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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember Scott Brown? He's making lots of $$$ selling woo.
And that's in addition to his running for the Senate in New Hampshire.
Scott Brown Is The Newest Right-Wing Media Huckster
Fox News contributor Scott Brown is renting out his email list to an outlet that touts shady products like Alzheimer's disease cures and Social Security tricks.
Brown joins several of his Republican colleagues in attempting to cash in on their followers through dubious or shady practices. Mike Huckabee, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich have all been renting out their email lists to suspect sources. As Salon's Alex Pareene noted, "the conservative movement is an elaborate moneymaking venture. For professional movement conservatives, their audiences and followers are easy marks."
Brown sent an email this morning with the subject line "5 Signs You'll Get Alzheimer's Disease" to his ScottBrown.com email list. Brown wrote in the email: "Dear Patriot, I thought you might be interested in the offer below from our sponsor Newsmax Health. Thank you, Senator Scott Brown."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/05/scott-brown-is-the-newest-right-wing-media-huck/197935
Erose999
(5,624 posts)Scotty Brownstreaks. Just saying, we have our own problems to address with "woo".
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Makes for strange bedfellows for sure.
Archae
(46,327 posts)The biggest difference is that Weil and other woo peddlers don't address us as "Dear Patriot," and the message isn't endorsed by DU, like Scott Brown is endorsing these phony Alzheimer's "cures."
polichick
(37,152 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)Tune in again next week for more machine-like woo punching.
Meanwhile, the Seattle Seahawks practice WOO before playing astonishing brilliant Super Bowl game and smirking & laughing heartily at Poo-Pushing Woo Punchers, a mutant subdivision of the Republicon War on WomYin.
Kurska
(5,739 posts)They don't have control over what appears in the ads generally.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)If not himself and how wonderful he is, it's snake oil crapola like this.
He's sleazebucket from the word Go.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...and is the bigger rip-off.