Hell, For a Million Dollars, I’ll Say Nice Things About Damn Near Anybody
The best part about former Texas Congresscheater Dick Armey is that he won’t stay bought.
As the boys at Freedom Works have learned, you can buy him but you don’t get a receipt. After his armed coup at Freedom Works failed, Cancer Treatment Centers of America founder Richard J. Stephenson agreed to pay Armey $400,000 a year for 20 years just for Armey to leave and go away. Armey claimed that with this buy out, he;ll never have to work again. Except for his mouth – he’ll keep working that.
What did Freedom Works get for its $8 million buy-out of Dick’s contract? They got Dick.
Former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey revealed that the Tea Party group paid Glenn Beck about $1 million to say “nice things” about the group on his radio show, and that it got a negative return on that investment … It’s the latest strange revelation in the FreedomWorks civil war. Armey reportedly tried to stage an armed coup last fall, but his reign didn’t last long, and donor Richard J. Stephenson agreed to pay Armey $400,000 a year for 20 years to go away. Apparently that didn’t come with a non-disparagement clause.
And he also says FreedomWorks paid Rush Limbaugh to talk some sweet about them.
It appears that Armey is going to take his 15 minutes of fame in sound bites.
Pass the popcorn. It ain’t my bull being gored.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
The depth of arrogance and greed of dick armey is astounding.
1I hope the poorer folks that donated to the tea party, in the hopes of getting their country back, demand a refund.
They have literally allowed this jerk to do nothing for the rest of his life and get paid for it.
It just keeps getting better and better…
2I’m glad he is shooting his mouth off.
The more that comes to light about how many of the Tea Party groups spent money only on their own image, the better. It is like learning that for each $1 you gave to a charity, only 1 cent actually made it into the good works you thought you were supporting.
I sooooo want to see the death of the Tea Party.
3They’re doing a fine job of killing themselves, if you ask me. But then, when you consider the cast of characters involved, it was only a matter of time.
4You can’t make this stuff up.
5I’ve been trying to think of what I’d say if someone told me they would pay me a million bucks to say something nice about Grover Norquist. The best I can come up with is “It looks like he always cleans his plate when he eats.” In East Texas it was a sin not to clean your plate at every meal.
6This is turnin’ into a big old Republican fightin’ fractal. I love me some fractals.
7Paying people like Beck and Limbaugh to say nice things about FreedomWorks is akin to paying a hooker and expecting true love.
8LynnN, You got it absolutely correct! Perfect comparison.
9The problem for Armey is that the amount of money paid is nothing more than chump change for the likes of Beck and Limbaugh. Both of them run big-time broadcasting financial enterprises and Armey was paying streetwalker rates while expecting a Dick Morris-type escort. Armey deserves what he paid for … a Hugh Grant Special.
Forgotten what a Hugh Grant Special is? A transvestite doing fondling and oral sex in the front seat of a rental car parked on a dimly lit side street.
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