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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Open Thread: G(rifters)OP in Disarray!

Open Thread: G(rifters)OP in Disarray!

by Anne Laurie|  March 18, 20159:32 pm| 34 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes

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Even Conservative @EWErickson is becoming the new Even The Liberal New Republic http://t.co/geGp4w0JLb

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 18, 2015

Now that Erick “Voice of the GOP Gated Community” Erickson is studying up for his preacher’s license, he wants the established old-school Baptist shouter to STFU with the penny-ante “miracle cure” snake-oil peddling already. Per Media Matters:

Fox News contributor Erick Erickson recently criticized potential Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee for pitching products like survival food and shady diabetes treatments, decrying the types of ads Huckabee endorsed as a “plague on conservatives.” But Erickson is a hypocrite — his RedState website also cashed in on Huckabee’s shady diabetes infomercial and has previously sold out readers to a wide range of hucksters and conspiracy theorists…

While the NYTimes gave Erickson a platform to contrast himself favorably with “hucksters,” Erickson’s own RedState site has repeatedly sold out its readers to the very same groups…

Prior to Huckabee’s involvement, Erickson’s RedState had previously sent out at least three email pitches — all featuring the subject line “1 Weird Spice That Destroys Diabetes” — promoting Barton Publishing’s “Diabetes Solution Kit.”

RedState has also sent numerous pitches to its readers from “Food4Patriots,” the survival food kit company the Times notes Huckabee has promoted.

When Politico noted in January that Erickson’s email list had been rented to the “scam PACs” that he has repeatedly criticized, it quoted Erickson saying that he does not control who rents his list and that “and it horrifies me that the list sometimes get rented to some of these guys.” (Salem Media company Townhall Media owns RedState and manages its email list.)…

Details & screenshots at the link. As always, I’m rooting for injuries.
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Apart from watching the grifters turn on each other, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 18, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    Newsmax was the same way. When they weren’t hating on Obama, they were hawking snake oil remedies.

  2. 2.

    Pogonip

    March 18, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    A question: not ” Where’s the mustard?”

    If a hypothetical person is bored, can’t do much because her hypothetical leg still gives out unexpectedly, and there is no one else hypothetically home, would 2200 be too early to go to bed? Discuss.

  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 18, 2015 at 9:39 pm

    @Pogonip: Hypothetically, is this person tired?

  4. 4.

    Pogonip

    March 18, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Mostly bored. Hypothetically.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    March 18, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    @Pogonip:

    That’s hypothetical Baud’s bedtime.

  6. 6.

    Heliopause

    March 18, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    Looks like the Mesa shooter was a white supremacist. Not that that necessarily means anything.

  7. 7.

    Howard Beale IV

    March 18, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    Salem Media-once again, that taint of the Shrieking Harpy Michelle Maglalang Malkin’s past rises yet again.

  8. 8.

    Pogonip

    March 18, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    @Baud: Works for me! Wake me if there’s a pupdate! Goodnight, all.

  9. 9.

    danielx

    March 18, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    But Erickson is a hypocrite —

    Not news.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    March 18, 2015 at 9:51 pm

    Republicans in disarray!

    I am having my bathroom remodeled to be more handicapped friendly. This entails making it unusable and also my bedroom since all the stuff that lives in the bathroom is in there and there is no room for me and my wheelchair. Oh well. It’ll be great when it’s done.

  11. 11.

    Sherparick

    March 18, 2015 at 9:52 pm

    Please pass the popcorn!! :-)

  12. 12.

    beltane

    March 18, 2015 at 10:00 pm

    @Heliopause: At least he wasn’t a scary brown person. That would be too scary.

  13. 13.

    Nicole

    March 18, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    The idea of a “diabetes solution kit” makes me profoundly sad because I imagine it’s huckstering money out of people who already can’t afford proper care for the disease.

  14. 14.

    WereBear

    March 18, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    @Mary G: Glad you are up for such may hem. Hope that means you are coping with that bad injury from a while back?

    Red State fans are self-selecting con targets. “We’ll believe anything!”

  15. 15.

    Zinsky

    March 18, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    @WereBear: Well said! These doorknobs would buy into the most lameass scam you could ever come up with!

  16. 16.

    Violet

    March 18, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    @Pogonip: Hypothetically, no time is too early to go to bed. The hypothetical person can always read a book or hang out on Balloon-Juice if the hypothetical person has a laptop, computer or phone that would allow that capability.

    Edit: There’s a pupdate! Wake up!

  17. 17.

    kindness

    March 18, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    We all laugh at and mock the sheer hypocrisy. We wished the MSM would cop to it but they won’t. There are two sets of rules. One for liberals and a whole nother for conservatives. Sad it is.

  18. 18.

    Hal

    March 18, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    I had always thought the naturopathic quacks were lefties, sort of like anti-vaxers. I’m surprised so many conservatives apparently fall for this nonsense too.

  19. 19.

    RaflW

    March 18, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    So in classic Walker shenanigans-land

    For the Southeast Region, dominated by Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city and its educational and economic engine of manufacturing and growth, that [legislative budget] hearing will be held Friday, during work hours, at Alverno College, a Catholic women’s school, on the far south side, while UWM [UW Milwaukee, which will take a big hit in the $300M two year cuts] is on spring break.

    (Italics in original item)

  20. 20.

    lonesomerobot

    March 18, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    The company behind Food4Patriots is based in Nashville. They are normal-seeming people who are preying on wingnuts with their survival bullshit. The essentially treat their customers like marks.

