Comment on Lobbyists' money talks the loudest

Thank you Sam for identifying the speaker at the rally as Mark Levin. Also, you correct my figure of Joseph Lieberman accepting $150,100 from Perdue Pharma from "for the 2005-2010 election committee" to "since 1989." The OpenSecrets.org website was not very clear. While it it is true that his total career contributions (his Senate career started in 1989) from Perdue Pharma total $150,100, Perdue Pharma did not even crack his top 20 contributors until 2004, so he received most of this money fairly recently. Today, Perdue Pharma is his third biggest contributor.

It was unfortunate that a couple of sentences detailing the truth behind the organization "Americans for Prosperity" had to be deleted in the interest of space. They were located after Mark Levin's quote and just before "This is the root of the argument against health care reform in America." I will reproduce them here:

Rachel Maddow confronts the President of this self-described “grassroots” organization on her show, which in reality is funded by the massive corporation Koch Industries and wealthy Republican donors. “I think you and the folks who do what you do are a parasite who gets fat on Americansʼ fears,” Maddow states.