The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real
Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from
you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where
they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend,
the scene shifted to Washington,
where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and
Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s
words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his
dream exactly 47 years earlier.
Vive la révolution!
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s
ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar
daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before
the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters
rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the
brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth
exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among
Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who
these brothers are.
Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdoch’s, go
well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve
as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The
country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power,
and given the recession-battered electorate’s unchecked anger and the
Obama White House’s unfocused political strategy, they might.
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