Billionaire flogfest: Koch Brothers shills tried to silence early reports on tea party roots

The biggest story of 2010 (and following)—the takeover of America by the billionaire Koch brothers—was first reported by eXiled Online editors Mark Ames and Yasha Levine over five years ago, in a controversial article for Playboy. Dylan Ratigan sets the record straight once and for all onMSNBC”s “The Dylan Ratigan Show.” He asks Ames and Levine what the corruption of the journalism world, along with the political and economic world, means for America.

Watch it and weep:

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