*Special JounoGate Edition: "She who must be destroyed III"...
Shane Vander Hart at Caffeinated Thoughts:
"The Daily Caller has broken the JournoList scandal wide open. First they uncovered an attempt to kill stories on President Barack Obama’s pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright. They rejoiced at Obama’s victory, they appreciate free speech unless it’s Fox News and then, not surprisingly, they coordinated the best line of attack against Sarah Palin. I understand that there were op/ed writers who were a part of this, but not all of those involved. Only the most irrational, Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferers out there would disagree that it is inappropriate to coordinate a strategy to shape news in order to get ‘your guy’ elected. This is hardly shocking for people who have been following media coverage of Palin the last couple of years. Those of us who have defended her from erroneous reporting sensed a coordinated effort to smear her, and now we have proof."Jill Stanek:
"While these emails detailing MSM's attack on Palin come as no surprise, the verification provides some semblance of satisfaction... I don't begrudge these liberals calloused political conversations... But I do begrudge their persistent protests of innocence over the years against charges of bias, which they'll no longer be able to get away with."Vicki McClure Davidson at Frugal Café Blog Zone:
"So, these statist junkyard dogs revved up a hate campaign, mired in lies and character assassination. They worked zealously against her in a media attack that has defied comparison, resorting to vicious attacks on her from a number of angles — they criticized her as a woman, as a mother, they railed against her political experience, her folksy accent and vocabulary, her physical appearance, her Christian faith, her conservative values, her marriage, her pregnant teenage daughter, even her Downs syndrome baby… nothing was off limits. The liberal media dished up or fabricated any and all vitriol they could throw at her. They thought she’d go away. She proved them wrong."TheRightScoop:
"The cat's out of the bag now. America knows that Sarah Palin has been vindicated of everything the media has said about her."Susan Duclos at NewsReal Blog:
"Obama’s ‘non-official campaign’. Think about that for a second; members in that thread, journalists from publications such as Bloomberg News, [Politico], CNN, TIME, The New Yorker, Nation, Mother Jones, New America Foundation, Human Rights Watch, discussing Sarah Palin and just how to approach negating her impact on Hillary Clinton supporters and on Obama’s campaign... Admittedly, with the announcement of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate, it was guaranteed that there would be a tremendous amount of ink dedicated to the pick and there is no doubt in my mind that some of the ‘themes’ used were coincidental in nature. But all of them? All [just] hours after members of Journolist discussed the best line of attacks?"Andrew Breitbart at the Hope For America:
"Did Lamestream Media Plot To Undermine Sarah Palin? Uh... yeah"T. D. at Terrance this is stupid stuff:
"The Journolist controversy is exposing the nasty side of modern journalism. It's a journalism without honor. It's a journalism not concerned with communicating facts and truth but with how to help one party over another, one candidate over another. Just hours after the announcement of Sarah Palin's pick as Republican VP candidate, before anyone knew much about her, journalists were plotting how to bring Sarah Palin down and negate the historicity and impact of her pick as the first woman Republican VP candidate and the second major party female VP candidate in US history."Conservatarian at The Voice of Reason:
"On the Daily Caller, a conspiracy has been cracked. Journolist: a listerv list on which so-called mainstream left wing ‘journalists’ conspired (uh, discussed) how to rip Sarah Palin, Obama opponents, Fox News, and conservatives in general."Ann Kane at NewsReal Blog:
"We knew the mainstream media was in collusion in an all out attack against Sarah Palin, but we just couldn’t prove it – now we can. Daily Caller’s Jonathan Strong has exposed Journolist’s gang-up against Palin as the only way to usher in their pick for the White House. Imagine that. All the biggies in the mainstream, the Economist, Time, Newsweek, Politico and many others worked together to influence voters in a ‘non-official campaign’ for the future President Obama... Journolist colluders homed in on the target, Sarah Palin, and kept their boots on her neck until their man was in the Oval Office."Kent at Right From Left:
"Journolist coordinated, planned and executed the smear campaign against Sarah Palin. Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller are doing God's work..."Jimmie at The Sundries Shack:
"Lest you think that the life of a JournoLister consisted solely of trying to fix the election for Barack Obama, attacking Sarah Palin to help Barack Obama, rooting for Rush Limbaugh to die, and cheering the election of Barack Obama with slightly less dignity than a bunch of 14 year old girls backstage as a Justin Bieber concert, let me dissuade you of that notion. Thanks to some in-depth reporting by John Tabin of The American Spectator, we know that JournoListers also had a playful side, that involved geeking out over a computer game. Oh, and a member wondering about Japanese tentacle porn."John Crowell at Worth Reading:
"JournoList... Where the vast left-wing media conspiracy exists. But except for denials and obfuscations, you won’t read about it in the mainstream media..."John Guardiano at TAS AmSpec Blog:
"Don't make excuses for the Journolisters. They subverted journalism and the pursuit of truth for politics and the pursuit of power... [John] Tabin agrees that much of what the Daily Caller has reported about this cabal is extremely troubling and reprehensible.... [including] their baldly partisan effort to coordinate liberal talking points that would discredit Sarah Palin and John McCain, while helping to elect Barack Obama president... Now, Tabin agrees that this is all very bad and certainly wrong for journalists who purport to be independent and fair-minded. However, he insists, ‘these people were buffoons.’ They were ‘utterly ridiculous’ and thus should not be taken seriously... I might agree with Tabin if the Journolisters were solitary bloggers venting in the backwoods in lonely isolation. But in point of fact, they were not. The Journolisters are professionally employed journalists who work at some of America's most prestigious and influential newsrooms: the Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, New Republic, Time, Newsweek, et al. Thus, they wield tremendous cultural clout and influence."Jedediah Bila at The Daily Caller:
"Not only were so many in the media nauseatingly awe-struck by Obama, but some formed an organized coalition to target his opponents and to suppress news stories that might have brought down the hope and change brigade. I guess they didn’t take the time to consider that the man they were tirelessly promoting wasn’t fit for the job. Or that the woman they were targeting was."Jonah Goldberg at Real Clear Politics:
"In 2008, participants shared talking points about how to shape coverage to help Obama. They tried to paint any negative coverage of Obama's racist and hateful pastor, Jeremiah Wright, as out of bounds. Journalists at such ‘objective’ news organizations as Newsweek, Bloomberg, Time, and The Economist joined conversations with open partisans about the best way to criticize Sarah Palin... JournoList is a symptom, not the disease. And the disease is not a secret conspiracy but something more like the ‘open conspiracy’ H. G. Wells fantasized about, where the smartest, best people at every institution make their progressive vision for the world their top priority."More to come...
- JP
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