From page one of the lib playbook: When your position is indefensible, attack the people who are attacking your position.
When Bill Clinton could no longer lie his way out of the Lewinsky affair (due to some inconvenient DNA on a convenient blue dress) his fallback option was to tar and feather Ken Starr, the special prosecutor who was appointed to investigate.
And, in today's world, the Koch Brothers, who are guilty of creating thousands of jobs and donating millions to charity, have become the favorite whipping boys for these attacks, followed by the Tea Party, FOX News, and perennial frontrunner Rush Limbaugh. The tactic has gotten really old, but the low-info democrat voters eat it up.
The party with the biggest megaphone gets to define whose money is pure and whose is contaminated.
Joe Kennedy==Good- The media was bought and they stayed bought
W. Clement Stone-Bad. He gave a lot of money to Nixon
Richard Mellon Scaife- Very bad. He not only gave a million dollars to Nixon, but helped found or fund most of America”s
Conservative Think Tanks.
George Soros-Good. Everything left
Both parties have them, the main difference is that the free press is only free to the Democrats.