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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you would think, with everybody on the left pulling out all those race cards, the printers would be working overtime to print all of them. i get a few thrown at me each week, i just burn them in the fireplace. i hope the pace keeps up, and i might be able to heat my house this winter with all the race cards.
Who actually pays Ackerman?
Does firedoglake give him $?
The Washington Independent? That Soros funded group is due for a serious Big Journalism investigation. I assume more is coming on that spawn of Media Matters group of "journalists".
Rock and roll
Nice screencap of Ackerman. His type is typical….is there any lefty pundit out there who could bench press more than a pencil?
I'm not saying they're not the most masculine folks in the world, but…..
Oh, please, tell me you have the whole archive!
Time to go hunting left-wingnuts. They /need/ a secret club so they can talk without anyone butting in with inconvenient truths or, ah, "right wing propaganda".
And, no, evil people almost always find ways to justify what they are doing so they aren't really evil. The evil prince in Shrek is by no means unique; /he/ was the one doing good.
Hopefully, these revelations will lead to a brave new world where there are objective jounalists in addition to right and left opinionists. In the old days, there was no alternatives to these insufferables. Thank goodness there now is.
Whats that I hear over at MSM concerning this breaking story…….CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP,are those crickets?
This is my pet issue–who throws the food to the media attack dogs?
And my pet theory–they get paid in small increments through some form of online transaction, maybe direct deposit to bank accounts from John Podesta/Soros or something like paypal…"Nice little doggie, Ackerman, here's a nice little $500 for your efforts to advance Our Great Cause."
If I'm right, there's a money trail out there, too.
And if it turns out this is true, do they pay taxes on these "gifts"?
The real fun, now that we know there dirty little secret of being a propaganda arm of the progressive/socialist revolution, is going to be watching them act like we are not on to them. LOL, lets see them get all high and mighty now.
It would be nice if at least ONE troll showed up to say, "You know, this just proves beyond any doubt to me that I have been lied to and manipulated, and the people I thought were 'doing good' were just lying to and manipulating the public while masquerading as reporters. I feel betrayed, and while I won't 'become' a conservative', I will at least stop being a stooge for people like these."
But that would take honesty and integrity, wouldn't it?
You want names? Go to the AP's web site and find a list of reporters. And that's just the start.
I wear them as badges of armor.
They get paid the same way politicians take graft. Write a dopey book, the left buys tens of thousands of them, then sticks them in warehouses. Speaking gigs, connections, cushy job offers. Scratch some one's back and they scratch yours.
Doesn't matter. We The People are learning anyway.
Expect the Tea Party "unrest" to be a constant on the news cycle for the next few days.
What unrest, you ask? No friggin' clue.
Here's a strategy: whenever you are talking to someone about current events and they mention a MSM news outlet, sneer and laugh at them for being so naive or base to get their news from such a supermarket tabloid.
Yeah good luck with that. I followed a link to Thinkright.org from an article on biggovernment.com and looked at the comments. Those people are foaming at the mouth insane that the tea party is racist despite the fact that there is no proof of it and there is proof to the contrary.
When you shake the foundations of a fanatic's belief system, the fanatic doesn't re-examine what they think is true, they defend their shaky beliefs even more ferociously.
They're here. I've caught them going through comments thumbing everybody down. But none of them have had the stones to say anything yet., much less admit they were wrong about something. I didn't think anything could shut up talkzalot…..yap, yap, yap.
Prediction: Liberals and the rest of the MSM will obfuscate and lie about this while attacking "the Right/the Tea Party". Then when they are caught lying with yet more exposed information, they will obfuscate some more, and lie again even more egregiously, and continue to attack "the Right/the Tea Party" while shamelessly whitewashing every guilty misdeed.
Am I in the ballpark here?
Prediction: Liberals and the rest of the MSM will obfuscate and lie about this while attacking "the Right/the Tea Party". Then when they are caught conspiring and lying with yet more exposed information, they will obfuscate some more, and lie again even more egregiously, and continue to attack "the Right/the Tea Party" while shamelessly whitewashing every guilty misdeed.
Am I in the ballpark here?
It would take brain surgery DontTreadOnMe – though I'm still not convinced it would make a difference –
honesty and integrity, now those are 2 very dirty words to the marxist/commie/progs – they have none of that
These people only claim to be journalists. They are boot-licking hacks and nothing more.
The way to fight back is to boycott them out of the marketplace. Don't spend a dime on their publications. Don't watch their "news" programs. Ignore the hell out of them. They can't stand to be ignored. Ignoring them may be worse than Alinsky's tactics.
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