Koch Bros sneering, arrogant, Federalist Soc/John Bircher-type response...

[Triana]

...to the exposure of their insidious political ties to libertarian/teabagger donor networks:

. . . Forcing private citizens and lawful organizations to disclose what they support and to whom they contribute actually has a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech — a grave concern that was noted in the Federalist papers. . .

THE WHOLE ARROGANT STATEMENT:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-statement-to-the-washington-post-concerning-brothers-ties-to-donor-network/2014/01/05/8c6e5adc-7578-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html


(SOURCE of this graphic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-koch-backed-political-donor-network/2014/01/05/94719296-7661-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_graphic.html)

[freshwest]

1. OFFS!

[Scuba]

2. Those poor Koch's, having their free speech stifled like that. Why they barely have any now.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Their father, Fred Koch was one of the founders of the John Birch Society

nt

[stg81]

5. Rachel should do a show about that next

[Triana]

6. I emailed her about it a while back. Asked her to feature Claire Conner & her book

"Wrapped in the Flag" about how today's TP is just JBS reincarnated -- and about how Poppy Koch was one of the founding members of JBS.

http://claireconner.com/

AFAIK, Rachel never has had her on. I wish she would!

[Gman]

4. Pretty rambling statement