More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 80

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Special JounoGate Edition: "She who must be destroyed II"...

TheRightScoop:

"Sarah Palin wasn’t even ‘warm’ yet, but that didn’t stop the liberal ‘journalists’ on Journolist from conspiring to destroy her from the get go... Even this week I’ve noticed the MSM jumping all over Palin’s ‘refudiate’ tweet, yet when Obama pronounced corpsman as ‘corpse man’, twice, they completely ignored it. There are a lot more double standards than just that, but you get my point. My friends who scoff at me for suggesting liberal bias in the media should be eating their words now."

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit:

"I like the way they referred to themselves as the ‘non-official’ Obama campaign..."

Lori Ziganto at NewsReal Blog:

"The revelations uncovered by The Daily Caller in regard to Journolist have been damning... The latest involve Sarah Palin and while anyone with a speck of honesty already realized that the media has been out to marginalize her from the very beginning, Journolist members took it to an even more egregious level... While it is obviously not unheard of for colleagues to discuss stories of the day, that wasn’t the case here. This was a group of reputed (or refudiated!) journalists colluding with openly leftist opinionators to not report the news, but to shape it... Worse, the goal of the framing of the narrative was to marginalize and diminish a woman by using her womanhood itself against her for political means... What followed was a clear attempt to... dehumanize and demean Sarah Palin and her accomplishments."

Jim Lindgren at The Volokh Conspiracy:

"The latest quotes from the JournoList emails are on the initial response to Sarah Palin. I remember being shocked at the viciousness of the attacks at the time."

theblogprof:

"In the hours after McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, Journolist was hard at work to smear her... There was also talk among leftist journalists of smearing Palin as unqualified, until one of them raised the flag that Obama didn't have any qualifications for the presidency. Some went ahead with that meme anyway, leading to Obama's assertion in an interview in the fall 2008 that he was more qualified by Palin because he ran a campaign with a bugger budget than Wasilla, Alaska, completely ignoring that Palin was Alaska's governor..."

DaTechguy:

"If the Sherrod story can last one more day... Then it will push any non-fox coverage to Journolist to Friday, the news dump day. This is a story that has the potential to destroy what little is left of the media’s credibility..."

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters:

"The Daily Caller shows us how the JournoListers conspired to create a coordinated attack on Sarah Palin after getting picked by John McCain... Now some people are defending the JournoListers by saying these are mostly opionators not true reporters. Thus sharing opinions is no biggie. Wrong. As lefty partisan hack Joe Klein shows these ‘shared opinions’ become the talking points of the day... This is how all these anti Palin themes get out into the public... It should be noted that a new JournoList 2.0 has sprung up albeit smaller than the original but nonetheless sinister."

Ruby Slippers:

"In the case of Sarah Palin these early coordinated attacks shaped the opinions of a public that held few if any preconceived opinions about the second woman to be nominated [as] Vice President."

Confederate Yankee:

"The latest JournoList dump from the Daily Caller reveals the collusion of the liberal media as they worked together to find ways to attack Sarah Palin, right after the Alaskan governor was named John McCain's surprise pick to be the Republican Vice Presidential candidate... Months of this shaped the narrative and the pop-culture view we have of Sarah Palin, a skilled politician that rose through the ranks of Alaskan politics based upon a foundation of integrity, grit, and courage to become—for a time—a governor with the highest approval ratings [at the time]. This now-exposed collusion between members of the media, shared with their co-conspirator politicians and Hollywood allies, was used to create a purposely warped view of who Sarah Palin is, and what she represents."

Nice Deb:

"All of this was in the hours just after the announcement was made. It must have gotten considerably worse in the days following the announcement, when McCain’s poll numbers finally overtook Obama’s."

Jeff Dunetz at The Lid:

"While many rank and file Republicans cheered John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his choice for Vice President, the members of the liberal media cabal Journo-list immediately got to work trying to discredit the Governor of Alaska... You can see how many of the the themes used to attack Palin during the campaign were developed. Very few of these themes were fair, but then again, when you read this post you will find that they even called themselves ‘the unofficial campaign headquarters...’ There always was a suspicion that the media conspired to attack her unfairly, now we know for sure. Sadly the public never got the opportunity for an honest vetting of the Governor of Alaska. That is America's loss."

ZIP at Weasel Zippers:

"Repeat after me: ‘Liberal media bias is a myth’…"

Hillbuzz:

"K. remembers seeing Palin emerge and walk onto the stage, dressed in a sharp black suit, as the crowd in Ohio went wild. In Chicago, the Liberals around him cringed, as that excitement and energy reverberated through the large screens and smacked them in the face. K. will never forget two Liberal women, clutching each other, faces blanched, with true dread in their eyes. ‘What are we going to do now? She’s incredible. He can win now, with her. What are we going to do?’. ‘We need to destroy her. We need the media to destroy her’. ‘They need to do their job. They need to destroy her’. And try to destroy her the Media did. Just like those two Chicago Libs wanted them…expected them…to do."

24Ahead.com:

"If Klein were just learning facts about Palin from Journolist that would be one thing; however, some Journolisters wanted to portray her as an extremist nut, and Klein at least was starting to head in that direction. For later similar attempts from others, see the Sarah Palin Smear page..."

Ian Lazaran and Kelsey at Conservatives 4 Palin:

"The e-mails prove that members of the media... coordinated and advocated for false and despicable attacks on Governor Palin and Trig Palin... This latest batch also proves that these people did in fact take from the ‘Journolist’ when writing their articles. So much for that whole, ‘It was just an innocent discussion group’ thing. This was their first scramble to come up with the narratives that we saw regurgitated over and over again for the rest of the campaign. It pretty much just confirms what we already knew."

More to come...

- JP