The filmmaker, Robert Greenwald, made these remarks on Ed Schultz’ radio show. At this point, this stuff writes itself:
GREENWALD: Well, we launched the Koch Brothers Exposed website, Facebook page and Twitter about two months ago when we first started with a video telling people the five worst things the Kochs had done. We got thousands of people responding to that. And then the other night in New York City we had a renaming ceremony. David Koch gave $100 million to call the New York State Theater in his name, David Koch Theater, and we had people out there with signs saying what it really should be called. We have people now on the Facebook and the website voting on what the real name of the theater should be, everything from I Killed The Middle Class, which was one of my favorites, to the Unclean Energy, to I’m Just Not That Into You Democracy. And if you go to the Koch Brothers Exposed website or Facebook page, you can kind of join.
Now there’s obviously satire there, Ed, but there’s an important point behind it. And the important point is that these are, as you know and as a lot of your listeners know, they’re giving hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy democracy, to buy their ideology, and to literally propagandize people. And it’s very important that we use all the possible tools to educate people, to inform them, and to satirize what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.
What Greenwald fails to recognize is that while the Koch brothers have donated over $100 million to right-wing causes, they’ve given over $600 million to the arts, education, and medical research! More at Newsbusters.






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