HBO's The Newsroom features ThinkProgress interview of David Koch

From Season 1 Episode 5 of the Newsroom.
Interview of David Koch conducted by Lee Fang (@LHFang) and Scott Keyes (@SMKeyes) of ThinkProgress. Newsroom segment based on the following piece:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/201...

David Koch was interviewed on January 5, 2011. He was leaving the capitol building in Washington DC after having visited Congressman John Boehner -- who had been sworn in as Speaker of the House earlier that day. Koch helped finance tens of millions of dollars in attack ads, bus tours, pro-GOP Tea Party groups, and other electioneering efforts during the midterm election.

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[BobMartin5613]

I do marvel at HBO's consistently superior production values & their writers' rhetorical mastery.

Calling HBO's shows "reality-based" is funny. In "The Newsroom" they take past events as reported in a highly filtered media (what you call reality) then proceed to generalize, delete, and distort that already massaged information - using innuendo & popular cliches to reinforce their message (only the Progressive elite has moral values and those who disagree "[live] in the FoxNews bubble"). FNORD

[tbizone2002]

Until the last sentance I thought you were applauding the show's fantastically smart writing. The fact that you think intellegent, reality-based storylines are meant to be "mind control" shows that you've been living in the FoxNews bubble.

[RikdadD]

if we take a leaf from your campaign book & do it so much better , why wouldn't you want to be one of us???

[BobMartin5613]

HBO sure knows how to make mincemeat of reality. This particular series is an excellent example of mind control and dissembling, showing the profound cognitive dissonance that passes for intellectual and moral superiority of the "progressive" cult. Jane Fonda playing a mega-rich media mogul who's worried about alienating the Koch brothers - this says it all. In spite of the superior production values, "The Newsroom" is a propaganda weapon designed to keep the sheeple stupid and confused.

[sarah candyfication]

The answer is yes, Sorrrrros has money in the Progressive Institute and 12 other front organizations with the focus of keeping the price of gasoline high by overthrowing middle eastern countries and then overturning the Constitution through the UN.

[EasyEs]

Also that story has little to nothing to do with a hydro frac. It is a man made natural gas storage site and former mine that seems to have failed. I am not sure what your point is relating it to hydro fracs

[EasyEs]

You don't target unconsolidated clays for exploration. They only sit above the consolidated siltstones, coals and shales that are often drill targets. If fracs moved up which they often don't the moment they hit one of these it would be game over.

That is nice you "designed fracs"- translation you were a mud logger at one point.

I am a Geologist and I will tell you that in no way will frac move up 50m let alone >500m when it can move along hz cleavage planes and small fractures.

[2maw1wrimike]

if unconsolidated clays instantly plug a frac how could any frac be successful?

surfactants are designed and included to prevent all this. surfactants include ..??

i've actually designed fracs and completion muds for both shale and coal.

creating a conduit between gas seams and the water table is, at least to me, somewhat backwards. but hey if you don't live there why should you care right?

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