1. Mediaite
  2. Gossip Cop
  3. Geekosystem
  4. Styleite
  5. SportsGrid
  6. The Mary Sue
  7. The Jane Dough
  8. The Braiser
Advertisement

Rachel Maddow Tells Koch Brothers To ‘Man Up’ And Meet Her Face To Face

video
» 342 comments

For those of you who love a good feud (and who doesn’t, right?), MSNBC star Rachel Maddow has attracted the Eye of Mordor that is Koch Industries’ PR department, and on Thursday night’s show, made the most of her appearance in their field of vision. Taking aim at Koch Facts’ relatively weak reaction to a blog post by Maddow producer Laura Conaway, the host excoriated the company for fighting legislative efforts at job creation, trashed them for picking on her producer by name, and challenged the Koch brothers to “man up” and come sit for an interview.

In this clip, Maddow goes after the Koch brothers with all the relish at Wrigley Field, slamming the brothers for their funding of groups like Americans For Prosperity, and attacking the narcissism symbolized by David Koch‘s “mint(ing of) dimes with his own head like he was Caesar.”

She then goes on to outline the current feud, and concludes with some tough talk. “Charles Koch, David Koch, you are trying to intimidate the wrong people,” she says. “This kind of thing is as pitiful from billionaires as it is from anyone. So I reiterate my many earlier invitations. come sit for an interview. I would love you have you. Come sit for an interview and let’s talk this out, rather than having daddy’s company attack my producers one by one, by name. Feel free to man up any time. Your beef is with me. so let’s do this face to face right here any time. ”

It all started last week, when Laura Conaway posted a map of Koch Industries job openings, while noting the herculean efforts the namesake freres have put into ensuring a near-limitless supply of available workers. The premise was fairly easy to digest: let the millions of people we helped put out of work fight over 1,240 pieces of cake. The problem isn’t the 1,240 job openings, it’s the opposition to President Obama’s attempts to create millions more jobs, and the support for spending cuts that cost still more jobs.

Not surprisingly, Koch’s PR department, deliberately or not, misunderstood. This is their predictable 2-paragraph rebuttal:

Strange Arguments from the Rachel Maddow Show

Last week on the Rachel Maddow blog, writer Laura Conaway criticized Koch for announcing that we are looking to hire more than 1,240 people around the country. At least, we think it was a criticism. Conaway’s point appears to be that, unless we offer enough job openings to everyone that is unemployed, any number of openings is objectionable. But if that’s the case, couldn’t the same argument be made against MSNBC itself? We took a look at the the job listings that MSNBC posts for editorial staff and it appears that, currently, they have ten openings in three states. Here’s a chart comparing the jobs that Koch is trying to fill and those at MSNBC.

Of course, if the government adopted more sensible economic policies many more businesses would be investing in this country and adding jobs as well. Even though that hasn’t happened yet, Koch is still doing what it can to provide opportunities in manufacturing here in the US. Too many on the Left would rather attack companies that are creating jobs in this country — the very companies that generate the type of growth our economy needs. Maddow and her team are a sad example of this misguided thinking.

I guess they’re still working on the comparison chart that shows how many people MSNBC has tried to put, or keep, out of work.

Now, while I agree with Maddow in the macro, the Koch response was comparatively mild, and I don’t understand the objection to crediting Laura Conaway. If it had been me they were going after, I’d have been offended if they didn’t use my name. As “intimidation” goes, this is bringing an intellectually lazy toy gun with a flag that says “Bang!” to a knife fight.

So why the over-the-top, Sigourney Weaver in Aliens reaction? Maddow certainly isn’t thin-skinned, given her status as favored fundraising magnet of Republicans everywhere. Being considered your opponent’s Great Satan is a feature, not a bug. No, Maddow’s reaction is borne out of a canny understanding of leverage.

Maddow has gotten Koch Industries to engage her publicly, and while that’s a big win for her, responding to it correctly is crucial to maximizing that win. Her producer’s blog post obviously struck a nerve with Koch’s PR department, which means they care, at least a little bit, what people think about this. By casting them as cheap bullies in this feud, which matches up well with the company’s general Goliath-ishness, Rachel Maddow is maximizing her chances of drawing Koch out a little more.

This probably won’t result in any “manning up” (challenges like this rarely do), but every time Koch Industries punches down at Maddow and her audience, it’s a win for her.

Here’s the clip, from Thursday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show:


Follow us on Twitter.

Sign up for Mediaite's daily newsletter.

Email Twitter Facebook Digg Reddit Stumble Upon Yahoo Buzz LinkedIn Tumblr Delicious
  • Darladoon

    if rachel’s history with these awful moguls is any indication…….she’ll annihilate 
    them in a debate.  

  • Norbit

    Rach, you can expect a flurry of comments on this one! lol

    Tell me, when will George Soros be meeting with Beck?
    Or Immelt with O’Reilly?
    Or Kaiser with Hannity?

  • Pablo

    Why would they waste their time? They have important things to do, and Rachel Maddow isn’t one of them.

  • Anonymous

    i dont think they should respond to maddow either, it almost makes her look like something she isn’t , legit

  • Josh-Portland

    How pathetic

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!!!!  What makes you think they’d be bothered with her?  She’s a second rate lunatic looking for a fight. She would love to have them give her the time of day, but why should they bother?  They have better things to do, like run businesses and hire people.

  • Anonymous

    Gee, Pablo, you and I seemed to be thinking alike here.  Should have read your post before I wrote mine.

  • Anonymous

    lol..Why would the Kochs give this little cute boy any attention? All he is doing is looking for ratings!!

  • Anonymous

    Who would want to meet that face? As if the Koch brothers would deign to appear on a loesr network like MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    Next, she will be demanding Obama or Putin appear on her show.

    LOL

  • Darladoon

    one of their associates, tim phillips, didn’t think so, he was on, not once, but twice

  • Darladoon

    tim phillips sure thought she was legit

    he’s their main PR man….

    he was on her show TWICE.  

  • Darladoon

    tim phillips sure thought she was legit

    he’s their main PR man….

    he was on her show TWICE.  

  • Darladoon

    tim phillips sure thought she was legit

    he’s their main PR man….

    he was on her show TWICE.  

  • Darladoon

    obviously the kocks are concerned about her, otherwise they wouldn’t be spending lots
    of time and energy responding in writing….

  • Michelle

    Maybe George Soros will go on FOX News too!  NOT!

  • Bohratom

    Mr maddows ratings are in the dumpster so of course shes gonna try to gin up anything to get her lefties going.

  • Anonymous

    and, that means they should go on her show, lol……..did phillips say she was legit? or does just appearing make her legit

  • Pablo

    He’s got a standing invitation from Beck.

  • http://twitter.com/danielmchick Daniel M. Chick

    Tommy got upset the last time a woman used the phrase “Man up.” He called it reverse sexism.

    But that was only Sharron Angle. She was a conservative.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy,

    Seems to me, that you continue with chipping away at your level of consistency. What’s happened to your defense of women since since the last time you wrote about a Woman telling a man to “Man-up”?

    You called it a “gender-based attack” 

    Christopher Calls foul and a gender base attack

    Tommy, here’s a quote from that passionate post you wrote:

    ["While any suggestion that men in this country are downtrodden or oppressed would rightly be greeted with derisive laughter, ATTACKS like this actually serve to reinforce the notion that women are inferior. Just as Sarah Palin’s attack on President Obama’s balls carried with it the inference that a mere vagina is inferior, Angle’s admonition for Reid to “MAN UP” means that she judges him to be acting like a woman, and that this is not a good thing."]

    You either were being ideological or perhaps gender-based attacks on women are just shallow enough for you that it really doesn’t matter that much to you. [Yes, you did call it an admonition].

    So here’s your chance. Do you condemn Maddow as you define a “gender-base” attack? Are you questioning Maddow if she is “sexist” (your term you used)?

  • Anonymous

    “Canny understanding of  leverage” my ass. Koch Brothers make the “loons” foam at the mouth.
    They buy and sell people like Rachel all day, why even bother to reply. Not like MSDNC’s indoctrinated viewers don’t already foam at the mouth when the dreaded “K bros” are mentioned. 
    Maddow is the big fish in the very, very small MSDNC pond. 

  • Lita Peas

    Awesome commentary, and Koch Brothers couldn’t handle Rachel, why? Because she is honest, she knows the truth about them, and they are not as butch as Rachel.Rachel has swagger,Koch Brothers are weenies.

  • Irish189

    If the Koch brothers actually sat down for an interview, is there anyone one this board who wouldn’t at least be a little intrigued to see what would happen?

  • Anonymous

    “…all the relish at Wrigley Field…”

    Unless the Cubs are making one of their frequent appearances in the World Series , pretty sure the relish containers are empty right now .

    Picky , picky , picky . I know .

  • Anonymous

    Maybe they’re waiting for an invitation from the #1 star at MSNBC …Al Sharpton .

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Christoper – A God feud or a good feud?