    I use the term ‘normal-seeming’ to underscore what disgusting people they really are. I interviewed for a web job they had advertised. By the end of the interview I was saying things purposefully intending not to get the job. They have only one passion, and that’s making obscene amounts of money. They found their cash crop – it’s any stupid worthless survival product that wingnuts will buy at a ridiculous markup.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    March 18, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    @Hal:

    I had always thought the naturopathic quacks were lefties, sort of like anti-vaxers. I’m surprised so many conservatives apparently fall for this nonsense too.

    When you’re in pain & you can’t afford to see a doctor, you’ll believe any self-hypnotic / placebo treatment that will get you through the night. Even if you can seek “proper” medical treatment, if you’re terrified of finding out you’ve got something deadly / incurable / chronic, it’s all too easy to persuade yourself that tumeric will cure diabetes or prayer will cure COPD — or that the so-called medical professionals don’t have all the answers, either.

    Karl Marx said “Religion is the opium of the people” back when opium was the only reliable pain-killer — and one not available to many of those who needed it most.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    March 18, 2015 at 11:04 pm

    @Heliopause: I went to elementary, junior high, and high school in Mesa, in the same neighborhood where the shooting happened. They have had a lot of problems with white supremacy for years. It was a huge problem when I went to school—we had rioting, fighting, and a death. I heard that the suspect went to the same high school I did, though it’s not confirmed. It’s a pretty poor, urban area of the city.

  23. 23.

    Violet

    March 18, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    it’s all too easy to persuade yourself that tumeric will cure diabetes or prayer will cure COPD — or that the so-called medical professionals don’t have all the answers, either.

    They don’t. A friend of mine is dealing with this now. They’ve identified that she’s got some neurological or inflammatory condition but every doctor she sees orders new tests and pushes her on to another doctor. The neurologist says she needs a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgeon did surgery and says she needs to find a rheumatologist. The rheumatologist says to consult an allergist. The allergist says to go the specialist neurologist. Round and round she goes. GP says it’s all in her head. She shows them lab work and scans that show it absolutely is not made up. They refer her to one of the above types of doctors. She’s been dealing with this for years now.

    Little wonder that people with chronic conditions that the medical profession can’t treat will look outside the box.

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    March 18, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Medical professionals absolutely do not have all the answers. However, sometimes they do have answers and people don’t like those answers.

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    March 18, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    Looking like when they boil down the bullshit it’ll be Bush vs Walker in 2016 to grab the GOP nomination. All the other assholes: Jindal, Santorum, Christie, Paul, Cruz, etc. are just fucking window dressing thrown up by the corporate media.

  26. 26.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 19, 2015 at 12:35 am

    @Heliopause: Lone wolf. Never a terrorist, never part of a conspiracy.

  27. 27.

    Yatsuno

    March 19, 2015 at 12:49 am

    @Mike in NC: How DARE you count out The Donald so soon! Although talk about someone whose tax returns would be amazingly entertaining…

  28. 28.

    Violet

    March 19, 2015 at 12:54 am

    @Yatsuno: Apparently he’s formed an exploratory committee. Fox News was promoting it. Saw that on the TV in the atrium of an office building today. Here’s a link.

    Real estate developer and TV star Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has formed an exploratory committee to consider a run for president in 2016.

    “I am the only one who can make America truly great again!” he said in a statement.

    Trump has flirted with a run in past, but the formation of a committee is a firmer step in the direction of a 2016 campaign.

  29. 29.

    Yatsuno

    March 19, 2015 at 1:20 am

    @Violet: I caught that little tidbit today. I think the gerbil on his head has now gone the full Remy route and is making him do stupid things like this. I really have no idea on what sort of platform he could possibly run or how he could ever appeal to the Southern vote. But it will be fun in the meantime.

  30. 30.

    Applejinx

    March 19, 2015 at 2:57 am

    Walker is worrying because he pretty much literally is Stalin. Purges loyalists for imagined offenses and such. It’s a bad sign.

  31. 31.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 19, 2015 at 3:08 am

    @Violet:

    “I am the only one who can make America truly great again!” he said in a statement.

    My, isn’t The Donald totally full of himself, or what? You know, someone else said that they were the only one who could make their country great again…

  32. 32.

    SRW1

    March 19, 2015 at 3:54 am

    Shouting that there’s grifting going on while tending to ones own grifting stall can’t be good for the grifting business in general, can it? Is that shouting therefore a sign that the grifting industry is approaching market saturation? If so, is that because the stupidity of the rubes or their resources are finite?

    Questions!

  33. 33.

    qwerty42

    March 19, 2015 at 8:12 am

    @lonesomerobot: … They have only one passion, and that’s making obscene amounts of money. They found their cash crop – it’s any stupid worthless survival product that wingnuts will buy at a ridiculous markup.
    I am in IT and one of the things I do is act as ultimate postmaster, so I see a lot of spam/phishes/worse … One popular one (seems to be declining now, so I guess all the marks got taken) was some alert about a big coverup in the food supply. This was supposedly going to be the thing that “finally” took the President down. Just follow the link to see this (haha).
    So many things here: paranoia, hate, all good stuff. And the mention of the President is just catnip for these folks.

  34. 34.

    mclaren

    March 19, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    There’s a serious debate to be had about whether the GOP stands for “Grifters On Parade” or “Gay Older Pedophiles.”

    An excellent case can be made for either alternative.

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