Charles Koch,  David Koch,  Jerry Brown,  Jodie Evans

Charles and David Koch: Covert Operations?

Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries MIT-trained brothers turned family oil refining firm into America’s second largest private company. Koch Industries has stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, fibers and polymers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology. Sales in 2008: $110 billion. Brothers each own 42% of company. Employs 80,000 people and operates in 60 countries.

The New Yorker does a hit piece against these billionaire titans of business and industry. Their company, Koch Industries, website is here.

As if earning and spending your OWN money in order to influence public opinion is a crime or something.

And, the title is extremely misleading because the Kochs’ opposition to the Far Left Anti-Capitalism Agenda of the Democrats and specifically President Barack Obama is widely known.

Oh yeah and the writer had to mention that their father was a founding member of the John Birch Society. Well, Non-Reagan, I mean Ron Reagan’s father was a Republican President, too.

2 Comments

  • Koch Industries

    Koch Industries submitted extensive facts and background information to the magazine for this article, but this did not change the publication’s negative, unbalanced tone and agenda. The story dredges up issues resolved long ago and mischaracterizes our business philosophy and principles, our practices and performance record, and the education efforts and policies we support. Accurate information on many of the issues from this and other recent media and Internet discussion items can be found at http://bit.ly/kochfactcheck.

  • Former Employee

    Just like any good libertarian, Koch preaches individual freedom, but I’m afraid Koch’s idea of freedom will rocket society back to the days of Medieval feudalism, where Koch has the ‘freedom’ to be a tyrant. Koch claims to abhor government, but in reality, Koch simply prefers deregulation. Ultimately, Koch would like to make all the decisions for the rest of us. Without a goverment [of the people] regulating want-to-be tyrants like Koch… well, King Koch does have a nifty ring doesn’t it? I don’t fault Koch for being greedy and only doing what’s in their best interest, but I could just puke when I see how they manipulate the rest of society, and that’s the problem, they don’t give a damn about the rest of society.