Here are 11 recent examples of how conservatives have been scamming their followers:

[phantom power]

Not very surprising, that a political movement based on anti-intellectualism, fundamentalism and total contempt for empathy would be one gigantic scam generating machine.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/26/the-conservative-movement-is-infected-with-scam/202272

1) Mike Huckabee sold out his fans to a quack doctor, conspiracy theorists, and financial fraudsters.

2) Conservative media such as Erick Erickson's RedState, Dick Morris, Newsmax, Townhall, and Human Events have pushed paid promotions for dubious marijuana stocks.

3) Tea party scammers have been aided by media outlets like CNN and Fox News, which, in the words of one of the shady groups in question, have given the tea partiers "great television news coverage" to promote their efforts.

4) Subscribers to CNN analyst Newt Gingrich's email list have received supposed insider information about cancer "cures," the Illuminati, "Obama's 'Secret Mistress,'" a "weird" Social Security "trick," and Fort Knox being "empty."

5) Five conservative outlets promoted a quack doc touting dubious Alzheimer's disease cures.

6) Conservative media sold out their followers to a disgraced financial firm, Stansberry & Associates.

7) Fox News contributor Wayne Rogers acted as a "paid TV spokesperson" for a company pitching reverse mortgages to senior citizens. Fox had previously reported that "there's a lot of evidence" that reverse mortgages are "predatory loans."

8) Tobin Smith, the dubious stock pitchman fired from Fox News.

9) Fox analyst Charles Payne was paid to push now worthless stocks.

10) The Dick Morris/Newsmax super PAC boondoggle.

11) Right-wing media helped "scam PACs" raise money from their readers.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/26/the-conservative-movement-is-infected-with-scam/202272

[Frustratedlady]

1. And, how many involved have been arrested/charged?

Did Beck stop selling his "gold" coins? Now that he's seen the light, wouldn't you think?

[Fred Sanders]

2. The whole right wing political and media creation starting with the tea party is a House of Cards.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Unfortunately they are glued together :-/

[Fred Sanders]

11. Yes, Crazy Glue. Try gasoline.

[central scrutinizer]

3. I hit refresh on this DU page a few times

and saw ads for shady financial schemes, "weird" body building tricks, supposedly "conflict-free" diamonds, Indian casinos, etc.

[Lochloosa]

4. I have H&R Block, Pet Smart and some kind of super fast processor.

The adds you see are based on your personal search history.

[JaneyVee]

5. Thosr are google ads, completely different from...

What those people are doing, which is selling email lists to quackery.

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. I get NRA ads, especially on anything regarding gun violence.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Have to buy a DU membership to make them all disappear and no more search of your history.

Totally ad free.

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. Someday, I'll have the extra cash.

[truedelphi]

6. And then there is the seemingly hidden fact that most of the

Centrist "Democrats" are far to the right of Richard Nixon!

Talk about how ruinous the conservatives are:

Under the last forty years of Democratic/Republican rule, we have seen our customer service and manufacturing jobs go to third world countries. The economy is now totally in the hands of the big Fianncial People. (Thanks Pres. Obama for Mr Geithner's appointment, and for re-appointing Bernanke.)

Endless wars, privatizing of prisons, and now the privatizing of the entire educational system!

Media is totally under the control of the CIA. TV shows offer nothing except glamorization of the rich. Endless TV programming about Housewives this, Bachelorettes that. No longer do we have Ed Murrow, or Cronkite, or even Charles Kuralt-style news casters. We have only CIA people.

And Hollywood itself has been captured in an eternal parade of movies about Navy Seal Teams, and Snipers who are glorified.

[h2]USA! USA![/h2]

[Initech]

7. And yet these hypocritical douchebags hide behind religion and play the morals and values card.

Fuck it, I'm not playing nice with these liars, scam artists, con artists, Hucksters, and crooks. I don't care if I'm "part of the problem". Time to start calling the scammers for what they really are.

[hunter]

8. I avoid doing business with people who have one of those Jesus fish in their advertisements...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys

Here in the U.S.A. at least, it's become a sign that means, "I may cheat you, especially if you are not one of us, or if you are an especially gullible one of us."

The Christian "conservatives," especially the Republican sort, don't seem to be loving their neighbors as anything more than marks in their con games.