Public Enemy #1
David Koch
Of all the groups and individuals bankrolling the aggressive effort to destroy collective bargaining rights of everyone working in the public sector including teachers, nurses, cops, firefighters, sanitation and parks, even people from the water department, there is wide agreement that David and Charles Koch are at the top of the list. It was Koch money to the tune of millions and millions that funded the effort to take away collective bargaining rights of public employees working in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida to name a few.
Just recently public television pulled funding for a documentary by Academy Award-nominated filmmakers on the corrosive role of money in politics. That means millions of PBS viewers won’t have the chance to see the film “Citizen Koch” which tells the story of how Koch money funded the effort in Wisconsin to take away collected bargaining rights of public employees in the state.
We will give you one guess why they killed the project? David has given over $23 million in donations to public television and is a board member of several local PBS stations. That gave him the clout to demand the film would never be aired PBS.
Watch the video above for Stephen Colbert’s hysterical take on the heavy handed tactics used by David Koch to kill the film.
The Koch brothers are now attempting to buy the second-largest newspaper chain in America. Imagine how much more news they could censor and distort if the Kochs owned papers like the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
Watch the trailer for Citizen Koch.
Read The New Yorker article about the pressure applied by David Koch to PBS to kill the film in the article “A Word from Our Sponsor” in The New Yorker.
Read “L.A. Times Suitor Charles Koch Confirms Interest in Acquiring Newspapers,” from The Hollywood Reporter.
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