It seems that those on the left just love a good protest. They gather together, paint their signs, get riled up, and start their chants and yells. But do they even know what they are talking about? I’m sure many of you have wondered, “Do they know why they’re protesting?” Reason TV asked some questions at a recent anti-Koch Brothers rally. The results are amazing.
For those of you new to the story, Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch, also known as “the Koch brothers” are the owners of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately-held companies in the country. They are long-time political activists who support libertarian and free-market causes.
Their latest interest is in purchasing the Tribune Company and its collect of major newspapers including the Los Angeles Times. Many of the protesters at the rally covered by Reason TV have absolutely no idea why the Koch brothers should NOT be allowed to purchase the Tribune Company. All the protestors know is that the Koch brothers are “bad guys.”
Don’t you love it that liberals will actually claim that they want diverse views, just as long as all those views are liberal?
Maybe … just maybe the K Bros should just forget about the buy and let them fail and go bankrupt … then let LA or CA pick up the tab … then let the hard working tax payers show their hand in the next election. I venture to guess it wouldn’t be pretty.
I agree. I guess NO JOBS are better, huh? Bet some of them would actually like that!
Eventually they would wind up on WELFARE – and than let’s see how well California does with MORE GOING OUT than is coming in, money wise.
i guess the protesters don’t care about the truth maybe don’t know they are being feed a dose of crapola.
i would expect the koch brothers would and with some media backing might educate the ignorant protesters and obama supporters.
They aren’t called useful idiots for nothing!
YEP, we talked to many protesters at TEA Party events and most had no ideal why they where there, but then the handlers would seeing us talking to them and come run us off or stop the idiots from talking to us
handy man keep smoken the dope and drinking the Kool aid of the illusions, But blow your smoke someplace else, the Democratic party uses useful idiots about the same as all other Dictatorships, until the useful idiots wake up and find themselves under tyranny control, tyranny is what the Democratic party is about, Abolish this destructive Treasonous Democratic party.
@Handymanherb – You are a complete liar and you know it. Can you point to any video evidence supporting your lie like I can of pro Obama/Democrat/anti-conservative rallies?
Darral and Olliefan….I read your comments, and I believe you are misunderstanding Handymanherb…he is talking about left wingers who went to protest OUTSIDE of a TEAParty event. He’s not taling about the TEAParty people inside the event , but that the liberals who are protesting the event are clueless dipsticks…not knowing anything about what the TEAParty really stands for or on the character of the TEAParty members themselves.
This video really makes the case that “the greatest democracy in recorded history” is in the process of self-destructing. What good is a democracy when the majority of voters decide on the basis of ignorance and emotion alone? Watching this made me feel sick.
Sure you did handyman!
Handyman said he spoke with PROTESTERS at a tea party. Hmm. Were those protesters commies by chance? You know, like the muslimes and commies in DC and Handyman himself.
P – I’ve never seen ‘protesters’ at any tea party gathering we have attended. Law-abiding citizens wanting accountability from their government, yes, protesters no.
I recently stumbled across an Occupy protest while on a business trip. I was surprised to see signs advocating everything from “All is bad,” “Overthrow ________”(you fill in the blank), Greenpeace shirts, signs and protesters, “Save the _________ (you fill in the blank),some advocating homosexual marriage, others for reproductive rights, and some looked as if they were from a time-warp from the 60s. This looked somewhat like the Democrat National Convention delegates on the floor.
They do not know exactly what they want, what they are protesting, or what would satisfy them.
If a Fox News were to be getting off the ground and starting today, there would be many protesters out, protesting about giving it air space. They are for freedom of speech as long as it is their kind of speech. Sad.
That is exactly the reason why the liberals were demanding that the “Fairness Doctrine” be reinstated.
But these protestors are only blindly following their liberal leaders who also have no idea what they are doing.
Liberal rhetoric! Nothing said that makes sense!
Also the woman who spoke of DEMOCRACY! Where does she live? I live in a Republic! Ignorance is no excuse for not knowing the history of your country!
Goes to show their stupidity. They do not even know where they live or what the structure is.
Amazing. The author hit the nail on the head. Hypocrisy at its finest. Liberals only “believe” they believe in tolerance and diversity. In reality, they don’t. The truth is, they’re some of the most intolerant and bigoted people around. Their elitism attitude maintains their short-sightedness.
Socialism cannot function without tyranny, the more socialistic a nation becomes the more government force is required. It is an immutable fact, all the propaganda and sugar coating in the world can’t change it.
