Our political Quote of the Day comes from billionaire, Tea Party bankroller and Democratic party nemesis billionaire David Koch about the prank caller who pretended to be him, got right through to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and got Walker to say some things that will not help Walker’s career. No one can say Koch does not have a sense of humor:
“I was thinking to myself, ‘My God, if I called up a senator or a congressman to discuss something with them, and they heard ‘David Koch is on the line,’ they’d immediately say, ‘That’s that fraud again—tell him to get lost!’ ”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.