Ce n’est pas nous qui l’avons \u00e9crit, mais Ian Murphy, r\u00e9dacteur en chef du site The Beast<\/em>, sous le titre de \u00abKoch Whore<\/em>\u00bb. Apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9claration du gouverneur Walker, du Wisconsin, selon laquelle il refuserait de communiquer et de prendre un coup de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone tant que les protestataires de Madison n’auraient pas quitt\u00e9 le Capitole, Murphy d\u00e9cida de t\u00e9l\u00e9phoner en se faisant passer pour David Koch, un des deux fr\u00e8res Koch, milliardaires fameux pour leur soutien financier au parti r\u00e9publicain, \u00e0 Tea Party<\/em> et, pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, soutiens financiers du gouverneur Walker. Le r\u00e9sultat est une extraordinaire conversation t\u00e9l\u00e9phonique de Murphy-Koch avec Walker, retranscrite le 23 f\u00e9vrier 2010<\/a> sur The Beast<\/em>, o\u00f9 les liens de suj\u00e9tion de Walker avec les fr\u00e8res Koch sont mis en \u00e9vidence d’une fa\u00e7on document\u00e9e et convaincante, voire intime…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCe jubilant incident a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9galement rapport\u00e9 par Jason Linkins, sur Huffington.post<\/em>, le 23 f\u00e9vrier 2011<\/a>. (Le Guardian<\/em> relate \u00e9galement la chose le 24 f\u00e9vrier 2011<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abHere’s something for your can this possibly be for real file this morning. Over at the Buffalo Beast the former print alt-weekly turned online newspaper founded by onetime editor Matt Taibbi, typically best known for its annual list of The 50 Most Loathsome Americans there appear to be recordings of a phone call between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and current editor Ian Murphy. Now, why on earth would Scott Walker want to talk on the phone with the editor of an online site in Buffalo? Well, he wouldn’t.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut what if said editor pretended to be David Koch of the famed Koch Brothers? Well, that’s a different story altogether, apparently! And so Walker, believing himself to be on the phone with his patron, seems to have had a long conversation about busting Wisconsin’s unions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBuffalo Beast Publisher Paul Fallon told The Huffington Post that the audio is absolutely legit. That the call took place as described by the Beast has been confirmed by Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie. Basically what happened was, yesterday morning [Murphy] was watching television about this Wisconsin stuff and he saw a report where he saw Walker say he wasn’t going to talk to anybody, Fallon said. And he said, I bet he would talk to somebody if he had enough oomph behind him.’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThis all apparently went down Tuesday afternoon, hours before Walker made his fireside chat. It took some doing: Murphy-as-Koch said he had several hoops to jump through before he was granted access to Walker, beginning with a receptionist, leading to the governor’s executive assistant, and finally ending up with his chief of staff, Keith Gilkes<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa conversation t\u00e9l\u00e9phonique entre Murphy-Koch et Walker vaut effectivement son pesant de dialectique faussaire, en nous faisant p\u00e9n\u00e9trer par inadvertance et effraction dans le monde de la corruption du Syst\u00e8me, color\u00e9 et parfois imprudent, ou bien na\u00eff et inattentif (Walker n’a pas h\u00e9sit\u00e9 une seconde \u00e0 prendre Murphy pour Koch). Murphy termine par ce commentaire, o\u00f9 il ne manque pas de nous rappeler la chose, Le Caire, Madison, m\u00eame combat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abSo there you have it, kids. Government isn’t for the people. It’s for the people with money. You want to be heard? Too fucking bad. You want to collectively bargain? You can’t afford a seat at the table. You may have built that table. But it’s not yours. It belongs to the Kochs and the oligarch class. It’s guarded by Republicans like Walker, and his Democratic counterparts across that ever-narrowing aisle that is corporate rule, so that the ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots can swallow all the power in the world. These are known knowns, and now we just know them a little more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut money isn’t always power. The protesters in Cairo and Madison have taught us thisreminded us of this. They can’t buy a muzzle big enough to silence us all. Share the news. Do not retreat; ReTweet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n