Posted on 07/22/2010 8:26:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New e-mail messages published by the Daily Caller Thursday show a coordinated effort by the JournoList's members to destroy Sarah Palin the moment she was named John McCain's running mate on August 29, 2008.
Some even discussed how the former Alaska governor's decision to have a Down Syndrome baby rather than abort it could be used against her.
As the attacks ensued, the Nation's Chris Hayes wrote, "Keep the ideas coming! Have to go on TV to talk about this in a few min and need all the help I can get."
Witness America's so-called journalists conspiring to destroy a woman most of the nation had not even heard of yet:
Ryan Donmoyer, a reporter for Bloomberg News who was covering the campaign, sent a quick thought that Palin's choice not to have an abortion when she unexpectedly became pregnant at age 44 would likely boost her image because it was a heartwarming story.
"Her decision to keep the Down's baby is going to be a hugely emotional story that appeals to a vast swath of America, I think," Donmoyer wrote.
Politico reporter Ben Adler, now an editor at Newsweek, replied, "but doesn't leaving sad baby without its mother while she campaigns weaken that family values argument? Or will everyone be too afraid to make that point?"
Will everyone be too afraid to make that point? This man is currently the National Editor of Newsweek.com!
But there's more:
Ed Kilgore, managing editor of the Democratic Strategist blog, argued that journalists and others trying to help the Obama campaign should focus on Palin's beliefs. "The criticism of her really, really needs to be ideological, not just about experience. If we concede she's a ‘maverick,' we will have done John McCain an enormous service. And let's don't concede the claim that [Hillary Clinton] supporters are likely to be very attracted to her," Kilgore said. [...]
Suzanne Nossel, chief of operations for Human Rights Watch, added a novel take: "I think it is and can be spun as a profoundly sexist pick. Women should feel umbrage at the idea that their votes can be attracted just by putting a woman, any woman, on the ticket no matter her qualifications or views."
Mother Jones's [Jonathan] Stein loved the idea. "That's excellent! If enough people - people on this list? - write that the pick is sexist, you'll have the networks debating it for days. And that negates the SINGLE thing Palin brings to the ticket," he wrote.
Another writer from Mother Jones, Nick Baumann, had this idea: "Say it with me: ‘Classic GOP Tokenism'."
Wow! If enough people on this list write that the pick is sexist, you'll have the networks debating it for days.
Getting a sense of just how much control these folks had over the news cycle?
Now enter Time's Joe Klein:
"We're reporting that she actually supported the bridge to nowhere. First flub?" [...]
Time's Joe Klein then linked to his own piece, parts of which he acknowledged came from strategy sessions on Journolist. "Here's my attempt to incorporate the accumulated wisdom of this august list-serve community," he wrote. And indeed Klein's article contained arguments developed by his fellow Journolisters.
It sure did:
--Does the McCain campaign actually think that Hillary supporters will be lured to the ticket by a militant pro-lifer who also believes in the teaching of intelligent design?
--Palin exploded her state's coffers by imposing a windfall profits tax on the oil companies...sort of--no, exactly--like the proposal Barack Obama has made and John McCain has attacked. Apparently, she also supported the Bridge to Nowhere, despite her disclaimer at today's event. So how does McCain explain putting a tax-raising porker on his ticket?
This kind of coordinated attack by journalists should really be offensive to folks on both sides of the aisle.
The need for an independent press is essential to our democracy. That so many members of the media took ideas from one another as to how to sabotage a politician is disgraceful.
As Rush Limbaugh wrote me yesterday:
These people and their tactics are not new, we've seen them before in other countries and other times. They want to destroy contrary and opposition voices and views. They will climb over the law and the people to achieve their aims...They are all the same. They are leftists, disguised as lawyers, judges, scholars, professors, teachers, reporters, anchors, senators, representatives, legislative aids, congressional staff, federal bureaucrats, etc. There is NO Media. We know that now. There is just an incestuous relationship among all these various groups and a revolving door connecting them all.
Indeed.
In the last few days thanks to the Daily Caller, we have learned that the folks on this list acted to bury the Jeremiah Wright story in the spring of 2008, plotted to destroy Palin that fall, and then celebrated when their candidate Barack Obama won the election.
Think there really is a free and independent press anymore?
I don’t want to get flamed for this but I think a little perspective is in order. Most of these people are opinion journalists. No one has a doubt where Joe Klein or Eric Alterman stand. That they would work for Obama’s election should surprise no one.Does anyone complain about NRO’s The Corner? It performs a somewhat similar function, albeit in the light of day. The serious issue is with the actual “reporters” and “editors” who participated. From them we should expect some effort at objectivity no matter their beliefs. Those are the people whose participation MUST be highlighted because they damage the very essence of the First Amendment.
****Reminds me of some of the posts I have read here.****
Is FReerepublic a secret society of MSM reporters and journalists?
