Brother from another planet

Brother from another planet

by digby

David Weigel is at the Americans for Properity event with Herman Cain:

David Koch was in the front row. Art Pope, another AFP macher and target of stories about his wealth and influence, was sitting in the same section. There was an opportunity here to smack right back at all the reporters writing stories about how Cain was “connected” to Koch. Cain took it. He reminded the crowd about a New York Times story from last night. That piece had tied together Cain, an AFP speaker, and his campaign chief Mark Block, a former AFP organizer in Wisconsin, and Prosperity USA, the shell group that allegedly, illegally, helped the Cain campaign get started in the start of 2011.

“The article tries to make a case of how close the Koch brothers and I are,” said Cain.

The audience started chuckling.

“I’m proud to know the Koch brothers,” said Cain. “I’m very proud to know the Koch brothers. They make it sound like we’ve had time to go fishing together, hunting together, skiing together, golfing together. But just so I can clarify this for the media?”

Chuckling louder now.

“This may be a breaking news announcement for the media.”

Here it comes.

“I am the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother!”

Adele Stan at Alternet had the Koch connection first, by the way.

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