Charles Koch Puzzled Everyone Hates Him
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The Koch brothers have over $60 billion between them. This election cycle they’ll spend nearly a billion bribing politicians. Now they’re mad that the internet has started pointing it out. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Scarborough To Charles Koch: "How Surprised" Are You About "The Level Of Vitriol Leveled Against You?"
SCARBOROUGH: I want to ask you something personally. Because Mika and I talked about this when we had spent a little time with Liz and you before, about how surprised you seemed a few years back at the level of vitriol leveled against you and your family, even Harry Reid calling you un-American. Something that we talked about on our show time and time again ... What kind of personal impact did that have on you and your family, and were you shocked by the level of vitriol?
Koch responded in part by comparing himself to church reformer Martin”*
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Joe loves the Koch...
+boob72 I hate myself for doing this, but i have to thumb up this.
+boob72 He is a koch head. This country sucks.
+boob72 All about that Kochain.
+boob72
Ha!
Their called Koch Whores.
How long till we have to throw our own French revolution?
+superfinevids
Not soon enough.
I fear if Bernie loses then thats what its going to take.
+superfinevids Agreed. And that is a terrifying proposition, as it means CWII. And they've kinda got us outgunned right now...
If this was France, their heads would be on pikes already.
+Jay Nelson If you care so much for your republican values why are you on a liberal news outlet trying to throw shade like a 7th grader
Narcissists are often 'puzzled' that they aren't adored.
Holy shit, msnbc just put the final nail in their believability cofin.
+Jacques Nomdefamille MSNBC, the new FOX
+Jacques Nomdefamille Joe Scarborough has always been the FOX of MSNBC
Don't judge the whole network by joe. He is a conservative they don't labor him as a progressive they let everyone know he is a right winger. The vast majority are progressive. Chris Hayes and Rachael maddow are some of the best reporting out there. Both of them give Bernie plenty of airtime and talk of his agenda in very positive terms
I wish they spent more on charity instead of bribing politicians.
+Antonio Del Otero Yes they spend a lot on charity. Charities that they also own. Its called tax write offs.
+Antonio Del Otero They could build a children's hospital or do something that could be a positive legacy for them, but I guess they will get more return for their buck if they own the United States. Voters have to stop voting for these bought and paid for politicians.
+Antonio Del Otero
If you're wealthy and you want to create more wealth, you create a non-profit organization where you can funnel money through. That way you'll get a tax write-off and you have influence in how that "donation" will be spent. It's a brilliant idea if you think about it. The present nonprofit regulatory system in the United States is neither effective nor efficient.
+Antonio Del Otero they could literally end world hunger and still be beyond rich. Boggles the mind
+sally smolich true
The poor helpless old guy just wants to help everyone by making us slice each others throats to fight over the crumbs that fall from his table. Don't you see how generous and kind he is?
Fred Koch was the father of Charles and David Koch. Fred Koch was one of the co-founders of the John Birch Society. The John Birch Society worked along side with the White Citizens Council and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960's by trying to keep Jim Crow Segregation laws in place throughout the South. JBS referred to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders and activists as anti American Communists and race baiting community organizers. They paid off law enforcement agencies to attack and go after Civil Rights activists during protests. In 1964, the JBS along with the CCC and the KKK endorsed Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater who ran on a platform of States Rights, Pro Segregation & Repealing Civil Rights Legislation.
Think about this for a second. Out of all of the billionares out there. Not one of them has become a batman, or an iron man, or green arrow.
+Jack Pred None of them can even throw a punch
And the millionaire that dressed up as Batman and visited children in the hospital recently passed away after a car accident ;.;
+Jack Pred
Elon musk? That's the closest you got.. :$
+Jacquelyn French
Not even by a mile.Take Nick Hanuer.He's billionaire and had a great TED talk that was actually banned.He speaks the truth about how economic growth works.
+dobler51 The owner of 5 hour energy drinks is reportedly spending his money on projects that will benefit impoverished people. /projects like renewable energy and water purification.
For all former members of the middle class who have lost everything you owe your thanks to the Koch brothers for transforming your lives for you. Now bow down and beg to show your thanks.
Aren't the Koch brothers evil?
Yes very
+Brook Tekle Them & Soros are possible psychopaths
Close to Rothschild bad.
+Brook Tekle But how could he be evil...he's wearing a pink shirt, evil people don't wear pink shirts.