A man who stands before a class of graduating college students and tells them to ignore the words of the Founding Fathers warning us of tyranny is a man who dreams of being a tyrant!
When the people fear the government you have tyranny. When the government fears the people you have liberty. I think Thomas Jefferson said that.
Maybe someone should protest Warren Buffet’s ownership of dozens of newspapers.
Or the fact that he is allowed to NOT pay taxes he is responsible for…while the rest of us lowly Americans must pay up and then protest.
Just another perk for being a BFF of the one
Hey, logic doesn’t enter into their thinking. They just listen and absorb sound bites while selling their lives and souls to communism where there will NO liberality allowed, just enslavement and/or death. Stupid is as stupid does/thinks and we know stupid cannot be cured.
Yes, he is in the process of buying more in Virginia mountain region and several others. But, that’s OK. Oh, and it’s OK for Comcast/NBCUniversal/GE and other large conglomerates to control most of the content in their news organizations. Those who control the content control the people. Do the research on these organizations and you will shocked if not in awe of their connection with this admin and DOE. It’s deep folks and Verizon is joining. Antitrust laws have been thrown to the wayside.
I liked it when Chris Cristie told Buffet to shut up and write a check. Not to imply that I like Cristie.
And Soros owns the television stations. That’s why they protect Obama.
I strongly believe that Soros is behind a lot of this country’s ills. He wants to bring America to its knees like he did to Great Britain.
Obama is just somebody’s puppet. There is NO REASON why a man (of any ethnicity) that is such an unknown should have risen to such “stardom” like he did.
It appears that the far left is at war against the American citizen and may try to alter the US constitution. Are we getting closer to neocommunism the Islamic way?
It is a communist movement although for many Obamabots it’s a cult movement, with Obama as a new Jim Jones figure.
I hope the Reason TV reporter got names and addresses for the folks he interviewed. I’d like to contact them about some ocean-front investment opportunities in Southern New Mexico I’m working on. Should be prime prospects! :o)
We, too, have some oceanfront property in WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS available for sale. If you doubt me, just ask our newly elected Senator, Elizabeth Warren…she’s the one who said it 😉
I’ve got a far western state I’d like to sell them….cheap. I wonder if they’d check to see if I owned it?
That ‘far western state’ just might be too far underwater at this time…doubt you’d get enough to pay off the ‘mortgage’
I often wonder if China is going to demand payment by taking the west coast in its entirety.
Don’t bother trying to sell them anything. They don’t have jobs or money, which is why they have time for mindless protests.
We Americans are losing our rights every day. Many are burying their heads in the sand not realizing some day that their freedoms are gone. Our great country is floundering and we dont’ have enough strong people to overcome the liberal agenda. Some day we will all have “equal” “fair” shares of everyting (which means no wealth, etc)while the shadowy elites, enforcers, live in luxury. People we cannot kiss our freedom, our republic, our capitalism for the sake of being fair to everyone. IT DOES NOT WORK. There is NO UTOPIAN society that works.
Someone point out to me the place where it says life is fair.
The American people should also be protesting the obvious liberal bent of the mainstream media, especially NBC, ABC, and CBS which have exposed their support to the socialist policies of the Obama administration and perverted their coverage of the 2012 election to help circulate the lies and focused demonizing of Mitt Romney led by the Obama campaign.
The only network that actually works hard to do thorough independent research before covering current events and politics at large is the FOX network. Yes, they have some very biased pundits like Sean Hannity, but even Hannity makes sure he brings in people who can intelligently present various points of view to provide the public with as much relevant information as possible.
The behavior of the FOX network at large inflames the Obama administration because FOX will not just take Whitehouse prepared talking points and run with them as the other networks seem to do on a regular basis. FOX takes the time to dig into the issue and do ther own independent investigation as all journalists should do. However, if you are in the pocket of those providing talking points, which it appears CBS, NBC, ABC, and others like to do…to the point that they sound scripted, then you are not doing the job the American public needs you to do.
You are right. Americans are so totally misinformed/underinformed that it is no surprise that Obama got re-elected. (Not to mention a lot of voter fraud). But most Americans do not hear the other side of the story just the bad-mouthing, brain-washing drivel that comes out of the MSM on a daily basis. It is shameful that they actually call themselves journalists. They are all in the pocket of the money-manages like Soros and his ilk.
Anyone ever notice how the latest buzzword from obama or his follow the leader press spreads over the whole country in a week such as “teachable monent”?
