Byron writes:

“The Billionaires Behind the Hate” is the title of a new report published by the Center for American Progress, which is the liberal think tank run by John Podesta, the former Clinton chief of staff who also ran the Obama transition and serves as an outside adviser to the Obama White House. The supposedly hateful billionaires in the article’s title are brothers Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, one of the nation’s largest conglomerates.
And what do they hate? The “progressive agenda.” The Kochs, according to Podesta’s group, are “responsible for a vicious attack campaign aimed directly at obstructing and killing progressive reform.” First, they opposed the stimulus, financing “television and radio ads deriding the recovery package as simply ‘pork’ spending.” Imagine that! Then, through the group Americans for Prosperity, they helped organize some of the first “Tea Party” protests.