Oh boy, “Obsession”, I’d forgotten about that. One of those came into the office via a volunteer, and I did some quick googling at the time, but I didn’t spend much time on the funding. There’s no real value, politically, in differentiating between rich shadowy wingnuts; they all have the same base ideology, the same preference for spending money to keep money rather than spending money to make money, the same lusts.
What was more interesting to me was the list of newspapers it was bundled in, which was printed right on the packaging. A few of the big papers that often get delivered outside of their base metros, and then a handful of papers from Florida, and apparently every paper published in the US that contained the word “Jewish” in the name.
Sure most of them were basically untargeted, and ended up in offices or with moderate suburbanites; but the targeting that was done was so stupid I stopped worrying about it. If they’d gone for the Catholics or the Lutherans, maybe they could have shaken some people up, maybe; but getting Jewish voters to support guys who think that wealth redistribution is an affront to God is going to take a lot more than a DVD.