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To: Ron who wrote (233721)	10/7/2013 11:26:45 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 544177

It struck me as interesting that the study came from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, tracing anti-regulatory anti-tax activities by tobacco companies as far back as the 1980s. Ditto. And I have little doubt there is an argument there. It just seemed the evidence for this was not quite as strong as one would like. Good newspaper copy, not necessarily the best research. That was my point about the weakness of investigative journalism. The report might serve as a wake-up call to some people in the Tea Party itself, who would find it a little disturbing that the "grassroots" movement they are so emotionally attached to, is in fact a pawn created by billionaires and large corporations with little interest in fighting for the rights of the common person, but instead using the common person to fight for their own unfettered profits. God, I hope so. But certain portions of the media have pointed out, many times, the role of billionaires like the Koch brothers and others in keeping the Tea Party afloat. I keep hoping that will sink in. And the sheer conflict--don't touch my ss or my medicare contrasted with the "government is the problem" message--just doesn't seem to get traction. But I continue to hope. The Peter King interview in which he was worried about the blue collar Republicans in his district struck me as a hopeful step.