The Desperate Campaign to Discredit Jane Mayer for reporting on the Koch brothrs.

[Swede]

Last August, Jane Mayer wrote a long investigative article in The New Yorker about the Koch brothers, the conservative billionaires who bankroll a host of right-wing causes. Since then, she's apparently become the victim of a disturbing, organized smear campaign.

Mayer, who's reported extensively on America's use of torture during the "War on Terror" and co-authored books on Clarence Thomas and Ronald Reagan, is certainly no stranger to peals of right-wing outrage. But her work on the reclusive Koch brothers (whose official objections to the story are laid out in this letter) seems to have raised it to a new level. Sources tell us that rumors have been circulating for some time now that a private investigator was hired to dig up dirt on Mayer in the wake of the Koch brothers story. (Dirty business, but that sort of thing does happen.)

http://gawker.com/5725466/the-desperate-campaign-to-discredit-jane-mayer?skyline=true&s=i

[EFerrari]

1. Mayer does really good work. No wonder their after her. n/t

[chill_wind]

4. And they're not even trying to be subtle. Thugs.

She really is very good, does great indepth and unflinching. Few in her similar league, like Andy Worthington and Jeremy Scahill. (Scahill has also sometimes experienced a lot of past pressure and intimidation of a different kind, I think I've read from him...)

[EFerrari]

5. Yeah, from the Pentagon. They stalked him and then threatened him

not to publish the story about special forces working illegally in Pakistan. I remember that.

These people think we're in the way. They think they own everything AND everyone.

[musette_sf]

2. K&R

and LOVE the reception that D Koch received at the ABT's "Nutcracker".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kert-davies/david-koch-booed-at-ny-ch_b_804648.html

High time to shun these pirates.

[Dappleganger]

3. Of course they did. They got rid of Grayson, didn't they?

[lonestarnot]

6. K & R v the crotches!

[Swede]

7. kick for the morning crowd