{"id":19904,"date":"2013-01-11T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/dick-armey-confused-media-matters-bre"},"modified":"2013-01-11T21:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:00:29","slug":"dick-armey-confused-media-matters-with-brent-bozells-mrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/dick-armey-confused-media-matters-with-brent-bozells-mrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Armey Confused Media Matters With Brent Bozell’s MRC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember when Karoli wrote about this story<\/a> last week? Poor dumb Dick!<\/a> He confused Media Matters with the wingnut Media Research Center. I guess he’s so used to wingnuts tidying up after each other, he assumed old Brent would know to censor his remarks:<\/p>\n

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There’s been a remarkable amount of\u00a0drama<\/a>\u00a0surrounding Dick Armey’s departure from FreedomWorks, culminating Friday with a\u00a0stunning report<\/a>\u00a0from Media Matters, who interviewed the former House Majority Leader directly. Armey had all kinds of interesting insights to share with the progressive group, including tidbits on pay-for-play agreements with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and the FreedomWorks’ practice of <\/strong>charging activists to attend free events<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Though many of Armey’s revelations should probably be taken with a grain of salt — the former GOP leader seemed confused about some of the details he shared — there was a larger question that puzzled nearly everyone: why in the world was Dick Armey dishing dirt to Media Matters?<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Daily Caller<\/em>, a conservative outlet, tracked down\u00a0the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dick Armey had no idea he was speaking to the left-wing Media Matters organization during an interview last week<\/strong>, he told The Daily Caller Tuesday. Instead, Armey thought he was chatting with the conservative Media Research Center. […]<\/p>\n

[I]n a Tuesday phone interview with TheDC, Armey insisted that even though properly identified himself, it wasn’t until “somebody busted my chops on Facebook” that he realized spoke to a left-wing group….\u00a0“That was a major, big screw up on my part. I thought they were somebody else.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Remember when Karoli wrote about this story<\/a> last week? Poor dumb Dick!<\/a> He confused Media Matters with the wingnut Media Research Center. I guess he’s so used to wingnuts tidying up after each other, he assumed old Brent would know to censor his remarks:<\/p>\n

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There’s been a remarkable amount of drama<\/a> surrounding Dick Armey’s departure from FreedomWorks, culminating Friday with a stunning report<\/a> from Media Matters, who interviewed the former House Majority Leader directly. Armey had all kinds of interesting insights to share with the progressive group, including tidbits on pay-for-play agreements with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and the FreedomWorks’ practice of <\/strong>charging activists to attend free events<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Though many of Armey’s revelations should probably be taken with a grain of salt — the former GOP leader seemed confused about some of the details he shared — there was a larger question that puzzled nearly everyone: why in the world was Dick Armey dishing dirt to Media Matters?<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller<\/em>, a conservative outlet, tracked down the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dick Armey had no idea he was speaking to the left-wing Media Matters organization during an interview last week<\/strong>, he told The Daily Caller Tuesday. Instead, Armey thought he was chatting with the conservative Media Research Center. […]<\/p>\n

[I]n a Tuesday phone interview with TheDC, Armey insisted that even though properly identified himself, it wasn’t until “somebody busted my chops on Facebook” that he realized spoke to a left-wing group…. “That was a major, big screw up on my part. I thought they were somebody else.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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