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- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:34:18 -0500 (EST)
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Fox News And the Phony Koch Brothers Defense
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Fox News And the Phony Koch Brothers Defense
Eric Boehlert.
Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America
Posted: 02/15/2012 2:20 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/
fox-news-and-the-phony-ko_b_1279292.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/73gs79m
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Touching down their private jets at the Palm Springs Airport late last
month, and convening at a nearby golf resort in Indian Wells, California,
for a secretive retreat, wealthy conservative donors met again under the
aegis of David and Charles Koch to plot the best way to pool their
fortunes and defeat President Obama in November.
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The high-priced Koch confabs have become a biannual ritual among Obama's
super-rich foes. Operating in a post-Citizens United environment where
there is no limit on how much money billionaires and their anonymous
friends can spend financing negative campaign ads, the high-priced
activists have signed up for the Koch War on Obama.
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The battle is not a secret. The New Yorker spelled it out right in the
headline of a 2010 profile, noting how the brothers were "waging a war
against Obama." And a very expensive war it is. As Charles Lewis, founder
of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, told The
New Yorker, "The Kochs are on a whole different level. There's no one else
who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them
apart."
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Along with the entire Fox News enterprise, the Koch brothers became
integral parts of the permanent conservative campaign to delegitimize
Obama right from the inception of his presidency and to mercilessly
demonize him as an enemy of liberty. (The wealthy duo bankrolled the
"grassroots" Tea Party movement.)
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In other words, the Kochs are players. They are very big players who are
in the public arena and have committed to raising another $100-200 million
before Election Day to defeat Obama.
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But Fox News has a message for anyone who dares question the Koch brother:
Back off!
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Fox doesn't think it's fair to talk about the Kochs and their campaign to
defeat Obama, let alone criticize it. In fact, Fox News has been breaking
out the smelling salts recently because some Democrats, and even members
of the administration, have had the audacity to push back against the
Kochs and their massive get-Obama crusade.
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Fox News will not stand idly by and witness that kind of bullying.
Instead, the channel's talkers have been loudly braying about how the
Kochs are merely "law-abiding" "private citizens" and ought to be left
alone. Fox News' hand-wringing pundits fall to pieces when faced with the
plight of the poor Koch bothers who are being "demonized" and silenced
while Obama slots them onto a Nixonian "enemies list".
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Give me a break.
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Once again, conservatives love a political brawl. They just don't like it
when the other guys hit back.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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