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Koch Brothers: We're Victimsby Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava at Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald-and-jesse-lava/koch-brothers-were-victim_b_1970823.html
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Here's Charles Koch, lamenting that Obama consultant David Axelrod called out the brothers' massive investment in policies that promote themselves:
When you have Axelrod, one of [Obama's] top campaign officials, saying we are contract killers--I mean, I don't know how somebody in the administration can say that about a private citizen. It's frightening because you don't know what they're going to do. They have tremendous power. They can destroy just about anybody, whether you are totally innocent or not.
And here's David Koch: "[Obama's] criticism can stimulate a lot of anger and dislike toward us. So there's a huge security concern."
And Fink: "We're just besieged day and night with attacks and the more visible we are, and the more we've done, the more attacks we get." Not that he expected anything less; he had warned the brothers from the outset that if they became major political players, "You guys will possibly risk the businesses that you have built and your family legacy, and there's going to be a lot of fallback [sic] from this."
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kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)I hope it's not a subsidiary of Koch.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)RepublicansRZombies
(982 posts)They are the lycra in your spandex
They are the cellulose (wood pulp) in your food.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)cdb
(1,067 posts)Deal with it, you certainly have the means to hire private security. Or maybe you may have considered the possible repercussions beforehand
Zo Zig
(600 posts)Has been played, you two are punks. Welcome to the public square of shame, deal with it.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)I don't know how they stay in business with competition like this from reality.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Like Komen, Chickfilet, Staples, PapaJohns, Applebees, and who knows who else is on that list now - they CHOSE to go political. Never a good idea when you own a brand (and not just an investor).
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)I'm crying a river of tears for you...
You backed the wrong candidate. You are on the wrong side of history. You are what's wrong with America.
Get used to it!!!!
P.S. actually I love the fact you are pissed you spent money, a lot of money and it did NOTHING to affect the election. In fact the knowledge you were trying to buy American democracy may have meant more contributions and votes for the candidates and issues you opposed.
Please come back in 2014 so you can dump more of your ill-gotten money (on the backs of American workers and consumers) on a losing cause.
Republic = loser/back Democrat = winner/forward
Get used to it you sick old white male retards.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Sleep in FEMA trailers.
Fuck 'em.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Even one tiny violin doesn't really adequately express how much I despise these billionaires. If they'd simply put that money towards the poor, the disenfranchised, health care initiatives...
They are disgusting souls. Rot in hell.
janx
(24,128 posts)in the U.S. of A. !
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Just wow.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)asses off to bust Unions. Otherwise, they make themselves a target.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)woot.. woot...
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)You bought it, you own it, fucknuts.
RepublicansRZombies
(982 posts)They introduced oil speculation on the market, then proceeded to make a fortune from it.
Imagine how much this drives up the cost of government, from the post office to the military.
And I don't think their prosperity is under attack as they say.
Why is it that taxes are at their lowest level ever, these people have more money than ever...and yet THEY are still whining?
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)assholes. boo fucking hoo
mick063
(2,424 posts)Don't you understand that?
You wanted to get into the political game and now you are butt hurt because people actively campaign against you and your contributions?
How in the hell did you make all that money? It definitely isn't from common sense. Neither is pouring money down the sinkhole called GOP politics.
What a dumbshit.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)by Fox News, the rest of the mainstream media, the pollsters, and everyone else who had a financial stake in making sure that this election remained a neck-and-neck "horserace" until the very end, when it clearly wasn't the whole time. So yeah, they got screwed in a bad way.
It's hard to feel too sorry for them, though. What is it that they say about a fool and his money?
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)They deserve the uneasiness of sleeping with one eye open.