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That.
Was beautiful.
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The Daily Show and Jon Stewart, bringing the truth, and making it funny. Awesome.
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You’d almost think they don’t want them as a sponsor.
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Daily Show can likely afford to pick their sponsors.
This was a stick-in-the-eye from Koch Industries.
Dropping big $$ to basically say:
Nyah-nyah!
This was DS’s way of saying it right back.
jw1
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Amway did exactly the same thing here in Michigan 8 years ago when Dick DeVos was running for governor. Didn’t turn out so well. And as soon as the election was over the ads stopped airing.
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Don’t expect similar treatment of the fossil fuel industry from MSNBC, and don’t hold your breath for an apology from Phil Griffin.
I was stunned to hear Alex Wagner report on a ring of oil in the Gulf the size of Rhode Island – don’t hear much about the Gulf any more since BP started buying up air time.
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Sponsored death and destruction via your comedy channel. Something is wrong about that.
The Kocks are a detestable pair. If you can stomach it, read the Rolling Stone I believe, article that lays out there evil empire. They are truly disgusting and doing damage that likely won’t ever get repaired.
The Republicans are down with these assholes in full too, think about that.
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They don’t need Koch Bros. sponsorship. It runs counter to what they want to offer their audience anyway, and might have turned off the show’s viewers had they not taken them on so directly. It was excellent strategery.
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The Koch brothers came by their money the old fashioned way–they inherited it from their daddy one of the founders of the John Birch Society. The nuts didn’t fall very far from the tree. For many they are the face of evil. That is why until recently they stayed in the shadows.
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Thank You John Stewart That was amazing. He finally presented the true story of the Koch’s influence on our democracy.
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Pretty funny when you can flick off your source of income, something Jose can’t do as easily now!
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Yes IT was!
The Koch Brothers: Raping the Earth so you don’t have to.
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KochInd$$$$$$$
Can’t buy 'em love
But Elections? Sure! Why not?
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Obviously that picturesque town is not the little town in Arkansas, along what used to be a one time clear running creek, which is now a churning, steaming, pollution emitting cesspool of toxic waste from their Georgia Pacific plant downstream.
The people in that Ad, are not the same people in that Arkansas town, who choke on the toxic air when they are brave enough to venture outside, if of course their many health problems allows them the strength to venture outside. There is one bright spot in that town though, and they can thank the Kochfascists for it. The funeral and cemetery business is doing a booming business, but the housing market there is in the tank.
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I am still a little miffed they took the ad. On the other hand, if all “news” shows attacked their sponsors like this the world would be a better place. It seems the only way to get the unvarnished truth is to go to the comedy channel.
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Alex does great work. She really doesn’t get the attention or respect she deserves. Both she and Joy Ann Reid suffer from the same Not-Maddow syndrome.
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Evil flourishes in the absence of the righteous refusing to destroy it.
This evil is upon you. It is flourishing. It is winning. It has and will diminish all of your lives.
What are you willing to do about it?
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For more than a month I have seen more Koch Industries TV ads appearing on several network programs than the usual image-building ads of GE. Apparently the Koch brothers either feel that their business interests need to be recognized as principal supporters of their political activities that result in GOP election victories, or that the images of their businesses are being tainted by the media’s constant referral to them personally as the major contributors to right-wing political groups and candidates, rather than attacking Freedom Partners, their non-profit organization through which their millions of dollars in political contributions flows.
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