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Related: About this forumTea Party founded 2002 by Koch Brothers, Rupert Murdoch, Big Tobacco
http://www.debatez.com/forums/#/discussion/196/us-tea-party-founded-in-2002-by-billionaire-oil-barons-koch-brothers-fox-news-and-big-tobaccoThe "Big Lie" about the so-called "grassroots" founding of the Tea Party
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/study-confirms-tea-party-_b_2663125.html
http://koch-murdoch-axis.blogspot.com/2011/12/proof-kochs-plotting-tea-party.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/how-the-kochs-and-their-f_b_4040698.html
http://political-chaos.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-tea-party-myth-and-fallacy-exposed.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy
Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) (19842004) was a conservative political group operating in the United States, whose self-described mission was "to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation." In 2004, Citizens for a Sound Economy split into two new organizations, with Citizens for a Sound Economy being renamed as FreedomWorks, and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation becoming Americans for Prosperity.
Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) was established in 1984 by David H. Koch and Charles Koch of Koch Industries. Ron Paul was appointed as the first chairman of the organization. "CSE received almost $5 million from various Koch foundations between 1986 and 1990, and David Koch and several Koch Industries employees serve[d] as directors of CSE and the CSE Foundation."In 1989, CSE purchased the financially troubled Tax Foundation and operated it as a subsidiary from CSE's offices until the split in 2004. In 2003, Dick Armey became the chairman of CSE after retiring from Congress. In 2004, Citizens for a Sound Economy split into FreedomWorks, for 501c4 advocacy activity, and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Dick Armey stayed as chairman of FreedomWorks, while David Koch stayed as Chairman of Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
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Tea Party founded 2002 by Koch Brothers, Rupert Murdoch, Big Tobacco (Original Post)
LVZ
Dec 2014
OP
Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)1. So that is where they got the idea that corporations are people too.
SnakeEyes
(1,407 posts)2. Wow, not surprising
Looks like a Glenn Beck chalkboard "map". Figures.
LVZ
(937 posts)3. NY Times: The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=0
Theres just one element missing from these snapshots of Americas ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the death panel warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. Youve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs banner may not know who these brothers are.
Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdochs, go well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power, and given the recession-battered electorates unchecked anger and the Obama White Houses unfocused political strategy, they might.
All three tycoons are the latest incarnation of what the historian Kim Phillips-Fein labeled Invisible Hands in her prescient 2009 book of that title: those corporate players who have financed the far right ever since the du Pont brothers spawned the American Liberty League in 1934 to bring down F.D.R. You can draw a straight line from the Liberty Leagues crusade against the New Deal socialism of Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission and child labor laws to the John Birch Society-Barry Goldwater assault on J.F.K. and Medicare to the Koch-Murdoch-backed juggernaut against our socialist president.
Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdochs, go well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power, and given the recession-battered electorates unchecked anger and the Obama White Houses unfocused political strategy, they might.
All three tycoons are the latest incarnation of what the historian Kim Phillips-Fein labeled Invisible Hands in her prescient 2009 book of that title: those corporate players who have financed the far right ever since the du Pont brothers spawned the American Liberty League in 1934 to bring down F.D.R. You can draw a straight line from the Liberty Leagues crusade against the New Deal socialism of Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission and child labor laws to the John Birch Society-Barry Goldwater assault on J.F.K. and Medicare to the Koch-Murdoch-backed juggernaut against our socialist president.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. hey, David Koch was the Libertarians' VP candidate,
their Presidential candidates were Hunts, and their main ideologue was a shameless theocrat, but without the upsides of most theocrats
Derek V
(532 posts)5. Enthusiastic K&R
Tell it!
LVZ
(937 posts)6. DailyPaul: Pawns of the Koch Brothers? The Billionaires' Tea Party
LVZ
(937 posts)7. Koch family, Ron and Rand Paul, and John Birch Society
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2013/10/09/the-koch-brothers-ron-and-rand-paul-and-the-john-birch-society/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/29/1227404/-Where-do-Rand-Paul-Ralph-Reed-and-David-Koch-Connect#
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/29/1227404/-Where-do-Rand-Paul-Ralph-Reed-and-David-Koch-Connect#
The (John Birch Society) JBS was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, a Massachusetts Republican Party official, wealthy business man, and board member of the ultra conservative National Review.
The (JBS) goal was that the United States have a greatly diminished Federal Government out of the business of social programs, regulation, public works, and education, and where men were free to conduct their business without Government intervention and with zero taxation of the rich. Tax exempt religious organizations was the preferred vehicle to ensure that the ultra wealthy would pay no taxes on business operations. Regular people would be poor, uneducated, and powerless, unable to join labor unions as they would not be allowed.
William F. Buckley, Jr., widely recognized as the father of modern American Conservatism and the founder of the National Review, became concerned about the growing influence of the JBS over the Republican Party and Conservative politics. Beginning with his February, 1962 essay, Buckley began warning readers of the dangers posed by the JBS, eventually effectively removing it from the GOP and banishing its followers to the far right wing fringe of American political thought.
Folks, the JBS, through the Koch brothers, is back embedding itself in the hierarchy of the GOP. And the JBS might really be at the root of both the Tea Party and the Libertarian Party. Consider the connection between the failed Presidential bids by Congressman Ron Paul, the JBS, and the Koch brothers.
The (JBS) goal was that the United States have a greatly diminished Federal Government out of the business of social programs, regulation, public works, and education, and where men were free to conduct their business without Government intervention and with zero taxation of the rich. Tax exempt religious organizations was the preferred vehicle to ensure that the ultra wealthy would pay no taxes on business operations. Regular people would be poor, uneducated, and powerless, unable to join labor unions as they would not be allowed.
William F. Buckley, Jr., widely recognized as the father of modern American Conservatism and the founder of the National Review, became concerned about the growing influence of the JBS over the Republican Party and Conservative politics. Beginning with his February, 1962 essay, Buckley began warning readers of the dangers posed by the JBS, eventually effectively removing it from the GOP and banishing its followers to the far right wing fringe of American political thought.
Folks, the JBS, through the Koch brothers, is back embedding itself in the hierarchy of the GOP. And the JBS might really be at the root of both the Tea Party and the Libertarian Party. Consider the connection between the failed Presidential bids by Congressman Ron Paul, the JBS, and the Koch brothers.