Last week, Bloomberg Markets Magazine published a 7,000+ word, 14 author hit piece, on Koch Industries Inc. that was so pathetic, Bloomberg’s own Businessweek editorialized against it. This week, The New Yorker’s Jane Meyer, also of Koch hit piece fame, has published a new hatchet job, this time on retailing magnate Art Pope.

Pope owns and operates a number of retail store chains in the south and mid-Atlantic region, but has concentrated the bulk of his giving to North Carolina, which is where Meyer focuses her story. According to Meyer, Pope, “like several other farsighted conservative corporate activists, has been spending millions in an attempt to change the direction of American politics.” Sounds like a perfectly patriotic exercise of first amendment rights to us.