*Special JounoGate Edition: "She who must be destroyed V"...
Jennifer Rubin at Commentary Magazine:
"The Beagle Blogger was not the only one obsessed with Sarah Palin’s pregnancy and her son Trig; it just turns out he was the only Obama cheerleader foolish enough to make an issue of it. If you want to see just how inane is the blogospheric left, take a gander at the pages and pages and pages of discussion on the Palin pregnancy and her son Trig in the latest installation of the Journolist Chronicles. It’s not a pretty sight, although it’s nice to know that even Ezra Klein could figure out it was a topic they all should stay away from (because like the Borg, they do not think independently). Yes, children, it’s either her son or, if not, (because they can spend hours mulling if it’s all a hoax) there really is no upside for the Obama camp in making a big deal of a politician who welcomes a Down Syndrome child into her home."Jimmie Bise at Sundries Shack:
"Speaking of the JournoList, it’s heartening to see how filled with compassion... they were to learn that Sarah Palin’s child, born prematurely and with Down’s Syndrome is the healthy delight of his family."Anthony Bialy at Smart Girl Nation:
"It would be easy to feel sorry for the JournoListers were they not so miserably hateful... JournoListy types will still try to damn the evidence and convince us that their cunningly nerdy spin reflects reality. It is their custom. They do the same thing when they proclaim that Sarah Palin said all the dumb things Tina Fey actually did, the free market and not Barney Frank-led intervention pushed us to the brink of collapse, and that Tea Partiers are racist for wanting to reduce the debt to 13 figures or less... Being the target of dirt clumps thrown by dirt bags is a badge of honor, as Palin clearly knows."CJ at An Angry American:
"Fifteen pages of journolist crap about whether or not Trig Palin is Sarah Palin's son... Fifteen pages of gossip, innuendo, and crap. Good grief. How far can the media fall?"John Hinderaker at Power Line:
"I had thought that the belief that Trig was really Bristol's baby was an insane idea held only by Andrew Sullivan. It is an insane idea all right, but it turns out that it was believed, or at least taken seriously, by a number of liberal journalists--while some others, to their credit, tried to restore a sense of decency to the liberal press. Beyond that, the tactics of how to spin Palin's fifth child in a way that could damage the Republican ticket was seemingly an obsessive concern of these journalists. It is a sad spectacle."William A. Jacobson at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:
"In their email exchanges the Journolistas were worried that assailing Sarah Palin over Trig's birth might backfire. At least the Journolistas were right about one thing."Lachlan Markay at NewsBusters:
"Jared Bernstein... unpaid ‘surrogate’ adviser to the Obama campaign, was a member of JournoList... So not only was Bernstein privy to vitriolic discussions about Sarah Palin after her selection as the GOP vice presidential nominee, but he was also cued into the liberal media attack plan against the Governor... Daniel Levy could not have made JournoList's talking-point-formation role any clearer: ‘This seems to me like an occasion when the non-official campaign has a big role to play in defining Palin, shaping the terms of the conversation and saying things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn’t say... scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing christia [sic] wing-nut a heartbeat away... bang away at McCain’s age making this unusually significant...’ Bernstein was privy to this message and to the entire back and forth concerning how best to collectively address Palin's nomination. And sure enough, we see remarkably similar talking points show up in a Huffington Post piece written by Bernstein in October 2008: Palin as ‘a newcomer on the national scene with scant governing experience, little knowledge of the major issues, and few deeply held views … [and] unfettered, thin, talking points.' You know, unlike Obama, with his swathes of executive experience (less than Palin) and concrete, substantive policy positions (Hope and Change)."Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com:
"At this point, put me down for Palin. In the universe that exists parallel to ours but where anything can happen, put me down for Herman Cain. Come to think of it, a Palin/Cain ticket could single-handedly save JournoList..."James DeLong at the Waterbury American-Republican:
"The real problem with Journolist is much of it consisted of exchanges among people who worked for institutions about how to best hijack their employers for the cause of progressivism. Thus, the Journolist discussions revealed last week in the Daily Caller were about how the group could get their media organizations to play down the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair, and how to embarrass Sarah Palin, to help elect Barack Obama. Were I an editor of one of these institutions, I would instantly fire any employee who participated in this gross violation of his duty."Serr8d at Serr8d's Cutting Edge:
"JournoListers promulgated two lies: that Sarah Palin was unqualified, and that Barack Hussein Obama was qualified."Moe Lane at RedState.com:
"‘Trig Troofers’ are people who believe that former Governor Sarah Palin did not actually give birth to her son Trig Palin; they instead believe that the child is Bristol Palin’s, despite the fact that Ms. Palin herself had a child at about the same time. (This fact infuriates a large number on the Left, as it utterly failed to trigger any sort of firestorm of condemnation and anger among social conservatives. The netroots hate it when their prejudices are demonstrated to be unjustified.) This has thus become a particularly bizarre conspiracy theory, on the level of the ‘we faked the Apollo moon landing...’ I wanted to make it clear that people who believe this nonsense are crazy. And apparently some of them are riddled through the ranks of the leading liberal magazine The American Prospect."Mitch Berg at Shot in the Dark:
"What a very, very trite group of people they are: ‘Libermann [sic] would have been a better choice... At least he has experience and can find Eastern Market for Sunday brunch.’ ... Knowing DC’s social circles is the dispositive criterion for a potential President?"Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
"The Daily Caller offers another installment of its Journolist exposé, only this one may be most notable for the praise given … Sarah Palin. After her speech at the Republican convention in 2008, the list members admitted their respect for the VP nominee, with one calling the speech “gangbusters.” Palin had them worried enough that a proposal floated among members to use the listserv explicitly to coordinate efforts to get Barack Obama elected."K. E. Grubbs Jr. at Investor's Business Daily:
"Then came the plot, largely successful, to depict the engagingly competent governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin... as a soap-opera bimbo. The narrative would be about McCain's cynically sexist choice. The narrative's creators were themselves devolving into something sickly sexist."dakinikat at The Confluence:
"I found the release of the raw conversations on the list about Sarah Palin and Baby Trig. I just HAD to look. There it was. A bunch of snooty men (and a few women) talking about a woman and a difficult pregnancy with a challenging outcome in the most inhumane way possible. No, make that the most uncivil way possible. Oh, I don’t know, it just all came out mean and creepy to me... The first comment I really noticed came from Sara Mead who wanted every one to be politically correct when dealing with the Down’s Syndrome issue. Odd that, considering the rest of the conversation [is] about how to skewer Sarah Palin using poor Trig. Most of the comments bear no resemblance to any decent level of compassion afforded to a mother who is dealing with a child with special needs.... Granted there were a few folks in the “leave the kid alone” category... The problem is that most of them couldn’t leave it alone. The entire conversation just takes one bizarre turn after another."- JP
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