More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 84

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

Curt at Flopping Aces:

"[Joe] Klein would later pass off the words of fellow Journolisters as his own for [an] anti-Palin piece. This is how insidious the Journolist cabal was. They conspired to send a message through all forms of media, and make it in unison so any and all opposition is drowned out in response... How often have we on the right said that our universities are infested with liberal nut professors? Now here is a man [Todd Gitlin of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism], a man who teaches the future journalists of this country, urging all the other journalists to secretly coordinate a specific message on behalf of the Democrat party."

Patrick S. Adams at Liberty's Lamp:

"When Palin's light shined for the first time on the national stage, the liberal media wanted to keep her and America in that darkness that existed before her selection for VP. The Journolist emails show a mainstream media that was dead set on dimming the light that was now emanating from the Republican presidential campaign."

Chris Bounds at Liberty Juice:

"John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-president running mate sent the liberal media scrambling. Attack plans were likely already worked up for Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and other better known potential candidates believed to be on McCain’s short-list, but when McCain surprised everyone and selected the governor of Alaska, a woman with deep conservative values with faith, family, and country it was clear that the left was not ready for that... Think about this – it took two years for this information to reach the public. The damage has already been done. Can you trust them with anything they say now?"

Frank Miele at the Daily Inter Lake:

"To the media elite, you and I are just morons. That’s why everything that happened to Sarah Palin in the 2008 campaign should be questioned... The problem is, when the Fourth Estate works for the chief executive, not for the truth, then what we have is no longer a free press, but rather a Ministry of Propaganda."

FoxNews.com:

"Liberal journalists and commentators on an exclusive web group coordinated ways to discredit Sarah Palin on the very day she was nominated as Sen. John McCain's vice presidential pick in 2008... After one member wrote that women should take 'umbrage' at the idea that putting 'any woman on the ticket no matter her qualifications or views' could win them over, Mother Jones' Jonathan Stein urged others to echo that point."

Canadian Sentinel:

"No wonder so many people have been brainwashed into wrongly thinking Sarah Palin is 'stupid' and even much worse. They depend on the likes of such liars as recently exposed via their echo-chamber email listserv 'JournoList', now defunct. It's just the tip of the iceberg."

desertgardens at Sea to Shining Sea:

"It is beginning to appear that some participants in the listserv were going in to active 'non-official' campaign mode, discussing ways to negatively report on Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign..."

Elephant Owners:

"The Daily Caller has released 'journolist' discussing Sarah Palin around the time that she was picked as John McCain’s running mate. What is striking to me is that the discussions sounds like something that happens on the campaign trail. They are simply looking for a way to discredit her in their efforts to elect Obama."

Don Surber at the Charleston Daily Mail:

"JournoList shows that [Sarah Palin] was never given a chance. And the rumor came early enough to set the tone for the coverage... It is hard to make the case that this was a few outlier souls when the majority is silent about the terrible things said about a teenage girl and an infant."

Joshuapundit:

"To be fair, some of the e-mails actually expressed some common decency, like one by Ezra Klein, who wrote: 'By all accounts she’s a wonderful mother, and devoted to her fifth son [sic]. Leave this be.' ... But what struck me about a number of the comments was the sentiment that the chief reason for not touching this was not because it was indecent but because it could be a Republican 'trick' that could backfire politically:The whole sordid saga would be sad and pathetic if these people weren't so inherently dangerous to the whole idea of a free press that [is] supposed to help guard our liberties."

SusanAnne Hiller at 73 Wire:

"But let’s forget about the JournoList for a moment and turn our eyes to another listserv out there in Google. I’m referring to Matt Stoller’s private, invitation-only TownHouse listserv. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Stoller, he’s a progressive blogger-turned-senior policy advisor for Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)... With the embarrassing emails from the JournoList, I’d really love to see the TownHouse emails, wouldn’t you? Especially the ones about Sarah Palin."

Keith Burgess-Jackson:

"Keith's Law... Authoritativeness is inversely proportional to partisanship... We now know why journalism is in such low repute. Many journalists have... decided that they'd rather be players than impartial reporters, either because they're oblivious to Keith's Law... Sarah Palin [commented] on what she calls the 'darkness' and 'sickness' of contemporary journalism. Unlike so many others, she gets it."

Gregory of Yardale at Teh Resistance Blog:

"AIDS-Addled Crackpot Andrew Sullivan claims vindication for flogging the insane conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin is not actually Trig Palin mother, because as it turns out, the left-wing cabal known as Jornolist was flogging the same conspiracy theory. Note: Trig Palin was born April 18 2008. Bristol Palin gave birth to Tripp Palin on December 27 2008. How the Hell did she get pregnant with Tripp before she gives birth to Trig? Or am I just using that silly hatred-for-Sarah-Palin-does-not-bend-the-laws-of-nature logic again? "

Sissy Willis at Liberty Pundits:

"We headed over to Memeorandum to get a bite of what’s getting other bloggers’ panties in a twist... The top story was [particularly] delicious: In the wake of The Daily Caller’s latest Journolist revelations, former Journolista Andrew Sullivan — who’s been waging a long, lonely battle at his Atlantic blog... trying to prove against all odds that Sarah Palin’s baby boy Trig was actually born of daughter Bristol — realizes he’s been thrown under the bus, the object of ridicule by those he took to be his friends."

Brent Bozell at NewsBusters:

"The second liberal self-defense of JournoList was that Klein claimed there was no plan for partisan 'message coordination.' But the Daily Caller showed how no one on the list was really paying attention to that alleged plan. After Sarah Palin was picked for the GOP ticket in 2008, Suzanne Nossel of Human Rights Watch insisted '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.' Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones insisted the entire Left should spread that spin: '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. No message coordination there... What’s most shocking is the silence. How many in the 'mainstream' press are publicly denouncing those members of JournoList for their blatant disregard of journalistic ethics? Listen to the crickets..."

Bonus Quote...

Jim Treacher at The DC Trawler:

"The people on JournoList claim they were just social networking, so let’s start calling it SociaList"

- JP