http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/bloomberg-legitimate-news-story-or-liberal-smear.php
POWERLINE responded to most of the charges against KOCH a week ago BEFORE Bloomberg even published their hit piece.
Bribes of foreign officials and doing busines with Iran?? Hmmm, sounds a little like GE to me. Oh yeah, GE supports Obama and is into ‘clean energy’ so they are the good guys. Koch deals in oil and ‘dirty energy’ so they are the enemy.
The sad thing is the liberal enviro wackos are going crazy and watch for Obama and his sycophants at Bloomberg to continue with it pieces on corporate opponents of the left.
long ago, a subsidiary of a European Koch subsidiary sold equipment in Iran is anything but a bombshell. Such sales were legal at the time and are still legal today, but some years ago, Koch Industries adopted a policy that is stricter than required by American law, and now bans any Koch-related company from doing business with Iran.
Companies that have done legal business with Iran include, among many others, Alcatel-Lucent, BASF, Caterpillar, ConocoPhillips, Daimler, Dresser-Rand, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Halliburton, Hewlett-Packard, Honda, Honeywell, Ingersoll Rand, KPMG, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nestle, Nissan, Nokia, Schlumberger, Siemens, Sony, Tyson Foods and Unilever. Some of those companies or their subsidiaries continue to do business with Iran. So why, exactly, is the fact that years ago a Koch affiliate sold goods in Iran suddenly a hot news item?
Elections are coming up. They really don't have that much to work with, so they're throwing poop and they're hoping it sticks to the wall.
I'm sure my local lib paper will be printing the hit piece on Koch Industries; so it's great to have ammo to hurl back at the drooling lefties.