Maddow Responds To The Kochs: 'It's Our Country Too'

[okaawhatever]

Rachel Maddow not only rebuts the claim the Koch brothers had nothing to do with drug testing in Florida -- an allegation they demanded she retract on the air -- but also reminds them that they have the right to spend as much as they want on politics and she has the right to report it.

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Rachel's retort was sparked by Politico's in-awe article of the upcoming annual meeting of billionaires and donors in Palm Springs:

The shift is best illustrated in the expansion of three pieces of the Koch political network expected to be showcased or represented at the three-day meeting in Palm Springs, whose evolving roles were described to POLITICO by several sources.
Center for Shared Services: a nonprofit recruiter and administrative support team for other Koch-backed groups, which provides assistance with everything from scouting office space to accounting to furniture and security.

Freedom Partners: a nonprofit hub that doled out $236 million in 2012 to an array of conservative nonprofits that is now expanding its own operation so that it can fulfill many of the functions of past grantees.
Aegis Strategic: a political consulting firm started last year by Koch-allied operatives who will recruit, train and support candidates who espouse free-market philosophies like those beloved by the Kochs, and will also work with nonprofit groups in the Koch network, like Freedom Partners, with which it has a contract to provide policy analysis.

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http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/maddow-responds-kochs-its-our-country-too

[cliffordu]

1. And the hits just keep coming.

I am afraid of the vision these two scumsucking cretins have for my country.

They are guilty of sedition, at least.

[okaawhatever]

3. Bloomberg did a great article on all the Koch Bros legal troubles. Since most of the trouble was of

a corporate nature they were mostly fined, but some of their crimes should have landed them in jail. I think if Americans were aware of their stealing oil, selling oil equipment to Iran through a third country to avoid sanctions, and their alleged kidnapping of one of their top managers they would view them in a different light. It's not about a couple of rich guys people don't like because of their money. I don't like them because they're crooks who couldn't get elected so they're trying to subvert democracy to further their father's Birch Society goals.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/02/koch-brothers-firm-hid-subsidiarys-violations-of-criminal-law/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html

[Cleita]

8. As long as these rich guys don't end up in prison, they gladly pay the fines

and keep doing the criminal things they are doing.

[grantcart]

4. Are you licensed to post in GD?

[cliffordu]

5. Just the permit your wife gave me.

[rhett o rick]

2. I worry for Rachel. We need more like her. nm

[bullwinkle428]

6. She was PISSED. Perhaps her best rant since "Journalism is not terrorism".

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/19/1232435/-Rachel-Maddow-on-David-Miranda-and-the-White-House#

[Cleita]

7. I hope she's watching her back and that her fellow journalists

have got her back. I don't trust these guys and they are very powerful. I hope she can keep this up, but safely. I often wonder if the reason Keith Olbermann has essentially been disappeared from commentary is that he was too critical of movers and shakers in both parties.

[PeoViejo]

9. The Truth is Open Source

Free to use by anyone.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

10. Wow, that was awesome.

I have an idea:

Why don't many of us progressives apply to be one of these paid political operatives, er, interns, and subvert their agenda from the inside.

Infiltration and dilution.

[closeupready]

11. Go, Rachel! Woot! K&R