So what's up with the Koch brothers (watching the Newsroom)

[Tamas]

humor is lost on you people.

don't be so square

[garbon]

humor is lost on you people.

don't be so square

Be more funny.

[The Minsky Moment]

I missed the news about the Koch brothers buying the Cato Institute.

Caused a huge ruckus in the libertarian crowd, mostly anti-Koch.

[Ideologue]

I thought it was pronounced so as to rhyme with "crotch."  That's how I've always heard it said.

The Economist reported that Moveon.org was protesting at a Romney fundraiser in the Hamptons with a plane dragging a banner that said "Romney has a Koch habit."  The Economist agreed that it's pronounced Coke.

Hard to argue with both George Soros and The Economist.

What about Diet Koch?  Pronounced the same?

[Tamas]

Why the fuck would you pronounce ch as k?

[Ideologue]

Why the fuck would you pronounce ch as k?

Because most Anglophones have trouble with the voiceless uvular fricative.

[Iormlund]

I always pronounce it like I would in German. Isn't there where it comes from?

[Martinus]

I always pronounce it like I would in German. Isn't there where it comes from?

That's irrelevant, really - most names come from somewhere but insisting on pronouncing them according to some remote origin just does not work. "Obama" probably gets pronounced differently in Kenyan, but that's irrelevant.

[MadImmortalMan]

Rumor Sorkin fired the entire writing staff of The Newsroom except one. His girlfriend.

[Valmy]

Rumor Sorkin fired the entire writing staff of The Newsroom except one. His girlfriend.

Obviously the Koch brothers gave him a call.