    Hell, I’ll take GOOD editing any time!

  • Michelle

    He’s probably scared, right Darla Loon?

  • Anonymous

    Uh hoh geez…that is hilarious…or pathetic , I’m not sure.
    Media pipsqueak Maddow is challenging the Koch bros. to come and debate her.
    That is like some beatnik OWS protester beating on the glass of Bank of America and demanding the Chairman of the Board come outside and hear his demands.

    Let me see if I can play that game too.
    RACHEL MADDOW…I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DEBATE.
    BRING ME ON YOUR SHOW OR ARE YOU SCARED….?

    I quietly wait her reply.

  • Michelle

    Nice catch.  I’m sure Tommy will respond as soon as he finishes his updated piece to show what a big liar Joe Biden is.

    Biden’s absurd claims about rising rape and murder rates

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/bidens-absurd-claims-about-rising-rape-and-murder-rates/2011/10/20/gIQAkq0y1L_blog.html

  • Anonymous

    The Koch brothers will never do it because they are cowards.  They’re still upset that the spotlight was pointed out them to reveal who they really are and what they’re really are up too.  They are todays mob.

  • Anonymous

    WedgeHead Maddow knows all about “manning up”.

  • Michelle

    Can you post a link of George Soros on FOX?  Thanks!!

  • Anonymous

    lol, no cowards on the left…..soros

  • Anonymous

    How many times has Beck hosted anyone who does not agree with him?

  • PrezOworst

    She is such a man.  No one takes her MCNBC loony self serious except for other loons.

  • Anonymous

    Liberal politifact says she lies http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/feb/18/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-wisconsin-track-have-budget-sur/
    Of course, ask her, and it’s just cause she’s gay http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/02/26/rachel-maddow-abdicates-integrity-defends-lies-calling-detractors-hom

    Rachel doesn’t know the truth about herself(see the above link).  Good luck with your lies(It seems you’re already comfortable with hers).

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    In a recent post Pablo, you claimed the Koch brothers employ “hundreds of thousands.”  If you watched Maddow’s piece and noticed the graph comparing their increase in wealth relative to their number of employees, you see you’re wrong.  As the Koch’s wealth has increased to 50 billion in just the past few years, the number they employ dropped by more than 13,000 to about 70,000.  That total includes some 20,000 employeed outside the U.S.

  • wawoo

    Another Koch sucker.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I think Tommy would respond. Integrity and consistency important attributes in his profession. Perhaps an oversight for this post, but “gender-based” attacks are serious matters. It’s now been brought to Tommy’s attention. .

  • Anonymous

    Sorry Tommy. I forgot only posts making fun of Republicans and Conservatives are allowed on your pages…my bad!!

  • Anonymous

    Oh, yeah, right.

    Two men who run one of the largest companies in the world, taking in billions in profits, are going to be cowed by a mannish thug who wanted to work for Pravda when she was a little, well, man.

    Sorry, Mr. Maddow. You have a better chance of getting laid by Brad Pitt than having the Koch Brothers waste their precious time listening to you and smelling your stinky breath.

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    Whether or not Maddow’s level of attack on the Kochs is warranted, her actions are justifiable and worthy.  The Kochs have for too long enjoyed a degree of privacy with respect to their political motivations that in and of itsself should be studied.  How have these two men had so much interaction and influence with the American political system and continued to fly under the radar? It would be a major feather in Maddow’s cap should she be able to lure the Kochs into the light and allow all of America to learn just how these two king makers of the Republican party operate.  

  • Anonymous

    “Maybe they’re waiting for an invitation from the #1 star at MSNBC …Al Sharpton “

    Resist we Much!

  • Anonymous

    So is Maddow, even if it’s a strap -on of yours!

  • Anonymous

    “Because she is honest, she knows the truth about them, and they are not as butch as Rachel.”

    Honest? Ralph Maddow…honest?

    OMIGOD. Anyone who says that is either deeply in denial or is truly, truly, disturbed.

    Maddow is about as honest as Hitler loved the Jews…NOT!

  • Anonymous

    So, the Koch Brothers are the new bogeyman?  Poor Karl Rove.  He used to hide under Rachel & Tommy’s beds and in their closets at night.  But, the Koch brothers are definitely more scary.  THERE’S TWO OF THEM!

    Just in time for halloween.  Don’t forget to pick up your Koch brothers costumes, libs!

  • Anonymous

    Do you think she has the same level of concern for George Soros?

  • Anonymous

    Those Koch brothers must be evil.

    Giving 20 million dollars to the ACLU to fight George W Bush’s PATRIOT Act, being pro gay marriage, and anti wars.  In fact they’re anti drug war too.  Evil libertarians.  Did you know that they give money to the CATO institute?  Those bastards were among the loudest about not going into Iraq.

    I suppose that even though they have liberal social positions that they give money to, they’re bad people unless they support politicians who will negatively affect their profits.

  • Anonymous

    Chickens.

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives are such spineless pussies.

  • Anonymous

    Rachael acts as if fair play is even a concern to the k bros.  – its not Rachael.  They are one of our owners, our masters.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    “Man Up” , really Rachael Maddow.  No explanation needed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    The big giant that is Koch Industries smacked away little flea Rachel Maddow with some truth in what amounts to a little blog post all the while making billions of dollars, and the little flea whined for an entire segment on her little show while her ratings continue to decline.

    That pretty much sums this up.

    Yet another Tommy Christopher article that wasn’t even worth the 30 seconds to skim it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    They would never do it because they work for a living and make their customers’ lives easier with their products.

    So of course Maddow can make these “challenges”, she has all the time in the world. All she does it shout at a camera that nobody’s watching on the other side.

  • Anonymous

    Huh?  Sure, each one of the words you typed has a meaning but the way you strung them together makes as much sense as:  Happadappadoobeydo.

  • Michelle

    You may want to define the word “work” for our liberal friends so they can understand your post.

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    Ha ha, that’s funny. Maddow was apparently smart enough to become a Road Scholar, but I’ve never seen any of that on her show (to the extent that I’ve seen it). Acting like a kid (“teabagger” jokes), a blogger (the endless snark), and lying aren’t exactly signs of someone who’s smart and could handle herself in a debate. Sure, she might convince those who are already on her side, but that doesn’t count. If she ever changes someone’s mind about something, they didn’t have much of a mind to begin with.

    Now, if she were smart and weren’t just a partisan hack, she’d tell the *teapartiers* what they don’t know about the Kochs. Namely, the steps the Kochs take that *help* the Dems and the far-left:

    24ahead.com/s/koch-family

    Maddow isn’t going to harp on the areas where the Kochs help and agree with the Dems.

    P.S. If you’re a teapartier, what do you think of the ACLU? Then, see the link above.

  • Anonymous

    They have time for retreats to Vail and Palm Desert, I’m sure they can make time to do an interview. They are listening to her because every time she brings up their name they issue a press release.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    “They are listening to her because every time she brings up their name they issue a press release.”

    No they aren’t, their company’s Public Relations department is listening and this is first time they’re issued a press release since Maddow is going apeshit over it — well, that and because their PR thoroughly smacked her down.

    All the while, Charles and David Koch are probably unaware of some blog on their website while running a multi-billion dollar company.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Skinner/100000598231323 Brian Skinner

    Wow!!!  One of the Koch brothers put his face on a coin?   How pompous of him!!!!    Maybe in the future we will see his followers teaching young kids to sing songs about him.   “Dav-id Koch mmm mmm mmm” or maybe he will make a poster with his likeness in the style of Murderer and Commie Che Guevera.    Then we will know he has really lost it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    What the hell is a “Road Scholar”?  Someone who puts their ear to the asphalt and guess how many liberals are sleeping in parks?

    Personally, I’d prefer a Rhodes Scholar myself!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Skinner/100000598231323 Brian Skinner

    If I were David Koch I would tell Maddow.   I will appear on your show if you will appear in a Lincoln Douglas style debate for 3 hours against Mark Levin on Fox news.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy Freudian slip “a god feud”…which of these people are you referring to here?
     
    Rachel should avoid terms like “man up”.
     
    All this is is that the Koch brothers are conservative republicans and therefore disagree with Obama’s jobs bill.They have every right to do so.There are many who believe the bill will have no real result except to cost money.Rachel has a right to object but this was over the top.
     
    Rachel of course is using yet another right leaning person place or thing to get all ginned up over and continue playing the leftwing warrior princess game.I find it ludicrous to post implications that Koch is somehow responsible for the massive unemployment nationwide or somehow isn’t doing enough.How many other corporations aren’t hiring anybody?Is Rachel going to call them all out?
     
    I do agree that Koch should have ignored her and her minions.It’s a pointless exercise.

