Koch Brothers are “two of the most patriotic Americans in the history of the Earth.”
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So if a billionaire donates a few grand he's a true American ??? 
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Payin Debts.... N40
Politicians are about as bad as prostitutes. lol
what a whore 
By the modern Republican definition, they certainly are... 
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Isn't Think Progress the liberal blog that just falsely smeared Paul Ryan as a racist who speaks to white supremacists through code words? Now they are promoting Koch Brothers Derangement Syndrome ?
After reading the comments on that blog it is a little bit frightening that those people actually vote. Apparently promoting limited government now makes one a fascist.
So if a billionaire donates a few grand he's a true American ???
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/0...ve-more-to-charity-than-to-right-wing-causes/
According to that link, the Koch brothers have donated more than $600 million to arts, education, and medical research including:
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell: $15 million
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: $25 million
The Hospital for Special Surgery: $26 million
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $30 million
Prostate Cancer Foundation: $41 million
Deerfield Academy: $68 million
Lincoln Center's NY State Theater: $100 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $139 million
You don't think such generous philanthropy is patriotic?
By the modern Republican definition, they certainly are...
In all seriousness, why do you think left wingers have such a strong obsession/derangement when it comes to the Koch Brothers???
Apparently the Koch brothers just donated $100 million to a New York City hospital and liberals responded by protesting the hospital.
http://freebeacon.com/blog/koch-brother-donates-money-to-hospital-liberals-protest-not-a-parody/
Koch Brother Donates Money to Hospital, Liberals Protest
(Not a Parody)
BY: Andrew Stiles // March 10, 2014 9:26 am
The Koch brothers are at it again. Their right-wing political Panzer Division descended on a New York City hospital over the weekend to protest (!) the addition of a new ambulatory care center. What the hell, Koch bros? Why not pro-America?
Sorry. That’s not quite right. In fact, it was the New York State Nurses’ Association, the NAACP New York State Conference, and SEIU Local 1199, among others, who marched on the soon-to-be-built David H. Koch Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which was funded in part by a $100 million donation from the man one prominent liberal recently predicted would go down in history as a “famously evil person.”
The donation was the largest in the hospital’s history, and will presumably create a fair number of new nursing jobs. So why are the usual suspects up in arms? Well, the agitators were apparently agitated because this particular hospital didn’t need all the money. Oh yeah, and because it was International Women’s Day, and the Kochs are the primary funders of the “war on women’s reproductive rights … and many other issues of concern to American women.” They’re also behind “the effort to defeat and repeal healthcare to all Americans,” whatever that means.
Ben Kallos, the local New York City Council representative, was on hand to shout compelling applause lines such as:
Just to be clear: Kallos is a sitting city council member who attended a protest against the addition of a new hospital care center in the neighborhood he represents because … Koch brothers!
Here are some other stirring images from the protests:
And here’s what someone actually said, apparently, at a protest against a $100 million hospital donation:
They even composed their own song to the tune of “New York, New York” by Ronan Farrow’s maybe-dad:
And protested outside of Koch’s apartment:
(Full disclosure: I am contractually obligated to incorporate an anti-Clinton angle in everything I write, but as it turns out, there is actually a rather compelling one here.)
The Washington Times reported last week that former President Bill Clinton accepted a $225,000 speaking fee from the Washington Hospital Center in 2012, the same year the hospital laid off 300 employees, on top of the 200 layoffs announced in 2011. The information was disclosed in Hillary Clinton’s final ethics filings as secretary of state, and was just one of several dozen well-paid speaking gigs reported by the former president.
The local SEIU affiliate representing the hospital workers wasn’t too happy about it. “No disrespect to Bill Clinton, but that money could’ve gone a long way and been put to better use,” said Dan Fields Jr., president of the Service Employees International Union Local 722. “Our contract expires on June 30, and I’m pretty sure they’re going to come to the table and talk about how they’re losing money, so this concerns me greatly
.” But first and foremost: No disrespect to Bill Clinton. He just wanted to make that clear. It’s not like the former prez did anything shameful, like actually donate money to the hospital.
