Ohio's thumping defeat of SB5 was a big loss for the Koch brothers, who poured money into the lobbying group that wrote the legislation. The Koch-funded group Americans for Prosperity also paid for misleading pro-SB5 ads that twisted the words of an Ohio great-grandmother.

After seeing The Huffington Post's recent story about David Koch reportedly walking unnoticed through a crowd of protesters -- who were protesting David Koch -- Joe Smyth, a media officer for Greenpeace, emailed over a video of David Koch being noticed and confronted by protesters at Friday's Defending the American Dream Summit.

Even for the Lincoln Centre it was an unusual show, and an unscheduled one. Several hundred protesters turned up outside the arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side last week for the guerrilla screening of a short film. From a hotel on the other side of the street, a video was projected on to the centre's walls. The unwitting stars of the films were David and Charles Koch, the reclusive rightwing billionaire brothers whose secretive empire and network of influence and funding is emerging as a liberal rallying cause in America.

Director Robert Greenwald s opening gambit in what he pledges will be a year-long effort to publicize the Koch brothers political efforts drew about 500 protesters to Lincoln Center in New York last night, ending with an unauthorized 'rebranding' of the Center s David H. Koch Theater with the caption "I'm the Tea Party s wallet"