(Astro)Turf Wars: How Corporate America Is Faking A Grassroots Revolution (Trailer & TYT Interview)

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Run time: 02:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8k66kB4Zn8   Posted on YouTube: October 13, 2010 By YouTube Member: tarot4games Views on YouTube: 31   Posted on DU: October 15, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1275

 
The recent Guardian article on this (includes another clip)....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/13/tea-party-billionaire-koch-brothers">Tea Party movement: Billionaire Koch brothers who helped it grow

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 18.21 BST

It likes to present itself as a grassroots insurgency made up of hundreds of local groups intent on toppling the Washington elite.

But the Tea Party movement, which is threatening to cause an upset in next month's midterm elections, would not be where it is today without the backing of that most traditional of US political supporters – Big Oil.

The billionaire brothers who own Koch Industries, a private company with 70,000 employees and annual revenues of $100bn (£62bn), used to joke that they controlled the biggest company nobody had ever heard of.

Not any more. After decades during which their fortune grew exponentially and they channelled millions of dollars to rightwing causes, Charles and David Koch are finally getting noticed for their part in the extraordinary growth of the Tea Party movement.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/13/tea-party-billionaire-koch-brothers

More info on the movie: http://astroturfwars.com/

Cenk's interview with the film-maker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv99k7MPoXo

Homepage of The Guardian's Tea Party exposé: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/inside-the-tea-party

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1. Keith Olbermann & Matt Taibbi discussed this earlier (link)

Here (MSNBC have early computer generated transcripts now, too): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/#39679164

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2. 'He's worse than Hitler'??? Wow. These people are dangerous.

I hope the exposure will wake some of these idiots to the fact that they are being used.

The costumes, the rhetoric. It must cost a lot to stage this kind of show.

We need campaign finance reform but we won't get it because I guess they pay off Congress also. The only recourse left to the American people is the courts.