Matthews DESTROYS Americans for Prosperity Leader

[FourScore]

Run time: 10:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmnKJFpOc3s   Posted on YouTube: March 19, 2010 By YouTube Member: terimccarthy Views on YouTube: 12   Posted on DU: March 20, 2010 By DU Member: FourScore Views on DU: 1827

 

[tomm2thumbs]

1. It was a great exchange - and worth watching again - thank for posting! /nt

[Orrex]

2. For 10 minutes and 34 seconds, I forgot he's an idiot

[Jack Rabbit]

3. I loved watching that bastard astroturf lobbyist squirm

And oh boy, was he ever squirming.

[lunasun]

4. they have nothing for the common people is right!

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[TheDebbieDee]

8. +100

Hello and goodbye!

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[Turborama]

12. Defending an AFP shill on DU is exactly what it seems.

And defending said defender puts a huge question mark on your credibility, too.

[TheDebbieDee]

14. It thrills me to no end that I got under your 48-post count skin!

Or are you too much of a punk-a$$ 8itch to put me on ignore? Go back to dispensing Pez instead of slinging your crap! And good-day to you......
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[FourScore]

11. Interesting that my comment got deleted while others remain. Odd.

:hi:

[pezDispenser]

9. Here here

Look I'm all for single payer. But man, the balls on the AFP guy to come on Hardball - get interrupted on every point he was trying to make, keep his composure and deliver his message. Well, we could be served well by men of our beliefs and his courage.

[CTyankee]

17. "courage"? I would call it blind arrogance.

nt

[Turborama]

19. Some background on this "AFP guy" you're defending

Here is a profile of just one of the Koch tentacles: Americans For Prosperity. AFP, the third-largest recipient of Koch foundation largesse, is the brothers' overtly political unit. Essentially, it is a front group for mass-producing front groups. Much like McDonald's churns out Big Mac franchises, AFP can pop out a grassrootsy-looking, cookie-cutter political operation on demand.

It has a $7 million annual budget that supports dozens of GOP operatives and former corporate PR veterans, all standing ready to assemble, fund, staff, and package a hot-to-go front group for any issue that comes up. Its menu includes such garnishes as hoked-up studies, alarmist talking points, deceptive attack ads, divisive hate messages, celebrity and religious endorsers, and a menagerie of media stunts.

AFP was launched by David Koch in 1984 as Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a moniker it used until switching to its present name in 2003. It refuses to disclose its list of donors, but when it was known as CSE, about 70% of the $18 million it spent came from the Koch foundations. There's no reason to think that AFP is any less of a Koch-funded operation today, and David, as one of its top officers, continues to be actively engaged in directing the organization's work.

And what a piece of work it is.

Start with Tim Phillips, brought in to be AFP's president and Koch's point man in 2006. As a longtime Republican campaign director and Washington lobbyist for corporate interests, Phillips earned a reputation as one of the GOP's "Mr. Nasties," in the Karl Rovian mold.

More: http://www.alternet.org/investigations/146094/hightower:_two_right-wing_billionaire_brothers_are_remaking_america_for_their_own_benefit?page=entire

[Umbral]

13. Now you know where Huffington Post gets their headlines. nt

[Turborama]

7. K&R I thought this was good but he could have taken him task about where AFP's funding comes from

The answers are easily accessible to anyone who knows how to use Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=americans+for+prosperity+funding&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

"Grass roots", my ass!

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[mwb970]

15. The guy throwing the money looks like a typical right-wing a$$hole.

So many of these wackos have such a cold, callous attitude toward everyone and everything except themselves. It's sick! Conservatism is a mental illness, and should be classified and treated as such.

[border_town]

16. Good Stuff

I am liking Chris more and more. So if this is a governemnt take over of health care why are the insurance companies stock going up? It is all a bunch a crap.

[Spazito]

18. The asshole is lying about the Canadian woman as well...

She (Shona Holmes) chose to go to the U.S. to make a point, she belongs to a group trying to privatize Canadian healthcare. Her condition was NOT life threatening and her operation was available in Canada, she might have had to wait a bit BECAUSE her condition was not emergent.

She is now, get this, trying to get the government to reimburse her for her costs! She is a real piece of work.

Here's a DU thread about her with some more info:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6097949