JournoList archives revealed by Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller this morning are remarkably similar to what I imagined they would be: a bunch of — how did the boss put it? Oh, yes — insufferable assholes conniving, colluding and more than willing to lie and engage in character assassination in order to put a Democrat in the White House.
Spencer “call them racists” Ackerman
Then-Senator Barack Obama, The Man Who Would Be President, spent 20 years sitting in a church run by a racist demagogue and hater of all things America (government-created AIDS, we had 9/11 coming, “God damn America!”) and rather than investigate that relationship and report on whether or not Obama’s absurd claim that he knew nothing about such incendiary and racist statements was true, the media obsessed over Sarah Palin’s children and wardrobe.
The ONLY explanation for this is a JournoList.
What surprises me the least*, however, is the Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman urging hundreds of his fellow JournoListers to pick an Obama critic and…
take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
Yeah, who cares who we destroy?
And you can bet that whatever replaced Ezra Klein’s JournoList is now brimming with the same sinister plotting against the Tea Party. You can bet that when J. Christian Adams blew the whistle about ongoing and systemic discrimination at the Department of Justice, whatever the new JournoList is sent out the marching orders to Politico and the like to spike the story and throw off some chaff with yet another meme about how the Tea Party is racist.
Enter the NAACP.
What is surprising about today’s revelations is that these JournoListers have somehow deluded themselves into thinking they’re doing good. I was always under the impression that the wicked knew they were wicked, and yet we’ve caught them cold in their little online coven and they honestly seem to believe that group tackling the truth — a legitimate story — with bullying, peer pressure, outright lies and character assassination is some sort of righteous cause:
This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease.
…a revolting descent into tabloid journalism and a gross disservice to Americans concerned about the great issues facing the nation and the world.
It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country.
I guess a dog doesn’t know when it’s rabid.
As this story continues to unroll (The Daily Caller has promised much, much more) it should be interesting to see who’s allowed to keep their job. “Conservative” Dave Weigel was forced to resign from the Washington Post for being immature and jerky on JournoList. This pales in comparison to Ackerman’s push to have Obama’s critics labeled as racists and the others conspiring to kill a legitimate story.
But here’s the part of the Daily Caller story that most intrigues me: [emphasis mine]
According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
Time? The Guardian? The Baltimore Sun? And my personal favorite… Politico!
Those who were named today are mostly opinion columnists or individuals who work for openly left-of-center publications. But from the looks of it there were also those who pretend to work for unbiased publications like Politico and Time who participated.
Names, please.
*Okay, I lied. This surprised me the least: Our friends at Media Matters probably have tons of experience with this sort of thing, if we want their input.
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