Dick Armey doesn't think Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh gave good value for the millions FW paid them

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-tea-party-leader-says-they-got-too-little-value-for-big-investments-in-glenn-beck-rush-limbaugh/

Following former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s tumultuous ouster from the tea party-aligned group FreedomWorks, he is opening up about the details of his group’s efforts to elect Republicans to Congress. Armey spoke exclusively to the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America and said that his group received “too little value” for their substantial investment in conservative broadcasters like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

Armey said that his group invested substantially in right-leaning broadcasters, including Beck and Limbaugh. He was unsure of the sum which Limbaugh had negotiated with FreedomWorks, but said that Beck had negotiated $1 million annually for positive mentions. Armey was not, however, happy with the return on the investment.

“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.”

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[Angry Dragon]

1. so it is proven that rush and glenn are paid shills

both can now no longer claim to be entertainers but paid spokespersons

[MADem]

2. Gotta LOVE this--they're squabbling amongst themselves! nt

[DonViejo]

3. Giving Armey an $8M golden parachute...

for his "leadership" was a good value for FW? lol

[Buzz Clik]

4. Hm. Seems shady.

[rocktivity]

7. I agree -- giving the money directly to Beck is one thing

because technically, he's self-employed.

But if Rush was promoting FW on his radio show, that money should have gone to his employer rather than him, right?


rocktivity

[Downwinder]

5. Armey should have looked at what Limbaugh

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did for Florida orange juice.

[rocktivity]

6. However, Armey had no problem asking for millions to quit!

rocktivity

[TeamPooka]

8. but the $8 million dollars Freedom Works is paying Armey to go away is....

the best spent money in history.
According to FW anyway....

[Mister Ed]

9. People with wingnut friends and relatives should rub their faces in this at every opportunity

Every time they e-mail you with some screed of Beck's or Limbaugh's, you can just Reply All, saying, "Who knows whether to believe this? After all, his endorsements are up for sale."

Link to Armey's interview, and what can they say? You've gotten your information not from the "Librul Media", but straight from the mouth of neocon stalwart Dick Armey, founder of FreedomWorks.

[bemildred]

10. Losers, all of them.

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That's all I have to say.

[ROBROX]

11. THE GOP SPENDS MONEY LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR

They have not care for getting something worth what they are paying. They just go back to the nuts who have money to spend and get more money.

It is great that crazy people lack the cognizant ability to come up with a sound strategy to harm society or this country would really be BAD. There are enough people who realize that the talking heads are just LITTLE DOG HEADS.

[OnyxCollie]

12. C'mon, Dick.

It was worth it to see the incoherent morons at Beck's "Restoring Honor" fiasco.