These financial/media relationships have largely and historically, remained hidden, a blogger identified simply as sundance noted in an article posted on TheConservativeTreeHouse.com on Wednesday. They have sure never been publicly, clearly, and regularly stated so the consuming audience would know the presentation was fraught with financial conflict.
$400k for Mark Levin books The Senate Conservatives Fund (PAC) purchasing massive quantities ($400,000) of Mark Levins books in exchange for favorable candidacy political opinion. Conveniently hidden by the radio host who avoids mentioning the financial conflict created, the blog pointed out.
On Jan. 13, Ben Jacobs in an article published by the Daily Beast headlined Pay to Play? noted that Politico, in an article that now appears to have been scrubbed from Politicos website, reported on how the GOP establishment seeks to buy Levin.
The Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), a conservative fund founded by former Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina that backed Cruz in his Senate fight against Obamacare, spent $427,000 to buy copies of radio talk show host Mark Levins four-year-old book Liberty or Tyranny to distribute to donors a purchase that should have earned Levin approximately $1 million in royalties.
Despite his many diatribes against Trump broadcast to his national radio audience, Levin hid the fact the son of his fiancé is a full-time staffer for Cruz.
Glenn Beck rolls in cash from Cruz-supporting Super-PAC
GOP establishment political operative David Barton not only runs Keep the Promise one of the most prominent pro-Cruz Super-PACs, he also serves as the chairman of Glen Becks Mercury One charity.
So, the next time you see Glenn Beck on his knees proclaiming that Ted Cruz is the anointed one, deemed by God to be president of the United States, you might ask yourself if God also deemed Barton to put at Becks disposal the millions in Super-PAC money he can funnel to Beck, so long as Beck continues to sing Ted Cruzs tune.
Erick Erickson gets $3 million to support The Resurgent
Yet even these political whores do not top conservative Erick Erickson, founder of RedState.com, who funds his media venture The Resurgent with Super-PAC money from the Ricketts family of Wisconsin, big backers of Gov. Scott Walker (who incidentally endorsed Cruz).
Do You Think The So-Called 'Establishment' Has Bought Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Ben Shaprio, and Erick Erickson?
Trump flunky Roger Stone discovers you can earn $1 million in royalties from $400,000 in book sales. Amazing!
That must be Trumpinomics. You sell a book for $4 and get $10 in profit. Art of the Deal, baby!