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Apparently thinkprogress is in the bouncy business
« on: January 05, 2011, 06:45:28 PM »
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underpants  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-05-11 01:06 AM
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Ballet Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch
 http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/04/brooklyn-boos-koch /

David Koch masks his role as one of the top financiers of the Tea Party movement and pro-polluter front groups by loudly tacking his name to more laudable charities, like the New York city ballet. Koch, who has professed his devotion to “The Nutcracker” ballet performance by Alexei Ratmansky, made a matching grant of $2.5 million so that it could go on this season. At a special opening of the performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music shortly before Christmas, Koch made an appearance to talk about his donation. The Financial Times’ John Gapper was in the audience and witnessed a crowd of “harried Brooklyn moms and salivating balletomanes” erupting in boos at the sight of the Tea Party billionaire:

The excitement started even before the show when David H. Koch, the co-owner of Koch Industries, the largest privately-own industrial conglomerate in the US, came out on stage to talk about his $2.5m sponsorship of the production. Most people applauded but there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring “he’s an evil man” and a couple next to her telling her to “shut up” and to leave the theatre. <...> Once Mr Koch had left the stage, the booing stopped and the ballet started.

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Bullshit on the play. 15 yard penalty. Loss of down.
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Re: Apparently thinkprogress is in the bouncy business
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2011, 06:55:10 PM »
Minitru is only just a few more ivy league journalism graduates away.




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Re: Apparently thinkprogress is in the bouncy business
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2011, 07:05:00 PM »
David Koch is he is part-owner of Koch Industries, along with his brother, Charles.

Koch Industries owns Georgia-Pacific, Invista, and Flint Hill Resources, but its core industries are the manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, as well as other ventures and investments.

No wonder the DUmmies hate him.  He's an OIL MAN!   :o

And he's one of the EVIL RICH!   :ohnoes:
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Re: Apparently thinkprogress is in the bouncy business
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2011, 08:35:29 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on January 05, 2011, 07:05:00 PM
David Koch is he is part-owner of Koch Industries, along with his brother, Charles.

Koch Industries owns Georgia-Pacific, Invista, and Flint Hill Resources, but its core industries are the manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, as well as other ventures and investments.

No wonder the DUmmies hate him.  He's an OIL MAN!   :o

And he's one of the EVIL RICH!   :ohnoes:

........that tries like hell to keep the rest of us from goin' down the crapper because of the Nanny State BS they heap on us!

What an SOB!

Oh, and he used his money for the ballet! No gubmint grant needed! What an evil sum bitch! We better cut his nutz off! He didn't need Obwana or the Dems!
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