Why do the Koch Brothers get all the “sunshine?”
Similar results appear from the same searches on The Washington Post web site, which turns up 277 links to the Koch Brothers and 11 for Tides. And on the New Yorker web site, Koch Brothers generated 35 links and none for Tides.
The contrast was even more dramatic on the Common Cause site, where the Koch Brothers were linked 4,560 times versus one for Tides.
What do these search results tell us? Only that it appears the Koch Brothers are of vastly heightened interest to two of America’s greatest daily newspapers and to the dean of campaign finance reform advocacy organizations than is the Tides Foundation.
Which is curious, considering that it is all but certain nobody in these two August newsrooms or among the leadership of Common Cause would reject the proposition that “the rich” have far too much influence in American politics, thanks to their wealth.
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Because the Koch Bros are libertarians that support many centre-right causes and politicians.
Resist We Much on March 11, 2013 at 5:03 PM
Next question.
Galt2009 on March 11, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Because the media has —
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Self-induced myopia.
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Sycophantic desire
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Rectal cranial inversion
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Self-flagellation by proxy
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Onanism via “speaking truth to power” but only if it’s safe
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Check all that apply
LincolntheHun on March 11, 2013 at 5:12 PM
Also because they want to put all the press they can on the Goldstein–er Koch brothers, meanwhile they want Tides to fly under the radar. Shhhh.
Axeman on March 11, 2013 at 5:13 PM
Bingo. Hillary is an Alisky devotee as well.
tom daschle concerned on March 11, 2013 at 5:16 PM
Quite simple, really…the Democrat Media needed a new Evil Empire to go after, when Leftist Sugar Daddy George Soros bought $61 million worth of Halliburton a few years ago.
And then in 2008, a bunch of Halliburton employees, including a Senior VP, donated to the Democrat Dude running for President. When that also became public knowledge, the Democrat Media suddenly lost interest.
Del Dolemonte on March 11, 2013 at 5:25 PM
‘Cause the left thinks their name is short, funny and memorable.
As Galt2009 said:
And,
Fallon on March 11, 2013 at 5:42 PM
Alinskyesque I know you are but what am I?
Only because we go after Soros. They only go after Fox because we’ve been complaint about CNN.
List goes on.
Ben Hur on March 11, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Baloney.
Fallon on March 11, 2013 at 6:19 PM
Anyone who watched Glenn Beck in his Fox days knows about the Tides Foundation. Just goes to prove how small a percentage of the general population watch even the most watched cable news station.
Jasper61 on March 11, 2013 at 7:12 PM