Should we really be surprised?
I think not.
Liberals count heavily on dudes looking to “hook up” with liberal chicks and circle these gatherings like sharks in the water. These guys are interested…but not in politics.
Liberals also count heavily on the “bad guy” sentiment. After all, who doesn’t hate the bad guy?
As someone far smarter than I pointed out “…they (liberals) count on the low information voter”.
Someone else said (a skinny blond on TV who is getting pretty good at dodging pies), “You can lead a liberal to reason but you can’t make him think.”
Nuff said???
Libs just love a good protest…………you could have a protest against anything and they would just show up ready to shake their fists and scream.
I guess they think that is involving themselves in a Republic altho they think it is a democracy. So ignorant, it hurts.
When Clinton went after Microsoft using information gathered by a Microsoft competitor it had to have sent a clear message to wealthy donors, namely, give money to Democrats and we won’t give you grief, give to Republicans and you can expect grief. Currently, the Obama administration has been revealed to have used the IRS to attack their opponents, but you can be sure every other agency was similarly involved and doesn’t anyone remember the extortion attempt by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine to extort 20 billion from BP for the Gulf deepwater spill — 20 billion to be managed by Democrats for a small spill that disappeared within months. If the figure of 600 million gallons is correct, the spill was about equal to that of one WWII tanker sunk by German subs in the first six months of WWII. In other works a small and insignificant spill ballooned into a disaster by the current administration and the media.
handymanherb, your point was that while you (conservative- constitutionalist-patriot) were at a Tea Party event with like-mined Tea Party patriots, some low-information liberal, Occupy-statist protestors showed up to protest, (likely paid union thugs bused to your event), and like the protestors in the story above, they too, really had no idea what they were protesting. Tea Party members, by definition, are never crazed protestors, disturbing the peace, breaking laws and making a mess. Handymanherb, I’m sorry we mis-understood your comments, and then piled on. I’m glad you’re one of us.
Correct! The only way the left will find thuggery at a tea party gathering is if they get their own ilk to sneak in and cause a disturbance! After every tea party or 9/12 event, the participants leave the grounds better than they were when they arrived! Doubt there is ONE liberal public event that can say the same!!!! The destruction caused by the occupy gang in Boston and New York was horrific. Ditto the teachers and union gangs in Wisconsin caused so much damage to the state house during their protests…never even attempted to classify themselves as ‘peaceful’. Yet, DHS labels people who attend tea party gatherings ‘domestic terrorists’ – go figure!
My extended family and I have attended Tea Party, and Patriot meetings from Virginia through New Mexico along the southeast and west, including Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and all the southeast.
At several events, I slow smoked seasoned pork, Jamaican Jerk chicken, plum and pecan smoked sausage and the sides. Whether we met at Fire Stations, libraries, community centers, fair grounds, stadiums, meeting halls, fellowship halls of churches and synagogues, business warehouses, or anywhere else, we swept and mopped the floors, emptied all trash, cleaned all restrooms (sometimes before and after) and when we asked the owners/managers of the locations if we were leaving things to their satisfaction, they all remarked, “Are you coming back again soon?” “Are you coming back next week?” “I hope you return soon!” etc. Contrast that to the Democrat meetings, conferences, and Occupy protests and how much trash (not a few trash bags, but TONS of trash had to be removed after they left).
Despite all the false accusations of leftist news commentators, attenders at these events have been a cross-section of the grass roots of America–teachers, principals, business men/women, hair dressers, engineers (mechanical, chemical, and petrochemical), dentists, lawyers, doctors, nurses, medical technicians, hospital administrators, plumbers, electricians, building and trade contractors, salesmen/women, and just about every other trade or profession, of every racial background, with one unifying purpose–to restore the country to Constitutional government and less of it.
The only protestors we ever experienced were in some of the larger cities where the news media announced the next meetings and made a public ridicule of the meetings, so the crazies came out of the woodwork. Police were there to quell the nutcases and there was no violence or shouting or anything improper from any of the attendees to the meeting itself.
Well I was hoping the Koch Brother would step up and buy a paper to be a genuine factual paper (read conservative)but now I see them going against true Americans in the amnesty debate wanting the ridiculous Rubio amnesty bill and lying about it on the radio and TV adds. They are not true American conservatives but the filthy rich trying for CHEAP labor at the expense of all Americans
If a left leaning liberal socialist was going to purchase the papers I guess that would be ok. That right left leaning liberal socialists own those paper’s now. Maybe that’s why they are failing?