+Brook Tekle Charles and David Koch in a cage match versus Randolph and Mortimer Duke, the Kochs win hands down. They're evil and dirty fighters...
It's simple, people in growing numbers, now recognize the face of evil
If you have one billion + dollars in your possession... You're basically a bad person. lol.
+jetsfan jetsfa Yes, and the fact that you think those are slam-dunk answers just shows that you're too dumb to be having this conversation.
Damn str8 my nigga. Yous whites has an obligation to give all yous monays to welfare.
+Culturally Enriched well seeing as how its mostly whites on welfare.........
+outstandings Bill Gates has personally given away tens billions of dollars to charity, and plans to give 95% of his fortune to charity upon his death. He has also made it his personal mission to eradicate polio from the planet. If you plan to claim he is a bad person, I would argue that you are a bad person.
+outstandings Dont call others stupid unless you can effectively and intelligently elaborate on your own vague comments.
It's tough being a sociopath these days -- they are always misunderstood. It almost makes stealing billions of dollars from stupid suckers unfun and not worth talking to people about.
This is what is wrong with American politics, but if we could get the knuckle headed Trump voters and all the rest to see this and we all come together to put them in their place, then we will have a better America.
Charles is puzzled why everybody hates him, maybe because he's a real life Mr. Burns (his first name is even Charles!).
Sorry Koch, but the average citizen doesn't have enough power to request "common ground" with the white house and congress. The fact that you feel entitled to this is pretty damn scary....
He probably just payed MSNBC honestly
+payz hayz Are you that dumb? Money is made by kissing the asses of the rich. The more you suck them off the more money you get, this is how the system works. Greed is what america was built on...
+Justyn Fogarty what they are doing is simple: just deny every interview unless he has insurance the guy will be nice to him
+payz hayz First off they know all the questions before they start the interview, second if someone who interviewed them did manage to break then in the interview, that reporter would be selling fries at a McDonalds the next week
+Justyn Fogarty Koch's won't take interviews unless it's scripted on their behalf.
***** Did we hit a nerve?
How it is free speech if it costs a billion dollars...?
You know you're on the wrong side of history when you have to pretend to be on the other side.
One of the most dangerous people on the planet, pure evil.
The question should be:Mr. Koch, Why do YOU think everybody hates you?
The third Koch brother called Koch Industries an organized crime outfit .
“The power of all corporations ought to be limited, […] the growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.”
- James Madison
I think you all are confused, Joe was not interviewing Charles Koch, Charles Koch was interviewing Joe for his next job on Fox News.
THIS is what we want to see on this channel. Thank you Cenk
With so much money, can't he afford a real fire in that fireplace?
marty martyn Americans have shitty tastes
W 00
I'd argue with you but then, there's Trump. Proving your point to the nth degree.
Run that by me again, Koch's against croney capitalism? Sorry, run that by me again, Koch's against croney capitalism? Sorry, just one more time, Koch's against croney capitalism? Sorry, just so I get...
Martin Macdonald Why the insults, it doesn't make you sound smart, more like you could do with getting an education. Koch is the embodiment of croney capitalism
Wow. Koch is just sitting there blatantly lying.
Get rid of Koch brothers AND Soros!
Americans are probably better off just getting their news from the BBC. It's not American, but at least it's all factual.
Joe should have asked him if it is hypocritical to gather together with his friends to collectively fight against workers right to collectively bargin.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Charle Koch is puzzled that he has got away with this for 50 years.. and only now the general public are aware of this.. thanks to Berine Sanders.
I've never understood when the people have a hero, they are assassinated:
Gandhi
King
Lincoln / JFK
But when a guy like this comes along they live sooo long unimpeded.
+ok That's because heroes stand for things. Guys like this stand for nothing but greed and self. Any charity they do is for appearances and is far less than they could and would accomplish if they actually gave a shit about anything.
Perhaps I should have worded the question as why are all crazy people in the country deep right wing? Why don't progressives have any vigilanties?
+ok because a inherent feature of being "left" is that of viewing all life (at least human life) as being equal. it leads to all sorts of ethical complications that prevent one from engaging in vigilante justice.
Cenk, Jimmy Dore and Kyle from secular talk are the reasons I still have hope
Matt Pascal
There are plenty more: Democracy Now, Papantonio, The Advise Show, Senator Bernie Sanders, Circle of Fire, Content, Thom Hartmann program, The Humanist Report, David Pakman, Robert Reich, Redacted Tonight, etc. . . , I know I'm leaving other great channels out!!!
