{"id":8138,"date":"2010-10-20T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2010-10-20T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T22:09:23","slug":"think-progress-publishes-invitation-to-secret-planning-meeting-of-rightwing-billionaires-astroturfers-scotus-justices-media-con-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=8138","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress Publishes Invitation to Secret Planning Meeting of Rightwing Billionaires, Astroturfers, SCOTUS Justices &#038; Media Con-men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/20\/beck-koch-chamber-meeting\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KochIndustriesMeeting_VastRightWingConspiracy.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/20\/beck-koch-chamber-meeting\/\">Think Progress has a great report<\/a> today on the billionaire industry titans, U.S. Supreme Court Justices (including Scalia and Thomas), infamous front-group astroturfers and Rightwing media scammers who meet in secret twice a year &#8212; as they did last year in Aspen and will again this January in Palm Springs &#8212; to plot how they will spend their billions to keep &#8220;liberty&#8221; and &#8220;freedom&#8221; available to all (of them) and to plot the 2010 and 2012 elections for Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The story includes the <a href=\"http:\/\/images2.americanprogressaction.org\/ThinkProgress\/secretkochmeeting.pdf\">actual invitation letter [PDF]<\/a> to the upcoming Palm Springs event, from Vast Rightwing Conspiracy funder, billionaire Charles G. Koch of Koch Industries Inc., along with the agenda and participants of last year&#8217;s Aspen meeting attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>The letter begins creepily enough: &#8220;If not us, who? If not now, when?&#8221;, but my favorite part is this part from the reprint of the agenda of last year&#8217;s meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/images2.americanprogressaction.org\/ThinkProgress\/secretkochmeeting.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KochIndustriesInvitation_ConfidentialityAndSecurity.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, &#8220;the meetings are closed to the public, including media,&#8221; except for all the Rightwing media actually <i>inside<\/i> the meetings giving presentations and participating with the billionaire tycoons and scammers &#8220;who are dedicated to defending our free society&#8221; and planning to &#8220;combat what is now the greatest assault on American freedom and prosperity in our lifetimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Breitbart, Fox and friends made much of the non-troversy, a few months ago, over the names of the participants of the &#8220;Journolist&#8221; e-mail listsever &#8212; where leftish and center-leftish journalists and activists shared questions, thoughts, sources and random bullshit &#8212; I suspect they&#8217;ll go out of their way, today, to <i>not<\/i> notice TP&#8217;s story, since it includes the participation of all manner of &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; &#8220;journalists&#8221; and &#8220;consultants&#8221; from Murdoch&#8217;s Newscorp-owned Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> such as Glenn Beck, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Barone, Stephen Moore and others.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, have the words &#8220;Freedom&#8221;, &#8220;Liberty&#8221; and &#8220;Prosperity&#8221; <i>always<\/i> been Republican dog-whistle code-words for corporate totalitarianism in this country? Or is that a relatively new developement in the Palin-era? In any case, go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/20\/beck-koch-chamber-meeting\/\">creepy story<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/images2.americanprogressaction.org\/ThinkProgress\/secretkochmeeting.pdf\">even creepier invitation letter [PDF]<\/a> from Koch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has a great report today on the billionaire industry titans, U.S. Supreme Court Justices (including Scalia and Thomas), infamous front-group astroturfers and Rightwing media scammers who meet in secret twice a year &#8212; as they did last year in Aspen and will again this January in Palm Springs &#8212; to plot how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,400,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2010","category-election-2012","category-wall-street-journal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}