The Koch Brothers Myth and the Liberals Unhealthy Fascination

To read Liberal media and their description of the Koch Brothers one would think they are worse than al Qaeda. An example of this unhealthy obsession may be found in a recent headline by The New Yorker titled: Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

Sounds vaguely evil, doesn’t it?

The Koch brothers are white, in their 70s, involved in oil and gas, paper cups, and even stain resistant carpet, their company earns about $100 billion per year, and they donate to charity and political causes. In short, they are the perfect Liberal Boogeymen throwing levers behind the scenes (perhaps in smoking jackets) working for some type of conspiratorial plan to wrest control of the nation away from the majority.

Nonsense they are yet another in a long line of political “donors” who use their money to help shape the debate in Washington. For 2010 Koch Industries gave $2.8 million to mostly Republican candidates, placing them #41 on the list of largest donors to political parties in America. By comparison, ActBlue (a Democratic special interest group) gave $29 million, all of it to Democrats making them #1 on the list of donors. In fact, Democrats took the top 3 spots for largest campaign money (about $48 million).

As Matt over at Conservative Hideout has written, the Koch Brothers obsession stems from the “Useful Idiots” of the Democratic Party who don’t really know fact from fiction but serve the purpose of parroting the party message even though their knowledge is 10 miles wide but 0.1 inches deep.

Hot Air has an article responding to Liberal writer Richard Esko at HuffPo wondering why oh why the Tea Party seems to be winning the war of ideas. Predictably, the Koch Brothers are raised as a key reason:


Why did Tea Partiers win such a major victory? Money, for starters. The Tea Party’s generously funded by billionaires like the Koch Brothers.

As we pointed out recently, Democrats never or rarely mention the role their own special interests play in their defeats because a lot of money goes to their party from them:

By focusing on the Koch Brothers, what Democratic writers and activists do is create a massive blind spot regarding why their party never seems to do very well overall in elections. The percentage of Americans in unions has been dropping quickly for decades and the public has shown an increasing dislike for them. Wisconsin might have been the first state to put the hammer to Big Union but many states are making plans to follow this path.

Big Union and groups like ActBlue (of which George Soros is a huge donor) push Democrats to the extreme Left, a position the American public has steadfastly rejected time after time.

If Liberals are aghast by the influence they claim the Koch brothers have why are they also not upset by how much more money flows into their party than to the Republicans by ActBlue, SEIU, and the American Federation of Teachers?

Because their money helps them get the right message out, that’s why.
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