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    While the Kochs do indeed donate an amount that is equivalent to throwing around money for them, they spend far more to insure that they become more wealthy while the rest of us do not.  They are in effect true super villains, posing as benevolent billionaire philanthropists while reshaping the political landscape to suit their own needs and viewpoint.  Millions of Americans are now unwitting pawns in their plan to dominate every aspect of our lives  Just two weeks ago the Pinellas county commission voted to remove fluoride from drinking water at the insistence of tea-party acolytes.  The idea to remove fluoride came straight from the John Birch society, the group the Koch brothers father helped found and whose ideals they still believe.

  • Anonymous

    They’ve issued press releases before about Maddow but not directly by name.  I just want to make sure you get that right.  I think she actually likes that she was mentioned, she is not going apeshit over it, you righties like to go way overboard about it. Well, the company’s “PR” department is listening.  The “Koch brothers” might be too.  

    Charles and David probably know about their blog on their website.  They probably check it out when they get to the country club.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Yoda – Let me ask you this question.  Just what would either of the Koch’s have to gain by appearing on what would be nothing more than an hour of ambush journalism?  See, one of the things about making television appearances (at least for SMART people) is you want to control the environment so YOUR message is communicated effectively.  Maddow however, would have all the control and could ask whatever nonsensical question she chose and then criticize them for not answering.  She could cut off well reasoned answers with other unfounded accusations or snarky retorts – something she routinely does.

    While you call them cowards, I say they are smart.  They have nothing to gain and everything to lose by making an appearance on her show.  You know this but are so pissed at the lack of a ‘gotcha moment’ you won’t concede this point.

  • Anonymous

    so are progressives……soros comes to mind lol, well you too…dont want to leave you out

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry.  I didn’t know you were one of THOSE people.

  • Anonymous

    Soros helped take down Communist regimes, The Kochs just steal tax payer money and you Conservatives lick their butts for it.

  • Anonymous

    lol, little nazi boy

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Would someone please edit/correct the opening line of this piece for God’s sake?  I’m sick of looking at it!

    For those of you who love a god feud (and who doesn’t, right?)

    Thank you!

  • Anonymous

    They are cowards, as well as bullies. They also do not speak for Americans.

  • Anonymous

    He’s Jewish you colossal asshat, and he was a teen when he ESCAPED the Nazis.  You are such a puppet of the Right it’s ridiculous.

    Stupid to the core, immune to facts, uneducated, illiterate and probably inbred.  You could be a GOP Presidential candidate with that pedigree.

  • Michelle

    Man, I’d pay good $$ to see that.

  • Michelle

    Duke,
    You are incredibly uninformed. 

  • Michelle

    Yoda,
    Did you find that link to Soros on FOX?

  • Anonymous

    I think I actually LIKE ‘road scholar’……….!

  • Anonymous

    I think I actually LIKE ‘road scholar’……….!

  • Anonymous

    you are a little nazi boy dummy, never said soros lol

  • Anonymous

    She could do it, and be victorious….!

  • Anonymous

    They would never be on Maddow’s show because they don’t want the country to know what they are really doing.   Maddow is not O’Reilly, she doesn’t cut people off and edit the tape.  She does her show live and she doesn’t do snarky retorts; I think you’re thinking of Hannity.  

    They’re still cowards and they want be left alone operating in secrecy. 

  • Anonymous

    Rachel has a great show.

  • Darladoon

    granting an interview to a sworn enemy is bad pr

    and phillips got utterly whacked out of the park by maddow, not once, but twice

    it was a humiliating experience for phillips/koch

  • Anonymous

    Surely you can do better…?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    The only thing I’ll agree with you on is they will never, ever be on Maddow’s show.  No matter how much you and others bait them with cries of “Coward”!

    They didn’t make their money by being stupid!

  • Anonymous

    She can see through them..!

  • Jason

    To call you a mental case would be unfair to mental cases everywhere. Jesus Christ, you’re F’ing stupid.

  • Jason

     Put down the double ended dildo and Calm down stupid.. she already has a “wife”.

  • Anonymous

    nice, but that does not make her legit, but keep trying

  • Jason

    Maddow doesn’t interview anyone she would ever cut off. Her show is an echo chamber of far left lunacy wrapped in obnoxious “elitism”.  It’s an hour of backwards logic, eye rolls, childish smirks and taking people wildly out of context. It’s basically gonzo political porn for the infinitely stupid.

  • Jason

    If you’ve seen her “wife”, and I have, it’s obvious that Rachel is the feminine one in the relationshit. I know, I was shocked as well.

  • Jason

    relationship*… freudian slip?

  • Valkyrie101

    All Maddow needs in that photo is a couple of red horns and one of those little pointy chin things.

  • Anonymous

    Witty retort there genius.  Glad you could defend your viewpoint via facts rather than personal attacks.

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    The point is the Kochs should be immune to the criticism they face as no-one in the media is willing to oppose them. But strangely these billionaire bastions of right wing politics have become extremely thin skinned when they or their company is criticized.  Rachel is not the first one to face the wrath of the Kochs who usually threaten those who oppose them with some form of legal action.  Usually they retreat however when faced with the facts.  They’re billionaire bullies who don’t like being challenged.

  • Anonymous

    My God, you’re like the Tea Party poster boy.

  • Jason

    What product of the Koch Bros. are you forced to purchase, idiot?

  • http://twitter.com/soledrius Soledad Rius

    Pablo’s right. Spending all the money they get from Daddy’s company is tough work.

  • http://twitter.com/soledrius Soledad Rius

    Have you ever met a conservative who wan’t impervious to facts?

  • Anonymous

    My God, your like a hitler youth poster boy. lol

  • Anonymous

    Witty dude.  How do you type while selling those handjobs?

  • http://twitter.com/Glamazondiva20 Edna Turnblad

    This would be big news if anyone actually watched Maddow’s little show. But seeing as how she can’t even break 900,000 viewers who the hell cares what she has to say? Obviously not television viewers.

  • Bubba

    Give her a break she works at MSLSD. What she neant to say was the Koch brothers need to butch up.

  • Bubba

    She doesn’t do snorky retorts? LOL Put the crack pipe down.

  • http://www.facebook.com/johnbryansfontaine John Bryans Fontaine

    Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing’s Latest Uprising

    The Tea Parties are billed as a people’s movement. But they wouldn’t exist without the help of deep-pocketed billionaires.
    By Adele M. Stan

    http://www.alternet.org/media/148598/tea_party_inc.%3A_the_big_money_and_powerful_elites_behind_the_right_wing's_latest_uprising

    http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/ads_teapartyinc.jpg

  • Stone7877

    Take it right to them Maddow…..Loved watching her take them down….. 

  • Darladoon

    the argument was that koch shouldn’t waste his time with maddow, otherwise
    you’ll legitimize her status; by granting TWO interviews with her (in the past),
    they did just that.  they thought she was legitimate enough to grant her two
    respectable (and not brief) interviews. 

    in case you didn’t know, rachel maddow is highly respected and respectful.

    the kochs don’t put their main PR man in front of anyone.  in fact, they’re notorious
    for NOT granting interviews, especially with fiercely intelligent left-wing lesbians.  

  • http://www.freemarketfan.com/ Free Market Fan

    Maddow is a disaster: total socialist.  Koch brothers are a disaster: crony government connected types masquerading as libertarians.  

    All you need to know is both are against Ron Paul.  He is the only real threat to the establishment running.  He will end the wars, the police state and the crony capitalism.  Ron Pauls followers understand you cannot get out of this financial crisis unless you understand how we got here.  Namely the Federal Reserve and their manipulating interest rates below the natural rate.  The Fed causes the business cycle.Ron Paul stands for individual liberty and he is reaching critical mass.  more here:  http://www.freemarketfan.com/2011/08/ron-paul-has-pushed-ideal-of-liberty.html All the rest of the candidates are the same.

  • Anonymous

    Wrath?  What wrath?  All they did was respond to a blog post.  It’s not like they sent their minions to picket Laura Conaway’s house, which is a time-honored tactic of leftists like Rachel and her ilk.

  • Anonymous

    Come on, this is ridiculous.  By publishing a relatively mild response to Laura Conaway’s blog post, how were they bullying her?

    I’m sure anyone who has made a union unhappy would welcome this kind of “bullying”.

  • clever

    Yeah she’s  a tough guy alright you are one of the few hundred that watch him.

  • Anonymous

    Why are men, like these three, always settling things with their fists? Come on guys, let’s all get along.

  • clever

    Only a looser is worried about what someone else has more money than them.LIBTARD

  • clever

    Have you ever met a Libtard with out a empty head

  • Anonymous

    respected and respectful….now you are just a flat out liar, what a shame

  • Anonymous

    while you need a lesson in “work ethic”.

    you may work from home, but it’s obvious you don’t give your work too much attention since you post here prolifically day in and day out. 

    it’s like with WC.  says she has a job, but still is here posting all day under one or both of her usernames.  kind of hard to believe her or you when your posting numbers are in the 1000s…

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Come on Rachel!! You should know better that the Koch Brothers don’t have the time to appear on your show, due to the fact that they’re too busy downing Viagra, changing each others adult diapers and finding Republicon politicians to buy!!

