Koch Brothers Exposed

2012
6.5| 0h55m| en
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Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world’s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs’ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.

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Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
eusair-1 i've seen the same sort of thing come out of the right. makes many claims and assumptions; provides no proof of anything. mindless dribble that will only pour fuel on the fire. tailored toward the unthinking masses yet highly unlikely to spur them to action. jumps around from one thing to the next. no continuity.i wouldn't say that it flat out tells lies, but it doesn't make it easy for a thinking person to believe any of it, despite how much they might want to believe it. we the people must be better than this if we are truly to overcome the powerful influences of money. then again, sometimes it is easier to just start bashing and throwing things.the irony is that the same people who would be offended/angered by this film would probably eat up the same type of garbage which supports their own way of thinking. in either case, nobody is really looking to find out the truth and nobody cares about doing what is right, except in their own eyes....and that is precisely why humanity is doomed.
david-e-real This excuse for a documentary is a perfect example of how people who know nothing, living in a victim mentality, can be easily manipulated and made to believe the most ridiculous things. In order to rate this movie above a 1, you would have to have a similar IQ. It's nothing but half truths, logical fallacies, red herrings, and total fabrications. Nevermind that the "producers" provide zero evidence to support their claims. A perfect example of what stupid people watch to get their information, and clear evidence of the decline of intelligence and critical thinking in the West. Knowing this movie is rated a 6.6 makes me embarrassed for our society.
Alex Libman In the tradition of socialist propaganda like Der Ewige Jude, the film doesn't even try to make any rational arguments for why its targets are bad - it uses juxtaposition, emotional footage, blurbs taken completely out of context, and outright fabrications.This hate-u-mentary does not "expose" anything that the Koch family itself doesn't make public, and has been making public for many decades. For example, David H Koch was the Libertarian Party's VP candidate in 1980, running on a platform, as summed by his Wikipedia entry, "to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and U.S. Federal agencies including the SEC, EPA, ICC, FTC, OSHA, FBI, CIA, and DOE". Does anyone honestly believe any of this was a secret?!The worst thing you could truthfully say about the Koch brothers is that "they gave money to anti-communist organizations, and some anticommunists also happened to be racists" - the latter is not something the Koch brothers had any power to change. This is guilt by (very distant) association! Like the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", a person who has many connections can be connected to pretty much anybody else.The film talks about Koch Industries being a "major polluter", but it doesn't talk about what they produce, and it doesn't even try to put anything in context. This is like describing Shakespeare as a major waste of paper, or Mozart as a major polluter of silence! It completely glosses over the fact that Koch Industries produce products that are used by hundreds of millions of people, and that they donate billions of dollars to medical research, the arts, and other apolitical charities. It doesn't even try to analyze the policies proposed by free market environmental organizations like FREE (Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment), which the Koch brothers support - who needs science when you already have an angry mob?This film should be classified as "hate porn" - it doesn't need to explain WHY its viewers should be aroused, because their reptilian brain already reacts to the subject a certain way. People who are not drunk on class-warfare prejudice and are capable of critical thinking will study the scientific and economic ideas that the Koch brothers promote and think for themselves.Socialists are welcome to criticize those ideas constructively, but so far they've done nothing but lie, cheat, steal, and kill their opposition.
poe426 Is it Poetic Justice or just plain irony that one of the billionaires polluting the planet contracts Cancer? It's not the Outcome that matters, it seems, but the INcome... Mother Earth as a Cash Cow has been systematically milked dry, and we're all going to foot the bill for it in The End (which probably ain't that far off). Watching the slow but inevitable (and agonizing) demise of the people "at the end of the line" should serve as a reminder to ALL of us that NONE of us are, to coin a phrase, mere "collateral damage." (I refer you to the COLLATERAL MURDER footage...) The solution to pollution is really quite simple: anyone who pollutes the Land, Air or Sea should be sentenced to spend the remainder of his/her days right in the middle of the mess they've made. At least that way, things'd work out all around. (And to think that the Kochs were originally backed by Soviet money... Shades of Nit Romney's Bain Capital start-up money, gotten from Right Wing murder squad funders, or Karl Rove's laundering of Chinese triad money through political moneymen like Shel Addelson...)

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