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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:20 PM
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'I am NOT a front for Big Oil' ...
Check out the following pic from yesterday's glenn beck rally:



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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:22 PM
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1. around here we'd say, "bless your heart"
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:57 PM
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16. You need to specify "in the southern sense."
A lot of us know what that means.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:23 PM
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2. but you ARE a front for uber-wealthy Koch Industries
dumbass ...
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:27 PM
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9. And the dumbass probably doesn't know that.
:evilgrin:
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:24 PM
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3. Whatever .....
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is an astroturf front group started by oil billioniare David Koch and Richard Fink (a member of the board of directors of Koch Industries).
AFP works together with the Koch family’s other conservative foundations and think tanks to disrupt Barack Obama's presidency. Accordingly, AFP has opposed health
care reform, stimulus spending, and cap-and-trade legislation, which is aimed at making industries pay for the air pollution that they create. AFP was also involved in
the attacks on Obama’s "green jobs" czar, Van Jones, and has crusaded against international climate talks. According to an article in the August 30, 2010 issue of The
New Yorker, the Kochs are known for "creating slippery organizations with generic-sounding names," that "make it difficult to ascertain the extent of their influence
in Washington."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:25 PM
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4. ROFLMAO, Really?, Considering that Koch Industries paid for your shirt
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:25 PM
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5. Grassroots as in bought and paid for by Koch Industries.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:26 PM
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8. Great minds think alike. See my post below made at exactly the same time as yours.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:56 PM
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15. LOL
That's the first thing I thought of when I read the shirt.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:25 PM
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6. "..am Grassroots" bought and paid for by Koch Industries.
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:25 PM
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7. tea baggers - pissed off RW because it's not RW enough.
Edited on Mon Aug-30-10 01:26 PM by superconnected
Anyway, it's interesting he's not all those things yet I suspect he voted for Bush.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:27 PM
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10. Associated French Press
Was what actually came to mind with those initials - AFP. Strange they chose same ones.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:27 PM
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11. T-shirt provided by Koch Industries.
:eyes:
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:30 PM
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13. Isn't it astounding how stupid some people are? n/t
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:29 PM
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12. delete, wrong place. n/t
Edited on Mon Aug-30-10 01:29 PM by Subdivisions
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 01:34 PM
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14. And a group called "Americans for Prosperity" has to be founded
Edited on Mon Aug-30-10 01:35 PM by gratuitous
Because so many Americans are against prosperity? Or because so many Americans are for prosperity accruing to the "wrong" people? At least the t-shirt is lily white, which should give points for some truth in advertising.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 02:15 PM
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17. No, he's not a 'front', he's a patsy
and a gullible buffoon... but he's no 'front'.
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