  • Bob

    Keep trying. That was almost an intelligible sentence.

  • Bob

    “Road Scholar” LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     You mean..they have shrunk their workforce in a time of economic stagnation? Sounds like good business sense, as does sitting on that 50 billion and waiting for the market to repair itself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     And who would watch 3 ugly guys argue, anyway?

  • Anonymous

    Since when does Maddow actually debate people with different viewpoints?

  • Anonymous

    Investigation By Bernie Sanders Finds That Wall Street Runs Our Government
    http://www.politicususa.com/en/bernie-sanders-wall-st

  • Bob

    She’d wipe the floor with Levin in a debate. The man’s idea of ‘winning’ a debate is hitting the mute button on callers and then screaming til commercial break. Like most wingnut radio hosts, he’s afraid to come out of his bunker and defend his flimsy arguments. He needs a stacked deck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Seeing as how the best thing the last Rhodes scholar did whilst in office was a chubby girl with a blue dress, a Roads scholar couldn’t be any worse, right?

  • Bob

    Did you go to Godwin’s Law School?

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     And the old adage still applies, “when you argue with idiots, no one else knows the difference”. Why give 
    Maddow the opportunity to raise the status of her argument from “trite”?

  • Bob

    If by ‘work,’ you mean Chuck and Davy inherited thier daddy’s billions, then yeah.

  • Anonymous

    You are a sexist and homophobic jerk.

  • Anonymous

    You sure didn’t?

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of the Kochs’…

  • Anonymous

    What an ego…. (and what a homely coin..!)

  • Anonymous

    Rachel never has any conservative guests that she actually debates… This pseudo-intellectual is afraid of debating conservatives but wants to seem tough by inviting the Koch brother’s on, but She knows they’d never go on her comedy/partisan news show

  • Norbit

    Pfff!

    Did you see that?

    That was the shelf-life of this story!
    - but at least it was a well written story.

  • DCBorn

    Um, I’d bet the fact that he’s a Constitutional Attorney (a real one, not a fake one like Pres Obama) would make it an interesting debate to watch.  I’ve got a feeling he’d have no problem holding his own with Maddow.

  • DCBorn

    Um, I’d bet the fact that he’s a Constitutional Attorney (a real one, not a fake one like Pres Obama) would make it an interesting debate to watch.  I’ve got a feeling he’d have no problem holding his own with Maddow.

  • DCBorn

    Liberals are such immature children, they result to calling people sexually-oriented names.

  • Darladoon

    see tim phillips two interviews…..

  • DCBorn

    Look everyone!  More sexual attacks.  UncleDuke has severe problems in focusing without resorting to sexual attacks.  Any good psychologists in the crowd to give an opinion on this?

  • Anonymous

    That’s some great English there buddy.

  • Anonymous

    It was bad for Sharon Angle to use “man up” on Harry Reid because she is straight.

    It’s good to use “man up” against the Koch Brothers because ”Koch” is pronounced “c*ck” and Maddow is a butch dyke.

    See?

  • Darladoon

    nice dodge on the tim phillips subject

  • Anonymous

    Don’t reply Tommy!

    These teabaggers are just trying to trick you into having integrity!

  • DCBorn

    You’re right; I typed it too quicky.  My bad.  And, I’m not your buddy.  You’re a disgusting pig.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Speaking as a life long Republican, I must admit I wish for a return of the heady days of the Clinton Administration.  Anything’s got to be better than the current disaster!

  • Darladoon

    maddow’s interviews (2 parts) with koch bros’ PR flak tim phillips

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaxpZyZoMA

  • Lulu

    Madcow you are under the assumption that you are relevant

  • Anonymous

    But I want to be friends with an imbecile like you…please reconsider buddy!

    I want to call you sexually-oriented names!

  • Anonymous

    Hah!
    Then she’d look like that kid from “Boy Meets World” all dressed up in a Devil Halloween costume!

  • Anonymous

    Hah!
    Then she’d look like that kid from “Boy Meets World” all dressed up in a Devil Halloween costume!

  • Darladoon
  • http://twitter.com/LukeAtomic Luke Atomic

    Anyone who doesn’t come on my show is a coward!

  • Anonymous

    The RINO Steel makes occasional appearances.

  • Anonymous

    A year and a half ago I had never heard of the Koch brothers and now I find out they are my slave masters!
    OMG! I hate those Koch brothers! And I’m being totally rational too!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Got it wrong buddy!! Conservatives/Republicons are too afraid to go on her show, probably due to the fact that she destroyed Rand Paul on her show many months ago!!

    Republicons saw that and said… no way, I’ll stick with Fox News where it’s safe!!

  • Anonymous

    You stooooopid.

    Try Petroleum
    Chemicals
    Energy
    Asphalt
    Natural gas
    Plastics
    Fibers
    Minerals
    Fertilizers
    Ranching
    Pulp and paper

  • Anonymous

    Yup. Koch Industries has spent more than $50 million to lobby in Washington since 2006.

  • Anonymous

    did just watch one of the interviews on you tube…….maddow made a fool of herself, 88% private funding, and her trying to connect A to B to C to 4, maddow tried to spin

  • Anonymous

    “Two men who run one of the largest companies in the world, taking in billions in profits, are going to be cowed by a mannish thug who wanted to work for Pravda when she was a little, well, man.” 

    Well, that blog post of hers seemed to sting them in a dark place. We otherwise wouldn’t be having this discussion!

  • Darladoon

    relevant enough for koch brothers main PR flak, tim phillips, for TWO interviews

  • Darladoon

    see two different tim phillips interviews, 2009

  • Darladoon

    “critical mass”  =  ”a distant 4th place”

  • Darladoon

    he already let his main PR flak, tim phillips, appear twice on her show in 2009

    and it was a total bloodbath

  • Darladoon

    judging from the amount of homophobic comments so far, is it any wonder
    why there’s so much division in this country?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    R U kidding? The Kochies HATE being attacked, especially when the attacker’s righteous. The New Yorker ran a feature on them months back & we’re STILL seeing push back. Now watch what the Kochies do: either they up the ante & Maddow then lowers the boom, or they back off & Maddow declares victory. If they duck her, she wins; if they go on her show, she guts them.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    All that was investment in volunteer protection. The Kochies figure if they can buy you, they gain immunity from you. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Yes.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    The Kochies ARE economic stagnation. They use a tiny slice of their ill-gotten gains in poisoning this planet in order to ensure they can keep on doing it.

  • Big Taters

    says the expert on “manning up”. ….

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Do you have this on macro or something – on the theory that repetition is the most compelling form of debate?

  • Darladoon

    you obviously didn’t follow the logic:

    phillips is arguing that his propaganda tour was a “grassroots effort to
    reinforce patients’ rights” was actually a well-organized corporate/lobbyist funded effort
    that had more to do with corporations and patients

    which he repeatedly denied.  

    and his ‘hot air’ tour was the same thing:  a propaganda tour FUNDED BY OIL
    AND CHEMICAL COMPANIES to spread lies about climate change. 

    which he, again, repeatedly denied   

  • Darladoon

    sorry, more to do with corporations than with patients

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Look at what you wrote there: that the Kochies “(like all billionaires) buy and sell people like Rachel all day”. And you approve; you WANT to be able to choose between peon & serf.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Com’on now, that b.j. was true love; he woulda done right by that little gal.

  • Sean68

    As billionaires go, they’re unusual. In terms of their politics.

  • Darladoon

    see what i mean?

  • Anonymous

    Well, at least we got beyond “god feud”  (for a minute there I thought I was reading something by Evan Thomas..).

    Man up is not an expression Rachel should be using; she has been caught in one too many falsehoods to tell anyone to “manup”…and anyway, if she want them on her show, shouldn’t it be “woman up?”

    I’m confused.

  • Cecelia

    She’s been indulged quite a lot for being the antidote to mom, apple pie, and the girl next door, hasn’t she…

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I find libs heads are full of chit!

  • Darladoon

    the koch brothers are men, not women

    hence, “man up”

  • Anonymous

    Fact: God bless the job creaters!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: HA!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Thing is, that was an era that contributed less to the problem, but still contributed. For most of that era, Congress was controlled by Republicans, and Congress is where the laws are made, not in the White House. The GOP has gamed the system by getting voters to ignore what happens in the city councils and their local education boards and their local planning boards, and their state governments, and then into the House and Senate, and used their success in that campaign to have everyone blame the office that’s stuck with having to actually drive that Rube Goldberg nightmare.