Yolanda Romero I watch humanist report when I can but I'll check those other ones out, thanks fam❤
Lee Camp RT news, my fav Abby Martin's Empire Files.
He doesn't want to end corporate welfare like he claims he does, he only wants to end his competition so only he can do the lobbing/bribing.
As a journalists, at least if you're going to pretend to be one, what they did is highly unethical. Journalistic ethics say you cannot accept gives. Hell, they don't even allow you to eat food at an event you're covering or even take a bottle of water because that is classified as a "gift" since it was bought by the event organizers. To have the Koch brothers fund your vacation to their resort, as you then sit down to talk with one of them months later is just......disgusting.
"They're not the one dimensional cartoon characters"? I finally understand why Joe Scarborough is so clueless: he spent his childhood staring at a dot, thinking it was a 2 dimensional cartoon character.
Hey Cenk. Thanks for not being a sellout. Just subscribed. Go get'em, Tiger!
Something glossed over... they billed this interview as "first time the brothers will ever do an interview together"... then David Koch didn't show up. NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THIS FROM THE MORNING JOE CREW. It's a huge sign they were doing propaganda and not journalism
+Imac7065 Scarborough has been doing propaganda for them for a long time.
When you pour that much money into campaigns and lobbyists you don't get to hide behind the private citizen bullshit. You have become as big a part of the machine as anyone else involved in politics.
Charles Koch wants everyone to be at the mercy of money, of which he has an awefull lot, and he wonders why he's disliked. How divorced from reality can a sane person be?
+nicethugbert Its an important point you make saying "divorced from reality" because they cannot identify with working Americans because they were privileged their whole lives, growing up in a family where you inherit $400 million.
To an extent its actually not entirely their fault because they don't know from any experience that what they're doing is wrong because they've always lived that way, but it's up to everyone else who knows better to teach them.Not just take their money and do whatever they want.
1. Joe and Mika are such unbiased, objective, and professional commentators/hosts, don't you think? (rolling my eyes)
2. Isn't it heartwarming to know that Charles Koch has such altruistic motives for propagating so many noble and ennobling ideas -- just as Martin Luther did? (rolling my eyes again)
Journalism beyond belief. On the other hand - ethics standard in the US is at a lower level than in Europe.
Cenk, you are so necessary! Thank goodness for you. It's nice to know I'm not alone! Especially where I live, here in Georgia where ignorance is the norm. At least I can always escape to TYT! Keep on rockin'!
Koch brothers are like real life comic book villains
I don't give a shit how that evil doer feels!!!
Listen to how Koch talks about how he classifies his bribery:
"When your in this BUSINESS..."
That says it all.
Yup. Pretty ridiculous. He (like ALL rich people) want lower taxes and less regulation. Less regulation helps you make more money and hurts the rest of society - whether it means pollution EPA regulation or SEC and Wall Street anti-corruption regulation that caused the 2008 housing crisis/recession.
Really well said. Classic TYT, well researched well written well done.
If you poison water by dumping toxins and carcinogens into it, shouldn't you, at the very least, put some money into funding cancer research? BUT I think David only became interested in cancer research because of his personal experience with the disease.
Charles Koch believes we have the best government money can buy.
We need Bernie Sanders
One of my favorite TYT segments of all time. Well done, Cenk! :)
+alexpushkin85 : I don't care for Cenk's delivery style, but he nailed it on this one.
the young turks are among the last vanguard of real, true journalism.
Do you even understand what journalism is? TYT is commentary. They don't investigate shit, you imbecile.
what was that guy doing at DAPL? he was there in the middle of it telling the story on TYT....Jordan, check him out.
The Young Turks are great journalists, along with Thom Hartmann of Free Speech TV.
We need to all wake up and realize that the government was put in place to promote the general welfare. I'm tired of this Libertarian garbage about the rich being entitled to more resources than the rest of society. I've never met or heard of a successful person that I couldn't investigate and find out had actually received not only help from family and friends, but also subsidies, grants, or other forms of financial government benefits. No one has ever "Pulled themselves up by their bootstraps".
So called "Libertarians" use the Postal Service, Libraries, Public Roads, COURTS AND LAWS that protect them in civil as well as criminal cases, some of them are even disgustingly hypocritical enough to use COMMUNITY COLLEGES and even FOOD STAMP and section 8 programs. My favorite libertarian clowns are the ones that live in their parents' basement.
