JournoListers Conspired To Destroy Sarah Palin Day McCain Picked Her

NewsBusters ^ | July 22, 2010 | Noel Sheppard

[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?

[Earthdweller]

ROTFL at the comments and strategies to destroy Palin since 2008.

All your urnalist think-tanks belong to us.

[Publius6961]

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.

Nice.
The humanity, ethics and morals of this political and social anarchist mob is simply ---- breathtaking!

[presently no screen name]

Think there really is a free and independent press anymore?

They are pawns of satan. And only THE SON can set anyone free. Good vs. evil - all the time, every time.

[excopconservative]

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

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Yes, we know where these people are coming from, but when they coordinate their language and use the same idea and same words to accuse someone, unsuspecting listeners and readers are affected by that. When one columnist says “unqualified and inexperienced” that’s one thing, but when 30 columnists use the same exact words through collusion it ceases to be valid opinion and crosses over to conspiracy and slander.

[CitizenM]

For years we have seen the results of two trains of thought taught from the late 50's. One, that it is important to be "famous," rather that be truthful and honest. Second, that being creative is more important than being right. Then, in college kids who grew up with those thoughts taught to them by parents and society, and who wanted to be journalists, had professors who ignored that they should write the NEWS AS IT WAS, and encouraged them how to CREATE the news. Socialist editors advanced that approach, guiding employees to CREATE news against any opposition...political or whatever.

Today's so-called journalists are nothing but egotistical wanna-be's who will destroy a person based on their own desire to be the one with the best worded attack in the press or on TV. Half of them, I am sure, are not really socialists...just trained monkeys whose morals and values were lost long ago when our focus was placed on becoming "famous" for something and it became important to satisfy one's ego over satisfying God.

[wiggen]

You’re 100% correct. What we want is for the organizations these people work for to be exposed once and for all as propaganda peddlers and not legitimate news organizations.

[Publius6961]

Reminds me of some of the posts I have read here.

You must be looking for them.
I have been on FR daily for the last three years, and remember no such thing.

[savagesusie]

The Hidden Hitler and The Pink Swastika books both outline the goals of the homosexual agenda for societies.

Hitler was sexually dysfunctional which is proved in the books, although they can not say for sure he was a homosexual—one thinks he was most likely a coprophiliac— but he had a lot of close homosexual friends. All this information has been “hidden” but there is WAY more evidence that Hitler was a queer than there ever was that Lincoln was—so what possibly could be the reason for the hush hush.

(Oh, it points out that twisted, dehumanizing acts desensitizes the person which easily transfers into other dehumanizing acts and bullying).

I am talking about the type of in-your-face homosexuals that formed the NAZI brownshirts—a largely homosexual outfit. The Hitler Youth was founded and organized by homosexuals who wanted access (and did have access) to boys.

Homosexuality was joked about in Europe as the National Vice of Germany.....boys were being initiated into the practice through their “boy scouts” which later became their Hitler Youth founded and directed by homosexuals before 1900—a recreation of the ideal army of Sparta.

This book outlines everything with footnotes and books written in the 50’s and before. It was very well researched. Is it any wonder that his book keeps being labeled as “myth” on that unbiased website Wikipedia.

Hmmmm What MSM tries to hide and twist is amazing. But I guess they really want to destroy our culture—to create their vision of “utopia”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Swastika

[kevkrom]

a large percentage of Americans do get that the press is LYING to them

I think many of them would still be shocked to the level of collusion going on here. I, for one, have long suspected that they merely acted on group-think and lazily repeating whatever talking points they were fed by the DNC. The truth is so much worse...

[MarkeyD]

Since I refuse to watch, is this Journo-List issue being discussed on MSNBC, CNN, etc?

[nascarnation]

MSM did more investigating of Joe the Plumber in 24 hours than they did of Baraq Obama in 24 months.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/known_journolisters_1.html

Partial list.

[detective]

“As would Joseph Goebbels”

Joseph Goebbels is a model of honesty and integrity compared to the MSM in America today. Goebbels was far less likely to lie for the NAZI Party than America’s MSM lie for the Democrat Party.

Joseph Goebbels, for all his faults, didn’t go around announcing to the world how the Fuhrer gave him tingly feelings up and down his leg.

[dead]

At least two of those JournoListers have also had Freeper accounts.

Jeffrey Toobin showed up on day, with the Freeper Name "AWriter". He claimed he wanted to gather "the other side" of the Clinton impeachment opinion for his book on the topic. Some responded earnestly, but most of us told him he was just here to gather the kookiest comments or stuff he could take out of context to portray the website as a nutjob site. We abused him pretty good. When his book came out, he did exactly what we expected him to do.

Rick Perlestein came on the site and actually engaged in respectful debate for a while. He made some valid points, but was a bit disjointed. He eventually went way off the deep end, when he started writing about how Bush actually desired armageddon for some biblical reasons or some such nonsense. His account, "Perlstein" is still active, but he hasn't posted in years.

[cookcounty]

"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. "

Pigs. Absolute pigs.

[television is just wrong]

all americans have to realize the NEWS, is a finished product designed to sway your political opinion in their direction.

[Diogenesis]

Between the Communists and Team Romney, did America have a chance?

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

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"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

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Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

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"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

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Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[2ndDivisionVet]

See post #39. IIRC, Journolist had about 400 members in total...

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Between the Communists and Team Romney, did America have a chance?"

You say that like they're two different things.

[ROTB]

Both are on Amazon.