Moyers & Company. Dark Money in Politics

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Let's face it," the founder of a super PAC recently told Mother Jones magazine, "Politics in this country is coin-operated." True enough, as evidenced by the billions projected to be spent in the 2012 elections - untold amounts of it unleashed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. But even with all that money being cashed in, the check-writers remain largely hidden, including those who helped Scott Walker out-fundraise his Democratic challenger to win 2012's recall election in Wisconsin. In this edition of Moyers and Company, Bill Moyers talks with Mother Jones editors Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein, who throw light on what they call "dark money," the cash that allows the rich to influence our political freedoms. Moyers also talks with historian Thomas Frank (What's the Matter with Kansas? and Pity the Billionaire), about the power of concentrated money to subvert democracy.