Damn! Who knew!!!
I thought anyone could access FR & read all posts regardless of registration. And you know what? Some FReepers actually post profiles on their Home Page with flags and everything.
Care to elaborate on that?
Time’s Joe Klein then linked to his own piece, parts of which he acknowledged came from strategy sessions on Journolist. “Here’s my attempt to incorporate the accumulated wisdom of this august list-serve community,” he wrote. And indeed Klein’s article contained arguments developed by his fellow Journolisters.”
What a bunch of preening jackazzes. The accumulated wisdom of these lemmings wouldn’t fill a thimble. Smug ignorance, group-think and self adoration are for certain not in short supply with this bunch.
The old propaganda machine can’t die quickly enough.
To the people (including most of the posters here) that already know about the lamestream media and their agenda, this is little news and no surprise..
The sheeple that don't know about this, also don't care about it because it might reduce the news coverage of whatever bimbo idiot is currently in jail or having sex with a football player, or some other item of supreme importance to them.
As a result, the media continues to get away with it!
And Lavrenti Beria.
>>>Think there really is a free and independent press anymore?
At the moment, still free - but independent? Hell no. Not for a long, long time now. They’re nothing more than presstitutes to the Demon-rat pimps.
There is nothing illegal here. This is protected speech and assembly.
We do NOT want the Government to have the power to prevent this.
And of course, this story is all over the mainstream press, so Americans are hearing about it. Right?
Of course, you are right. They are all graduates of the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism.
The DEAN is very proud of his pupils.
By the way, is ANYONE surprised at the breaking of this story? Anyone whose brain is alive and well?
I didn’t know Newsweak was still being printed till I read this post.
Paging Michael Steele. Time to earn your paycheck.
That the MSM has a source of common talking points has been painfully obvious when the same words or phrases appear in “news stories” from almost all of the MSM outlets. Remember when “gravitas” was the word of the day? Rush has done a great job of piecing together montages of “journalists” repeating the same particular phrase in their reports on a story and of course the spin has always been leftward. Just how much White House operatives have been involved in this blog would be a very interesting question to have answered.
All conservative publications ADVERTISE their advocacy. They do not do subversion i.e. TIME & Newsweek.
Liberals depend on the naivete and trust of the American public. Too long fooled by the likes of Dan Rather and Walter Kronkite.
How so?
Is there a list or partial list of the members of “Journolist”, other than those mentioned in this article?
There never was one. If you think there ever was, you have fallen into a marketing trap.
RICO Media
JournoLsters have already been identified here :
The "Progressive" Propaganda Snake List
1. Ezra Klein
2. Dave Weigel
3. Matthew Yglesias
4. David Dayen
5. Spencer Ackerman
6. Jeffrey Toobin
7. Eric Alterman
8. Paul Krugman
9. John Judis
10. Eve Fairbanks
11. Mike Allen
12. Ben Smith
13. Lisa Lerer
14. Joe Klein
15. Brad DeLong
16. Chris Hayes
17. Matt Duss
18. Jonathan Chait
19. Jesse Singal
20. Michael Cohen
21. Isaac Chotiner
22. Katha Pollitt
23. Alyssa Rosenberg
24. Rick Perlstein
25. Alex Rossmiller
26. Ed Kilgore
27. Walter Shapiro
28. Noam Scheiber
29. Michael Tomasky
30. Rich Yesels
31. Tim Fernholz
32. Dana Goldstein
33. Jonathan Cohn
34. Scott Winship
35. David Roberts
36. Luke Mitchell
37. John Blevins
38. Moira Whelan
39. Henry Farrell
40. Josh Bearman
41. Alec McGillis
42. Greg Anrig
43. Adele Stan
44. Steven Teles
45. Harold Pollack
46. Adam Serwer
47. Ryan Donmoyer
48. Seth Michaels
49. Kate Steadman
50. Matt Duss
51.Laura Rozen
52. Jesse Taylor
53. Michael Hirsh
54. Daniel Davies
55. Jonathan Zasloff
56. Richard Kim
57. Thomas Schaller
58. Jared Bernstein
59. Holly Yeager
60. Joe Conason
61. David Greenberg
62. Todd Gitlin
63. Mark Schmitt
64. Kevin Drum
65. Sarah Spitz
My only comment, with a chuckle, is They failed!
Conspiracy? RICO statutes?
Propaganda Idiots are entitled to their opinions, but not when disguised and fed to us as "pseudo news..."
The Journolist debacle really shows what disgusting pigs these people are. I am amazed Sarah Palin has stood up to the viscous attacks so well. She never quits. She goes directly to the American people the way Reagan did but using today's high tech tools.
But, I wonder what laws, if any, have been broken. I sure don't want to see the news media turned over to Gov't regulators of any political stripe.
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