“These people were very, very extreme...and I think very dangerous.”

[tpsbmam]

David Koch describing liberals in an interview in the April 4 edition of The Weekly Standard. The article is entitled,The Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics: The left’s obsession with the Koch brothers

I'll snip a few paragraphs -- you really need to read the whole thing.

Discussion of the guy who impersonated him on the call to Walker:

Yet here were the media reporting that he and his brother Charles were behind Walker’s push against public employees. Anger washed over David like a red tide. He’d been victimized by some punk with a political agenda. “It’s really identity theft,” he told me a month later, during an interview at Koch Industries’ headquarters. “And I think it’s extremely dishonest to misrepresent yourself. I think there’s a question of integrity. And the person who would do that has got to be an incredibly dishonest person.” Up until Walker’s showdown with the Democratic state senators, Koch had never seen a photograph of the governor. He didn’t know him at all. But now the protesters occupying the Wisconsin state capitol were calling Walker a “Koch Whore.”

The Kochs are innocent targets of the loony left:

For progressives confused at the heated opposition to their do-gooder agenda, the Kochs became convenient scapegoats. Invoking their name was a way to write off opposition to Obama as the false consciousness of racist rubes stoked by greedy businessmen. In the liberal imagination the Kochs ascended from obscurity to infamy in record time. Starting in the spring of 2009, whenever you turned on MSNBC or clicked on the Huffington Post you’d see the Kochs described in terms more applicable to Lex Luthor and General Zod.

WE'RE VICTIMS, I TELL YA, VICTIMS!

Koch Industries has a target on its gargantuan back. The brothers are the latest victims of the left’s lean, mean cyber-vilification machine. Cohlmia spends her time trying to debunk the falsehoods being spread about her bosses and her company. It may be a losing battle. There’s just too much junk. And every so often Cohlmia has to stop and wonder: How on earth did it come to this?

Go read the rest for yourselves, you dangerous, misguided commies!

[hlthe2b]

1. Why is everything hyperlinked? (hard to read)

[tpsbmam]

2. I corrected it -- forgot the close bracket. nt

[wtbymark]

3. The weakly Standard - nuff said

poor wittle billionairs

[tpsbmam]

4. You have no interest in what the Kochs say about the left? No interest in how

they're representing us? It sure as hell interests me. I also pay attention to what Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, teabaggers and a shit load of others on the right say. Avoiding all of it isn't a good policy IMO.

[DFab420]

5. Tried reading it..

Made it halfway through before feeling ill

I wouldn't even line my cat box with this rag of a magazine haha.

[99th_Monkey]

6. "the left’s lean, mean cyber-vilification machine" oooo.. Bad-ass .. they're talking about DU? nt

[arikara]

7. Anger washed over David like a red tide.

Hilarious! it reads like a Harlequin romance.

[unblock]

8. "... koch had never seen a photograph of the governor..."

but note he's not denying having met him, bribed him, or slept with him and his sheep.

nope. he's only denying having seen a photograph, and that is one thing we have to admit we cannot prove.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Won't someone think of the poor downtrodden billionaires?

[KurtNYC]

10. Identity theft -- coming form guys who call their astroturf organizations

"Americans for Prosperity" and similar things.

It would be like us starting a group called "Billionaires Against Working Families."