{"id":4856,"date":"2011-05-16T02:50:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2011-05-16T02:50:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T09:50:22","slug":"greenwald-blasts-koch-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/greenwald-blasts-koch-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwald Blasts Koch Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few individuals on the political scene are more vile than the Koch brothers.  If they get their way, the national motto, e pluribus unum<\/em>, will be replaced with, \u201cThings go better with Koch<\/em>.\u201d  Of course that\u2019s a lie, but that\u2019s what the Republican Party, the Koch suckers, want you to believe.  Glen Greenwald deserves intense praise for his new film, exposing the Koch Brothers.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"16Even for the Lincoln Centre it was an unusual show, and an unscheduled one. Several hundred protesters<\/strong> turned up outside the arts complex on Manhattan’s Upper West Side last week for the guerrilla screening of a short film. From a hotel on the other side of the street, a video was projected on to the centre’s walls. The unwitting stars of the films were David and Charles Koch, the reclusive rightwing billionaire brothers whose secretive empire and network of influence and funding is emerging as a liberal rallying cause in America.<\/p>\n

As bemused theatregoers watched the boisterous crowd, the videos depicted facts and figure showing Koch support for Tea Party groups, global warming sceptics and thinktanks seeking to strip away regulations on the environment, cut social security and oppose healthcare reform<\/strong>. On the David H Koch Theatre in the complex \u2013 renamed when one of the brothers donated $100m (\u00a362m) in 2008 \u2013 activists climbed a ladder to post a giant sticker above the sign bearing Koch’s name. "I am the Tea Party’s wallet," it read. When the police vans finally arrived, the activists had gone.<\/p>\n

For Koch Industries, one of the largest private businesses in America, it was another attempt by liberal groups to drag it into the public eye over accusations that it is corrupting US politics in pursuit of its business interests<\/strong>. There have been lengthy magazine articles investigating its activities, growing protests and a legion of bloggers scouring the company’s every move\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Guardian<\/a>><\/p>\n

Click through, because there\u2019s a lot more in the article.<\/font><\/p>\n

Why didn\u2019t I see this on the news?<\/font><\/p>\n

Again, Kudos to Greenwald, and I hope Obama signs that executive order soon.  See today\u2019s fourth article.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few individuals on the political scene are more vile than the Koch brothers.  If they get their way, the national motto, e pluribus unum, will be replaced with, \u201cThings go better with Koch.\u201d  Of course that\u2019s a lie, but that\u2019s what the Republican Party, the Koch suckers, want you to believe.  Glen Greenwald deserves intense […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}