    This is really what I hope turns out to be the lasting outcome of OWS. Maybe that’ll translate into some support for keeping the GOP’s dirty mitts off the presidency, maybe it’ll contribute to wresting control of the House agenda from Boehner, Cantor and Ryan, maybe it’ll save us from having the Senate overrun by  GOP moneygrabbers and agents for the Kochs and Wall Street. But whether it does or does not in each case, tens to hundreds of thousands of folks are going to come out of the OWS experience committed to going home and wresting the Borg that likes to call itself the GOP out of government.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Somebody asked her to man up and look what happened to her!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    She’d cut him to ribbons, and FNC would cut the video so we’d never get to see it.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Darla-doon is a loon!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    You are a homophobic and sexist jerk.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Well obviously you’re not a fan, but she’s got an open invitation out there to debate anyone on the right, and she just takes them apart as they show up. Now of course they mostly duck her. Take a look at how she took on Rand Paul; he needed a cut man before the first commercial break.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Fox News in turn runs Wall Street! Which in turn runs government that turns people into mush!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: That list is racist!

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    Why does this guy always wear black ?

  • Lulu

    I believe any Koch would be allergic to that presstitude

  • Rex the Wonder God

    He says he is, much like Michelle Bachmann says she’s a tax attorney. Taking a course does not make one expert in the concept. 

    Do you actually have the first clue of what Obama taught at U Chicago Law? It’s not as if hundreds of his students haven’t been interviewed about that. His courses focused on the theme of progress or lack thereof in expanding electoral and other Constitutional rights through court challenges, with a particular emphasis on the Supreme Court, towards showing that greater gains tend to be made through the electoral process, that ultimately it’s not just more important but necessary to organize to do just that, and the approach to the tools used in the electoral process to encourage and maximize that use of people power. He was either bored or found irrelevant many of the provisions of the Constitution, including the Second Amendment, because he regarded them as a diversion from the really important work that needed doing. You should stop and consider how little distance there is to that position and the ones being marched for in the OWS movement. 

    You can risk overstating the comparison, but it should be remembered that when Martin Luther King was assassinated at the motel in Tennessee, he wasn’t there to lead a march for equality for black Americans – he was there to deliver a speech on poverty and how the Big Money-interests-fueled American political system was destroying the middle class and keeping down the poor. So, the GOP take down ACORN, to a large extent a black voter registration organization, because they attributed that to electing Obama, and naturally that leads to OWS, a movement that crosses racial lines and embraces the 99% who are not ridiculously rich and losing more and more of what little they each have left to that 1%.

  • Big Taters

    Darladoon, you simpleton. Are you trying to explain away your lack of intellect by associating my comments to something you assume true? 

    I’m not a bagger am I for these comments? Of course not. You wouldn’t make such presumptions of a single comment would you?

    I’m actually a post graduate educated burnout. You left and righters out here are too entertaining to ignore. It’s usually the regulars like you that are the easiest to get a rise out of.

    Actually, if you don’t see the humor, or at least the irony, in her comments, your observation is far too lacking to be effective in a forum such as this.

     

  • Big Taters

    Isn’t it a liberal thing not to be such a prude? You act like one of those religious baggers when you can’t even handle people enjoying the obvious irony, and yes humor, in the comments she made. 

    Division? Most people will just see it for what it is, people like you beat the drums and make sure its recognized as divisive. Simple, insecure, thin skinned people like you. 

    Being gay isn’t a virtue. Get over yourself. 

  • Anonymous

    they have jobs to create, maddow has snarky insults to hurl.  No one who wants to reach an audience would choose MSNBC.  CNBC would be the place they’d go for an interview, and I suspect the CNBC folks are embarrassed by MSNBC since any times someone mentions the channel to CNBC, the hosts ALWAYS distance themselves strongly.

    Who can blame CNBC, they have an brand with integrity… 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Job Creaters all the evil ones!!!! Why work when you can retire like the people in Greece!!!!!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    How’s the lawn-guarding going, grumpy old white guy?

    Immelt is a stupid example; he’s no lefty & would go on BillOs sermonette if he was asked. Billo of course would use the entire time to set up straw men and stomp on his responses, because that’s how he rolls. Jesus on a hot tamale, pretty much all he does when he feels threatened is shout down his guest.

    Soros knows it’s a waste of time, but I bet he’d do it if asked; Beck would never have him because Soros is too smart.

    Which Kaiser? And what’s the point? Hannitty (two t’s, Orb, pay attention now) never lets anyone actually  disagree with him. He conducts choir practice.

  • Cecelia

    No, she’d only label you bagger in order to make homophobic suggests about you.

  • Anonymous

    the truth is, as Jack Welch recently said on CNBC, companies have adapted the great recession and learned how to be profitable with less workers.  Kind of a scary concept, really.   When it looks like stagnation, and acts like stagnaiton, sadly, we’ll like find out we’re in stagnation.  All because the government continues to refuse to cut spending.  

  • Big Taters

    Ma says get ya ass inside for the beans get cooled off. Gettt on outta hee now.

  • Ralph

    Maddow is weird.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    … And went to MIT where they both earned masters degrees in chemical engineering and then expanded their business to the largest private corporation in America.

    What has your lazy ass done today?

  • Anonymous

    They’d be as likely to go on his show as much as Maddow’s hero Soros would go on Hannity.  This isn’t the first time a MSNBC partisan has tried to shame someone in to coming on their desperate show.

  • Cecelia

    How is that a sexist comment?  Maddow has gone out of her way to look like a man.  She eschews any overt sign of female related attire, make-up, coiffure,  and accoutrement that the VAST majority of women routinely sport.Pretending that she looks feminine or ordinary is an intellectual pretense ala  ” The Emperor’s New Clothes”

  • Anonymous

    A weak attempt at a joke about a lesbian’s appearance is sexist and homophobic.

  • Anonymous

    The disadvantage (or frustration) of being a regular is it gets tiring trying to see the good in people who post the most hateful things for hate-sake.  Sometimes though someone posts an obvious incorrect statement by honest mistake, so you are right, its bad to make a judgement based on a single post.  Some  regulars though, like Royal pain-in-the-arse-wannabe-King  can be counted on to be a douchebag. I’d be surprised if I’ve seen more than 3 posts from him that weren’t a personal attack, and to be honest those three were completely fare, so I think he’s a jerk 99% of the time because he chooses to…

  • Anonymous

    Ah,

    Gay women are fine as long as they act like a lady?

  • Anonymous

    Why do you hate job creators?

  • Anonymous

    thats Stonepark3′s job

  • Anonymous

    You mean Daddy’s money. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Rex – While I certainly appreciate what appears to be a sincere response to my rather flippant post, how can I possibly take seriously anything you chose to write?  You evidently are hinging this country’s future on a bunch of half-witted nincompoops – useful idiots if I may, who’s apparent only true desire is to discard the current economic system which has worked quite well for a very long time.  No, the OWS crowds are already starting to thin – the photo ops have taken a decidedly annoying turn and it appears whatever support from mainstream America there was, is quick evaporating. 

  • Anonymous

    nice

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You left out StonePark, he loves his personal attacks he levels on people!!

  • Anonymous

    logic? is that what you call what maddows does?    its called spin darla, think for yourself for once in your life

  • Anonymous

    Shall we listen to your argument that Pres Obama is a fake Constitutional Attorney?

  • ackis

    When will Richard figure it out that no one is interested in going on his/her show?  People have much more important and productive things to do like sleep.

  • Bob

    I guess you missed the time she interviewed Rand Paul and he complimented her on a fair job

  • Bob

    Ladies and gentleman, your typical Republican base bigot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Absolutely. Look at Ford, which recently laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and yet is managing to turn a profit even so.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    How’s anyone supposed to answer comments filled with such nonsense. Oh well. The Koch Bros would be less billionaire if the Labor Unions didn’t front them 8 billion dollars to invest. What you see in the protests are hundreds of Rachael Maddows who want to bite the head off the people that feed them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

    “Ill gotten gains?” What the heck? Who are you to judge? I could say the same thing about Al Gore selling his AGW snakeoil while flying private jets and building a house as big as Vermont (speaking of poisoning the atmosphere).”Ill gotten gains” makes them sound like archvillians on the Super Friends.
     Just because they take a stand you disagree with does not make the wrong, nor does it make their earnings “ill gotten”. Grow up and argue valid facts. Where is your data showing the “ill gotten” gains were acquired in an “ill” way”?

  • Carmon123

    For a guy, Maddow really is not very sexy.

  • Struckg

    Rachal Maddow was known as Ritchie Maddow until the age of 12 when his parents began giving Ritchie massive estrogen shots in a wierd experiment.

  • proud2tbagu

    a stupid bitch trying to call someone out to try and lift her sagging ratings. Why doesn’t she call out Soros? Losers.

  • proud2tbagu

    Last job you Created? Can’t start with blow. So that = zero.

  • Anonymous

    “They are in effect true super villains, posing as benevolent billionaire
    philanthropists while reshaping the political landscape to suit their
    own needs and viewpoint.”

    I thought we were discussing the Koch brothers, not George Soros…..

  • Anonymous

    ^^^unlike the above comment^^^

  • Anonymous

    ” If you’re a teapartier, what do you think of the ACLU?”

