http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/30/1333457/-Kochs-brothers-freak-out-in-response-to-Rolling-Stone-expose
Tim Dickinson's fantastic expose of the Koch brothers in the latest issue of Rolling Stone
has gotten plenty of attention. For very good reason: it's a
well-sourced, deep dive into the very toxic—literally toxic—business
that earned the Kochs enough money to buy up an entire political party.
That and the wrongful death judgement, six felony and numerous
misdemeanor convictions, the tens of millions of dollars in fines, and
the trading with Iran are all included in the story, well worth your
time.
No one has given it more attention, it seems, than the notoriously thin-skinned Kochs. In typical Koch fashion, they don't argue the facts of Dickinson's story. They attack Dickinson, who responds here. Here's the nut of his detailed response.
Dickinson then provides an exhaustive, 14-point taken down of each of
the Kochs' complaints about his story, including every instance in which
the Kochs do not actually dispute the facts that he has reported, but
attempt to obfuscate them and whine about that fact that he reported
them. They also don't acknowledge that Dickinson attempted to give them
the opportunity to talk to him about his story whir reporting, but they
refused.
The Kochs clearly do not stand up well to close scrutiny, and clearly
are not prepared for it. For some reason, probably because they're
richer than god, they seem to assume that they should be able to swoop
into our political system and attempt to buy it without being subject to
close examination. That attitude, along with their long history of
abusing people, the environment, and the political system, is doing them
no favors. They've made themselves the subject of this election, and if
Democrats hold the Senate, it will largely be because the Kochs have
made themselves such good enemies.
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