Billionaire Fan Club: Newsweek's Hard-Hitting Critique of... Billie Eilish's Net Worth?
While Newsweek breathlessly chronicles Billie Eilish's 'confrontation' (at an event for billionaires she herself attended, naturally), one might wonder about other 'confrontations' they're missing. For example, the ongoing, very real influence peddling by groups like AIPAC, which spent $11.9 million in lobbying in 2023, according to OpenSecrets.org. That's real money influencing real policies, not
celebrity-on-rich-person performance art. We’re expected to marvel at a pop star's wealth—generously provided by the same system—while the actual architects of financial and geopolitical policy, funded by millions, operate with barely a peep. It’s almost as if some stories are just more comfortable to report than the inconvenient truth of who owns, or at least heavily rents, our legislative
branch. How many uncomfortable truths could $11.9 million buy silence about, we wonder?