{"id":3486,"date":"2010-10-23T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dupes-of-the-rich\/"},"modified":"2010-10-23T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T15:55:07","slug":"dupes-of-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dupes-of-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Dupes of the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/19\/AR2010101906085.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Dana Milbank &#8211; A Tea Party of populist posers<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[\u2026] a radio appeal from <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">the de facto leader of the Tea Party movement, Glenn Beck<\/font>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/glenn-beck-calls-for-largest-day-of-fundraising-for-chamber-of-commerce\/\">who told them<\/a>: &quot;Put your money where your mouth is. If you have a dollar, please go to . . . the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and donate today.&quot; Chamber members, he said, &quot;are our parents. They&#8217;re our grandparents. They are us.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>They are? Listed as members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/about\/board\/board-directors\">chamber&#8217;s board<\/a> are representatives from Pfizer, ConocoPhillips, Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase, Dow Chemical, Ken Starr&#8217;s old law and lobbying firm, and Rolls-Royce North America. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Nothing says grass-roots insurgency quite like Rolls-Royce<\/font> &#8212; and nothing says populist revolt quite like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In describing the big-business group as &quot;us,&quot; <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Beck (annual revenue: $32 million)<\/font> provided an unintended moment of clarity into the power behind the Tea Party movement. These aren&#8217;t peasants with pitchforks; these are plutocrats with payrolls. <\/p>\n<p>There is genuine populist anger out there. But the angry have been deceived and exploited by posers who belong to the same class of &quot;elites&quot; and &quot;insiders&quot; that the Tea Party movement supposedly deplores. Americans who want to stick it to the man are instead sending money to the man. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/19\/AR2010101906085.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Dana Milbank &#8211; A Tea Party of populist posers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Milbank &#8211; A Tea Party of populist posers [\u2026] a radio appeal from the de facto leader of the Tea Party movement, Glenn Beck, who told them: &quot;Put your money where your mouth is. If you have a dollar, please go to . . . the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and donate today.&quot; Chamber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dupes-of-the-rich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dupes of the Rich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}