"Only the fat cats change—not their methods and not their pet bugaboos (taxes, corporate regulation, organized labor, and government 'handouts' to the poor, unemployed, ill and elderly). Even the sources of their fortunes remain fairly constant. Koch Industries began with oil in the 1930s and now also spews an array of industrial products, from Dixie cups to Lycra, not unlike DuPont’s portfolio of paint and plastics. Sometimes the biological DNA persists as well. The Koch brothers’ father, Fred, was among the select group chosen to serve on the Birch Society’s top governing body. In a recorded 1963 speech that survives in a University of Michigan archive, he can be heard warning of 'a takeover' of America in which Communists would 'infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.' That rant could be delivered as is at any Tea Party rally today."
Inspired by Jane Mayer's New Yorker article, Frank Rich in The New York Times exposes the right-wing activism of the billionaire Koch brothers.
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