Fake giant Pandas having sex with Hillary Clinton. Is this the best the Right Wing can do against her?

Courtesy of Mother Jones:  

An internal investigation of FreedomWorks—the prominent conservative advocacy group and super-PAC—has focused on president Matt Kibbe's management of the organization, his use of its resources, and a controversial book deal he signed, according to former FreedomWorks officials who have met with the private lawyers conducting the probe. One potential topic for the inquiry is a promotional video produced last year under the supervision of Adam Brandon, executive vice president of the group and a Kibbe loyalist. The video included a scene in which a female intern wearing a panda suit simulates performing oral sex on Hillary Clinton. 

In one segment of the film, according to a former official who saw it, Brandon is seen waking from a nap at his desk. In what appears to be a dream or a nightmare, he wanders down a hallway and spots a giant panda on its knees with its head in the lap of a seated Hillary Clinton and apparently performing oral sex on the then-secretary of state. Two female interns at FreedomWorks were recruited to play the panda and Clinton. One intern wore a Hillary Clinton mask. The other wore a giant panda suit that FreedomWorks had used at protests to denounce progressives as panderers. Placing the panda in the video, a former FreedomWorks staffer says, was "an inside joke." 

Another FreedomWorks staffer who worked there at the time confirms that "Yes, this video was created." 

Days before the FreePAC event, the video was screened for staff. "My mouth was wide open," a former official recalls. "'What the hell is this?'" Several FreedomWorks staffers were outraged and stunned that Brandon, the group's second-in-command after Kibbe, had overseen the video's production, appeared in it, and intended to show this film at the conference, which would be attended by many social-conservative activists. They raised objections to the film. 

"How was that not some form of sexual harassment?" a former FreedomWorks official asks, noting that two female interns had been requested to act out a pretend sex scene. "And there were going to be thousands of Christian conservatives at this thing. This was a terrible lack of judgment." Brandon, a former FreedomWorks official says, defended the film, insisting it was creative and funny. But eventually a decision was made not to show the video at FreePAC. 

Armey says he didn't became aware of the film until months later: "I heard they had made an obscene video mocking Hillary Clinton." He says he was told the video showed Clinton having sex with an intern. "I asked another [FreedomWorks] guy if he had seen it," Armey recalls. "He said, 'I heard about it. I was traveling at the time. It was shown around the office.'" Armey adds, "There was a concern that this kind of behavior could land you in court. I was shocked at the ugly and bad taste." 

Dick Armey was "shocked?" Sure he was. You know that these assholes engage in this same kind misogynistic behavior all of the time behind closed doors, and in fact there were numerous reports of sexist attitudes toward female employees and "boorish behaviors."

Something like this tape does not happen in a vacuum and surely Dick Armey knew all about it.

The Mother Jones article goes on to quote a former staffer at FreedomWorks who predicts that the company will simply implode soon due to mismanagement.  You know I feel pretty much the same fate awaits the actual republican party as well.

By the way, does ANYBODY want to predict how long it will take that champion of woman's rights, that self identified victim of constant "sexist" comments, Sarah Palin, to speak out about this?

Yeah I don't expect a peep out of her either.

Dick Armey admits that Freedomworks paid Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to pimp for them on the air.

Courtesy of Media Matters: 

Former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey says the conservative outlet that helped launch the Tea Party paid Glenn Beck at least $1 million last year to fundraise for the organization, an arrangement he said provided "too little value" for the money. 

"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." 

Armey, who left the organization this past fall after a dispute over its internal operations, said a similar arrangement was also in place with Rush Limbaugh, but did not know the exact financial details. 

"I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck," Armey said, calling it a mistake.

So let me see it I have this straight, Freedomworks takes money from contributors for the purpose of making some political change in the country, and then turns around and uses those contributions to pay conservative spokespeople to mention their organization on TV and radio, in order to raise more money for their orgnaization.  Is that about right?

Oh but wait, that is only the tip of the scummy iceberg. Mother Jones has more:

According to ex-FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey, when he joined the organization in 2003, FreedomWorks relied heavily on corporate donations. The group, he says, subsequently weaned itself off such underwriting and used direct-mail lists—some provided by Armey—to build up a base of small donors. But in the last year, there was a "big surge in private individual contributions," most of which Armey says he didn't know about. "The details were kept secret from me," he remarks. 

FreedomWorks, flush with wealthy donors' money, took full advantage of the nation's lax campaign finance rules during the 2012 election cycle. The group's nonprofit side shifted millions of dollars in dark money to the FreedomWorks super-PAC, effectively hiding the true source of those funds. One campaign finance reform advocate blasted those internal money transfers as the "laundering of secret money." A FreedomWorks spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.

So essentially this is the same thing that Sarah Palin has done, as well as various other so called conservatives. They talk about freedom, conservative values, and apple pie to attract donations and then use the money to pay staff, fund raise, or else launder it by paying other conservative groups who then send the money back to them for some bullshit or unidentified service.

Rachel Maddow revealed on her show Friday that Dick Morris used that exact same money laundering scam with his SuperPAC.

Wow, I think I might need to take a shower now.

You know you would think that the conservatives who are donating to these scam artists would eventually figure this out, but you know they probably won't.  After all, if they were smart enough to see through this stuff they would be smart enough to become liberals.