Axios Reporter Ignores Sen. Whitehouse Hypocrisy on Special Interests

NewsBusters ^ | 12/21/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

Axios must like propping up Democratic senators as crusaders against fossil fuel special interests while ignoring their own deep ties to special interests, including dark money.

Axios climate and energy reporter Amy Harder praised how Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) was “calling on the incoming Biden administration to have the Justice Department investigate organizations that fossil-fuel companies have in the past funded.” Harder said Whitehouse was accusing these organizations of “propagating ‘climate denialism and climate obstruction and political ownership of the Republican Party.’”

Harder herself took aim at the conservative Heartland Institute, reportedly a Whitehouse target, and attacked it as “an organization known for pushing false information on climate change.” She stated that Whitehouse’s “focus for now at the federal level are organizations like Heartland.”

Nowhere did Harder mention Whitehouse’s hypocrisy on special interest funding when it comes to his own connections to dark money. The Capital Research Center (CRC) reported in November that Whitehouse himself “fundraises through ActBlue, the Left’s favorite ‘dark money’ machine.” CRC said that ActBlue’s “501(c)(3) and (c)(4) wings report their pass-through grants as a single, unidentifiable lump, so they don’t have to disclose which groups they passed money to or how much each group received.” In addition, Harder also ignored how Whitehouse had written an opinion piece for The Washington Post in 2015 actually arguing for RICO lawsuits to be brought against companies who disagreed with him on climate change.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Harder said Whitehouse was accusing these organizations of “propagating ‘climate denialism and climate obstruction and political ownership of the Republican Party.’”

So Harder and Whitehouse are pushing a conspiracy theory?

[Lurkinanloomin]

That’s the job of the Ministry of Propaganda, make Democrats look good and advance the progressive agenda.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

John Larroquette is Sheldon Whithouse!

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

If Weldon Shitehouse is the answer, then it must be a pretty stupid question.

[SharpRightTurn]

I know saying so doesn't really narrow things down too much by D.C. standards, but this guy really is a pathetic blowhard. The fact that a guy of such low standard could make it to the national upper chamber is a real embarrassment.