There’s a lot of buzz on the Internet about what has been called the JournoList. This was a private e-mail list maintained by Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein of about 400 journalists, bloggers, and academics who may have colluded in aiding the election of Mr. Obama. Mr. Breitbart is the king of the alternative media and created his “Big” sites to report what was being unreported by the mainstream media. Big Journalism and Big Government are two Breitbart sites that have uncovered scoops that took weeks for the mainstream media to report. The Acorn scandal would never have come to light without this exposure. On May 10, Brad Thor posted on Big Government the capture of Taliban leader Mullah Omar in Pakistan, yet to date we haven’t heard a ripple in the mainstream media.
Mr. Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who could provide the complete Journolist e-mail sessions and while no one has claimed that reward yet, Tucker Carlson, the editor of the DailyCaller.com, has released copies of some of the e-mail correspondence. These have been reported on the “Big” sites and Fox News. What they reveal is very disturbing to those who still naively believe that the Fourth Estate is incorruptible. Uncovered is an egregious conspiracy to slant the news for an ideological motive rather than journalistic integrity.
The mostly white, liberal, leftist group correspondence suggested ways to cover the 2008 presidential campaign that would benefit Mr. Obama and vilify the McCain/Palin team. Of course, this media bias is not news to anyone on the right, but for the first time there is concrete proof that Mr. Obama was the choice of the mainstream media, which aided and abetted his campaign.
It was the same in 1992, when the media was enthralled with Bill Clinton. I well remember watching a satellite feed that picked up CNN’s Larry King giving pointers to the young governor of Arkansas on what to say during his interview. As his poll numbers started to climb, Pres. George H.W. Bush appeared on Mr. King’s show the Friday before the election. That day there was an indictment of Caspar Weinberger in the Iran/Contra case that hadn’t received much notice yet. Mr. King then took calls from the public for the president to answer and, lo and behold, somehow, fantastically, and how conveniently, the caller was George Stephanopoulos, Mr. Clinton’s campaign manager who brought up Iran/contra. Mr. Bush called it a setup but Mr. King just shrugged it off. Since then, it’s been a given that the mainstream media is just an annex of the Democratic National Committee.
Members of the exclusive JournoList were employees of news organizations such as Time, Politico, the Baltimore Sun, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon and The New Republic. Whenever it appeared that there would be negative press about Mr. Obama, the e-mails from contributors would chime in on how to handle it. During the campaign, videos of Mr. Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, surfaced showing him angrily denouncing whites, the government and saying, “God damn America.”
Oprah Winfrey had the good sense to leave his church but apparently Mr. Obama sat through his vitriolic racist sermons for 20 years. These videos threatened to blow up the Obama campaign.
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JournoLister Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to distract the public from the Rev. Wright scandal by accusing conservatives such as Fred Barnes and Karl Rove of being “racists.” This technique is still being utilized to this day.
Chris Hayes of the left-wing publication The Nation was a little more restrained in writing, “I’m not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don’t think he’s worthy of defense, don’t defend him! What I’m saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable.”
The Journolist e-mail comments were especially vitriolic against V.P. candidate Sarah Palin and were later reflected in the published columns and articles by the members of the group. If you ever wondered why this woman was so viciously attacked, you can blame the influence of this rat pack of pseudo-journalists.
The Dailycaller.com is leaking the e-mails as they come in and I urge everyone to take a peek at this site to view the machinations of the intellectual elite who think we’re too stupid to think for ourselves.
The site recently released the names and photographs of the JournoList participants and it was dismaying to me to see one of my former colleagues among them. I knew the young man was not as conservative as I was but I thought he was a good reporter. He left the paper for a better paying opportunity and perhaps abandoned his scruples as well. He garnered a lot of attention and made his name after reporting an off-the-cuff remark made by a senatorial candidate during a flight that made the front pages. Like the Rolling Stone article that sank General McChrystal, the headlines unfairly sank the senate candidate as well.
I lost a lot of respect for that young man and I am not surprised that he felt comfortable being among other back-stabbers.
Unfortunately, no matter how many smoking guns expose the corruption in the Fourth Estate, there are still too many people who hear only one side of the news. Even though the mainstream media numbers keep declining they still control the major outlets. It’s no surprise that the administration will continue to turn every incident into a race issue. That’s because it works.
Reprinted courtesy of the Irish Examiner
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