Then they have the nerve to try to tell me that socialism always leads to communism, or that socialism is evil, or that the government does not function, or that without any socialism, capitalism will somehow balance itself?
They make these claims without even reading the history of the French and Russian revolutions, in which despotic plutocrats like Koch were run out of town on a rail, promptly following their tarring and feathering. They also have the nerve to tell me that in a "free" enterprise, in which I am powerless because I am not wealthy, I'll be treated fairly - I should just trust the corporate billionaires to do me justice without any laws of regulation being put in place.
I hate this "un-American" nonsense. A lot of what people call "American" is pure fantasy and a lot of things people call "un-American" is the accepted and unchallenged status quo. Few Americans seem to agree what is and isn't American anyway.
America is democratic.
What the Koch do is anti-democratic.
The Koch bros are un-American definitionally.
Despicably Irascible Rapscallion How is America democratic? People get to vote (well most of them) between two parties that are controlled by the rich. The Chinese and North Koreans also get to vote. They may have less control over who they vote for but studies show the American people have very limited control over who gets to be on the ballot and who is showered with money and will thus have access to the media. People tend not to vote for someone they've never seen or heard of.
Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson Those are flaws in the system, but that's not the way the system was designed. The Koch brothers interfere with elections, plain and simple.
Despicably Irascible Rapscallion I agree that the flaws are not a fundamental part of the constitutional framework of the United States. The two-party dilemma is the fault of FPTP and money in politics is the fault of SCOTUS.
Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson I'm uncertain of the term FPTP. Could you please explain?
Money makes a troubling amount of Americans completely blind. Even those without it
+peepthezoobazz
Yes, of those who don't have it, those who consider themselves "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" remain blind to the warping caused by too much money, or at least the love of money, which is -- to coin a phrase -- the root of all evil.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO! "oh golly gee, im just a private citizen worried about moraaals!"
If there was one thing the Revolutionary generation agreed on it was the incompatibility of democracy and inherited wealth. Our Founders believed to stop the cycle of Aristocracy, inheritance and Government Debt should not be passed on to future generations. Inheritance is a direct threat to a free Republic and One Generations debt should never make slaves of future Americans by passing the bill forward.
The states left no doubt that in taking this step they were giving expression to a basic and widely shared philosophical belief that equality of citizenship was impossible in a nation where inequality of wealth remained the rule.
By keeping large estates together for succeeding generations, the old system had served "only to raise the wealth and importance of particular families and individuals, giving them an unequal and undue influence in a republic" and promoting "contention and injustice." Abolishing aristocratic forms of inheritance would by contrast "tend to promote that equality of property which is of the spirit and principle of a genuine republic."
President Herbert Hoover had disdain for the "idle rich" and his strong support for breaking up large fortunes. Theodore Roosevelt, who was the first president to propose a steeply graduated tax on inheritances, was another: he declared that the transmission of large wealth to young men "does not do them any real service and is of great and genuine detriment to the community at large.''
I don't hate Charles Koch. I hate the enablers that allow him to control our politics. He's not a bad man. He uses his advantages. His advantages are what's outrageous here.
+Justin Watt
The "enablers" and the Koch Brothers are made of the same wood. Coldblooded, psychopathic assholes to the bone. How can you call those who take the bribes worse than those who *actually lure, seduce & pay them with bribes?*
How much money do these people want ? Greedy greedy people
He brings new depth of meaning to the word "fawning".
"All the way from the towers
High above glass ceiling tombs
Tell themselves
They've earned this
By working hard
And playing by the rules
But this is only part true
A dangerous trick
Played on me and you
And so like a practical joke
We pulled on these bootstraps
So hard that they broke" Rise Against
he is only puzzled because he has been doing this for 50 years and only now people have found out.. thanks to Berine Sanders
vote for Bernie
I don't think anyone is thinking about taking ALL of anyone's income to rebuild the middle class.
EAT THE RICH
It's still not enough to feed the starving. Ever heard of the French Revolution?
It is a powerful sentiment to have lingering in the air though, if the rich want to deprive the poor of everything they leave them with nothing to lose, which is stupid and dangerous, so at a base level I am with you.
Wutaii yes and eat their wealth!
