Koch Bros Send Maddow a Script to Read [View all]

[LisaLynne]

They are outraged that Rachel reported on links between supposedly state-based, local policy groups and their funding, which leads back to the Koch Brothers.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/09/23/koch-brothers-rachel-maddow/

From the link:

Maddow points out that MSNBC and her show will make corrections when a mistake is made, but there is a threshold that won’t be crossed.

“I don’t mind making corrections. That said — don’t push it.”

She explains that she covers a lot of right wing politics because

“The most interesting story in American politics this decade is the effort by the Republican party to remake itself in the wake of the disastrous Bush-Cheney era.”

“We cover the conservative movement a lot on this show and in so doing, we occasionally find people who have been mentioned in our coverage who are absolutely outraged that they have been mentioned in our coverage. People who are not used to being talked about by someone who does not take their instructions. And so, what happens is, they tend to try to instruct me as to how I ought to talk about them. And the conservative political figures who you can most count on to threaten to sue you and call your boss and scream about their victimization as loud as they can — whenever they get mentioned by name in a way they do not control — are of course, the Koch brothers.”

Yeah, we're not supposed to talk about it or know it because they are special or something.