Today’s weepy billionaire
by digby
Charles Koch, chairman and CEO of Koch Industries Inc. in Wichita, is used to being criticized.
Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) went on the attack against Charles and David Koch on Wednesday calling them “un-American” during a speech on the U.S. Senate floor.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, Reid took issue with what he called “lies” in new ads from opponents of the Affordable Care Act.Charles Koch told me that criticism comes with the territory in today’s political environment.
“When you start attacking cronyism and people’s political interests, it gets nasty,” he said, during a Feb. 18 interview. “We’ve been called every name under the sun.”
Interesting that he says this is an attack on cronyism as if there’s something wrong with doing that. Maybe someone should clue him in that most people think cronyism is a bad thing. Even weepy billionaires very rarely defend it.
Update: It’s been pointed out to me on twitter that he’s likely referring to himself as the scourge of cronyism and people’s political interests which is probably right but equally absurd. I don’t know what he’s referring to but he’s the ultimate crony capitalist. And his political interests are quite obvious.
Also too, I don’t think he’s known as someone who’s on some crusade against crony capitalism is he? Not that it isn’t something he’d be perfectly willing to launch without any sense of irony, of course. He is a conservative.
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