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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald blasts Hillary Clinton: “The ultimate guardian of bipartisan status quo corruption” [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)OOOOOH, Walmart!!
You'll need to "guess" better than that. Hell, Walmart was decades before a certain progressive 'firebrand' last voted Republican (and even though I've never voted for a Republican, I got over that "transgression" and voted for the firebrand in question).
If you've got to go back that far, you've not got anything.
Wall Street gives money to both sides. And the other team's haul makes Dem pickings look lean. Dems from NY tend to do a little better than from some other states, but their take is anemic compared to the GOP. Nice try, no cigar.
GG has made MILLIONS off ES. He schlepped a book about him, he has a piece of that film, and he has all that Guardian dough. The Koch money is pure pay for play--he's going to show up at a conservative organization funded by Koch, run by that nutty Allen West, at a lecture series named after a pro-lynching racist, and he's going to speak to, and be applauded by, a bunch of insane conservatives who are slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. This is a matter of record, and it is not the first time he's done it. He and the Koch lads go back a long, long way (see CATO Institute--put his name in their search engine and you'll get pages of hits). It's not a marriage of convenience. It's an ideological love match. He thinks like they do, and he gives them what they want--for this, they pay him. Quite well, most likely.
We provide sources:
http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2014/11/07/allen-west-leaving-florida-to-head-dallas-based-think-tank/
http://www.ncpa.org/events/glenn-greenwald