Meet Koch frontman, Nick Gillepsie, Reason magazine honcho

[Syrinx]

He's the eternal teenager, loving "individual freedom," and the right to suck a bone on his lunch hour.

But he's also a middle-aged fan of the eternally juvenile philosophy of Ayn Rand. You'll have to spend a dollar to rip the first red cent from his cold dead hand. Especially if it is for a good cause.

And what should one make for his ever devotion to that most unforgiving "fabric" known as leather?



I've seen him on television, literally hundreds of times. Never without the leather.

Sometimes with leather pants. Once, I think, with a leather hat. But never without at least a leather jacket.

Is he just trying to piss off PETA?

It's weird.

He seems like he might smell a little.

Am I the only one that thinks it is hilarious that he used to give teenagers bad advice on purpose, and blamed it on Alyssa Milano?

I also later worked for the pornographically named teen magazine, Teen Machine, where I interviewed the Coreys: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, and that ilk. At Teen Machine, the most notable thing there was that I ghostwrote an advice column there for Alyssa Milano. And there's probably any number of pregnant teenage mothers who unfortunately followed the bad advice of Alyssa Milano. Who knows actually how much venereal disease got spread as a result of that column?

http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a894.asp

I bet he hangs out with the likes of that Greg guy on FNC. You know that really sleazy seeming guy, with the widow's peak. You know the dude that is even too sleazy for Steve D. to hang out with. The guy that is always talking about committing sex crimes, and killing hobos and houseboys. You know the guy. He said the other day that "I have never worked in any media outlet where extreme drug use was not the norm." While he was on a media outlet know as Uncle Rupert's Fox News.

[Fumesucker]

1. He's known as "The Fonzie of Freedom" on another site I frequent from time to time. n/t

Edited for speling.

[xchrom]

2. i hate that smug bastard. nt

[Syrinx]

3. "suck a bone" means "smoke a joint"

I'm not sure that was clear.

[Drahthaardogs]

4. Last night on Maher, he made a really snide comment to the mayor

who looked liked a WWA wrestler. He invited Nick to go outside. Nick shut his pie hole really fast.

[Syrinx]

5. I wanted the HBO cameras to follow them outside

They could've re-used the footage on the boxing channel. :)

[Drahthaardogs]

7. It reminded me of high school

Where the mouthy little runt with something to prove pushed the big slow go dude just a little too far. Fetterman could have grabbed Gillespie by his legs and used him as a bat if he wanted to. Note to Nick, you should not be a raging smart ass when you weigh less than the Taco Bell Chihuahua. Bad things happen to folks like that.

[rurallib]

9. so this is who that smug asshole in the leather coat was

I wanted to reach through the tv and pop his top too.

[PA Democrat]

10. John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, PA

Good article on Fetterman

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/magazine/13Fetterman-t.html?pagewanted=all

[madrchsod]

6. he`s got "loser" stamped all over him...

[checks-n-balances]

8. Top Googled links & his Wikipedia entry are spun positive

for this Ayn Rand-ite. At least the first 2 pages of results were very favorable towards him - no time to go further.

Thanks for posting something that gives another side to him, and to Maher for exposing how arrogantly he behaves. Who would not have known he was Koch-related unless you posted this - also very timely!

[brentspeak]

11. After all is said and done, Gillespie is just another weasel mouthpiece for Corporate America

When the Senate was about to take up the Disclose Act, which would make require political expenditures to reveal their donors for the sake of simple public transparency, the Koch people had ReasonTV quickly cobble together a slickly-produced video of Gillespie ridiculing the proposed legislation -- Gillespie appearing in his leather jacket, of course, supposedly to appeal to the "cool" and "hip" crowd somewhere out there. One of several propaganda videos praising the Citizens United ruling produced by the Kochs and featuring Gillespie as their "hip" spokesweasel.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. I'm just watching Maher now. That annoying douchebag won't shut the fuck up. I also love

the whole shtick. "Hey man I wear leather and t-shirts. I'm not a republican. See? Don't you get it? I mean leather man and.... a t-shirt."

[L0oniX]

13. Quote: Frank Conniff -"John Boehner didn't return Obama's phone message,

but employees of Koch Brothers are not allowed to take personal calls".

http://www.facebook.com/frankconniff