A life-long friend of mine coined his own quote: "Those who put self first can never know peace." **Robert Liljegren**
Main Stream journalism sucks. They are all sellouts. Nobody ask the hard questions anymore. All these soft interviews do nothing.
Don't criticize him that much "he is just like MLK..." for rich white people?
Even Satan disguises himself as the angel of light.
I wish Cenk could do these interviews
There should been a "Paid Advertisement" indicator on the screen for the entire interview and segment.
This is why i don't watch too much MSNBC these days. They threw Progressives under the bus. I'm disappointed in Sam Stein for falling for the bulls~t!! SMH!!!
How many Koch bots left comments here?
Ryansarcade9 Quite a few !!!
$400 million that their parents got from.............Joseph Stalin! Irony much?!
This isn't just a problem with joe and mika, this is how establishment owners work with everyone, they and their friends own the stations via influence, ad revenue, or just being that all our media is in the hands of a few rich people. If joe and mika didn't play the game someone else would take their place who would play ball.
We need to get money out of politics, and money out of media and news, and government out of control of media, and to educate the public, before the system falls apart from the rot of crony capitalism. In other words, we're fucked.
But they do not have to play ball so well.
Charles Koch: "I am better than all of you losers." He is truly a terrible person who wants to be victimized so that we feel sympathy.
Excellent educational commentary. Three thumbs up.
Oh my, David is such a kindly saint. Us peasants have no idea how worshipful we should be towards them for saving us from ourselves and our short sighted proletariat opinions.
Shout from Canada 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
Stahp embarrassing us with your better country
"I'm like Martin Luther when he was on trial." Charles Koch
Man if only it was like the old times when the peasants could rise up and eat the rich....
We need something like TYT in India, now more then ever before! Honest media is so rare!
I wish TYT still focused on these stories.... :(
The thing is, even the MSM journalists believe they themselves are left-leaning liberals. But what passes for liberalism these days in MSM circles is truly pathetic.
There was no interview here...this was just great PR masquerading as an interview.
Never forget, everything on TV is something that someone wants you to see.
I'm trying to decide whats worse.... selling out your principles for access or deliberately and intentionally lying about someone's views because you don't agree with their position....
MSNBC has become FOX lite... They lost me months ago when they fired everyone. I was loyal for more than a decade. Thank goodness for Cenk and The Young Turks. Without you guys I'd be lost!
+jami1545 I also love watching David Pakman and Secular Talk. Afaik they're also part of the TYT Network or at least they have been at some point. But I agree with you, TV is getting more and more conservative. Doesn't matter though, it will die out along with the baby-boomer generation eventually.
It makes me vomit on the floor... World needs another revolution. They can't be healed....
Arguably more people in America would hate the Koch bothers (and all the other American super rich who promote tax cuts for the super rich) if they understood that the tax cuts from which the Koch brothers have benefited during the last 35 years, were mostly funded by debt.
Since 1981 (with the exception of the Clinton years), the American government has effectively borrowed money and handed it to America's rich on the assumption that they would invest the money in businesses that created jobs distributing the benefit to all Americans (increasing the tax base to repay the debt).
But tax cuts didn't work as promised. The trickle down dripped. No everyone had a boat to float in.
The actual return on the American government "investment" in the super rich has been the destruction of America's middle class.
A big frustration for me these days is this trend for people to be contrarian for no other reason than to be contrarian. I cant tell you how many times Ive seen or watched or heard people argue against their own self interests for no other reason than to oppose someone and try to make themselves appear smarter.
+Michael P That's actually an amazing point, it is a foolish trend. People are having their minds rotted from "smart" phones or something, is my view. Giving it the nod and wait until the "to the contrary crowd" comes along trying to find one flaw in your point or one piddly error in your grammar. They'll be here...
fla playa I just saw. Small world. Im in sarasota.
Venice, not living there atm though. Extremely small world.
***** Very small world!
+Michael P I agree with you, but is something of that sort happening here?? It appears that most of these comments are anti-Koch and frankly, deservedly so.
they've mastered doublethink
The book "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer about the machinations of the Koch's and fellow (billionaire) travellers is a must read!
Can you imagine if the Koch's made a billion dollar contribution to Wolf-Pac...
The United States of AmeriKoch.
I know I should not hate people but I truly do hate the leaders and the top 1% of the American people.
No matter how charming a mugger who comes up behind me on the sidewalk and robs me I might speaks ill of him.
"Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?"
"The future, Mr. Gittes! The future."