Dennis Prager Show - What Does 'Dark Money' Mean?
Aired: 2024-04-22
Duration: 01:18


=== Dark Money Debate (01:18) ===

[00:00:00]  What does dark money mean?
[00:00:02]  It was invented about 10 years ago to describe 501c4 nonprofits.
[00:00:08]  Those are the political nonprofits like National Rifle Association, League of Conservation Voters.
[00:00:13]  Now it kind of means anything the left doesn't like.
[00:00:16]  It especially means support for speech that the left wants to silence, right?
[00:00:22]  I say, ooh, you're supported by dark money, therefore we don't have to listen to you.
[00:00:27]  So their examples of our dark money would be what?
[00:00:33]  Well, you know, court battles, this comes up a lot in battles over the Supreme Court.
[00:00:38]  So both sides obviously support and oppose nominees to the court and make arguments about what the job of a judge is.
[00:00:46]  But the conservative side gets reported on massively.
[00:00:51]  Not so much Arabella, which is funding, demand justice and fix the court.
[00:00:56]  Two of the biggest groups on the other side.
[00:00:58]  Who are some of our biggest donors?
[00:01:03]  Well, in his day, Sheldon Adelson, of course, was a famous big donor for us, now gone to his reward.
[00:01:09]  The Koch brothers are the boogeymen for the left, although, of course, they're not well aligned with the Republican Party or Donald Trump, really.