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“The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air.  I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.” – Dick Armey, adding to Media Matters that the …

Whoa.

As the right wing continues to eat each other alive over the 2012 elections, Dick Armey has bailed out on FreedomWorks, the Koch Brothers’ astroturfing outfit that booted the Tea Party into national prominence three years ago. And what a payout he’s getting to go away. A confidential contract obtained by The Associated Press shows that Armey agreed in September …

Press release from the Koch Brothers’ Americans For Prosperity: “Americans for Prosperity is deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a law that most Americans believed to be unconstitutional. As a result, unless Congress steps in and repeals this legislation, health care costs for most Americans will go up and the quality of health care goes down as …

Koch Brothers astroturf group Americans For Prosperity are sponsoring today’s massive teabagger rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday began considering the lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Tea Partiers plan to keep the heat up on the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow at a 1 p.m. Capitol Hill rally as the court enters its second day of deliberations …

Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks ties in yesterday’s movie opening with an attack on the president.

Voiceover artist D.C. Douglas, who lost his gig with Geico after FreedomWorks publicized an angry voicemail he left for them, fires back with this hilarious bit. “Tweaking the nipple of hypocrites in power can be dangerous and lead to blacklisting. Please, don’t drunk dial FreedomWorks!”

Angered as being characterized as violent, racist, hate-filled teabaggers, Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks has compiled the below clip of voice mails and emails sent by their opponents. Language NSFW.

Voice-over actor D.C. Douglas, best known for his “save up to 15%” tags on GEICO commercials, has been fired by the insurance giant after a voicemail he left for Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks was widely circulated in the right-wing blogosphere. Douglas’ home phone number was then posted on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site. “I called as a private citizen to make …

On yesterday’s Meet The Press. Things get going around the 5:00 mark.

Dick Armey pissed off a lot of feminists yesterday. In a heated debate over the state of politics and the economy on Wednesday night, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey almost certainly crossed the line of acceptable banter, telling his fellow panelist Joan Walsh that he was glad she could never be his wife because of her “prattle.” Appearing on …