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The Truly Daffy Demonization of the Brothers Koch
Ingram's Magazine ^ | October, 2014 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 10/29/2014 8:34:35 AM PDT by centurion316

As Wichita’s Koch family has learned the hard way, the surest way to make mortal enemies in contemporary America is to build a hugely successful business, stick to your principles, and care about the future of your country.

A bantam-weight among those enemies is The Kansas City Star. Not above the occasional rabbit punch, Star editors jabbed away with a recent story headlined, “Conservative Koch group launches TV ad attacking Orman in Kansas Senate race.”

Never mind that the Kochs are libertarians, not conservatives. What intrigues about the story is that hundreds of groups run ads every campaign season. To single out just one sponsor by name when that sponsor is running perfectly legal ads in its own state suggests something deeper than a bias. It suggests a disease, specifically KDS—Koch Derangement Syndrome.

Among those afflicted is self-styled environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The day before The Star article—a coincidence?—he, too, singled out the Kochs, this time for questioning the agenda of that day’s million-madman climate march in New York. “They are enjoying making themselves billionaire by impoverishing the rest of us,” ranted Kennedy. “Do I think the Koch brothers should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely.”

One can forgive this aging dilettante for failing to understand free enterprise. His buccaneer grandfather swindled his billions. But RFK 2.0 should understand the family history well enough to know that granddad bought the presidency for Uncle Jack. His wish to imprison a couple of honest billionaires for their above-board involvement in politics suggests that KDS, like syphilis, rots the brain.

A recent biography about the Koch dynasty, Daniel Schulman’s Sons of Wichita, makes some sense of the derangement. Schulman, who writes for the leftist Mother Jones, had to disappoint KDS sufferers with this surprisingly fair-minded book.

(Excerpt) Read more at ingrams.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; kochbrothers; obama
For the organized criminal enterprise in the White House to succeed, they must invent demons for the people to revile and hate, otherwise attention will turn to their incompetence and criminal behavior. The Koch Brothers are their prime target, chosen no doubt because almost every other billionaire in this country is a flaming liberal fully in support of Obama and the Democrat Party.
1 posted on 10/29/2014 8:34:36 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

This is what I never understand. Why are the Koch brothers evil, but someone like George Soros is ok??

If liberals are to be intellectually honest, about their concerns about big money in politics and buying elections and all that, then they have to condemn the likes of George Soros who pour so much money into politics in support of liberals.

Or is the answer that liberals are not intellectually honest,and count on low information type voters to never ask these types of questions???


2 posted on 10/29/2014 8:38:22 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: centurion316
It suggests a disease, specifically KDS—Koch Derangement Syndrome.

They have a test for that now:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3219636/posts

3 posted on 10/29/2014 8:38:28 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village.)
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To: centurion316

The Koch Bros give $100 MM to a hospital wing. Tom Snyder or whomever he is gives $100 MM for global warming mitigation. Man, are they evil!


4 posted on 10/29/2014 8:39:52 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: centurion316

Just typical democrat hypocrisy.

In Michigan auto company heiress and part III of the Dingell dynasty is running against republican UAW factory worker Terry Bowman. The left claims Bowman is a big party GOP pawn and Dingell just cares about the little people.

You can’t fix that kind of stupid.


5 posted on 10/29/2014 8:40:42 AM PDT by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: centurion316

It’s weird, because I thought George Soros controlled everything ala Wizard of Oz.

This stuff is just so much idiocy.

We have a 17 trillion dollar and very diversified economy.

How much of that can they possibly influence and census of stakeholders, as well customers?


6 posted on 10/29/2014 8:40:56 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: centurion316
they must invent demons for the people to revile and hate

Exactly right. Look back over the years:

LBJ (yes he was a Democrat, but hated by the far left who is now in power)
Nixon
Reagan
Dan Quayle
George Bush
Cheney
Sarah Palin
Koch Brothers

All of the above took their turns at the liberal whipping post. The years covered are virtually continuous, and often overlapping.

7 posted on 10/29/2014 8:44:16 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village.)
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To: centurion316
“They are enjoying making themselves billionaire by impoverishing the rest of us,” ranted Kennedy. “Do I think the Koch brothers should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely.” [...] His wish to imprison a couple of honest billionaires for their above-board involvement in politics suggests that KDS, like syphilis, rots the brain.

The Kennedys are well acquainted with both ailments.

8 posted on 10/29/2014 8:49:41 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Communist tactic of always keeping an enemy handy to keep anger focused elsewhere.


9 posted on 10/29/2014 9:00:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: centurion316

KS newspapers hate the Koch brothers and Americans For Prosperity, and demonize them constantly. They love to print letters from leftists blaming the Koch brothers for everything from global warming to the price of hamburger. Some of these letters are amusing, but some would worry a psychiatrist.


10 posted on 10/29/2014 9:49:44 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: centurion316

“They are enjoying making themselves billionaire by impoverishing the rest of us,”

Says the trust fund baby who hasn’t produced anything in his life.


11 posted on 10/29/2014 9:51:10 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Michael.SF.

The dem political strategy is very simple:

Evil, stupid, or weird.

Lets look at last year’s GOP field:

Herman Cain - evil: sexual harassment

Michelle Bachman - stupid, because...well because the media said she was

Rick Santorum - weird: too religious

And you can take just about any prominent GOP candidate, and this applies.


12 posted on 10/29/2014 10:02:23 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew

The trust fund that RFK Jr. lives off of was made by grandpa Joe running booze during Prohibition. Talk about ill gotten gains.

This Koch brother stuff is getting out of hand, every add on TV mentions them as Satan’s sons. The Left has lost their minds.


13 posted on 10/29/2014 10:04:44 AM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: Lets Roll NOW

Could the average leftist:

- Recognize a Koch Brother in a photo line-up
- Name a Koch Brother by first name
- Identify what state the Kochs do business in
- State what business sector the Kochs are in

Most couldn’t.

They don’t even know the who/what/when/why/where they should hate them....they just know they are supposed to hate them.


14 posted on 10/29/2014 10:08:48 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: centurion316

I’ve always thought that the Kochs should expand their businesses to include the media, especially McClatchy—(which owns the KC Star)as kind of a “loss leader” business.

Lew


15 posted on 10/29/2014 11:02:40 AM PDT by laterldf
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To: Dilbert San Diego

(Why are the Koch brothers evil, but someone like George Soros is ok??

If liberals are to be intellectually honest...)

What I discovered after debating liberals is that many of them are not intellectually honest, and they KNOW it! They are such partisans that just like Muslims, they feel it’s ok to lie as long as it’s for the cause. The result is they don’t feel one least bit bad about their intellectual dishonesty.


16 posted on 10/29/2014 7:46:12 PM PDT by winner3000
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