    As a Tea Partier I have supported the ACLU when they put aside their hypocrisy and work to defend ALL civil rights, such as their immense help to the NRA when that organization sued the City of New Orleans for violating the civil rights of countless citizens who were disarmed and left defenseless by the police during one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in US history. (Fun fact, NRA/ACLU WON that lawsuit and NOLA had to return all the firearms the police illegally confiscated. Civil rights victory!)
    When they’re actually doing their jobs and protecting my rights, I champion the ACLU. When they attempt to trample on people’s rights by making it a crime to utter Jesus’s name in public, I abhor them despite the fact I’m non-religious.

    What about the terrorist organization the Southern Poverty Law Center?

  • TPRTR

    Oh no the Koch Brothers. They are bad because they exercise their constitutional rights finace causes they believe in. Rachel, sorry but these two men would give you the time of day because you are a hack working for a failed network. How about getting that crooked old Marxist, George Soros on your show?

  • Anonymous

    Also it is interesting to note that GE has done more business in Iran, and more recently, than Koch Industries ever did. Seeing as GE is extremely close to the Obama admin, AND they are one of the largest companies involved in testing and building nuclear reactors that power the majority of our naval fleet, PERHAPS, just maybe, GE should also be legally prohibited from dealing with terrorists who hate us and wish to acquire nuclear materials to that end.

    Lol, also interesting to note, of course, is that MSNBC is a wholly owned subsidiary of GE. So you could honestly say that MADDOW HERSELF works for a company that deals with terrorists. Why isn’t she investigating herself ,eh? Too close to the cash-cow,is it? A little journalistic integrity never hurt anyone, Rach…

    How can anyone disagree with that: Please stop GE from doing business with terrorists.

  • Anonymous

    “Soros helped take down Communist regimes”

    Such as…The Bank of England?

    Such as…insider trading convictions in France.

    Sounds like he’s a freedom fighter alright….freedom for himself to reach a level of mega-rich the Koch’s cannot even imagine…..

  • Anonymous

    You need to get Immelt on your show and ask him why GE paid zero taxes and sheltered money offshore to avoid taxes and how in God’s name did he up on Obama’s job council when he is actively shipping jobs to China. 

    What’s that Rachel? Oh, Immelt and GE owns 49% of the network that pays your check? Yeah, I guess that would be a bit awkward. 

  • Anonymous

    i think they sound respond with an investigative report which outlines the apparently illegal business conducted by GE, MSNBC’s parent company and Maddow’s employer, within Iran. Business dealings which occurred AFTER the Koch’s ended relations with Iran and also AFTER said business was legally prohibited.

    Seeing as GE is a huge player in the nuclear energy game, not only should they not be associating with Iran, but you could probably press treason charges against them for doing so.

    Perhaps GE/MSNBC can use some of their own billions of untaxed yearly profit to pay the associated fines and costs of said prosecution.

    Sorry if the truth hits a nerve, but Maddow’s employer might as well be Koch industries for all the favoritism and closet-skeletons GE has….

  • Anonymous

    i think Koch should respond with an investigative report which outlines
    the apparently illegal business conducted by GE, MSNBC’s parent company
    and Maddow’s employer, within Iran. Business dealings which occurred
    AFTER the Koch’s ended relations with Iran and also AFTER said business
    was legally prohibited.

    Seeing as GE is a huge player in the
    nuclear energy game, not only should they not be associating with Iran,
    but you could probably press treason charges against them for doing so.

    Perhaps
    GE/MSNBC can use some of their own billions of untaxed yearly profit to
    pay the associated fines and costs of said prosecution.

    Sorry
    if the truth hits a nerve, but Maddow’s employer might as well be Koch
    industries for all the favoritism and closet-skeletons GE has….

  • Anonymous

    i think Koch should respond with an investigative report which outlines
    the apparently illegal business conducted by GE, MSNBC’s parent company
    and Maddow’s employer, within Iran. Business dealings which occurred
    AFTER the Koch’s ended relations with Iran and also AFTER said business
    was legally prohibited.

    Seeing as GE is a huge player in the
    nuclear energy game, not only should they not be associating with Iran,
    but you could probably press treason charges against them for doing so.

    Perhaps
    GE/MSNBC can use some of their own billions of untaxed yearly profit to
    pay the associated fines and costs of said prosecution.

    Sorry
    if the truth hits a nerve, but Maddow’s employer might as well be Koch
    industries for all the favoritism and closet-skeletons GE has….

  • Anonymous

    i think they should respond with an investigative report which outlines
    the apparently illegal business conducted by GE, MSNBC’s parent company
    and Maddow’s employer, within Iran. Business dealings which occurred
    AFTER the Koch’s ended relations with Iran and also AFTER said business
    was legally prohibited.

    Seeing as GE is a huge player in the
    nuclear energy game, not only should they not be associating with Iran,
    but you could probably press treason charges against them for doing so.

    Perhaps
    GE/MSNBC can use some of their own billions of untaxed yearly profit to
    pay the associated fines and costs of said prosecution.

    Sorry
    if the truth hits a nerve, but Maddow’s employer might as well be Koch
    industries for all the favoritism and closet-skeletons GE has….

  • Anonymous

    Rachel MadCow needs to ‘Woman Up.’

  • Anonymous

    And what has Sanders done to change it. DC controls the way Wall Street plays, but you’ll never get Bernie to admit that. The losers in NYC should be at the Capitol and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. rather than Wall Street. But then they would have to admit the Dems are partially responsible.  

  • Anonymous

    She is outraged that a person seeking political office would put their face on a coin? Obviously for someone who claims to be so informed Maddow missed the entire plethora of Obama merch, INCLUDING MULTIPLE MINTED COINS BEARING HIS LIKENESS.
    So, logically, Maddow must think Obama is trying to be Caesar too? Or is that too intellectually honest for her?

  • ackis

    (s)he already ‘mans up’

  • Cecelia

    You must have callouses from writing SNL over “Pat”.

  • Cecelia

    RuPaul acts like a lady.  Anyone flagrantly flouting convention will be remarked upon. 

    The attempt to squelch that by making cross-dressing lesbians into some specially protected species is its own form of discrimination.   You can’t protect lesbians by essentially making them something above and beyond the considerations and expectations of everyone else.  You can’t help anyone by making them something different from you or me.

  • Cecelia

    RuPaul acts like a lady.  Anyone flagrantly flouting convention will be remarked upon. 

    The attempt to squelch that by making cross-dressing lesbians into some specially protected species is its own form of discrimination.   You can’t protect lesbians by essentially making them something above and beyond the considerations and expectations of everyone else.  You can’t help anyone by making them something different from you or me.

  • Loupdelalune

    you’re right! there are more jobs to be destroyed!

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    No, why should she?  George Soros operates a hedge fund not multiple businesses the destroy the environment.  Soros also isn’t opposed to teachers having a living wage and he hasn’t spent a hundred million trying to disprove climate change and bust unions. 

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    Don’t ever respond to Jason, it only encourages him.

  • Jerry Baustian

    I think the last time I commented on one of Tommy Christopher’s articles, I actually praised something he said.

    But there is nothing here worthy of praise. He’s bought into the Obama propaganda about raising taxes to create jobs — union jobs that will expire after one year when the $425 billion in stimulus money runs out, but we will still be another $425 billion in debt.

    Did someone order him to watch Rachel Maddow? I hope he got bonus pay for that.

  • Anonymous

    She would get tired of hearing his whiney voice for 3 hours, but she would sweep the floor with him.  

  • Anonymous

    Mark Levin can’t even debate a caller let alone anyone else. 

  • Mijmo

    Problem is they are actively involved in destroying Government [because it has the power to stand up to corporate entities like them] Secondly they are conspiring to destroy the American middle class and reduce 80% of the country into poverty, Thirdly they are one of the most dirty companies in the world and owners of  many environmentally damaging industries. Oh and on top of that they are actively involved in reducing the supreme court to a vassal entity [as shown with citizens united], massively funding global warming deniers and currently building a hideous pipeline across the country exploiting tar sands for profit while creating potentially disastrous pollution problems to millions of Americans.     
     

  • Anonymous

    The Koch brother’s are not going to sit in front of no “Macho-lesbian.”

  • Tjones221

    Most posts I’m this section miss the point. Republicans say the rich need more money in the form of tax cuts to create jobs. It appears from Rachel’s chart this isn’t so. The Koch brothers have laid off more people as their income went up. It’s simple. The Koch brothers can’t make the claim they need more money to create jobs without appearing illogical.

  • Lean Forward Lube

    Is your picture before or after your sex change?

  • Confused Boy Anchor

    She is definitive evidence that being bulldyke is a birth defect, psychiatric disorder. Is she aware that the Koch brothers manufacture the rubber tools connected to belts that she uses at home every night? In protest she could boycott proper degenerate tools and glue a cucumber to a leather belt…

  • Anonymous

    You obviously didn’t watch the interview. Phillips came on Maddow’s show to talk about issues like health care and cap and trade, and Maddow resorted to gotcha questions. She came off petty and hyper partisan.

