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Who’s financing these people?

I’ve been hearing local talk show hosts in Lexington and Cincinnati, as well as Glenn Beck on radio and TV, call for legislators to come home and have “town hall meetings.”  My question: Why would they?

Those events have, as seen on YouTube, been hijacked by “birthers” who question President Barack Obama’s citizenship, by the Tea Party crowd, and by groups who oppose health-care reform and climate change legislation.

Now I know that the Glenn Beck show, radio and TV, is promoting such disruptions. It appears to me that these Glenn Beck groups, i.e., the 9-12 Project, are nascent storm trooper units shouting down people, threatening violence, spreading disinformation and misinformation.

But who’s financing these people? Why is the press not doing its job and investigating the backgrounds of these organizations and their promoters? I believe a large part of their financing comes from corporate interests who are furthering their corporate goals using naive individuals who have little grasp on political reality.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a section 501(c)(4) organization, was one of the lead organizations behind the Tax Day Tea Party protests on April 15 and July 4.  AFP uses numerous front groups, including the ones mentioned, and receives much of its financing from a group calling itself the Koch Foundation, founded by two of the richest men in America, David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, owners of oil and tobacco interests. Glen Beck, a Fox News and radio talk show host, promotes himself and these events in an inflammatory and fact-free manner. Fox News itself incessantly promotes these events.

I believe there’s something particularly odious about Beck and people like him, but that he has the 24/7 bullhorn afforded to him and financed by corporate interests like the Koch family is unfair to those who would oppose his perversion of America.

Again, I ask, why is the press not doing its job and investigating the source of funding and agendas of these groups and their promoters?

Bill Adkins

Williamstown, Ky.


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