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Galraedia

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Tue Feb 21, 2012, 12:47 AM Feb 2012

David Koch Tries To Rehab His Image By Claiming Scott Walker’s Union Busting Is Working

David Koch is busy trying to rehab his tarnished media image, without admitting that he’s been hurt by the exposure of his financial investment in fundamentally changing America into a fantastical Ayn Rand Utopia for tax-dodging billionaires or his secret Iranian sales. The Koch brothers have long been the secret under-bellies of funding for the Right, and they worked hard to keep it that way.

On the surface, the Koch brothers appeared to be philanthropists of the arts and science, but as we all found out in 2010 thanks to Jane Mayer reporting for The New Yorker, they were working behind the scenes as a Randian Oz in order to control the political landscape of America. The exposure hurt the Koch brothers’ image, and with it, their ability to get their agendas passed.

Media scrutiny has been daunting for the Kochs, and post-exposure, they’ve had to adjust their game plan for manipulating American policies.

David Koch’s latest effort in Media Rehab is pushing his cancer research funding in an interview with Stacey Singer of the Palm Beach Post while asking if he looks like a bully:

“They make me sound like a bully,” David Koch says when asked about journalists, looking a little baffled. “Do I look like a bully?”


Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/en/koch-walker-union-busting

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David Koch Tries To Rehab His Image By Claiming Scott Walker’s Union Busting Is Working (Original Post) Galraedia Feb 2012 OP
So sorry to be upsetting his agenda Live and Learn Feb 2012 #1
He's got the bucks, but we've got the signatures... Scuba Feb 2012 #2

Live and Learn

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1. So sorry to be upsetting his agenda
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 01:08 AM
Feb 2012

to screw the little people.

And Mr. Koch really doesn't want to ask me what he looks like, cause bully is too kind.

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