If not she's not being honest. It's that simple. She's trying to divide, not report.
The Rightwing Koch Brothers Fund the DLC
February 09, 2006
Do deep-pocketed "philanthropists" necessarily control the organizations they fund? ...Among these rightwing benefactors are the Koch brothers. But the Kochs have been working both sides of the fence. As Bill Berkowitz writes,
the Koch brothers have also been funding the Democratic Leadership Council.
...This is no less stunning than if Scaife or the Coors family were funding the DLC. So do the Kochs just throw money at the DLC -- as long as the Council supports a free-market" (i.e. unrestricted/unregulated corporate power) agenda that the Kochs generally agree with. Or is it more than just that -- does this really buttress what Greens and other disaffected liberals contend -- that the DNC has just become a party of "Republicrats", thanks especially to the DLC? They would say that corporate backers like the rightwing/libertarian Kochs have co-opted the Democratic establishment -- a hostile takeover of (what was once) the opposition...
http://www.democrats.com/node/77898/25/2010 2:01pm by Joe Sudbay
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One member of the DLC’s executive council is none other than Koch Industries, the privately held, Kansas-based oil company whose namesake family members are avatars of the far right, having helped to found archconservative institutions like the Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy. Not only that, but two Koch executives, Richard Fink and Robert P. Hall III, are listed as members of the board of trustees and the event committee, respectively–meaning that they gave significantly more than $25,000.....
http://americablog.com/2010/08/koch-industries-gave-funding-to-the-dlc-and-served-on-its-executive-council.htmlDLC = Koch Bros?!?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100278867
Maddow is just doing her job.
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