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Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire [Rolling Stone Magazine Hit Piece]
Rolling Stone ^ | 10/04/2014 | Tim Dickinson

Posted on 10/04/2014 7:47:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

“Can you cite me a few sources rebutting this please?”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/koch-industries-responds-to-rolling-stone-and-we-answer-back-20140929


21 posted on 10/04/2014 8:12:38 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rktman
Well with statements like the following:

"But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money."

And this

"The Kochs are our homegrown oligarchs; they've cornered the market on Republican politics and are nakedly attempting to buy Congress and the White House. Their political network helped finance the Tea Party and powers today's GOP.

You would think that they would be embarrassed not even try to hide what they are attempting to do. It really make me mad that they think their readership (I'm not one BTW) are just fools. Well maybe they are I guess.

22 posted on 10/04/2014 8:15:10 AM PDT by WHBates
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, first, the Koch Brothers are social liberals, so their intended influence isn’t all that conservative.

And, to start with:

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/126316-whenever-democrat-complains-koch-brothers-show-chart-progressive-donations/


23 posted on 10/04/2014 8:16:32 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I tried to read a few paragraphs of this article and gave up as it became clear the writer had not an ounce of credibility. He hates SUCCESS and loves GOVERNMENT........end of story!


24 posted on 10/04/2014 8:19:48 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do liberals have any idea who the Koch brothers are? Do they have any idea what companies they own, what industries they are in? Do they have any idea of the economic impacts of their companies? Do they have any idea how many people work for companies run by the Koch brothers? And do they really know the politics of the Koch brothers?

And to be intellectually honest, how can they complain about perceived conservative political activism, when people such as George Soros are heavily involved on the liberal side? Or do liberals believe that only liberals have the right to be politically active with big dollars????


25 posted on 10/04/2014 8:22:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: SeekAndFind

http://www.kochfacts.com/kf/response-to-rolling-stone-story/


26 posted on 10/04/2014 8:23:16 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: SeekAndFind

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/09/on-the-cover-of-the-rolling-stone.php

((I am having a hard time finding the article. I don’t know why, I remember it on FR from about a week or so ago. Unless it was pulled for some reason.))

The magazine article accuses the Koch brothers of holding oil in ships off-shore to raise oil prices. It is absurd to try and make a scandal where one does not exist. It accuses them of being speculators, but they buy and sell real oil.


27 posted on 10/04/2014 8:27:21 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind

And they’ve likely never heard of George Soros. The duplicity is staggering.


28 posted on 10/04/2014 8:28:15 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Ha! Rolling Stone magazine. Still only relevant in keepin the bong water off of the coffee table.


29 posted on 10/04/2014 8:28:21 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: cicero2k

Hilariously wrong one-sided article

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/09/on-the-cover-of-the-rolling-stone.php


30 posted on 10/04/2014 8:28:40 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind
When can I expect their expose on soros or good old armand hammer&sicle or any of the wealthier socialists funding the downfall of America?
31 posted on 10/04/2014 8:29:45 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: catnipman

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/09/on-the-cover-of-the-rolling-stone.php


32 posted on 10/04/2014 8:30:22 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Rolling Stone: America should replace capitalism with socialism

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3108395/posts

....

Isn’t RS a capitalist venture??


33 posted on 10/04/2014 8:31:21 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Spok

I’m waiting for the RS expose of Democracy Alliance, which is actually a secretive group of millionaires and billionaires meeting to try to buy the American government.


34 posted on 10/04/2014 8:32:17 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrat operatives with bylines.


35 posted on 10/04/2014 8:38:40 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: a fool in paradise

Remember when they posted the enhanced picture of Al Gore with the sock stuck in his underwear?

I guess they figured they could get more homos and women to vote for him if they thought he had a large package.


36 posted on 10/04/2014 8:54:02 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: GeronL
Isn’t RS a capitalist venture??

Their readers are all commies. They are just providing them with a product that they desire.

37 posted on 10/04/2014 8:55:34 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: P-Marlowe

provide them all with plane tickets to North Korea... one way


38 posted on 10/04/2014 8:59:11 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind

Political activity by non-Democrats is illegal, don’t you know?


39 posted on 10/04/2014 9:05:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

A Rolling Stone gathers few readers.


40 posted on 10/04/2014 9:14:02 AM PDT by windsorknot
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