Wall Street Journal Honcho Shills for Secret Worker 'Education' Program Linked to Koch Group

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151182/wall_street_journal_honcho_shills_for_secret_worker_%27education%27_program_linked_to_koch_group/

During the 2010 election campaign, WSJ editorial board member Stephen Moore carried the Koch agenda to Wisconsin workers -- in workplace seminars called by their bosses.

In a darkened hotel ballroom in Pittsburgh, a middle-aged man with a boyish affect stands before the enthusiastic, if graying, activists of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, gathered in August 2009 for its annual RightOnline conference.

"How many people here read the Wall Street Journal editorial page?" asks Stephen Moore, who sits on the paper's editorial board. The crowd responds enthusiastically. "What would we do," he continues, "without the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, right? And Americans for Prosperity?"

As the nation's largest-circulation newspaper and the paper of record for the nation's financial sector, the Wall Street Journal occupies a unique place amid the panoply of American news sources, and not only for its influence on the nation's economy. The paper is matched only by Fox News in its unabashed alliance with political advocacy organizations associated with Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers and noted conservative funders who run Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held corporation in the United States.

More at the link --

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I wonder what the LARGEST privately held corporation in the United States is?.

[IScreamSundays]

2. Cargill

Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Cargill is America's largest privately-held company. With 124,000 employees in 60 countries, Cargill sells food, agricultural and risk-management products and services. Cargill produces and distributes crop nutrients and feed ingredients to farmers, livestock producers and animal feeders. The company also processes grain, oilseeds and other agricultural commodities. Members of the Cargill and MacMillan families jointly own common equity for the company. Warren R. Staley, Cargill's chairman and chief executive officer, is the third non-family chief executive in the company's 140-year history.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Interesting that it only has 124 K employees.

There are law firms with more than that.
Must do a huge volume of contracting for labor and goods.

and what a combo of products:
food
agriculture
and
risk management??????

[IScreamSundays]

3. double post

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Guess who wrote for the Wall Street journal today

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World Nut Daily's ............... CHUCK NORRIS
it was an article on Tort reform.

[Donnachaidh]

6. WTF would Chuck (backhair man) Norris know about Tort Reform?

That's a piece that should have been in Idiocracy....

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. That showed me how far the WSJ has fallen

They always were right wing but at times did good news reporting
I barely click on their stuff these day

I'm not even gonna link the Norris editorial.

[DBoon]

7. you mean THAT chuck norris?

http://www.thechucknorrisfacts.com/

THE TOP TEN CHUCK NORRIS FACTS:
01
Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
02
Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
03
Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.
04
If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
05
Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.
06
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
07
Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck Norris met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.
08
Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life there.
09
They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody.
10
A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris' shoe. Chuck replied, "Don't you know who I am? I'm Chuck Norris!" The mere mention of his name cured this man blindness. Sadly the first, last, and only thing this man ever saw, was a fatal roundhouse delivered by Chuck Norris.