Cenk and Ben hosting. A little taste of Old School podcast. The Koch Brothers plan on spending $889 million on the 2016 elections. The figure will be raised from a few hundred donors, illustrating that our country will officially be run by a few hundred people. Ted Cruz came out in front of all other defenders and declared criticism of the Kochs is offensive and grotesque. Videos of the Morning Joe crew drooling over the Koch Brothers, with Scarborough himself defending their character and painting them as anti-establishment. Ben thinks he should be fired today.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence has decided to start a state-run news agency with pre-written stories ready for other publications to print. Cenk and Ben talk about how this is meant to seep into normalcy and news agencies will take their biased stories as real. After the forecast of a record blizzard didn’t happen in NYC area, Rush Limbaugh has taken it to mean the Left cooked up the story to scare and control society. Videos of Mayor De Blasio warning the public about the upcoming storm. Limbaugh claimed that since Katrina devastation, the Left claimed there would be more, but there hasn’t been any in 3000 days, forgetting about Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Limbaugh also forgot that Republican Chris Christie declared a state of emergency in NJ.

Ben talks about Don Lemon reporting ridiculously from the Blizzard Mobile. Kansas governor Sam Brownback is distancing himself from his tax cut plan for the rich, leading the state to serious deficits. In order to fix the problem, he’s proposing to cut education funding in the state by $127 million, and $300 million from transportation. His tax increases will go to alcohol and tobacco, again affecting lower to middle class citizens disproportionately. Even Grover Norquist spoke out against this tactic, illustrating how much more the lower class citizens would pay.

Show notes by Jayar Jackson