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Maddow On Koch ‘Caught Red Handed’ Backing Tea Partiers (VIDEO)

Maddow On Koch ‘Caught Red Handed’ Backing Tea Partiers (VIDEO)

TPMmuckraker’s story yesterday about Koch Industries preemptively alerting the press that the mega-company does not fund tea parties — despite the fact that it backs one of the major tea party groups — got the Rachel Maddow treatment last night.

“So David Koch, founder of Americans for Prosperity, wants you to know that he’s not at all funding the tea party movement — except for that part where he totally funds the tea party movement,” Maddow said in the segment. “But other than that, just wants to get the facts clear.”

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