Memo LEAKED Beck, Koch bros, Chamber coordinated with Banks & Insurers on 2010 election strate

[RhodaA]

Source: Daily Kos

While the Koch brothers — each worth over $21.5 billion — have certainly underwritten much of the right, their hidden coordination with other big business money has gone largely unnoticed. ThinkProgress has obtained a memo outlining the details of the last Koch gathering held in June of this year. The memo, along with an attendee list of about 210 people, shows the titans of industry — from health insurance companies, oil executives, Wall Street investors, and real estate tycoons — working together with conservative journalists and Republican operatives to plan the 2010 election, as well as ongoing conservative efforts through 2012.

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The memo is like a playbook for destroying the Obama Presidency with corporate money and timed propaganda. It reminds me of when thebanksters of the first great depression tried to throw FDR out in a military coup, only instead of turning the army against FDR this generation of banksters has decided to bribe the system into doing their total bidding, including a top down messaging co-ordination between corrupt fake journalists, lobbying groups and uber-wealthy individuals. There will be no teabaggers at these events, only the very rich and the very right wing are invited. Just like the real Republican party.

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/20/911976/-Memo-LEAKED!-Beck,-Koch-bros,-Chamber-coordinated-with-BanksInsurers-on-2010-election-strategy

[indimuse]

1. KNR! n/t

[lib_wit_it]

18. K&R to the OP and to this cartoon! Very scary.

[valerief]

2. Kick

:kick:

[mrdmk]

3. K & R

Speaks for itself...

[mzmolly]

4. We need a massive television ad campagin

exposing this issue, prior to the election.

Welcome! :hi:

[RhodaA]

9. Thanks

:fistbump:

[SoCalDem]

10. Try getting any media to take this seriously

Their boards of directors are the same ones who participated in the scheme..

The "fix" is in.. It was IN from the day Obama was elected.

The ONLY thing that could have "saved" his presidency would have been to act BOLDLY & loudly ...immediately after the election.

Expanding medicare for all, eliminating the cap on SS (to pay for it)

Nationalizing the banks for a 2 yr period & selling off pieces of them to create a smaller more manageable banking system

Demanding legislation that provided for public financing of elections

and any number of other "fixes" we have needed for decades

There was a window of opportunity, where the republicans were disorganized, demoralized & flat-on-their-backs

That was the ONE opportunity he had, to act boldly and to set the tone. Once their heads cleared and their behind-the-scenes schemers caught their breaths, it was too late, because they started setting the terms of his presidency and it was too late to go back.

[mzmolly]

15. I'm talking about buying air time.

I'm not going to comment on Obama at this point. That's a whole nother enchilada!

[malaise]

19. 100% correct - the media are part of this

what we need to do is to find out which hacks are on their payroll.

[barbtries]

50. as if the republicans would have allowed any of that.

they were together enough right from the get to know that if Obama wanted it, they did not, and would bring the entire country to a halt if they had to, to keep him from enjoying a successful presidency. the country's much the worse for it, but i blame the republicans still, 99% at least. President Obama's not a miracle worker but he's better than any republican and a lot of dems.

[LiberalLovinLug]

53. Yes unfortunately that window is now boarded shut.

I would add, demanding a single payer medical insurance system, or at the very least not excepting less than a public option to compete with private insurers.

Also do the same as his predecessor in regards to implementing new bills and policies on an almost daily basis. If Obama would have dropped his impotent "bipartisan" meme and also began prosecutions against the previous administration on a number of fronts available to him, on top of the things you mentioned, you'd have the right wing reeling, just as the left was under Bush, not knowing which topic to address even while a new policy was being unveiled at that very moment.

Of course it helps to have a whole news network at your disposal, and visa versa its not so great to have one working 24/7 against you.

[SoCalDem]

54. yep.. they were demoralized & devastated..but only until they saw that they could play him..and us.

That 2 month period was all that was available. By April the plans were firming up for their summer recess plans..(that stuff did not just happen)..The August recess madness of last year was the foot in the door...to see how much free airtime they could count on.

[Parker CA]

5. Biggest Kick and Rec I can possibly give!!!!

[Hubert Flottz]

6. They own most of the SCOTUS

[Hannah Bell]

7. knr. the spawn of the founder of the john birch society, & it's jbs ideology they're funding.

[barbtries]

51. as i'm reading their little booklet there,

that's what i'm reminded of. a story from when i was a little (precocious) girl: i found a form in a magazine or the paper or whatever, when i was about 6 years old, filled it off, and sent it out - it was a membership to the john birch society! my mother, a life long republican, was aghast. she laughed about it for the rest of her life but i cannot forget the tone of her voice every time she uttered the words, "john birch society!" as she retold the story countless times (frankly i don't remember much beyond writing something in a form).
i mean my mother, who thought nixon was the greatest president who ever lived (her words), wouldn't touch the john birch society with a 10-foot pole. this was in the early 1960's. radical, fascistic, right wing greed monsters. and talk about elitist. jeez.

[Frustratedlady]

8. Well, there you have it all bundled up into a nice little bunch of the top 1%.

Healthcare, banks, Wall Street, military supplies, oil, anti-union, et al. Oh, and don't forget the SCOTUS.

They have their little, elite group and we have how many millions to yell, "No you can't!"

