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</div><div>DAVID CORN</div><h1 class="print-title" style="margin-bottom: 0.2em;">FreedomWorks Made Video of Fake Giant Panda Having Sex With Fake Hillary Clinton</h1><div class="dek" style="font-family: ">The investigation at the influential tea party group could get weird.</div>By <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/authors/david-corn" rel="author">David Corn</a> | Thu Feb. 14, 2013 
<hr class="print-hr" style="border-style: solid; border-color: gray;" /><div class="print-content" style="line-height: 1.8em;"><div id="node-215971" class="node node-type-html node-type-article-full"><div class="node-inner clear-block"><div class="content clear-block"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-short-body"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd">An<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/dick-armey-freedomworks-hostile-takeover-memo" target="blank"> internal investigation</a> [1] of FreedomWorks—the prominent conservative advocacy group and super-PAC—has focused on president <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/matt-kibbe" target="blank">Matt Kibbe's </a>[2]management of the organization, his use of its resources, and a controversial book deal he <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/dick-armey-freedomworks-kibbe-book-contract-smoking-gun" target="_blank">signed</a> [3],

according to former FreedomWorks officials who have met with the

private lawyers conducting the probe. One potential topic for the

inquiry is a promotional video produced last year under the supervision

of <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/adam-brandon" target="_blank">Adam Brandon</a> [4],

executive vice president of the group and a Kibbe loyalist. The video

included a scene in which a female intern wearing a panda suit simulates

performing oral sex on Hillary Clinton. [Author's note: The previous

sentence contains no typos.] In

December, after months of bitter in-fighting, two members of

FreedomWorks' board of trustees—C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel

for President George H.W. Bush, and James Burnley IV, a secretary of

transportation during the Reagan years—<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/dick-armey-freedomworks-hostile-takeover-memo" target="_blank">notified</a> [1] Kibbe that

they had received "allegations of wrongdoing by the organization or its

employees" and had hired two lawyers, Alfred Regnery and David Martin,

to investigate. Soon after, Regnery and Martin began interviewing past

and present FreedomWorks employees and officials. This list included

Dick Armey, the former House majority leader who in November <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/dick-armey-resigns-freedomworks-tea-party" target="blank">resigned</a> [5] as chairman of the group (and pocketed an <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/tea-party-group-chief-quits-cites-internal-split" target="blank">$8 million payout</a> [6]),

citing concerns about the management of the organization. The

investigating lawyers, Armey says, "picked my brain. I told them a

forensic audit would be imperative because so much is hidden there." ...
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">...In another radio segment, Mitchell said that last September she told Trump and his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, there was a “massive effort to steal the election”.</div><h4 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: medium; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">More recently, Mitchell told the AP that she and Trump have been in contact “fairly frequently”, but declined to provide details.Meanwhile, other right leaning groups with which Mitchell has had good ties are engaged in campaigns that seem to overlap those of FreedomWorks and CPI to limit voting rights.For example, Mitchell told the AP: “I’ve been working with state legislatures for several years to get them to pay attention to what I call the political process.”To be sure, Mitchell prior to the election served as outside counsel and helped coordinate a major voting law initiative for the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), an influential group of conservative state legislators which promotes model bills for states. Alec has reportedly been increasingly active this year in pushing its ideas for changing voting laws.Known as well connected in conservative big money circles, Mitchell also serves on the board of the deep pocketed Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, a top donor to many rightwing groups including Alec to which it gave $750,000 dollars in 2020, records show.Further, Mitchell has attended meetings of the famously secretive Council for National Policy, an influential rightwing group that boasts top donors, evangelical leaders and prominent conservatives like FreedomWorks’ Brandon.At a CNP national meeting in mid November one panel featured Mitchell, Christian Adams the president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (Pilf), and other lawyers discussing “Election results and legal battles: What now?”Mitchell, who also chairs Pilf, which received $300,000 in 2020 from the Bradley foundation, has indicated it could get active in the legal battles over the new Georgia law....</h4></div>=blaze bsAdam Brandon is the Executive Vice President at FreedomWorksam Brandon is President and CEO of FreedomWorks, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that mobilizes grassroots activists nationwide to fight for less government, lower taxes and more freedom. Previously, Brandon served as the Vice President of Communications, representing FreedomWorks on a national level through media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, FOX News and CNN.  Prior to joining FreedomWorks, Brandon served as a Program Director at the Junior Statesmen Foundation in Washington, D.C.; Campaign Manager for State Representative Bryan Williams for Mayor of Akron, Ohio; a Press Assistant for John McCain’s 2000 Presidential Campaign; and taught American History, Government and International Relations at The Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.
==The left-wing rhetoric and symbolism are so thick on the right, in fact, that some conservatives have been taken aback by it: The logo for the Sept. 12 protest in Washington, which organizers called the “March on Washington,” featured an image that looked so much like those associated with the labor, communist and black power movements that some participants objected to it — until they found out that’s what the designers were shooting for.

“As an organization, we have been very closely studying what the left has been doing,” explains FreedomWorks press secretary Adam Brandon, who says he was given a copy of “Rules for Radicals” when he took his current job . Brandon describes the Sept. 12 rally in D.C. as the “culmination of four years worth of work” and says that organizers were “incredibly conscious” of the symbols they chose.

With the logo, he explains, they were “trying to evoke the imagery of the counterrevolutionary protests of the 1960s that captured the imagination of the world.” And as for the phrase “March on Washington,” Brandon says, “this is something people said in the office. If we had been alive back in the 1960s, we would have been on the freedom bus rides. It was an issue of individual liberty. We’re trying to borrow some from the civil rights movement.”

From the outside, at least, it doesn't look like an obvious fit.

Dick Armey did not, in fact, participate in the freedom rides of the 1960s. Brandon said the former House majority leader was an undergrad in Jamestown, N.D., at the time, working his way through school putting up electric poles, and “wasn’t politically active at the time.”

And while they’re handing out Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” at FreedomWorks, Armey himself told the Financial Times last month: “What I think of Alinsky is that he was very good at what he did but what he did was not good.”

But if the tactics of the left helped end segregation and the Vietnam War in the last century, conservatives say there’s no reason those same tactics can’t be used to keep liberals in check now.

James O’Keefe, the activist and filmmaker who posed as a pimp for an expose of several ACORN offices in the Northeast, told the New York Post earlier this week] that he, too, had been inspired by “Rules for Radicals,” which includes such tactical lessons as “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon” and “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”...

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Adam Brandon is the Executive Vice President at FreedomWorks. He joined FreedomWorks in 2005 and runs the FreedomWorks press shop which includes outreach to all forms of print and broadcast media, as well expanding the footprint of small government conservatism onto new media platforms.

Prior to FreedomWorks, Adam taught high school in Washington, DC and worked campaigns in his favorite state in the union: Ohio. He is a passionate advocate of Austrian Economics and Public Choice Theory, and takes seriously the tradition of Samuel Adams that citizens need to organize and engage in the political process. Adam's arch nemesis on staff is Campaigns Director, <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/brendan-steinhauser-biography">Brendan Steinhauser</a>.

Adam is addicted to higher education. He studied PPE at New College, Oxford in 1998 and 1999, and holds both a Master's and a B.A. in International Affairs and Economics from George Washington University and a second Master's in European Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He currently is studying Finance at Georgetown University.

A resident of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Washington, DC, Adam can be found wasting his Sundays in a tragic and desperate effort to support his beloved Cleveland Browns. And yes, Adam is also a Revolutionary War reenactor.