Tea Party movement: Billionaire Koch brothers who helped it grow (Tea Party = Big Oil)

guardian.co.uk ^ | Oct. 13, 2010 | Suzanne Goldenberg

[PROCON]

Industrialists who own private company with annual revenues of £62bn have channelled millions of dollars to rightwing causes 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.

[PROCON]

Obama's election, and the prospect that the new president would reverse nearly two decades of reduced government oversight of industry, put the Kochs and their footsoldiers in Americans for Prosperity on high alert.

Thus the birth of the Tea Party!

These folks have no idea what's going to happen in 19 days!

[Right Cal Gal]

I see that al-Guardian is still hitting 0-1000 in the Truth Department.

[mdittmar]

Damn it,I got sucked in by big oil again!

[cripplecreek]

Where’s my check?

[4Speed]

As the lads say in England, Rubbish.

[Right Cal Gal]

Notice, if you will, that this dishonest “reporter” has not enabled comments as far as I can see. Of course not - she’d have thousands of TEA Party people asking her just HOW we are supposedly funded.

Someone get this article to Levin - he’ll have a field day with it. Maybe he can get this lying liar who lies on his show and ask her to back up her silly claims.

[vpintheak]

I now know why my in-laws think these guys are evil incarnate. I never really heard of them before, but yet there there were planning my every move! Bwa-ha-ha!!!!!

[WAW]

Ok...If I am big oil then someone is way behind on their royalty checks...

What a crock of $h!t...

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Libs just upset that George Soros isn’t giving to the Dems and Liberal RINOs this election year

[LibFreeOrDie]

The Guardian could have saved themselves a reporter’s salary by just doing a copy-’n-paste of the New Yorker article from August:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

[namvolunteer]

The Guardian is the Communist newspaper.

[Pontiac]

Well we have to get the money somewhere.

At least we aren’t getting our money from the man who broke the British Pound.

[EGPWS]

One Koch subsidiary has pumped $1m into the campaign to repeal California's global warming law, according to state records.

(GASP!)that eviiil, EVIIIL person! /s

[denydenydeny]

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.

*cue dramatic sting*....Dun Dun DUNNNNN!!!

[Repeal The 17th]

Charles Koch is my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.
I wish everyone in business and politics were just like him.

[EGPWS]

"This is a world of shadows," said Taki Oldham, an Australian documentary maker who spent months following Tea Party activists. "In my mind, without a doubt nobody has had more influence on the anti-Obama campaign than the Koch-funded groups."

ROTFLMAO!!!

I thinks they are skeeerd!

Evil tea parties, they should be outlawed.

Coffee parties are the norm. /s

[DTogo]

Big Oil... as opposed to Big Union, Big Tree-Hugger, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism, Big Feminism, Big Socialist, Big Jihad??

[firebasecody]

I am still waiting for my Illuminati checks too.

[PROCON]

Damn it,I got sucked in by big oil again!

ROFLOL!!!

[EGPWS]

The Kochs' involvement in anti-government causes goes back to their father, who was a founding member of the virulently anti-communist John Birch Society.

I'm getting to like these Koch guy's the more I read about them!