Leftist glee over David Koch's passing

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Pam Keith‏Verified account @PamKeithFL

Good riddance Mr. Koch. You spent a lifetime making the world uglier &perverting our democratic process. The world feels a smidge lighter w/out you. In the end, you. can’t take a red cent of your money w/you. You will face your maker standing on the impact you made. I pity you

5:57 AM - 23 Aug 2019

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True to form, the obituary notice for David Koch in the New York Times today offers up yet another classic case study in media bias and ignorance:

Three decades after David Koch’s public steps into politics, analysts say, the Koch brothers’ money-fueled brand of libertarianism helped give rise to the Tea Party movement, strengthened the far-right wing of a resurgent Republican Party and played a significant role in the election of Donald J. Trump as president in 2016.

Typical. The Kochs hated Trump in 2016, opposed him vigorously throughout the entire nomination process (Vanity Fair ran a story in February 2016 entitled “Can the Koch Brothers Stop Trump?“), and have said more recently they are open to supporting Democrats in part because of their continuing dislike of Trump. But never mind: for the Times, everything has to come back to Trump (and racism).

By noon today, the Times had amended this paragraph and dropped the final clause:

Three decades after David Koch’s public steps into politics, analysts say, the Koch brothers’ money-fueled brand of libertarianism helped give rise to the Tea Party movement and strengthened the far-right wing of a resurgent Republican Party.

Maybe somebody in the newsroom had an old copy of Vanity Fair lying around. You’d think any informed newsroom might know this in the first place.

You’d expect the openly left Guardian to have a nasty obituary notice about David Koch’s passing, but on the whole the Guardian‘s story is less snarky than the Times. But then you get to the very last paragraph:

Alexander Kaufman, an environmental commentator at HuffPost, tweeted: “He deployed his stupendous fortune funding climate denial in the years when the science was clear and there was still time to avert catastrophic warming. He died as fires raged from the Amazon to the Arctic.”

That’s what you call staying on message! And also why the tedious fanaticism of the climatistas turns off more and more people every day.

And this:

Shadowproof managing editor Kevin Gosztola tweeted the Koch family should “drop his body out of luxury jet into blazing Amazon rainforest in Brazil.” CNN commentator Keith Boykin said the late Koch used “dark money to support right-wing causes and Republican candidates for office.”

David Koch wanted to abolish public schools, Social Security, Medi

care, Medicaid and rent control. He financed groups that denied the research on climate change. He funded the Tea Party. And he used dark money to support right-wing causes and Republican candidates for office. https://t.co/x08wiaOh9p

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 23, 2019

Frederick Joseph, writer and founder of We Have Stories, tweeted the late Koch was “pure evil” and added “the world is a better place with him gone.” Joseph also wrote the death was a “celebration.”

“But imagine the turn up when orange satan is taken back to hell,” Joseph said in another tweet, likely referring to President Donald Trump.

British political journalist Mehdi Hasan mentioned David Koch’s beliefs on climate change and suggested headlines on the death should refer to the billionaire as a “climate denier.” Hasan added that “his [David Koch’s] long-term legacy” will be “funding the effort to downplay an existential threat to all of us.” 

Re: Boykin's list of stuff that Koch wanted to abolish: Yay! Anybody who doesn't hate freedom wants to see all those things go away. And regarding Koch's financing of "groups that denied the research on climate change," "the research" is an arrogant assumption that no research has concluded what anyone who doesn't hate human advancement knows: the global climate is not in a state of crisis.

The Left has become terrifyingly vicious. And it wants absolute power over our lives.