How rich conservatives bilk the rank and file into making them richer .

True story: my friend’s father in law *really* hates Obama. Like, he hates him so much, if you ask him to explain why he hates him, he just sputters a bunch of incoherent rage. It’s like he’s hated him so long that he can’t remember why he hates him.

He also *really* hates taxes. Like, taxes are just wrong and evil and a Democratic plot to take money away from people like him and give it to Those People (I’m not racist but wink wink).

He is constantly glued to the right wing media machine, whether it’s TV like FOX News, radio like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, or websites like Breitbart. Anything that comes out of those sources is the gospel truth, and anything that contradicts it is a liberal plot by the liberal media.

So recently, this guy was railing against taxes and Obama, and proudly announced that he’d sent one thousand dollars to Newt Gingrich, because Newt Gingrich was going to personally stop congress from raising his taxes, but only if people sent Newt Gingrich money.

I forget the exact bill number that Newt Gingrich was going to stop, but my friend looked it up, and showed his father in law that the bill referenced in the e-mail was proposed in 2007, and never made it to the floor of the House.

So this guy, who is old enough to know better, and lives on a fixed income, threw away one thousand dollars, because of the right wing scam machine.

These right wing grifters know exactly what they’re doing, and they know exactly who they’re ripping off, and they don’t care.

But, you know, a fool and his money, as they say.

(via wilwheaton)