Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham’s 56-minute documentary “The
Billionaires’ Tea Party” (2010) makes a
nice companion to “Koch Brothers Exposed” (Sept. 20), curiously, I can’t find
it on imdb (see below), but it is available for Instant Play on Netflix. The tagline is “How
corporate America is faking a grassroots revolution.”
The film traces the rapid growth of the informal “Tea Party”
from the time of Obama’s inauguration, but was apparently shot before the
debt-ceiling “debate” in the summer of 2011.
Charles and David Koch are identified as the fifth and sixth
wealthiest individuals in the world. I’m not sure where Mark Zuckerberg is on
this list, but I don’t think he’s part of the “tea party”.
Other pro-free-market organizations are identified,
including Citizens for a Sound Economy, and Freedom Works (as well as Americans
for Prosperity).
There seems to be a total lack of intellectual honesty in
the highly partisan political areas. One
activist describes how he goes on to Amazon and other sites and assigns “stars”
to books and movies based on their political correctness (from a right-wing
viewpoint) rather than artistic merit. I'm reminded of a line in ABC's last standing soap "General Hospital": "I'm a publisher. I manipulate information for a living." I guess journalists can't be publishers.
Another speaker (propaganda expert Crispin Miller) says that the “real currency in a democracy is honest information” and that rich people or companies have an artificially propped right (by the First Amendment) to buy the public distribution of falsehoods.
Another speaker (propaganda expert Crispin Miller) says that the “real currency in a democracy is honest information” and that rich people or companies have an artificially propped right (by the First Amendment) to buy the public distribution of falsehoods.
The film presents the two biggest target issues for the “right”
as climate change and “Obamacare”.
One supporter of conservative pundit Glen Beck says “I’m not
too old to have heroes” or idols.
The official site is here.
There is a longer (90 minute) version of the film called “(Astro)
Truf Wars”. (I do see an entry for this on imdb now.) Maybe the Boehner debt-ceiling debate gets covered here. How about calling it “Turf
Protection”?
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