Richard Mellon Scaife is one of the financiers of the right wing, one of the men behind organizations with impressive sounding names like Committee on the Present Danger and The Center for Strategic and International Studies. He, along with the Koch family and Joseph Coors, are responsible for much of the takeover of the intellectual culture and the media by right wing hacks. It all happened after the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, when democratic movements flowered and popular power got out of hand. Pandora had to be put back in the box.
(People like William Kristol and his father Irving get [got] paid very large sums of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, by the likes of Scaife and Coors, to be right wing hacks. They are not prominent by accident. They are bought.)
(The Democratic manifestation of the right wing takeover is the Democratic Leadership Council, whose roots actually go back as far as 1972.)
I was just reading a piece by Alex Cockburn this AM from the 1990’s, the early Clinton years, about how the media was put back in its box after its supposed Watergate triumph. Scaife was one of the financiers. He was asked about his support for all those right wing outfits by Review’s Karen Rothmyer, and replied (turn away, children)
You fucking communist cunt, get out of here.
Of course, we’d have to update that if he were asked the same question today. He’d say “You fucking terrorist cunt,” using the agitprop-appropriate fear-engendering buzzwords of the current time. We are no longer scared of communists. We are scared of terrorists now.
Richard Mellon Scaife: July 3, 1932 …. death by natural causes – I wish no violence on him, but think the planet will be a much better place when this miserable cocksucker leaves. Unless, or course, he’s spawned.
Piece of Mindful 
[Yikes! Another paranoid post from a medical marijuana patient.]
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Don’t think so, as I’m not paranoid and don’t do marijuana. The information about Scaife, Koch’s and Coors is public and well-documented. The right is heavily financed by wealthy benefactors, as is the DLC.
Just is that way.
Speaking of which, I did smoke mj one time, and it made me claustrophobic. Not paranoid.
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If these folks are so smart, why did they allow Greenspan, Sommers and Paulson to crash the financial markets? Probably because they believe they’re own bullshit. And why did Clinton and his deregulation cronies not see the securitized mortage racket for what it was, a bubble ready to burst. I can forgive Reagan, for I doubt he knew much of anything except that when the little red light goes on the cameras are rolling.
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