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.
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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This is simply a 5th column.
When real men take back the US, they and others like them will be tried for treason and sedition, and dealt with just as other 5th columnists were dealt with in the past, especially during times of war – - – and we ARE at war.
These people are spies and if convicted should be shot by a military firing squad.
FDR did it with spies he found on Long Island NY, and he was a dimocrap.
The saddest thing to me is all the liberals that still believe the press is —CONSERVATIVE—
The issue will not go away. There is criminality involved here. This wasn't merely a PREFERENCE, but an ACTIVE and FRAUDULENT undertaking by a group acting in CONSPIRACY by which they obtained a material gain (jobs, notoriety, acceptance, salaries, etc.) and they used public mediums of communication to perpetuate this FRAUD (making it WIRE FRAUD) for the purposes of DISENFRANCHISING the AMERICAN public. Furthermore, they ACTED in furtherance of the CONSPIRACY by denying, covering up and actively disseminating FALSE information and creating slanderous comments and stories about those who were seeking to uncover the truth.
I thank God, that we have had watchdogs out there. From true patriots to this country, those who have fought the MSM, while never shutting their voices down, by giving us the truth, you will go down as heroes. We owe you a debt of gratitude.____To the "Journolists", You too will go down in history. You will be the example of propagandists. You will be ridiculed and despised throughout our country. The history books will have your names, and your actions. You have succeeded in turning people from God, from honesty, integrity, and their right to hear the truth. Do you not get it?? You disgust me beyond description.
To those who want out of their clutches, you have to look at America and her people, We are a great nation where people who choose to Pledge Allegiance to it, can raise their families in peace, who work any job with dignity, We ARE a christian nation, but love and respect all peaceful religions. Our Constitution demands it. We feel blessed by our country and would die to keep it for future generations. We forgive but expect justice. So admit it, accept your guilt and punishment and get on with your life. I bet it would be a relief.
To discover where these progressive political hacks originate, we only have to look at the centers of alleged learning. There upon close scrutiny we will discover that over the last 50+ years the socialists have very effectively infiltrated colleges and both primary and secondary schools. These are the locations where young minds are brainwashed to the ideas of the left.
My thought is some if not most believe it, but they will never, ever admit it. They just blame it on Bush and go about their way,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we really need to look into our schools, actually get the government out of the school system and teach the kids the truth. My children are 22/24, I have taught them so much they never learned in high school. They attended private school until middle school…………….that's when they got "lost"
Each day my faith in the country grows…………………we will not go down with these nitwits in our house…………….I don't care what color they are.
If they advertise their products in WaPo, call them, tell them you will not buy their products. Painful as it may be, watch CNN,MSNBC note the advertisers, call or e-mail them inform them you will not buy their products. Everyone can play the activist game, just remember an old formula: one phone call represents the feeling of at least 100 people, a written responce represents the feelings of probably a thousand people. Flood them with demands to stop advertising on those places that insult them.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
They don't believe their own crap for a second, it's their attempt at a smokescreen. If they insist from the getgo that the MSM is conservative, they set the parameters of the debate. It puts conservatives on the defensive. If we're playing defense, we're not playing offense.
Ah, the infamous liberal bozos from Journolist
The participant's bias can't be dismissed
Politico, Salon, and Time
Only a few of the collective slime
Their liberal, biased prejudices can't be missed
The journolisters won't be able to hide for long.
Great campaign material for the upcoming Novembers.
Rep.Rangel should be the poster person for this movement, by the tea parties everywhere. If we were to do what he has done, we would be in prison for along time. If we our going to take back our country, all laws must be enforced. No exceptions for the political elite. Here is an example of what would happen to you and I. So, let US serve these crooks some tea.
http://gswlaw.com/irsblog/2008/02/06/tax-preparer....
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