  • WardMD

    Tell you what, Rachel…

    When YOU “man up” and develop a NET WORTH of $8 BILLION (1/2 of the Koch brothers $16 Billion), THEN (and ONLY THEN) are YOU worthy to discuss ANYTHING with them (or, more to the point, should the Koch brothers have ANYTHING to discuss with YOU)!

  • Anonymous

    They have been trying to find someone to “Occupy Rachael Maddow” for sometime now – but cant find any takers.

  • Quickkid20022000

    The last thing rachel should be talking about is manning up…

  • Anonymous

    Look, someone is projecting his servility.  Hope you are having a blast on your knees praising the Kochs. In the meantime, Rachel will continue do her job which she does pretty well.

  • Anonymous

    You rightwing nutjobs are hilarious. You can attach Rachel as long as you want. At the end of the day, she´s right and you are wrong. She´s calling the Kochs out who are playing you big time.

  • Gender Confusion

    ‘Man Up’…

    The most appropriate words this repulsive bulldyke has ever uttered on air…

  • caconservative

    I’m sure there’s a point your trying to make, why don’t you just make the point? We are told not to judge Obimbo by the company he keeps but, there you are, doing the same. You really must try harder at making a non-hypocritical argument.

  • caconservative

    And you arrive at that conclusion, from what facts?

  • caconservative

    I’m actively involved in bring Obimbo’s government down for exactly the reason you stated and I’m not rich! The middle class is being destroyed by the lack of industry that hired these people because they can no longer operate under the excessive taxes and regulation this oppressive government places on them, so they move off shore! From day one the Supreme Court has been a political vassal. The problem is, they have been allowed to become the second-Legislative branch of this corrupt government.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure these industrial titans are going to set aside time to interview with Rachel Maddow.  That’s the problem with being so far left, not even a moderate Republican will talk to you.  David Frum interviewed with her one time, and he was disgusted by her snide and annoying demeanor.

  • caconservative

    That makes sense, make a toilet out of your kitchen? Is that what passes for Liberal reasoning? Wouldn’t you think anyone smart enough to make Billions would recognize that and understand that it’s not good for business?

  • caconservative

    How about the massive number of legal and illegal aliens entering this country and diluting the workforce? Is that not a subject for argument? We have 25+ million legal American citizens either out of work, or underemployed and this government is still bringing in 1-Million immigrants per year to dilute the workforce. We have upward of 8-Million illegal alien parasites holding jobs in this country and the Obimbo administration does nothing?!! Is the obvious eluding the Liberals?  

  • Anonymous

    Does Maddow masturbate, on the air, while sniffing a can of tuna fish?
    That would explain her weird facial contortions.

  • caconservative

    Do you really think the Koch brothers give Maddow one iota of concern?! To them, she’s about as significant as watching a fly crawl up a drape! Wake up!!

  • Anonymous

    Will Madcow be wearing his/her strap on tools when they meet up?

  • caconservative

    And she works for some a basement cable news show? Guess that education didn’t take!

  • Anonymous

    LOL/UGH, I would not ATTACH  myself to Madcow under any circumstance.

  • caconservative

    You mean petty…right?!

  • Anonymous

    “Rachel will continue do her job which she does pretty well.”

    Oh do tell, how would you know?

  • caconservative

    Hell, I can’t stand hearing her in the one-minute segments on Mediaite let alone 3 hours of her gibberish.

  • caconservative

    I’m thinking, it’s penis envy with Darladoon.

  • Anonymous

    $288,000,000.00 is ENOUGH! STOP Koch Organized Crime.

    Koch’s have been fined $288,000,000.00 so far. At what point do you say
    ENOUGH! This evil corporation has murdered Americans and still is, while
    corrupting out govt. I don’t need to fix everything — I can fix ONE
    THING NOW!

    $288,000,000 FINES: http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-pollution-poison.html

    $288,000,000 FINES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Pollution_and_resource_fines

    $288,000,000 FINES: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/10/04/koch-industries-had-inside-man-at-the-epa/

    Koch’s and Murdoch were engaged in 400,000 corporate serial murders per
    year, just in America, not counting the overseas divisions. The courts
    found GUILTY the organized crime tobacco mafia, of which the
    Koch-Murdoch-Axis were full-partners. The federal courts brought in a
    GUILTY verdict, of Racketeer-Influenced-Corrupt-Organization and
    Koch-Murdochs were running the organization apparatus. Murdoch was
    Director on Board of Philip Morris and Director on Board of Cato
    Institute. Every Koch lie-factory was part of the organized crime
    conspiracy.

    Kochs were found, and admitted, to bribing French officials. What US
    officials has this totally RICO organized crime bribed? How about they
    funded lavish speaker fees to Supreme Court Thomas & Scalia while
    funding the CITIZENS UNITED in front of them. That’s bribery by every
    definition known to man.

    Koch-Murdoch Axis is engaged in organized crime voter suppression
    violation in multiple states, funding ALEC to drive off ethnic voters
    from the 2012 election in multiple red states. This is an active
    on-going crime which will not stop, and which will prevent ever fixing
    the system.

    http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/28800000000-is-enough-stop-koch.html

  • Anonymous

    Methinks Madcow is vying with Reggie Love for the JOB as Obama’s PERSONAL body man.

  • Anonymous

    Who is MANNING the microphones while Maddow is slurping on a rubber toy in the ladies room?

  • Anonymous

     Then they open more businesses and hire more people.
    Use your head for something other than to lubricate Rachel’s toyhole.

  • Anonymous

    Rachael’s “occupiers” can be found in the hardware department at Victoria’s Secret.

  • Your Momma’s so fat

    You don’t know too much about the Koch brothers, do you?  Go to Koch brothers exposed and watch the video, you might learn something.

  • lady,lady

    Maddow just wants to see how real men,man up,not the lesbos idea of manning up…considering her right of choice to not sleep with men,her comment to the Koch brothers to man up seems goofy at best…

  • lady,lady

    and soros is what,doing what and to whom…better get your facts straight…the comparisons are duly noted…hey rach,call on soros to man up and see what kind of reaction you get from his peeps……

  • Anonymous

    I believe that. Gonna fix the typo. Ty.

  • Anonymous

     Who was that who made his fortune by turning his own people into the Nazis for compensation?
    Sa,,,,Siii….Sir…..Se……Ser….So…..Sor…..Soro….OH, YEAH…..I REMEMBER.

  • Anonymous

     Who was that who made his fortune by turning his own people into the Nazis for compensation?
    Sa,,,,Siii….Sir…..Se……Ser….So…..Sor…..Soro….OH, YEAH…..I REMEMBER.

  • Man Down

    She is definitive evidence that being bulldyke is a birth defect,
    psychiatric disorder. Is she aware that the Koch brothers manufacture
    the rubber tools connected to belts that she uses at home every night?
    In protest she could boycott proper degenerate tools and glue a cucumber
    to a leather belt…

  • Anonymous

    I remember that Exxon (known as Standard Oil then) was convicted of Trading with the Enemy. I remember that Gay-Bush Great-Gramps George Herbert Walker was on the board of directors of the shipping company which operated the SS St Louis turned the ship around and sent 900 Jewish Refugees back to Nazi Europe in the Voyage of the Damned. I remember G-Dubya-Bush’s gramps was heading up Upper Silesia Coal ans Steel, which sold coal to burn Jews in Auchwitz ovens as late as 1942. If you think dealing with Nazis is a bad thing, what should be done with these people and their ill-gotten gains, applied to ALL EQUALLY?

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    To caconservative:  What I’m trying to say is the Koch brothers are malevolent, hypocrites who profit on the death of Americans while having most republican and some democratic legislators in their pockets. Through their organization A.L.E.C. they organize republican legislatures to do their bidding at the state and local level. They fly republican governors to their lair in Colorado twice each year to give them their marching orders while showing them a good time.  Even Justice Thomas has been a guest of the Koch’s and compensated for his time and support.  All this and more so they can poison the air and water of this country while ignoring the effects on the population.  Sixteen years ago David Koch came down with colon cancer and donated half a billion dollars to  build a cancer research center.  Today their Georgia Pacific plant dumps carcinogens and other poisons into the ground and air killing the citizens of that community.  They’ve spent nothing to research why those poor people are dying. 

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    To caconservative:  What I’m trying to say is the Koch brothers are malevolent, hypocrites who profit on the death of Americans while having most republican and some democratic legislators in their pockets. Through their organization A.L.E.C. they organize republican legislatures to do their bidding at the state and local level. They fly republican governors to their lair in Colorado twice each year to give them their marching orders while showing them a good time.  Even Justice Thomas has been a guest of the Koch’s and compensated for his time and support.  All this and more so they can poison the air and water of this country while ignoring the effects on the population.  Sixteen years ago David Koch came down with colon cancer and donated half a billion dollars to  build a cancer research center.  Today their Georgia Pacific plant dumps carcinogens and other poisons into the ground and air killing the citizens of that community.  They’ve spent nothing to research why those poor people are dying. 

