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You are here: Home / Politics / Glibertarianism / Late Night Open Thread: More Trouble At the Wingnut Wurlitzer Factory

Late Night Open Thread: More Trouble At the Wingnut Wurlitzer Factory

by Anne Laurie|  May 2, 20143:03 am| 22 Comments

This post is in: Glibertarianism, Open Threads, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement

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Confusion to our enemies! From Dave Weigel, my personal Speaker to Libertarians, “FreedomWorks President Denies All Those Stories About His Organization Collapsing”:

… If you’re a fan of awkward interviews… watch the Daily Caller‘s Jamie Weinstein grapple with calm and laconic FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe. The interview started with a discussion of Kibbe’s book, Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff, his third libertarian manifesto in four years. It continued as Weinstein pressed Kibbe on some movement gripes about FreedomWorks, which he took over fully after an acrimonious 2012 split with Dick Armey.

Kibbe’s response: a series of stone-faced denials. He expresses surprise that his latest book completely disappeared from the New York Times bestseller list after debuting at No. 2, and denies that any donors mass-purchased copies… And Kibbe flat-out denies a 2013 BuzzFeed scoop about FreedomWorks’ struggling fundraising campaigns…

That’s more than the organization said six months ago; when BuzzFeed had reached out for comment, FreedomWorks dismissed the “baseless attacks from salty former employees” without specifically rebutting anything…

More at the link. Maybe it’s just me, but Kibbe’s photo looks like it should be captioned THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.

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22Comments

  1. 1.

    Mustang Bobby

    May 2, 2014 at 3:08 am

    Matt Kibbe creeps me out. I think it’s the sideburns.

  2. 2.

    JGabriel

    May 2, 2014 at 3:19 am

    Anne Laurie:

    Maybe it’s just me, but Kibbe’s photo looks like it should be captioned THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.

    I dunno. The vibe I get is more I SECRETLY HAVE A SWASTIKA TATTOOED ON MY CHEST RIGHT BELOW THE TAT THAT SAYS MOM.

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack

    May 2, 2014 at 3:28 am

    “Salty former employees”? Tell me more.

  4. 4.

    Tommy

    May 2, 2014 at 4:01 am

    @Mustang Bobby: Yeah I don’t know what it is. If he came to date my niece (I don’t have kids) we’d talk for a little. I find him creepy.

  5. 5.

    JGabriel

    May 2, 2014 at 4:08 am

    Tommy:

    If he came to date my niece (I don’t have kids) we’d talk for a little. I find him creepy.

    Why talk when you can go straight for the restraining order?

  6. 6.

    Tommy

    May 2, 2014 at 4:17 am

    @JGabriel: Well …..

    My niece is 5. My brother says no man will come near her. Funny. I know what I was thinking as a dude when I was 14 or so.

    I am closer to my brothers wife then I am with him. I am the “cool” uncle and told by the mother I need to be the dude that is there for her.

  7. 7.

    ? Martin

    May 2, 2014 at 4:22 am

    @Steeplejack: Yeah, most workplaces have rules against licking employees. Perhaps it’s a ‘perk’ of working for wingnuts.

  8. 8.

    Another Holocene Human

    May 2, 2014 at 4:32 am

    Geez, Anne Laurie, leave something for the link–85% of the article is in the OP. That’s a bit much for me.

    Matt Kibbe strikes me less as creepy as a befuddled nerd who does communications and can’t figure out why he can’t hack it in the wingnut welfare world without Dick Armey’s rolodex.

  9. 9.

    Mustang Bobby

    May 2, 2014 at 4:33 am

    Reading the story, it sounds as if there was a single audit at FreedomWorks, the result would be, as the old song goes, “Someone’s going to emergency, someone’s going to jail.”

  10. 10.

    Another Holocene Human

    May 2, 2014 at 4:35 am

    Additionally, what true libertarian would buy some moocher’s book about libertarianism when obviously they can tell you more about libertarianism while ‘bating online than Matt Kibbe can.

  11. 11.

    Another Holocene Human

    May 2, 2014 at 4:37 am

    UF’s Gator Stompin’ was a big success. Mother Nature pitched in by raining it up until about 4:00pm, then letting the sun come out, making the weather just about perfectly mild (and not raining) all night. The rain just started up again at 4:30am now that everyone’s gone home. (Bars must close by 2:00am in Gainesville.)

  12. 12.

    Tommy

    May 2, 2014 at 4:43 am

    @Another Holocene Human: Fuck you. Just joking LSU guy here. Not a UF fan.You know an SEC thing.

  13. 13.

    David Koch

    May 2, 2014 at 5:26 am

    The wackiest thing I’ve ever heard was Freedomworks produced a “promotional film” starring a female intern wearing a full panda costume performing oral sex on another female intern wearing a Hillary mask.

    Freedomworks – the invisible hand of “family values” porn

  14. 14.

    raven

    May 2, 2014 at 5:40 am

    Fuck the sorry ass fucking Gators!

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 2, 2014 at 6:15 am

    Only in America:

    “The expert said that it should have been possible to save Lockett’s life once the execution had been called off and even after the drugs had been administered. Medics could have very likely saved Lockett by deploying a breathing tube, placing him on a ventilator, and applying tourniquets to his arms to prevent the drugs reaching his heart, the specialist said.”

    If we can’t kill him, we must save him, so we can kill him later!

    I can’t tell where the absurdity begins, but I can tell that it has yet to end.

  16. 16.

    Bostondreams

    May 2, 2014 at 7:25 am

    @Another Holocene Human:

    From one Gator to another, awesome. I miss Stompin’. I did hear that places like the salty dog didn’t take part this year. Really?

  17. 17.

    Punchy

    May 2, 2014 at 7:26 am

    “Salty former employees”? Having trouble keeping the pretzels off their lap?

  18. 18.

    Woodrowfan

    May 2, 2014 at 8:20 am

    To me that face says “I was in the military until the dishonorable discharge for sexual offenses.”

  19. 19.

    Jamey

    May 2, 2014 at 10:06 am

    Freedom Works pays Matt Kibbe $469,000/year. That’s a lot of money. Not fuck-you money, but still a lot of money to pay a C+ economist to tell the world, “Fuck You, I Got Mine.”

  20. 20.

    mai naem

    May 2, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Matt Kibbe looks like he belong to one of those movies set in the 50’s or 60’s with KKK violence involved. I’m not saying he looks like one of the bad guys necessarily, just belonging to that era.

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    May 2, 2014 at 10:42 am

    Wingnuts come up with some classy names for their front groups: FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, etc. No wonder 90% of their money was inherited and not earned. They’re morons.

  22. 22.

    Hob

    May 2, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    @Jamey: Sweet Jesus. What.

    I mean, I’ll admit that I am overpaid— I used to be a nurse, now I’m a computer programmer, and it’s totally ridiculous that I’m paid more now for the latter. But at least I’m still fucking doing something; I can point to a thing that is useful that I made. What in hell does Matt Kibbe do for four hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars a year? What would happen if he did not work there? Oh wait— I forgot that Dick Armey is still being paid $400,000 a year for not working at FreedomWorks.

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