More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 82

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

Investor's Business Daily:

"And so it went — journalists from the Nation, Mother Jones, Time, Politico, Bloomberg cooking up approaches, arguments, ‘narratives’ and templates to paint a false picture of the candidate. There are so many things wrong with this, we hardly know where to start. Nominally competitors, these supposedly impartial media mavens colluded in a way that would put airline or insurance officials in the dock for anti-competitive practices. They engaged in activism instead of fact-finding and mixed incestuously with activists whom they also should have been covering impartially. Worst of all, they deprived millions of Americans of the information they needed to size up this new face on the political scene and determine if she really was a candidate who represented their interests."

Mr. Curmudgeon at More Than Right:

"The JournoList smear campaign against Palin still echoes to this day, but Palin is having the last laugh."

Shawarma Mayor at Weasel Zippers:

"On Megyn Kelly’s show, America Live, pops up liberal non-icon, public joke — Alan Colmes. Arguing there’s nothing wrong with the Journo-List scandal and that the right wing does the same. However, there’s a mountain of evidence to establish a conspiracy by many in the media to smear Palin. Would someone please explain why The Soup on E! went to so much trouble to push Palin jokes? Never has this dumb show presented any political viewpoint — all of a sudden there was a barrage of ‘Palin’s dumb’ nuance. It was all over the place and the Journo-List scandal reconfirms conspiracy... Classy Colmes in 2008 viciously maligned Palin..."

Bob Clark at Palousitics:

"I talked to an insider in Washington DC yesterday and the word is that some of these reporters are going to be investigated by the Federal Election Commission. The actions some of them took to try to do damage to Sarah Palin could be violations of Federal Law."

Counterculture Conservative:

"The now infamous JournoList provides us an absolutely priceless look into the sausage factory that is the Liberal media. This is how the talking points are gathered and the memos written to create what I’ve always thought was a suspiciously consistent media narrative. And consistent (with but a few exceptions) in a highly convenient way for Libs... When McCain picked Palin as his VP, members of this online forum began to formulate the most effective way to attack her and defeat the McCain campaign. Much of what you see in the JournoList emails will sound familiar to you because this is the narrative the media promoted... I wonder if Peter Wallsten is part of Journolist. He is the reporter at the LA Times that refused to release the video of the Obama/Khalidi/Ayers/Dohrn lovefest. No, it was more important to bash Palin for her clothing budget."

Doug at A Million Monkeys Typing:

"The one thing I found interesting is the discussions on how to discredit Sarah Palin before these clowns knew anything about her."

Freedom Fighter at Joshuapundit:

"Among the other sordid revelations of the JournoList scandal is [an] in depth view of the way its members collaborated with the Obama Campaign's concerted effort to destroy Sarah Palin personally and to bankrupt the Palin family... What we had here was a group of reputed journalists colluding with openly leftist opinionators to distort and shape the news by burying things like the Jeremiah Wright story while coordinating talking points to destroy Sarah Palin... These people, of course, aren't ‘journalists’ They're simply flacks with expensive J-school degrees who shill for the Ruling Class."

Gary P Jackson at A Time For Choosing:

"It’s really interesting how [one] female member of the ‘Ministry of Truth’ went straight for the sexism angle. Must have been out of race cards that day..."

Anchoress at First Things:

"No wonder the j-listers went into immediate damage-control mode when Sarah Palin made her appearance. They listened; they watched. Palin was attractive; her story was the story of non-Ivy America. Even worse, she told Americans that they were energetic can-doers, not hapless victims and dupes. That could not be permitted. A vice-presidential candidate with a non-elite but leadership-packed curriculum vitae born of entrepreneurship and PTA meetings could not be allowed to fly freely against a presidential candidate who had never run anything, never created a job, never met a payroll. Palin was such a staggeringly ‘weak’ candidate that the terrified press had to pull out every resource to stop her; dehumanization and Alinskian class-mockery went into overdrive."

Banner at Semper Fi:

"I loathe injustice, politically expedient lying, cruelty, viciousness, and oppression. The journalists involved in this smear campaign aimed at Sarah Palin are guilty of all of these and more."

Greg Gutfeld at Big Journalism:

"So, thanks to the Daily Caller, more emails are emerging from ‘Journolist,’ that secret list of liberal media hacks – and guess what, they’re about Sarah Palin. And surprise: they aren’t positive... The real point: With the exception of Fox News, a few mags, a handful of talk radio hosts and some vital websites -the idea of free-thinking journalism is dead. These chuckleheads – Adler, Ackerman, that toolbag Jeffrey Toobin – try sooo hard to swagger via email, yet they come off less rebellious than Kenneth from 30 Rock. They’re the Eddie Haskells of modern media: slobbering kittens reeking from the desperate sweat of sycophancy."

katiadog at Katia the Conservative Dachshund:

"You gotta love her spunk. She lets these liberal media dummies have it right between the eyeballs."

Anita MonCrief at Hot Air:

"For a number of years traditional print media has been on life support, but after the revelations from Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller, it looks like someone finally pulled the plug. The expose on Journolist, a now defunct, listserv that included hundreds of liberal journalists, detailed... their baldly partisan effort to coordinate liberal talking points that would discredit Sarah Palin and John McCain, while helping to elect Barack Obama president... Considering that Journolist included journalists from Washington Post, the New York Times, National Public Radio, New Republic, and Time, one has to wonder if the biggest story covered up in 2008 was the illegal coordination between ACORN and the Obama campaign."

Soccer Dad:

"Should I be more upset that the 'listers tried to frame a narrative that was damaging to Palin... or that their effort couldn't be differentiated from ‘straight’ reporting?"

LEL at Fiery Spirited Zionist:

"The Leftist Media Colluded to Destroy Sarah Palin... More disgusting revelations are coming out about the media conspiracy to aid Obama during the 2008 campaign. The media’s contempt for Sarah Palin is a reflection of their hatred of the American people, our values and America itself. The msm was essentially Obama’s campaign headquarters. Obama need not have bothered with an official campaign team since they had most of the networks and newspapers to do their dirty work."

- JP