Dick Armey slams Freedomworks...
I guess they forgot to include a gag order in his buyout.
EXCLUSIVE: Dick Armey Dishes On FreedomWorks' Deals With Beck & Limbaugh
Former chairman says group wasted money paying Beck $1 million last year for fundraising
Former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey says the conservative outlet that helped launch the Tea Party paid Glenn Beck at least $1 million last year to fundraise for the organization, an arrangement he said provided "too little value" for the money.
"The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air," Armey, the former House majority leader, told Media Matters Friday. "I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure."
Armey, who left the organization this past fall after a dispute over its internal operations, said a similar arrangement was also in place with Rush Limbaugh, but did not know the exact financial details.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/04/exclusive-dick-armey-dishes-on-freedomworks-dea/192036
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But Rush is the employee of a radio station -- shouldn't that payment have gone to them if he was going to promote FreedomWorks on his program? I have to wonder if that's a conflict or interest.
Of course, since FreedomWorks paid Armey EIGHT million, it's more than a little hypocritical for HIM to complain.
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