# Koch Brothers to Spend $900 Million on 2016 Elections

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**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/koch-brothers-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-elections/710967 "2015-01-27T00:52:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/koch-brothers-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-elections/710967/317 "2015-02-23T00:51:20Z")

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> [@doorhinge](#):
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> Some of you are. Some of you are trying (and failing) to stop others from discussing the issue.
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> The only campaign advertising that my tax dollars are funding is the endless stream of progressive, liberal, anti-conservative, and pro-Democrat programs on PBS. I think they should stop using my money to fund what is obviously a form of campaign advertising.

Well, there you have it, educational programs are liberal. Too bad that many issues are looked by the Republicans with ignorant tinted glassed.

As an example: many reports from PBS and NPR made good efforts to calm the population about the Ebola outbreak, while the right wing media and politicians used fear to drive the support for the republicans that made unfounded decisions regarding quarantines, one can say that it was a factor that worked for them in the last election, but the price continues to be that conservatives do not get good information and end up voting against their best interests.

In a different thread **TimeWinder** makes this point:

> [@Why the liberal 'pooh-poohing' of the Ebola danger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-liberal-pooh-poohing-of-the-ebola-danger/700388/137):
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> Resurrecting the zombie here, four months on, with the definitive answer to the OP’s question: this is why.
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> There were exactly two cases of US-acquired Ebola, and no fatalities. Despite neverending coverage on Fox (an average of eleven stories a day about how we were all doomed), things came out exactly how the “liberal biased” news said it would. None of the cases were among the general public, despite all of the news about how these asymptomatic people had come into contact with millions! The nurse with no symptoms who was forced into partial quarantine (and was widely criticized for not accepting a full one) didn’t infect anybody, either, just like that evil liberal “medical science” said she wouldn’t.
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> So to conclude: science works for everybody, “liberal” or not. If you still believe scientific questions can be correctly answered by political positions, come on over to the liberal side instead, where we use evidence. We’ve got cookies.

That was to reply to a poster that made the point of why the liberals and “their media” were poopooing the Ebola outbreak, I remember also a scientist being interviewed at NPR that said about the Fox news and the Republican politicians that were scaring the public then: “eventually politics has to yield to science”.

And so it is with the issue of controlling our emissions, the only recourse we have then if there is no counter to what the Kochs are doing is to indeed educate the people better so we should not fall for the siren songs from the ones in the pockets of the oil industry.

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