{"id":3479,"date":"2010-10-20T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/free-speech-belongs-to-the-rich-just-ask-the-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T17:42:42","slug":"free-speech-belongs-to-the-rich-just-ask-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/free-speech-belongs-to-the-rich-just-ask-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Belongs to the Rich &ndash; Just ask the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/20\/beck-koch-chamber-meeting\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB114687252956545543.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">revealed<\/a> to the Wall Street Journal\u2019s Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, think tanks, media outlets and other anti-government efforts through a twice annual meeting of wealthy right-wing donors. He also confided to Moore, who is funded through several of Koch\u2019s ventures, that <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">his true goal is to strengthen the \u201c<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB114687252956545543.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\"><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">culture of prosperity<\/font><\/a><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">\u201d by eliminating \u201c90%\u201d of all laws and government regulations<\/font>. Although it is difficult to quantify the exact amount Koch alone has funneled to right-wing fronts, some studies have pointed toward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaigns\/global-warming-and-energy\/polluterwatch\/koch-industries\/\">$50 million<\/a> he has given alone to anti-environmental groups. Recently, fronts funded by Charles and his brother David have received <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/23\/david-charles-koch\/\">scrutiny<\/a> because they have played a pivotal role in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/13\/koch-tea-party-billionaire\/\">organizing<\/a> of the anti-Obama Tea Parties and the promotion of virulent far right lawmakers like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). (David Koch praised DeMint and gave him a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/62453\/david-koch-at-defending-the-american-dream-summit\/\">Washington Award<\/a>\u201d shortly after the senator promised to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/president-obama\/audio-of-jim-demint-saying-health-care-will-be-obamas-waterloo\/\">break<\/a>\u201d Obama by making health reform his \u201cWaterloo.\u201d) <\/p>\n<p>While the Koch brothers \u2014 each worth over <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/09\/23\/david_koch_takes_title_of_richest_n.php\">$21.5 billion<\/a> \u2014 have certainly underwritten much of the right, their hidden coordination with other big business money has gone largely unnoticed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/20\/beck-koch-chamber-meeting\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Culture of Prosperity, anyone can get rich, and if you haven\u2019t done so, then fuck you, loser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch revealed to the Wall Street Journal\u2019s Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, think tanks, media outlets and other anti-government efforts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/free-speech-belongs-to-the-rich-just-ask-the-supreme-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Speech Belongs to the Rich &ndash; Just ask the Supreme Court<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}