According to Rolling Stone, at a recent plutocrat’s gathering, one of the Koch Brothers, heavy financers of the Tea Party “movement,” called President Obama, “Saddam Hussein.” Rolling Stone claims to have it on tape. For a Koch brother to make such a reference to Obama, well, that’s really the pot calling the kettle black.Like most right-wing billionaires, The Koch boys got their money the old fashioned way; they inherited it. The father, who left them all that lucre was also a piece of work. An oil engineer who invented some type of oil extraction method he couldn’t get a patent on in the U.S., and so took it to the Soviet Union and sold it to good old Joe Stalin. Remember him? Stalin runs neck and neck with Mao as history’s biggest mass murderer.
The elder Koch made his fortune from this paranoid megalomaniac and obviously some of Stalin’s paranoia rubbed off on the old man. He came back to the U.S. and helped found the John Birch Society, a collection of right-wing paranoid degenerates who accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a communist agent.
A more appropriate name for the Koch Brothers would be the “Krupp Brothers” after the German industrialist family who financed the rise of the Nazis in Germany and built much of Hitler’s war machine. Alfred Krupp, even joined the S.S. and loved Adolph to the end. Obama is too politically correct to call the Kochs what they really are: Fascists. They’re spending millions all over the nation undermining democracy because they obviously don’t believe in it and consider it a form of governance for chumps. So when you read about the Kochs, think “Krupps.” It rolls off the tongue easily. After all when you’ve seen one Fascist you’ve seen them all.
R.T. Tihista
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.
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I have two words for you RT: George Soros.
If anything, the Kochs provide a pitance of balance to the corrupt influence of old George. Soros’ funding of far left media outlets (Media Matters, and the Daily Kos come to mind) and the far left agenda dwarfs anything that the Koch’s have done.
It’s amazing that you try to conflate the Kochs, the Krupps, and the Nazis. Sounds like you graduated from the Louie Ferrakhan School of Logic and Reasoning.
And since you’re drawing comparisons to the Nazis, as a teenager in Budapest during WWII Soros actually worked for the Nazis against his own Jewish people. And while no one holds that against a person of such a young age who was only trying to survive, it is a much more direct link than anything you’re trying to hoist with the Kochs. So stop with the silly Fascist BS. Or do we need to explore Soros’ socialism and his proximity to Obama.
Where’s HBM when you need him?
Soros was 14, in hiding with a friend of his father’s who claimed soros was his christian son, and no one other than Ann Coulter and the rest of the Fox news crowd claims he was a collaborator ‘working against his own jewish people.’ I’m not a fan of Soros but this morning the Fox blogosphere was lamenting the head of a local Tea Party group being called a nazi by some jerk of a high school teacher and claiming that nothing like that ‘ever’ occurred on the other side. All nazi references in politics are over the top.
Cramer, please read “Soros on Soros” (his auto biography). Soros original family name was Schwartz and was changed by his father to conceal their Jewish heritage/faith. And it’s not a “claim” by the “Ann Coulter/Fox News” crowd that Soros helped the Nazis against his own people, Soros freely admits it in his book. But as a 14 year old trying to survive in war ravaged Hungary, who could honestly hold him responsible for those actions.
It’s only regrettable that Tihista calls those who actively oppose Obama with their time and resources, Nazis. Not exactly following the admonishment from our President to tone down the rhetoric.