Pam Martens two-part deep backgrounder on the Kansas Kochs ...

Her first article "The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity" appeared on Counterpunch last week. I impatiently waited for the second till Tuesday and it is a bombshell, "The Far Right's Secret Slush Fund to Keep Fear Alive."

Coupled with the recent disclosure of Glenn Beck lecturing at a secret elite gathering called by Charles and David Koch in Aspen last June, which included many prominent "objective" journalists. From Think Progress latest:

"One of the most startling revelations about the June 2010 event, as Salon’s Joe Conason noted, was the fact that conservative media stars “Krauthammer, Ponnuru, Barone, Moore and Beck were flown out to Aspen, lodged in luxury accommodations, and presumably paid a handsome honorarium by Koch to entertain and enlighten the would-be saviors of the Republic.” Conason asked, “So where are the guardians of media integrity, who made so much noise about the innocuous jawing of the liberals on Journolist?”

Then there is the leaked guest list for an upcoming January Palm Beach invitation-only get together which is appropriately a real Halloween story.

Kansas news media really is falling off the wagon and missing in action on this bombshell.