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Washington Post busted!: Attempt to expose Koch Brothers as Keystone XL beneficiaries found false
American Thinker ^ | 03/21/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/21/2014 7:18:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A Washington Post story purporting to expose the Koch brothers as behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the Keystone Pipeline has been exposed as an utterly false propaganda operation, hilariously wrong and politically malicious. Even worse, one of the writers behind the story is married to a political operative in the left wing Koch-demonization machine.
Hinderaker’s work is thorough, grounded in fact, and devastating. I urge you to read the whole thing. Here is a small sample:

...an article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin headlined, “The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers.” The article was based on a newly-issued two-page report by the far-left International Forum on Globalization. The Post reported:

You might expect the biggest lease owner in Canada’s oil sands, or tar sands, to be one of the international oil giants, like Exxon Mobil or Royal Dutch Shell. But that isn’t the case. The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.

Actually, nearly all of the tar sands leaseholders are smaller companies that you haven’t heard of–dozens, if not hundreds of them. Koch is not, in fact, the largest leaseholder

The Washington Post was recently purchased by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, who ought to take a hard look at the reporters and editors who collaborated with the left wing smear machine, and while he is at it, should send a note of thanks to John Hinderaker, the blogger at Powerline, who exposed the rot in his new media operation.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; keystonexl; kochbrothers; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; washingtonpost

1 posted on 03/21/2014 7:18:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bets on who’s gonna say “Fake but Accurate”?


2 posted on 03/21/2014 7:21:54 AM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course, when Warren Buffet benefits from government actions it’s all good....


3 posted on 03/21/2014 7:27:01 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well..........they gotta be doin’ something evil and un-American somewhere and trying to undermine the country. That’s what hairy reid-iculous says anyway. Man is he fixated on these brothers or what? Kinda creepy huh?


4 posted on 03/21/2014 7:27:32 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Redneck. Race: Daytona 500)
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To: SeekAndFind

The story has been found to be false but it will be repeated as the truth by the left.

IMHO


5 posted on 03/21/2014 7:28:01 AM PDT by ripley
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep exposing the left-wing propaganda, include in it, some of our own.

Who are for example, the 50 some leftwing interests, who contribute MORE than the Koch Brothers, just to liberals?

Who?


6 posted on 03/21/2014 7:29:19 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ( http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: SeekAndFind

Keystone would be good for the country. According to Senator Reid, the bothers are anti-American so why would they do anything for America?


7 posted on 03/21/2014 7:30:46 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A lie will run around the world, before the truth has left the starting block.


8 posted on 03/21/2014 7:40:33 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thankfully, the comments under the Post article have blown up with criticism. That needs to happen more often.


9 posted on 03/21/2014 7:43:01 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: SeekAndFind

A newspaper clearly in bed with the DemocRATS—Bias exposed for the world to see.

Yet the GOP-e will continue to attach credibility to anything the WP writes.


10 posted on 03/21/2014 7:44:14 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Shoot cops that shoot dogs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can the Koch brothers now sue and own the Post for LIES?


11 posted on 03/21/2014 7:47:43 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind

When will they expose Democrats such as Warren Buffet, who would miss the millions his railroad makes hauling shale oil at dangerous speed through sleeping towns. The safer, cheaper XL pipeline would mean less cash to give Democrats in this fall’s campaign.


12 posted on 03/21/2014 8:02:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: freeangel

We really do need a little more limited version of free press, like the British. In Britain, these scum would be sued into bankruptcy—no New York Times protection for them!


13 posted on 03/21/2014 8:08:02 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Washington Post was recently purchased by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, who ought to take a hard look at the reporters and editors who collaborated with the left wing smear machine, and while he is at it, should send a note of thanks to John Hinderaker, the blogger at Powerline, who exposed the rot in his new media operation.

And while he's at it, Bezos should pray he doesn't get sued.

14 posted on 03/21/2014 8:09:32 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: SeekAndFind

For public figures such as the Koch’s, proving libel requires one of two things:

1) That the defendant did wantonly or willfully disregard the veracity of the matters in question; or
2) That the matter was published with “actual malice” in an attempt to injure the plaintiff’s standing or reputation.

In this case, the comPost is almost certainly guilty of both. Not that they need the money, but the Koch’s should sue for millions just to send a message to the other left-wing propaganda organs.


15 posted on 03/21/2014 8:17:07 AM PDT by IronJack
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