What HBO's 'The Dark Money Game' won't tell you about the left

Journalists should expose bribery when it happens in politics, of course, but documentarian Alex Gibney and HBO proceed as if one side of the democracy is completely corrupt.

All the journalism exposing dark money from George Soros or Reid Hoffman or Arabella Advisors or Act Blue is never going to get a minute on HBO. Ohio’s scandal is presented as a national scandal for the GOP.  But, any local scandal for the Democrats is never national.

Radical documentarian Gibney – dyspeptic enough that he told the Daily Beast in 2013 that Pope Benedict XVI was a "criminal" – made two films under the heading "The Dark Money Case." They debuted this week on HBO. In the two documentaries, he uncorked a large conspiracy theory, that religious conservatives and rapacious corporate capitalists have overthrown democracy since 2010. This conspiracy was realized with the help of those evil conservatives at the Federalist Society.