Early Morning Swim: Matt Taibbi Discusses the Tea Party’s Corporate Backers with Keith Olbermann
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 15th, 2010 4:53 am by HL
Early Morning Swim: Matt Taibbi Discusses the Tea Party’s Corporate Backers with Keith Olbermann
Just a totally grassroots, bottom up, bunch of regular ‘Merkuns who are concerned about the size of gubmint.
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Facing a new round of scrutiny, Koch Industries is refining its position that it has not directly funded the tea party movement, saying that “until recently” the energy giant “had never been approached by a tea party group for funding.”
A new Internet documentary, [Astro]Turf Wars, features a long video clip of Koch Industries owner David Koch at a gathering of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, boasting of his funding of the group at its inception and applauding as one tea party activist after another stands to talk up his or her efforts. Americans for Prosperity has trained and financed many of those efforts.
Just a totally grassroots, bottom up, bunch of regular ‘Merkuns who are concerned about the size of gubmint.
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