The Goldstein Brothers

Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker asks a rhetorical question concerning the bizarre assertions that the Koch brothers are paying for George Zimmerman's legal defense in the Trayvon Martin case:

But why does any rumor relating to Koch, no matter how baseless or bizarre, rise to the level where it prompts an inquiry from a major television news network which obviously hopes to include a Koch angle in its story?

So what's that about? Hinderaker:

I wrote here about MSNBC’s campaign to tie the Koch brothers to George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin. That effort was, it is fair to say, insane, but it apparently inspired one or more liberals to take MSNBC’s theories a step farther. Someone wrote–I think it was on Facebook–that Koch Industries had paid for Zimmerman’s legal defense and/or put up his bail money. Other liberals happily repeated the claim, to the point where Snopes deemed it a rumor worth addressing.

There's a hilarious yet dismaying email exchange between Koch and a researcher for CBS News at the link. It's worth your time to read.