-By Warner Todd Huston
Some of you may know of the absurd dust up between former Congressman, and conservative icon, Dick Armey and his coworkers at Freedomworks. Last year, Armey came barreling onto the Freedomworks offices in DC with an armed security guard and tried to forcibly take over the organization with which he had been associated for years.
He had the president of the group, Matt Kibbe, and several others forcibly removed from the premises, but after a bit of turmoil, and some instances in front of the remaining workers showing that Armey seemed confused about what was even doing in his own coup ended up himself vacating his post at the conservative activism group with a handsome payoff ringing in at some eight million bucks in get-lost money.
After all this came out in public, Armey then stampeded to several left-wing outfits like Mother Jones magazine and the extremists at Media Matters for America to “tell his story.”
Armey was heavily criticized for running to the left-wing press by the very movement he did so much to help foster back in the 1990s.
Now, Armey claims that he didn’t even know who he was talking to.
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Dick Armey Doesn’t Even Know Who He’s Talking To?”