Glenn Beck to Chamber: $10,000; Chamber to Glenn Beck: “You Are Doing Great Work”

Well, it’s official: Tea Party boss Glenn Beck and his listeners are the Chamber’s new best friends and contributors. We may not know most of the companies laundering the Chamber’s agenda or whether it has been doing so legally, but we do know that “as a result of” Glenn Beck (and probably his listeners) today, the Chamber’s political action website “received the single highest contribution…for an entire day” that it ever had, and that Beck himself donated $10,000 to the Chamber.   

Later, on Beck’s show, Chamber Executive V.P. Bruce Josten even told Beck, “you are doing great work.”

It seems odd that the Chamber thinks Beck is doing such great work, when more than 200 companies the Chamber purports to represent, including member companies AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon and Capitol One, have boycotted advertising on Beck’s show.  

Back in July, while the Chamber was shilling for Massey and BP and not avoiding pesky questions about its funding, columnist Dana Milbank called the Chamber a “sort of a radicalized corporate Tea Party”  based on its extremist anti-government, pro-corporate agenda. Now that the Chamber’s relationship with Beck is out of the closet, I guess we can take out the “sort of.”