{"id":183484,"date":"2013-02-14T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/14\/stay-classy-teabaggers\/"},"modified":"2013-02-14T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:40:00","slug":"stay-classy-teabaggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/14\/stay-classy-teabaggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Classy, Teabaggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the fine folks at Freedomworks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2013\/02\/panda-hillary-clinton-sex-tape-freedomworks-matt-kibbe-dick-armey\">produced a video with two female staffers playing Hillary Clinton and a Panda having sex<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An internal investigation of FreedomWorks\u2014the prominent conservative advocacy group and super-PAC\u2014has focused on president Matt Kibbe&#8217;s management of the organization, his use of its resources, and a controversial book deal he signed, 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 Adam Brandon, 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. [<i>Author&#8217;s note: The previous sentence contains no typos.<\/i>] <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In one segment of the film, according to a former official who saw it, Brandon is seen waking from a nap at his desk. In what appears to be a dream or a nightmare, he wanders down a hallway and spots a giant panda on its knees with its head in the lap of a seated Hillary Clinton and apparently performing oral sex on the then-secretary of state. Two female interns at FreedomWorks were recruited to play the panda and Clinton. One intern wore a Hillary Clinton mask. The other wore a giant panda suit that FreedomWorks had used at protests to denounce progressives as panderers. (See here, here, and here.) Placing the panda in the video, a former FreedomWorks staffer says, was &#8220;an inside joke.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Another FreedomWorks staffer who worked there at the time confirms that &#8220;Yes, this video was created.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, these guys are showing less maturity than your average 13 year old boys in a locker room in a farting contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the fine folks at Freedomworks, produced a video with two female staffers playing Hillary Clinton and a Panda having sex: An internal investigation of FreedomWorks\u2014the prominent conservative advocacy group and super-PAC\u2014has focused on president Matt Kibbe&#8217;s management of the organization, his use of its resources, and a controversial book deal he signed, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982,979,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}