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"Populists"

Source: Daily Kos

Nov 06, 2009

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One of the great services Rachel Maddow has done over the past several months is to show the powerful--and exceedingly wealthy--interests propping up the supposedly populist tea-parties. While the people participating probably feel ike their in the midst of some great groundswell of populist, grassroots movement, the sad truth is that their anger and resentment (and no small amount of racism) is being exploited by these corporate bastards in an attempt to protect their own billions.

Matt Yglesias has more on this from yesterday's display:

David Koch and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, for example, are #379 and #388 on the Forbes 400 list. They’re also major donors to a number of right-wing causes, including Americans for Prosperity, which is chaired by David. And as several AFPers were willing to discuss with my colleague Lee Fang yesterday, that Koch money helped pay for 40 buses to bring people to the tea parties free of charge, doughnuts, signs, etc.:

It really makes all those predominantly old, white, angry people look even more like sheep. They p

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