Grand old grifters rebuked--revenge?

Grand old grifters rebuked

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Dick Armey’s story is particularly mixed up. Politico’s account at first makes Armey seem like a whistleblower, a man of conscience standing up to Matt Kibbe, who he alleges bilked the group to get a book deal. But if Kibbe is to be believed – and I admit that’s a crap shoot — he only got paid $50,000 personally for a book it’s clear other FreedomWorks staff helped with; for objecting to Kibbe’s deal, Armey walks away with an $8 million golden parachute. Talk about wingnut welfare. Who’s bilking who?

(Armey also demanded that FreedomWorks remove his name, image, or signature “from all its letters, print media, postings, web sites, videos, testimonials, endorsements, fund raising materials, and social media, including but not limited to Facebook and Twitter”; and deliver his official congressional portrait to his home in Texas. What a regular guy.)

Rove’s situation at Fox is more genuinely humiliating, but chances are it’s a showy temporary ritual to protect Roger Ailes. Rove raised at least $300 million in the last election cycle, from which he paid himself handsomely. And he still has enough money around that Crossroads GPS can run ads attacking Obama’s tough stance in facing the so-called “fiscal cliff,” distorting the president’s position. The ads close with “Call President Obama and tell him it’s time to show us a balanced plan, because every day wasted is another $4 billion we’re deeper in debt.” Fox’s move smacks of a marketing maneuver to cover Ailes’s ass than a genuine parting of the ways

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one wonders how much the very sore losing billionaires had to do with this?