{"id":20931,"date":"2013-11-08T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20931"},"modified":"2013-11-08T12:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T17:41:45","slug":"i-guess-practicing-what-you-preach-is-just-not-in-style-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20931","title":{"rendered":"I Guess Practicing What You Preach Is Just Not In Style Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have heard a lot of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrats<\/a> protesting the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Citizens United<\/a> ruling by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supreme Court of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444 (Supreme%20Court%20of%20the%20United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Supreme Court<\/a> and also demanding that all groups making <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Campaign finance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_finance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">political donations<\/a> be required to name their donors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/11\/07\/Report-Liberals-Have-Accounted-for-70-of-Dark-Money-Spent-in-Politics-in-2013\">Breitbart.com<\/a> reported yesterday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Open Secrets\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Open Secrets<\/a> describes &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dark money\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">dark money<\/a> organizations&#8221; as &#8220;501(c)(4) and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"501(c) organization\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/501%28c%29_organization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">501(c)(6)<\/a> nonprofits that don&#8217;t have to disclose their donors.&#8221; Democrats have tried unsuccessfully to pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Journalism\/2012\/07\/17\/NPR-Turns-Report-on-DISCLOSE-Act-into-Taxpayer-Subsidized-Obama-Commercial\">DISCLOSE Act<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0712\/78576.html\">would<\/a> &#8220;require unions, nonprofits and corporate <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Advocacy group\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advocacy_group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">interest groups<\/a> that spend $10,000 or more during an election cycle to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2013\/11\/liberal-dark-money-dominating-2014-elections.html\">Open Secrets<\/a> posted two interesting graphs yesterday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saveddarkmoney2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20933\" alt=\"saveddarkmoney2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saveddarkmoney2.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saveddarkmoney2.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saveddarkmoney2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saveddarkmoney2-464x300.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/darkmoney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20932\" alt=\"darkmoney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/darkmoney.jpg\" width=\"567\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/darkmoney.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/darkmoney-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/darkmoney-494x300.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a>Considering that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">IRS<\/a> targeted conservative groups and asked them to reveal their donors (which is against the law), I find this graph very interesting. Maybe they were targeting the wrong people.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=26ef6e3b-588b-4eff-ad61-94c9d45af3a1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have heard a lot of Democrats protesting the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court and also demanding that all groups making political donations be required to name their donors. Breitbart.com reported yesterday: Open Secrets describes &#8220;dark money organizations&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6595,6596,6594,712,853,3558,284,6597],"class_list":["post-20931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-501c-organization","tag-citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission","tag-dark-money","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-democrats","tag-disclose-act","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-open-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20934,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions\/20934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}