The Most Epically Hypocritical Democratic Party Smear Ever! This Is One for the Record Books

 

 

 "Mark Andrew is a former chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic (DFL) Party. He also writes an occasional column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Today he attacked Flint Hills Resources, which owns a refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota. Why? Because Flint Hills is owned by Koch Industries. What was the occasion? Flint Hills sponsors an annual “International Children’s Festival” in conjunction with the Ordway Theater in St. Paul, and the festival got underway today. 

 

To hear Andrew tell it, Flint Hills is an appalling corporate malefactor:

Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend oil refinery is located near Highway 52 en route to Rochester from St. Paul. You might not know it is a Flint Hills refinery because there is no highway signage to identify it. But judging from its belching stacks and anti-utopian visage, one can figure out it is owned by the notorious Koch Brothers.

Flint Hills and Koch Industries are on the short list of America’s filthiest companies.

 What makes Andrew’s article the most epically hypocritical smear of all time is that in 2009, Andrew not only recognized Flint Hills’ environmental excellence, he made a business proposal to partner with Flint Hills to advertise and promote the company’s stellar environmental record!

 

 What has changed since December 2009? Not Flint Hills Resources; Flint Hills is the same company it always was. What has changed is that the Democratic Party has made a tactical political decision to attack Koch Industries and its affiliates, like Flint Hills, at every opportunity, in order to enrage that party’s base and to deflect attention from the failure of the Obama administration’s policies. Today, Andrew was simply carrying water for his party. He knew that what he wrote was false, but for the Democrats–Andrew, remember, is a former state party chairman–truth always gives way to political advantage. This kind of sickening hypocrisy should cause every Democrat to look in the mirror and ask: what has my party become?"

[Power Line]