The former head of the Tea Party group said FreedomWorks paid Beck about $1 million to say "nice things" about it, and that it got a negative return on that investment, in an interview — with the liberal group Media Matters, of all places.
Both The Washington Post and The New York Times have front-page stories today about competing factions within the movement — gun-toting infights and all — and how they will fight to control its mission looking forward to 2014.
He left his job as chairman of FreedomWorks over a dispute with the Tea Party group's president, Matt Kibbe, and the fight was not over the direction of the group but over Kibbe's book deal.
A top Tea Party organization recently triumphant for bringing "beautiful chaos" to the right is suddenly falling apart into a kind of chaos of its own. A clash over the group's "direction" has taken place in the last 24 hours — not that anyone will say what that direction is, exactly.
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