Cable host’s attacks on Kochs littered with double-standards
The Washington Free Beacon
1/28/2014
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tried to tie the Koch Brothers to a Florida free market group on Monday by noting that the Kochs have ties to the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), which has paid stipends to interns at the group.
Maddow did not mention that IHS has also paid students to intern at MSNBC, according to its website.
The Monday segment was the latest salvo in Maddow’s long-running war on libertarian philanthropists Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Industries…
…The Kochs have given money to IHS, she noted, which has paid students through its Koch Summer Fellowship program to intern at FGA, among about 80 other organizations.
According to IHS’s website, MSNBC is one of those organizations…
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