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Koch Brothers: Inside the Left’s Head

Posted on | February 24, 2011 | 15 Comments

John Hinderaker at Powerline: “The most extraordinary story in the news these days is the all-out assault that the Left is mounting against Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Enterprises.”

The Kochs are to this decade what “Big Oil” was to the Bush era: The Left’s all-purpose villain. Last month I wrote about Koch gathering at Rancho Mirage, which drew a protest mob that included former “green jobs czar” Van Jones.

For all their ranting about Glenn Beck and conspiracy theories, it’s the Left that has a paranoid obsession with enemies and scapegoats whom they depict as sinister forces conspiring malevolently against them.

Back in the 1990s, the Left blamed everything on the “Religious Right,” the NRA and Rush Limbaugh. Then, during the Bush era, it was Big Oil and “neocons.” Now it’s Fox News and the Koch Brothers.

But it’s always something, you see? The Left can never accept the possibility that their policies don’t work, or that their agenda is genuinely unpopular, and so they require a demonized enemy — a hate-object — to explain their political failures.

Union thugs get bussed in for a protest and one of them roughs up Tabitha Hale and no one – no one – on the Left stops to think: “Hey, maybe we’re carried this demonization stuff against ‘teabaggers’ a little too far.”

No, they don’t do that. They can’t do that. Because that would involve accepting responsibility, and considering the possibility that they might be wrong, and if they ever started thinking that way — if they could ever extract their heads from their rectums long enough to realize that the world doesn’t work the way they’ve been told — they wouldn’t be on the Left much longer.

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  • Joe

    Yeah, the Koch brothers fund sites like Reason and Balko who are clearly in the bag for the right (NOT).

    The left cannot accept the obvious…that their policies suck.

    Just like Shep Smith can’t publically admit he prefers men over women…

    It is just too painful for them.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    The left needs their two minutes hate against someone in place of Emmanuel Goldstein.

    Be it Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Fox News, George Bush, the guy in charge of the National Chamber of Commerce (for a little while) and now the Koch Brothers.

  • Mikey NTH

    IIRC, Richard Scaife(sp?) was a 1990′s bogeyman for the left also.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615281575 Bill Hedrick

    I was talking to an old friend of mine, who is a bit left but sane on most matters. He was bagging on the Koch brothers a bit, I mentioned Soros, and we both concluded you don’t get to be a billionaire by being a boy scout. The problem the left has is a comical Captain Renault syndrome: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! ”

  • wormme

    The best way to understand and predict them is to understand that they behave exactly like insects in a hive mind. They can exhibit intelligent-looking behavior, until the hive is threatened. Then it’s buzz, swarm, sting.

    Their hive mind IS more intelligent than actual insects’. Bugs aren’t smart enough to target pesticide manufacturers, but progressives know to attack what endangers them. Progressives know to go after actual threats.

  • http://twitter.com/bradjshannon Brad J Shannon

    “The Left can never accept the possibility that their policies don’t work, or that their agenda is genuinely unpopular, and so they require a demonized enemy — a hate-object — to explain their political failures.”

    Pot/kettle, etc.

    Your unselfconsciousness in this post is inspiring.

  • A Stephens

    Koch is the new Halliburton.

    Same old same old from these folks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    As an American Spectator author, shouldn’t you be protesting the Left’s slight of Richard Mellon Scaife and R. Emmett Tyrell?

  • http://twitter.com/SumErgoMonstro The Monster

    Jon Huntsmann, Sr. seems to be that billionaire that in fact DID get that way by being a boy scout.

    The notion that great wealth MUST have somehow been gotten by nefarious means is at the core of the Leftist policy of redistribution of wealth. We do not have to buy into it. If we accept their premises, we must accept their conclusions as well.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Are you an unpaid intern at the Huff Po?

    You know, the kind of blogger that made Zsa Zsa Huffington (even more) rich from the sweat of your uncompensated labor?

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  • Michael

    Pick the target, personalize it. If that doesn’t work, John Boehner, move on the to next target and when the lefties start drooling stick with it.

  • MikeF

    And you also need a the name of a scary boogeyman to put in the fundraising letter. How convenient that the msm has recently featured stories of the Koch brothers so that more people will recognize their names.

  • http://twitter.com/bradjshannon Brad J Shannon
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