Joy Reid filled in for Ed Schultz on Thursday's The Ed Show and welcomed Media Matters' Eric Boehlert to talk about the GOP's supposed "War on the Poor."

But what started as a discussion about Republican opposition to extending unemployment benefits took a turn for the bizarre when Boehlert - whose employer has a documented history of coordinating directly with the Obama White House on messaging - accused Republicans of doing the exact same thing.

We see coordination again between the Republican Party and the right wing noise machine and their target this time of year is amazingly is giving and charity.

By "giving and charity," of course, Boehlert means coercive taxation and government redistribution.

Reid, for her part, ads to the absurdity by suggesting to the Media Matters operative that Democrats don't coordinate on messaging.

And it’s interesting because Democrats normally don’t coordinate very much messaging. Right? It’s the idea of like herding cats it’s like trying to get the democrats together. But there is actually an attempt right now particularly taking advantage of the holiday season to message against this idea of not renewing unemployment benefits.

Finally, Reid asks Boehlert if a new ad blaming the so-called "1%" for America's economic woes will get any air time. Boehlert responded that the hope is the ad will go "viral" because,

...Democrats don't have the money you know they don't have the Koch brothers and they can't really gin up the heat like this... 

Of course, Boehlert's own organization has an estimated budget of over $10 million a year made up of donations from some of the richest people in the world. The list of famous millionaires and billionaires, from tycoons like George Soros and Warren Buffet to entertainers like Barbara Streisand and George Clooney, is as endless as the millions Obama rakes in anytime he comes to Hollywood to visit DreamWorks' CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Haim Saban (one of the richest men in America), and Magic Johnson.

The "1%" the left loves to make out to be rich white Republicans is actually rife with Democrats donating big money to their fellow Democrats.