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    To caconservative:  What I’m trying to say is the Koch brothers are malevolent, hypocrites who profit on the death of Americans while having most republican and some democratic legislators in their pockets. Through their organization A.L.E.C. they organize republican legislatures to do their bidding at the state and local level. They fly republican governors to their lair in Colorado twice each year to give them their marching orders while showing them a good time.  Even Justice Thomas has been a guest of the Koch’s and compensated for his time and support.  All this and more so they can poison the air and water of this country while ignoring the effects on the population.  Sixteen years ago David Koch came down with colon cancer and donated half a billion dollars to  build a cancer research center.  Today their Georgia Pacific plant dumps carcinogens and other poisons into the ground and air killing the citizens of that community.  They’ve spent nothing to research why those poor people are dying. 

  • odilloglobottschigg

    The simple truth is that the Coke Bros. don’t have the balls to meet Maddow.

  • Gender Confusion

    hey chigger,
    you are confused. the Koch brothers where born with balls. rachel bulldyke had hers sewn on in an operation. now, go have some gay sex then start a dumpster fire in you neighborhood.

  • Anonymous

    Like dealing with Iran is a problem.  I mean that saint of the conservative cause, rat bastard Ronnie Ray-Gun dealt with them so what’s the real problem with GE?  As far as Iran (for you rednecks and hillbillies, that would be I-Ran) going nuclear, they’re a signator to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty which says that they can develop peaceful nuclear technology.  Yeah, I know, I know, aren’t the motherfckers that are saying that about Iran (see above) are the same son’s of bitches that lied us into a war with Iraq (see what i said about Iran and apply here).

  • AliveStillKickin

    I am not a Republican….so what the hell does that have to do with what I said about Soros?
    I was making a point…..Get a grip, Lambchop!

  • http://twitter.com/rid29651 Ron

    She a carpet muncher who talks on TV.  Who the hell does she think she is to demand anyone to do anything?

  • Anonymous

    Face to Face, lol, it would be more like Mano O Mano, Man against Man with this Bull Dyke Skank!

  • Anonymous

    PMSNBC: Dominated by crazy white male talking heads since 1996.

  • JazzyJim

    Koch Brothers are hiring: Teabaggers to blog on their behalf posing as moronic conservatism.

  • JazzyJim

    Says a girls man like yourself. Man up loser. Childish name calling IS all you have, but it makes it so easy to laugh AT you, not with you with such ignorance and cowardice.

  • Jim

    Homophobe. Just because you don’t “get sex” you can only be mad at those that do. I feel sorry for the sheep you sleep with. Back to the barn Jerry Falwell.

  • Ted haggert

    Another quote by a sheep rapist.

  • Jim

    You are gender confused. What a moron. Intellectually challenged as well.

  • JazzyJim

    Quoting GOP propaganda from Beck isn’t an argument, it’s proof of your ignorance and indoctrination into stupidity.

  • Jim

    I doubt you attend the University of Maryland, so why do you embarrass them so?

    It’s rhetorical moron.

  • JazzyJim

    Moron cannot get away with idiocy with her and that’s why they hide as the cowards they are. Truth is their weakness – the right-wing harvests morons, sheep and cowards; just like this poster to whom I respond.

  • JazzyJim

    You’re more familiar with beastiality gender confused. Deny your own perversion as homophobia and ignorance on your part.

  • JazzyJim

    You’re wrong again. She and most of mankind wouldnt attach themselves to you!

  • JazzyJim

    Considering the nearly $4 trillion the Bush wars are costing us, the fact that the are recepiepiants of little and no taxation, countless A Mercian poisoning deaths and job related illnesses, using of our military to protect their oil interests (Cheron) in Iraq and other Saudi pipeline interests – you can call it WAR profiteering. Showing your ignorance is why the right-wing is the destructive party of this country.

  • JazzyJim

    Education and the ability to read and discern between fact and fiction, truth and lies, which raises the question: HTF are you able to come to your moronic conclusions?

  • JazzyJim

    Another GOP genius. Exhibit A of why GWbush stole office twice – the average Republican voter isn’t smarter than a 3rd grader.

  • Jim

    Really? Where? He doesn’t profit from any merchandising. You LIE?

  • Jim

    You need to get a better argument than blaming someone else off topic. That’s the crap they teach @ teabaggers camp, funded by the Kock Bros., used by Koch Whores.

  • Jim

    Sorts did Faux – YouTube it and stop misdirecting using the propaganda of the Kock Bros., con as taught at teabaggers camp.

    *Soros (not “sorts”)

  • Jim

    What you see are Americans wanting to save the country from the moronic religious and blind faith brood whom have sold us out.

  • Jim

    You don’t see comment here made about heterosexual “cows” from the religulous reich wing do you? Perhaps you and the other homophobic cows would like to post your likeness to be judged – reality check- you won’t. Like all you do and Fox – you’re about lies and lying for the GOP.

  • Jim

    You would be – aging cow.

  • Jim

    That’s humor? Only on Faux Newz, which explains the total lack there of.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    So would I.  She’d mop the floor with him.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    “some abasement,” or “some basement?”

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Then go to outkube.com.  I’m sure you’ll find the enlightening conversations there more than accommodating to your tastes.

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    1. Donations to the ACLU to help them fight the things you oppose helps them free up money they use to fight out immigration laws. See the Koch link in my comment.

    2. There are libertarian-oriented groups that Koch could have donated to that would have done the same thing.

    3. I have 90 posts about the SPLC right here:

    http://24ahead.com/splc

    Oddly enough, those who do (or at least pretend to) oppose them aren’t helping me oppose them, such as by linking to that page and sending their weak supports to that page. I’ve sent several tweets to one of their lawyers trying to making him look bad. Out of 20 tweets to/by him in the past three days, only one opposes him. And, not unsurprisingly, that tweet is from me. TPers aren’t capable of engaging him or helping me engage him, and aren’t willing to do either anyway.

  • Lean Forward Lube

    We can’t make you not be gay, Jazzy. See a psychiatrist for that.

  • Lean Forward Lube

    Sheep don’t have opinions. You have homosexual opinions. And a massive case of heterophobia. Get medicine…

  • heterophobia

    I doubt you are a heterosexual. When you see rachel bulldyke, tell her the Koch brothers own the patents to all the rubber tools attached to her belt at home.

  • Danger From Rear

    What’s with you and “beast’s”? I hope you don’t own a dog or cat at home. You know, they don’t like gay people.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    It’s also “nucular” for your target audience.

  • JMcCARTHY

    Maddow “Man’d Up” a long time ago and wanted to be Chaz Bono’s dance partner on Danceing with the stars, but I could be mistaken.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Oh, thought you were talking about this thread.  ;)

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Then apply it to your posts.  His name is Christopher.  

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    They earned masters degrees in one day?  That IS impressive.  

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Yeah, you guys are so oppressed and persecuted.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    You are correct.  It’s not Rachael.  It’s Rachel.

  • SayyyyyWhat

    When can we expect your interview with Georgiepoo Soros? TIA

  • Tonyfranciozi
  • Boresox

    What the Koch brothers would like is to shut Maddow and other left wingers up.  Why do you think they responded to her show?  Corporations like the Koch’s want to keep out of the spotlight and not have the public know about their dirty deeds.  Kind of like Fixed News wanting to keep it quiet about hiring Mark Sanford.

  • http://twitter.com/LIBERTYUSANOW FREE 2 SPEAK IN USA?

    con you are ignorant . You MUST be fox “news” watcher aka the Disinformation Station. It’s ignorant voters like you that help destroy this country. The simple logic , which you are obviously incapable of : is that demand creates jobs. You think conservatives give a crap about the middle class. GOP/TP right now are holding middle class tax cuts hostage to the XL pipeline that legitimate sources estimate would create between 400 to 1400 hundred TEMP jobs and 50 . But I realize that “conservatives” immune to facts and logic , so i’ll leave it at that and let you ignorant cons argue your ignorant and illogical views. Have fun and please actually TRY to get INFORMED. clever your not.

  • http://twitter.com/LIBERTYUSANOW FREE 2 SPEAK IN USA?

    It is really a waste of time arguing with these ignorant “conservatives” . They just don’t have the brains god gave a rock. They are immune to facts and logic. I just hope a few of them will take the time to do some actual research from reliable sources and actually work their brain muscles ” if they are not already to atrophied ” > you just have to laugh at their ignorant and immunity to logic. LOL : )

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rafer-Johnson/100002998958967 Rafer Johnson

    Thank God I grew up in a country where I could make sufficient money to insulate myself from Morons like you.

    I do have a question for you though, if you’re so smart; why aren’t you rich?

© 2012 Mediaite, LLC | About Us | Advertise | Newsletter | Jobs | Privacy | User Agreement | Disclaimer | Power Grid FAQ | Contact | Archives | RSS RSS
Dan Abrams, Founder | Power Grid by Sound Strategies | Hosting by Datagram