Journolist’s Vision Of The Anointed

IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 7/20/2010 | David Hogberg

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Noted economist Thomas Sowell has written extensively on the “Vision of the Anointed” — intellectuals’ supreme confidence in their own superior knowledge and virtue that leads them to believe that they are an anointed elite qualified to make decisions for the rest of us to lead humanity to a better life.

And, boy, was that ever on display in the “Journolist,” a now-defunct listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists.

The Daily Caller has managed to get ahold of some Journolist e-mails, and today’s story reveals that some members wanted Fox News off the air:

[Marty62]

Obviously the marxist media types failed the lessons of the USSR for “journalist”. Amazing how many are willing to engage in self destruction.

[BenLurkin]

A seditious cabal dedicated to destruction of America firmly entrenched in the American media.

Somewhere in Hell, Lenin is smiling.

[SpaceBar]

After the arrest and conviction of Barry Soetero aka Barry Dunham, aka Barrack Hussein Obama, every miserable puke on that list should be hauled in front of a tribunal.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Slightly off-topic: EVERYONE should read Sowell’s “Vision of the Anointed.” Nobody has ever nailed the Left as accurately.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Background on the UCLA law prof who thinks it legal to capriciously “yank” Fox’s broadcasting license (and he SOUNDS full of himself):

Jonathan M. Zasloff
Professor of Law
B.A. Yale, 1987
J.D. Yale, 1993
M.Phil. International Relations, Cambridge, 1988
M.A. History, Harvard, 1990
Ph.D. Harvard, 2000
UCLA Law faculty since 1998
zasloff@law.ucla.edu
Jonathan Zasloff teaches Torts, Land Use, Environmental Law, Comparative Urban Planning Law, Legal History, and Public Policy Clinic - Land Use, the Environmentand Local Government. He grew up and still lives in the San Fernando Valley, about which he remains immensely proud (to the mystification of his friends and colleagues). After graduating from Yale Law School, and while clerking for a federal appeals court judge in Boston, he decided to return to Los Angeles shortly after the January 1994 Northridge earthquake, reasoning that he would gladly risk tremors in order to avoid the average New England wind chill temperature of negative 55 degrees.

Professor Zasloff has a keen interest in world politics; he holds a PhD in the history of American foreign policy from Harvard and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University. Much of his recent work concerns the influence of lawyers and legalism in US external relations, and has published articles on these subjects in the New York University Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. More generally, his recent interests focus on the response of public institutions to social problems, and the role of ideology in framing policy responses.

Professor Zasloff has long been active in state and local politics and policy. He recently co-authored an article discussing the relationship of Proposition 13 (California’s landmark tax limitation initiative) and school finance reform, and served for several years as a senior policy advisor to the Speaker of California Assembly. His practice background reflects these interests: for two years, he represented welfare recipients attempting to obtain child care benefits and microbusinesses in low income areas. He then practiced for two more years at one of Los Angeles’ leading public interest environmental and land use firms, challenging poorly planned development and working to expand the network of the city’s urban park system. He currently serves as a member of the boards of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (a state agency charged with purchasing and protecting open space), the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (the leading legal service firm for low-income clients in east Los Angeles), and Friends of Israel’s Environment. Professor Zasloff’s other major activity consists in explaining the Triangle Offense to his very patient wife, Kathy

http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=768

[LTCJ]

Sowell’s “Vision of the Anointed.” Nobody has ever nailed the Left as accurately.

I concur. It's an excellent work. It exposes the mindset of the Left, their philosophical "foundation" (I use the term loosely), and what they can justify with the context of that framework. Scary stuff when it's stripped down to the basics.

[Noamie]

New article about Journolist has been posted at the Daily Caller (site that first leaked the report).

(I don’t know if I’m allowed to post a link, but the address is the same as the above name.)

Sarah Spitz is about to make the news. I’ve already emailed her and her NPR station about her hateful bigotry. She needs to be removed from her job asap.

Not very progressive of her.

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[Nepeta]

Slightly off-topic: EVERYONE should read Sowell’s “Vision of the Anointed.” Nobody has ever nailed the Left as accurately.

Highly, highly recommended. After reading this book, you will be able to predict the blather of the left.

[Publius6961]

Journolist?
That sort of describes them perfectly, doesn't it.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I need to read it again. It’s been a few years.