Keep an eye out for the details about the forthcoming march on the Clinton’s multi-mullion-dollar Georgetown mansion. Or don’t, because something like that actually happening would suggest an ideological coherence not readily apparent in the type of person who would protest a rich guy’s hospital donation while singing a song about sending that rich guy to prison.
Final thought: It’s pretty great to live in a country where this is the sort of thing that inspires people to take to the streets in protest, especially given recent events around the world. Protestors in Ukraine, for example, just fought a medieval trench war with armed riot police to oust Victor Yanukovich—an actual, real-life version of the liberal caricature of David Koch—and are currently trying to prevent a kleptocrat dictator from stealing part of their country.
But still. Cool protest!
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http://freebeacon.com/blog/koch-brother-donates-money-to-hospital-liberals-protest-not-a-parody/
Koch Brother Donates Money to Hospital, Liberals Protest
(Not a Parody)
BY: Andrew Stiles // March 10, 2014 9:26 am
The Koch brothers are at it again. Their right-wing political Panzer Division descended on a New York City hospital over the weekend to protest (!) the addition of a new ambulatory care center. What the hell, Koch bros? Why not pro-America?
Sorry. That’s not quite right. In fact, it was the New York State Nurses’ Association, the NAACP New York State Conference, and SEIU Local 1199, among others, who marched on the soon-to-be-built David H. Koch Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which was funded in part by a $100 million donation from the man one prominent liberal recently predicted would go down in history as a “famously evil person.”
The donation was the largest in the hospital’s history, and will presumably create a fair number of new nursing jobs. So why are the usual suspects up in arms? Well, the agitators were apparently agitated because this particular hospital didn’t need all the money. Oh yeah, and because it was International Women’s Day, and the Kochs are the primary funders of the “war on women’s reproductive rights … and many other issues of concern to American women.” They’re also behind “the effort to defeat and repeal healthcare to all Americans,” whatever that means.
Ben Kallos, the local New York City Council representative, was on hand to shout compelling applause lines such as:
Just to be clear: Kallos is a sitting city council member who attended a protest against the addition of a new hospital care center in the neighborhood he represents because … Koch brothers!
Here are some other stirring images from the protests:
And here’s what someone actually said, apparently, at a protest against a $100 million hospital donation:
They even composed their own song to the tune of “New York, New York” by Ronan Farrow’s maybe-dad:
And protested outside of Koch’s apartment:
(Full disclosure: I am contractually obligated to incorporate an anti-Clinton angle in everything I write, but as it turns out, there is actually a rather compelling one here.)
The Washington Times reported last week that former President Bill Clinton accepted a $225,000 speaking fee from the Washington Hospital Center in 2012, the same year the hospital laid off 300 employees, on top of the 200 layoffs announced in 2011. The information was disclosed in Hillary Clinton’s final ethics filings as secretary of state, and was just one of several dozen well-paid speaking gigs reported by the former president.
The local SEIU affiliate representing the hospital workers wasn’t too happy about it. “No disrespect to Bill Clinton, but that money could’ve gone a long way and been put to better use,” said Dan Fields Jr., president of the Service Employees International Union Local 722. “Our contract expires on June 30, and I’m pretty sure they’re going to come to the table and talk about how they’re losing money, so this concerns me greatly
.” But first and foremost: No disrespect to Bill Clinton. He just wanted to make that clear. It’s not like the former prez did anything shameful, like actually donate money to the hospital.
Keep an eye out for the details about the forthcoming march on the Clinton’s multi-mullion-dollar Georgetown mansion. Or don’t, because something like that actually happening would suggest an ideological coherence not readily apparent in the type of person who would protest a rich guy’s hospital donation while singing a song about sending that rich guy to prison.
Final thought: It’s pretty great to live in a country where this is the sort of thing that inspires people to take to the streets in protest, especially given recent events around the world. Protestors in Ukraine, for example, just fought a medieval trench war with armed riot police to oust Victor Yanukovich—an actual, real-life version of the liberal caricature of David Koch—and are currently trying to prevent a kleptocrat dictator from stealing part of their country.
But still. Cool protest!
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