Case Closed

[babylonsister]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/case-closed-tea-and-koch.html

Case Closed

by digby

Liars:

The billionaire Koch brothers have long claimed that they have no direct connection to the Tea Party, denying that their vast oil wealth is directly funding corporate front groups like Americans For Prosperity (AFP), the key organizers of the fake grassroots Tea Party movement.

David Koch told New York Magazine earlier this year, "I’ve never been to a tea-party event. No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me."

But the Guardian reports that footage has emerged showing David Koch at the podium during an AFP gala receiving direct and detailed reports from his astroturf AFP army on their efforts to organize tea parties around the nation.

Watch the clip from the new documentary (Astro)Turf Wars: How Corporate America Faked a Grassroots Revolution:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x514394

[tavalon]

1. Wow, so, like, he lied

Color me shocked.

[opihimoimoi]

2. KnR #5 off to the greatest page ya go....Bully traits inclu LIE CHEAT STEAL

They are not COUNTRY FIRST people....they are selfish and self centered....they are EVIL with tons of money....

[Egnever]

3. Needs a catchy title

like, obama just ate your babies or something... otherwise it wont get attention here.

[ejpoeta]

4. even if he wasn't there physically that doesn't mean he didn't fund it.

i mean, when someone hires a hitman to kill their wife they usually aren't there when it happens. does it make them any less liable? that's the point, isn't it? to keep your hands clean?

[DCKit]

7. Series!11!!!

Let's see someone funding terrorism use the same excuse and get away with it.

"I just hired the staff and wrote the checks. I had no idea what the money would be used for."

[Hannah Bell]

5. shocked.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. The corporate terrorists are out to destroy democracy in America

Their money is their WMD.

[blondeatlast]

8. Billionaire benefactors; now that's what I call grassrootsy!

Lying billionaire benefactors at that.

k/r

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup:

[laughingliberal]

10. K & R nt

[Blue Owl]

11. "No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me."

Just middleman/meddleman KKKarl Rove.

[drm604]

12. K&R

:kick: