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?
There is a serious flaw with this strategy. When you clearly show one of the naive the bias and slant ONE time, then the naive will be left with a residual doubt about the MSM.
Making official what was obvious to anybody who was paying attention.
****the posters referred to themselves as part of the “non-official campaign” for Obama ****
It is clear these cretins provided something of value to the BO campaign. If the public unwittingly paid for these magazines - they have a right to demand a refund.
The FEC should be required to investigate and put a value on this campaign advertising contribution.
BTTT!
Not as far as the majority of voters in this country is concerned. Most still believe all that they were lied about when she was announced by McCain.
She will never get another chance at a first impression. She's stupid, radical, militant Christian, unqualified.....She was trashed so badly that she will never recover politically to win national election. She is STILL being trashed and it will never end.
I love the women and can't believe what I have seen happen to her.
Envy is not an admirable trait....
Japan is formally a democracy, but in fact it’s an iron triangle ruled by bureaucrats, industrialists, and SOME politicians. Is there some debate in the system? More like a debate CARTEL —journalists are organized into a “kisshya kai”, a reporter pool, who all together cover some organization, sort of like the White House Press Pool we’re outwardly famliar with.
The distinguishing feature of the Japanese system is that after a news event the members all MEET and privately decide in a conference-like setting what the news will be, how it will be covered, etc.
None of this is hidden, ok? There are many such Kisshya Kai, each covering a ministry or large company, etc. They do their reporting as a GROUP, not as individuals.
Sort of like what we see in the JournoList scandal, which in my opinion is the biggest scandal in years.
The upshot is that in Japan, “respectable” dailies and magazines rarely break big scandals —they are married tightly to the organizations they cover, and so the long-term stability of the relationship is important.
They don’t want to lose their access, and they derive very great professional pride in their “legitimacy”.
The huge scandals in Japan are broken by what are regarded there as “mediaWhores” —illegitimate magazines and gossip mongers who are NOT members of the pools —they are excluded as unpredictable bums to be shunned, sort of like the, “Elvis Pumpkin Alien Baby!”-type rags we see near the grocery store check-out line.
If a political observer never reads such rags, he will never really know what’s really going on —a more and more accurate description of the US situation.
I remember for a short time during the Monica Mess, the National Enquirer was —really, really was— more truthful about what was going on than ANY major US newspaper daily.
We’re headed there again, but on a much bigger scale this time.
What are you talking about? Can you please explain or do you need help reading my post to you? Shall I spell it out in crayon, idiot?
Goes much further than envy. Remember how they sent hoards of investigators to Wasilla to find dirt on her and all they found was Levi Johnston. They still have too many stupid people who beleive them about her.
Their strategy worked.
OOPS Frank post 88 was not towards you! I apologize I relied incorrectly.
Please see post #89.
No problem...I hadn’t see it yet, but thanks for the clarification...I lost my crayons....LOL
spare the knuckles, spoil the communist I always say
Most people have no idea who Levrenti Beriya really was. He was Stalin's "hatchetman", an earlier, less photogenic, but infinitely more effective version of Ernesto Guevara. Guevara, on the other hand, is totally overrated, by both left, and right, alike. Beriya was intelligent, and Guevara, a complete boob...
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yes, I knew that.
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