Media Matters' VP & Think Progress' Editor In Chief Expose Koch Brothers' Spokesmouth's Real Agenda

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Run time: 24:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeLgGNTZR3s   Posted on YouTube: August 30, 2010 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 2371   Posted on DU: August 31, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 983

 
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Tens of thousands of people have attended a controversial rally in Washington DC organised by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. Is US history witnessing a new radical movement that could steer the country in a different direction? Or is this simply a passing trend?

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Towards the end (in fact quite a lot during the whole exchange, but particularly towards the end), both Ari Rabin-Havt (Media Matters' Vice President for Research and Communications) and Faiz Shakir (Editor in Chief of Think Progress & Vice President of the Center for American Progress) take on Phil Kerpen (Vice President of Koch Industries' "Americans for Prosperity") for lying to the American public and try to expose what Americans for Prosperity's real agenda is.

BTW it was Koch Industries' spokesmouth Phil Kerpen who was behind the witch hunt against Van Jones...

I talked about him here in my DK diary back in Sept last year: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/9/779019/-Big-Oil-Lobbyist-Was-Behind-the-Van-Jones-Witch-Hunt">"Big Oil" Lobbyist Was Behind the Van Jones Witch Hunt

And in this DU OP I posted at the same time: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8632338">OK, I've found out that it was a "big oil" lobbyist behind the Van Jones smear campaign

If you listen to Kerpen you will hear his talking points (especially the ones about Soros and the Tides Foundation) are actually exactly what Glenn Beck rants on about. This guy and the hardcore Libertarian/Multibillionaire Corporation owning brothers he represents are actually Glenn Beck's speech writers and researchers.

Here's SourceWatch on AFP: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity

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1. kick for later. eom

[BREMPRO]

2. great expose' The Koch bros. oil interests are the main drivers of AFP

and AFP uses Beck and the tea party to further their libertarian and anti-green agenda.

Great article on the Koch family in the New Yorker this month. They are hard core Libertarians- but not for ideological reasons, only to support their financial bottom line at the expense of others and the environment. They want to be free from regulation so they can pollute with impunity and are fighting the Green revolution to preserve the unsustainable status quo fossil fuel economy to significant effect. Despite their philanthropic work for the arts, they represent the worst examples of toxic American corporate avarice and lack of social responsibility.

I hope this story goes viral and even some ( I know- unlikely) tea partiers realize they are being manipulated and used as political pawns- just like evangelicals, pro-lifers, and anti-gay marriage advocates were in corporate games of power in past election cycles.

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3. # 6 n/t

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4. kick/rec

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5. K & R

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6. k&r eom