaud.

Keep them busy while the Dems kick their ass in 2010.

Every buck they waste on the Tea Party Express is a buck that won't make it to Sarah or any other Repub candidate's coffers.