Connecting The Dots

As I was perusing The Trib this morning (the online edition, of course) I found this column by Professor Donald Boudreaux.  I was intruiged by his examples of early blogging.  Looks like his blog is even older than this one!

Imagine that.

Here's how The Trib describes him:

Donald J. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. His column runs twice monthly.

And that's it.

So I googled him.  And it's interesting to see his Scaife connections (beyond his twice monthly columns at the Trib).  Take a look:

• President of the Foundation of Economic Education from 1997-2001 ($231,500 Scaife money)
• Adjunct Analyist at the CEI ($2.9 million Scaife money)
• Director of the Mercatus Center 2001 ($320,000 of Scaife Money)

Please note that the amounts listed in the parentheses are the amounts Scaife's foundations have given to those institutions NOT TO BOUDREAUX HIMSELF.

I'm not saying that Scaife paid Boudreaux upwards of $3.4 million.  I am saying that along with being an econ prof at the conservative George Mason University (and Scaife donates generously - $250,000 in 2010 - to that University's foundation as well) Boudreaux's been attached to some serious right wing think thanks and those serious right wing think tanks have taken some serious Scaife money ($3.4 mil, in case you forgot) over the years.

AY-und, he has a twice weekly column in Scaife's newspaper.

That's all I'm saying.

This is how the right wing noise machine works.