Koch brothers, the new Richard Mellon Scaife.
Posted on 10/26/2010 1:54:42 PM PDT by neverdem
After finishing Monbiot’s piece I felt like the moderator in that scene in Billy Madison - “what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
By George, can't Mr. Moonbat come up with something original? P.S. The Tea Party movement isn't going away any time soon, the toothless snarls and firing blanks notwithstanding.
did you read the comments????? Unbelievable - these people are so brainwashed. Guess that’s what happens when you are willing to be ruled by the ‘elites’ and are still kissing up to royalty.
Well dang! I'm TEA Party and have not got my check yet. I love to stand on the corner waving signs and yelling. It costs me $500 to make a sign and I plan to make 20 of them. Please forward the money in cash so we do not have to report anything. Don't want those liberal sheeple to catch on the octopus network we are building.
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning - George Monbiot - 2007
George Monbiot, author and columnist for the Guardian, and the recipient of a United Nations 500 award for environmental achievement
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Climategate: George Monbiot despairs of the AGW cause – ‘There goes my life’s work’
Sad news: George Monbiot, the high priest of the AGW cult, is feeling frustrated and depressed. He is oppressed by the realisation that, as the politicians phrase it, he is not getting his message across. And this blog, at least in a small way, bears some part of the responsibility. From his pontifical throne in the Vatican of global warming – The Guardian – he has issued an anathema. Quoting from a recent anti-AGW scam posting by me, he observes: “The attack on climate scientists is now widening to an all-out war on science.”
Don’t get carried away, George. It is only an all-out war on bogus science, such as the global warming superstition you champion. The good guys can carry on inventing antibiotics and curing diseases with our whole-hearted support. It is the con men who have taken Al Gore’s shilling that we distrust and despise. Monbiot even has some insight into this. Of the perception of scientists as sinister schemers he concedes: “Sometimes this isn’t far from the truth.”
I do believe Georgie boy is a bit jealous.
Did he research this article from his homeland or did he just look up stuff on the internet from his office here in the states ? Did he attend even 1 Tea Party rally ? I think not !
Bringing up Glenn Beck and Fox answering some of the comments, I’m thinking yes, he’s jealous.
He looks a bit fruity in his pic too.
“It is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen”
“False consciousness” does not exist. Except insofar as it describes various mental states like delusion, denial, or simply being mistaken. But if that’s all it means, we never needed a new word for it. And insofar as it means more than that, it is a bogus academic buzzterm.
did you read the comments????? Unbelievable
I did, about 30 of them. AMAZING. These people have been drinking the Koolaide for DECADES...
I’m TeaParty. I’m also retired on a fixed (soon to be broken) income. I spend my own hard earned money to go to D.C. w/no recompense from the Koch Bros. I am proud to have my son daughterinlaw & grandkids go with me. They don’t get paid either. This moonbat has no clue just like the rest of these socialists. We are ready to dump all of them into the Boston harbor in Nov. 2.
Koch brothers, the new Richard Mellon Scaife.
Obama was talking about "false consciousness" when he made his bigotted remarks about the bitter clingers of America. Biden was making the same assault on the People when he asserted that Obamacare was too complicated to explain to the ignorant masses and that's why they(we) object to it.
If you wonder why the Left is always so arrogant, this is the source of it all--they truly believe they are destined to rule over the rest of us.
Another thing. This taxation mess — Americans have absolutely made up their minds they won't pay more than 20% in taxes. If the government tries to assess more, there are loopholes and dodges. The absolutely maximum we can managed to squeeze from the tax payers is 20%. The government needs to learn how to live on that 20% - PERIOD. If the good Lord can make it on 10%, surely these geniuses who think they are so much smarter should be able to make it work on 20%. Nancy Pelosi says we don't need God anymore — we have the Democrat Party. Well, Ms. Pelosi, make it work on 20% if you're so friggin’ smart.
btt
Charles and David Koch own 84% of Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the United States. It runs oil refineries, coal suppliers, chemical plants and logging firms, and turns over roughly $100bn a year; the brothers are each worth $21bn. The company has had to pay tens of millions of dollars in fines and settlements for oil and chemical spills and other industrial accidents. The Kochs want to pay less tax, keep more profits and be restrained by less regulation. Their challenge has been to persuade the people harmed by this agenda that it's good for them.
OMG! They're so RICH & EVIL
Delusional nonsense. I was a TEA Partier the instant I heard Rick Santelli’s rant and so was my 82 year old mother. We attended the first TEA Party in our town on April 15th, ‘09 which was a 100% grassroots event. There were no sponsors, no outside money and very little “inside” money.
“’False consciousness’ is a Marxist term invented to explain why the proletariat wasn’t rising up against the eeevil bourgoisie and striking off their chains.”
Yeah, it’s just like any number of popular academic concepts, some of them subtle and others less so. Be it Marxist (false consciousness), Hegelian (weltanshuung), Freudian (the unconscious, sublimation), or whatever, the opposition is always a sham. Nothing more than a veil thrown over the naked truth of the id, class domination, the will to power, or whatever.
They can’t simply be right. The opposition must be a lying liar who lies and isn’t welcome in polite company. It amounts to little more than them sticking their fingers in their ears, saying, “La, la, la, I’m not listening to you.”
RE: “Where’s my check? Don’t we get paid for being patriots?”
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Well, I agree with the Koch brothers’ stances and their choices to receive contributions, so that somehow makes me astroturf? I only heard of the Kochs a couple of weeks ago! Been attending tea party events for a year and a half.
Agree with you: Where the heck is my CHECK! Not one dime has come to me — not one sign put in my hand, no free bus rides, meals, tee-shirts, concerts — NOTHING but my desire to GO on my own to where the events take place.
Where are our freebies???? /s
I’ll get my Tea Party Participation check about the same time the RNC reimburses my expenses to go to Tallahassee to protest the algore vote re-recounts.
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