I wonder who the other names are that didn't make the list. We know there are more and they are big!

I hope MSNBC nightly news hits this one hard.

[Parker CA]

13. Hoping Maddow and LO and their staffs are digging deep and hard into this right now for tonight. nt

[HillbillyBob]

11. Just posted to Facebook and shared

No real surprise here is there?

[Parker CA]

12. Geezus. Just read the entire piece. Scary stuff. Democracy is teetering on the edge right now. nt

[Blue Owl]

14. I want to hear what the former President of the Harvard Law Review thinks of this

That would be President Barack Obama.

[PA Democrat]

16. K & R. They plot and their useful idiots (AKA teabaggers)

moan about ACORN.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Rhoda and welcome to D.U.:hi:

[RhodaA]

22. Thank you

[RhodaA]

23. What is a "kick" in DU lingo?

[Uncle Joe]

24. Posting on someone's thread constitutes a kick as it automatically pushes the thread

toward the top of the forum again instead of letting it drop, in this case the "General Discussion" forum.

If you really want to get fancy when you kick, you can use one of these smilies in your post.

:kick: :dem:

[Catshrink]

25. A kick, or additional post, brings a thread up to the top of the forum

so it doesn't get buried. It's often written "K&R" for "kicked and recommended" which I am going to do right now.

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[mrs_p]

20. this is exactly how this country will go down

the SCOTUS ruling paved the way, and unless there is some remedy, this is the path of the future. the "average" american just doesn't give a damn - they are bought just like the politicians.

[redirish28]

21. Maybe this might be extreme to say but this sounds like evidence of a

Coup De data to me.

[Winterblues]

26. Thank goodness we have Ben Nelson on our side to defeat such efforts..

:shrug: He is just the most obvious sell out, there are probably about forty five more Democratic Senators that would sell their soul for dollars..

[emulatorloo]

27. KICK AND REC - Will CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC cover this, or will it be Maddow/Countdown only

like everything else?

[Doctor_J]

41. I am sure that the network big shots were at the meetings

so draw your conclusions from that fact.

[Waiting For Everyman]

28. K&R

[AzDar]

29. K&R

:kick:

[G_j]

30. K&R

[Tatiana]

31. Oh... I see K-12 Ed Reform & Charter Schools is on the agenda.

Notice it didn't say "private" schools. The memo references charters.

So nice that our own administration is doing some of the work for these corporate bastards.

[OneGrassRoot]

32. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

K&R

:)

[rucky]

33. This is a corporate coup.

[fascisthunter]

34. Yes... it is and has been

[glinda]

35. K & R n/t

[RainDog]

36. make sure to go to the Think Progress site and read the list of people.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/

Know Your Enemy.

[Raksha]

55. I read that list of the Overlords and tried to save it,

but MS Word was acting flaky and wouldn't cooperate with me. I'm going to try again later, though. Sure, there are more than those 200+ people, but they are as good (or bad) as any to start with--and the Kochs are on the list. They deserve all the exposure we can give them.

I'd love to see a website dedicated to exposing those people, so that hopefully all of their names become household words. A deck of playing cards with a mug shot of each one of them wouldn't be a bad idea either.

[Scurrilous]

37. K & R

:thumbsup:

[tex-wyo-dem]

38. BIG K&R!

This is the biggest, most important issue of our times -- something DUers have long suspected being exposed right before our eyes.

It's the most important because it affects every issue we little people care about: jobs and wages, health care, education, the environment and climate change, and on and on...

These fuckers want to control everything from the top down to improve their ability to grow their already obscene wealth to even more obscene levels. They already control the media (the message) and much of the government including the SCOTUS and much of congress.

This strikes at the very heart of our fragile democracy...like a stake being slowly driven in.

Meanwhile, they've created the faux "populist" teabagger movement to cover their incideous motives. As said so well up-thread, the teabaggers are their "useful idiots", fueled by their csrefully cultivated hatred of libruls and Democrats.

[Doctor_J]

39. Maybe THIS will prompt some more spirited action from the rank& file

but I doubt it. Guillotines are so 17th century. It just sickens me that we gave these people the country without a fight.

[Doctor_J]

40. Maybe the prez will stop "reaching out" to these traitors now.

but I doubt it

[felix_numinous]

42. K&R ThinkProgress rocks

anyone forward this to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann?

[FailureToCommunicate]

43. Gee, was Hillary Clinton correct about the "vast RW conspiracy"?

But the M$M will yawn and only report on what George Soros is doing lately...




Thanks for posting this, RhodA.

[rAVES]

44. Journolist!

[blm]

45. IMPEACH the fascist enablers on the Supreme Court. This is why Citizens United was pushed through

by a Supreme Court packed with FASCISTS intent on overtaking every aspect of this nation's government.

[RedCloud]

46. Off with their heads!

[bullwinkle428]

47. If a Freeper were to make a joke about Michael Moore's wet dream,

it would probably be along exactly these lines!!

EXCEPT THAT IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE!!!!!

[KansDem]

48. K&R!!!

"Damn-aging"

:dem:

[barbtries]

49. i'm reading their booklet.

can't seem to catch my breath.

[Mr. Sparkle]

52. There is American Fascism right there. The citizen united decision has only strengthened them.

That ruling did more for them than anything Bush did, over his 8 year administration.