The Left's Hypocrisy on 'Dark Money'

Sen. Whitehouse, the charade is wearing thin.

For one senator, the Democrats’ leading hawk for donor disclosure, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett were an excuse to subject the nation to a bizarre, nearly half-hour rant about right-wing “dark money.”

“Something is not right around the [Supreme] Court,” scolded Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), “and dark money has a lot to do with it.”

Critics likened his cryptic charts—purportedly revealing the conservative puppet-mastery behind Barrett’s nomination—to a Glenn Beck chalkboard routine and A Beautiful Mind. Others called him a “loon.”