{"id":188359,"date":"2010-10-14T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/14\/kochtopus\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:48:00","slug":"kochtopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/14\/kochtopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochtopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 310px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"193\" width=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0JjQxPJOAfg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0JjQxPJOAfg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"193\" width=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Koch brothers, who have been using their Stalin derived fortunes<sup>*<\/sup> to back the teabaggers, have steadfastly denied any involvement in the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/footage-emerges-david-koch-americans-prosp\">let&#8217;s role tape<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/67285\/\">David Koch told <em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/a><em> earlier this year, &#8220;I\u2019ve never been to a tea-party event. No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/oct\/13\/tea-party-billionaire-koch-brothers\"><em>Guardian<\/em> reports that<\/a> footage has emerged showing David Koch at the podium during an AFP  gala  receiving direct and detailed reports from his astroturf AFP army  on  their efforts to organize tea parties around the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that, &#8220;Never been to a tea-party event,&#8221; means getting reports from the people you are bankrolling on stage in right wing speak.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Really, patriarch Fred Koch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koch_Industries\">made his fortune setting up refining for Josef Stalin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Koch brothers, who have been using their Stalin derived fortunes* to back the teabaggers, have steadfastly denied any involvement in the movement. Well, let&#8217;s role tape: David Koch told New York Magazine earlier this year, &#8220;I\u2019ve never been to a tea-party event. No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me.&#8221; But &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,969,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-evil","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}