Herman Cain: 'I Am the Koch Brothers' Brother From Another Mother!'

[flpoljunkie]

Slate's Dave Weigel is there at the Koch Brothers gathering in D.C. and this is his report.

Herman Cain: "I Am the Koch Brothers' Brother From Another Mother!"

By David Weigel
Posted Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at 2:41 PM ET

Herman Cain finished off his week from hell with a speech to the group that helped make him a politician: Americans for Prosperity. He took the stage shortly after Mitt Romney, and the difference between the two mens' receptions was impossible to miss. The ostensible GOP frontrunner, the guy leading on inTrade, got around one third of the audience to stand up for him. Cain entered to sustained, booming applause, everyone jumping off their chairs.

David Koch was in the front row. Art Pope, another AFP macher and target of stories about his wealth and influence, was sitting in the same section. There was an opportunity here to smack right back at all the reporters writing stories about how Cain was "connected" to Koch. Cain took it. He reminded the crowd about a New York Times story from last night. That piece had tied together Cain, an AFP speaker, and his campaign chief Mark Block, a former AFP organizer in Wisconsin, and Prosperity USA, the shell group that allegedly, illegally, helped the Cain campaign get started in the start of 2011.

"The article tries to make a case of how close the Koch brothers and I are," said Cain.

The audience started chuckling.

"I'm proud to know the Koch brothers," said Cain. "I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. They make it sound like we've had time to go fishing together, hunting together, skiing together, golfing together. But just so I can clarify this for the media?"

Chuckling louder now.

"This may be a breaking news announcement for the media."

Here it comes.

"I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother!"

The room bursted into applause. Koch stood up, and the titantron cameras found him, guffawing along with the front rows.

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[teddy51]

1. I bet thats not how they see you though Hermi, I bet they see you as someone

to use to get what they want. Just like the Governor . of WI.

[JoePhilly]

3. Billy Ray Valentine ... nt

[JoePhilly]

2. Cain is definitely just trying to sell his book ... to conservative nuts.

He is not running for President.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Excellent. Black Walnut is now a self-identified cock, er, koch lover.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Is there pubic hair on his Koch?

[RoccoR5955]

6. He's the Koch Brothers...

fecal matter from another anus!

[Faygo Kid]

7. There was never any doubt. He's bought and paid for, and the lines are drawn.

It's the 99 percenters vs. the ultimate tiniest sliver of the 1%, the Koch Brothers and their hand-picked candidate.

Glad he admitted it and removed all doubt.

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[flpoljunkie]

9. Not a problem.

[lunatica]

10. Am I the only one who sees this in terms of the slavery days?

When many black children were fathered by the plantation owner.

But maybe he's just too dense to see that there might be some connection in what he says to what happened to his ancestors in this country.

[frazzled]

11. He watched the latest episode of Modern Family on Wednesday

The whole ending consisted of Phil and his new-found next-door-neighbor buddy (a black neurosurgeon) riffing on the "Brother from another mother" line. Suddenly it shows up in Cain's remarks the next day. This is the kind of deep intellectual underpinning our potential presidents rely on.