What make’s their businesses so dirty is not just what they do, but how they do it.<\/p>\n
Koch Industries’ corporate ethos is to pollute the American landscape with impunity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Really, Mark? \u00a0That’s their “ethos”? \u00a0The Kochs base their behavior on the idea that polluting is a moral good? \u00a0That seems a bit far-fetched).<\/p>\n
After hours, they fuel a dark labyrinth of propoganda networks to spew out pollution of another kind-disinformation, defamation and denials. Their goal is not to gain market share–it is to rid the world of government oversight of their businesses and the nefarious groups that prop them up. This is how they roll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Put another way – and in this case an accurate one? \u00a0The Kochs use some of their fortune (in the tens of billions) to press\u00a0libertarian<\/em>\u00a0solutions (some of their stances have angered conservatives and would probably have gotten Andrew’s support, if he were intellectually honest, which this article pretty much confirms he’s not).<\/p>\nOh, yeah – they’re thought-criminals (emphasis added):<\/p>\n
The brothers over the years have outspent ExxonMobil’s subsidies of shadow climate denier groups<\/strong> by a 3-1 margin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBut this piece isn’t just an attack on the Kochs.<\/p>\n
No – it’s against those polluted by association – in this case, the Ordway Theatre in Saint Paul, which the Koch Brothers help underwrite (again, emphasis added):<\/p>\n
It is not so curious then, that the Koch’s would want to align themselves with St.Paul’s Ordway Theatre, one of the nation’s leading non-profit live performance venues. The 14th Annual “Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, presented by the Ordway” opens this weekend, and is the perfect halo under which the conglomerate might dwell for a few days, basking in the glow of delighted children whose lives are put at risk by their business and political actions<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe Koch’s [sic] and the Ordway’s that birthed the theatre couldn’t be a starker study in contrasts<\/strong>…Bathed in a riot of color, the brochure captures multi-colored children carefully photographed and captivated by a\u00a0phantasmagoria of dance, music, acrobatics and reverie. And not a refinery to be found!<\/span><\/p>\nThe stagings are fantasy adventures as far removed from daily reality as the Koch brothers’ climate change denials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One wonders if the Kochs slither about in black capes and top-hats and laugh maniacally as they twirl their waxed mustaches.<\/p>\n
What Andrew is trying to do is “shame” the Ordway – and the rest of Minnesota’s cultural community – into putting the Kochs “beyond the pale”. \u00a0 Something like this:<\/p>\n