{"id":1599,"date":"2014-08-28T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2014-09-15T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:10:43","slug":"greenthepress-so-who-are-the-koch-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1599 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?attachment_id=1600'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nb0vhye6bZ1tbdnf4o1_500-117x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nb0vhye6bZ1tbdnf4o1_500-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nb0vhye6bZ1tbdnf4o1_500-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nb0vhye6bZ1tbdnf4o1_500.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greenthepress.tumblr.com\/post\/96003768456\/so-who-are-the-koch-brothers-anyways-here-are\">greenthepress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So who are the Koch Brothers anyways?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2014\/08\/27\/myths-and-facts-about-the-koch-brothers\/200570#liberals\"><span><strong>Here are the facts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have an <strong>enormous political influence<\/strong>: Associated Press said they are \u201cshaping politics\u201d this year, and three GOP candidates credited them for their success.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>Big Oil barons,\u00a0<\/strong>who made their fortune on oil refining and continue to get the bulk of their wealth from the fossil fuel industry.<\/li>\n<li>They spend far more than any \u201cliberal equivalents,\u201d and\u00a0<strong>they spend in line with their financial interests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They use shady operations and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;dark money&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>to fund their interests.<\/li>\n<li>They pretend to advocate economic liberty, but they\u00a0<strong>attack renewables exclusively while defending fossil fuels.<\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They claim to have a good environmental track record but\u00a0their company is responsible for<strong>\u00a0hundreds of oil spills, paid hundreds of millions in fines, and even caused deaths.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They push an <strong>extreme agenda.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2014\/08\/27\/myths-and-facts-about-the-koch-brothers\/200570#liberals\">Read more Myths and Facts about the Koch Brothers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/en\/news-and-blogs\/campaign-blog\/climate-crime-scene-declared-as-true-koch-fam\/blog\/25939\/\"><em>Photo from Greenpeace<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greenthepress: So who are the Koch Brothers anyways?\u00a0 Here are the facts:\u00a0 They have an enormous political influence: Associated Press said they are \u201cshaping politics\u201d this year, and three GOP candidates credited them for their success. They are Big Oil barons,\u00a0who made their fortune on oil refining and continue to get the bulk of their wealth from the fossil fuel industry. They spend far more than any \u201cliberal equivalents,\u201d and\u00a0they spend in line with their financial interests. They use shady operations and\u00a0&#8220;dark money&#8221;\u00a0to fund their interests. They pretend to advocate economic liberty, but they\u00a0attack renewables exclusively while defending fossil fuels. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1599\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-pN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}