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“That was a major, big screw up on my part. I thought they were somebody else.”
Over the weekend, conservative reaction to Armey’s decision to “dish” to Media Matters about his tumultuous exit from FreedomWorks ranged from befuddled to furious.
“If Dick Armey is going to go to Media Matters, he’s willing to burn down the movement over his vendetta,” Red State blogger Erick Erickson wrote on Twitter…
But in a Tuesday phone interview with TheDC, Armey insisted that even though Strupp properly identified himself, it wasn’t until “somebody busted my chops on Facebook” that he realized spoke to a left-wing group.
“I wouldn’t know Media Matters from a hole in the wall,” the 72-year-old told TheDC. “That was a major, big screw up on my part. I thought they were somebody else.”
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Time to depart the political scene with whatever dignity you have left, Mr. Coastguard.
KingGold on January 9, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Looks like they had good cause to drum him out then. If he didn’t know who MM was, he was not competent to be calling shots at a conservative organization.
Kataklysmic on January 9, 2013 at 4:03 PM
what a great way to effect change: buy ads on limbaugh’s and beck’s shows to reach the fence sitters.
dupes.
sesquipedalian on January 9, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Sounds like he is getting on in years and someone else is pulling his strings to try to keep control.
Neo on January 9, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Either way he’ll keep the money.
Those are his principles and if you don’t like those he has others.
viking01 on January 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM
I’ve always thought Armey was an idiot, all the way back to his days in Congress.
Mark1971 on January 9, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Know thine enemy.
UltimateBob on January 9, 2013 at 4:21 PM
Yeah, he’ll keep his $8 million payoff while simultaneously decrying Freedom Works for wasting $2 million on the Beck and Limbaugh shows. I don’t disagree with him on the latter, but it’s more than a little hypocritical, given that his own payoff was 4x what was paid to Beck and Limbaugh.
cam2 on January 9, 2013 at 4:51 PM
Senile dementia is a terrible thing.
Ward Cleaver on January 9, 2013 at 5:36 PM