The Kochs Sent Rachel Maddow A Script To Read On Air. Her Response Was Epic.

[KamaAina]

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/09/23/koch-brothers-rachel-maddow/

Earlier this year, Rachel Maddow did a show on the failed and disastrous welfare drug testing debacle in Florida. During the show, she traced the legislation that demanded that welfare recipients be drug tested back to its money source — the Koch brothers.

Following that show, she got a surprise — one that delighted her. When Maddow covers the Koch brothers, she hears from the Koch brothers’ lawyers. This time? The Koch brothers sent her a script with instructions to read it on the air. The script contained verbiage that would have denounced her reporting of their affiliation with groups that control Republicans and legislation at the local, state, and federal level....

What she revealed about the Kochs that angered them was this:

“They are part of a network of state-based conservative think tanks that are designed to not look like a network. They all look vaguely indigenous. They all have what look to be locally-specific names, but their funding — if you follow it — comes in part from a central source of big money corporate donors, including groups affiliated with the Koch brothers.”

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I would have preferred for her to read it, a bit at a time, making plain that it's exactly what THEY

want her to say about them, and intercut it with the actual truth. Rather than just letting us see her response, to take their 'infotainment' apart, line by line for us all to enjoy.

[KamaAina]

2. That's what some rock star did with one of those anti-drug spots

He said, "I've been given a script to read that says that drugs are bad..."