National media go ‘Journolist’ on Tucson shooter coverage

Progressives are eternal seekers of blame, and the political class almost always looks to conservatives to cast blame. Unless of course the perpetrator can’t, even by loose criteria, be somehow aligned with conservative beliefs.

Scribes had to reach deep, but most national media outlets jumped on the ‘Blame Sarah Palin’ bandwagon before the shooter’s name was even disclosed. One newspaper even quoted a staffer from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a once admired group whose existence now revolves around imaginary extremism in real gardens*.

At some point on Sunday I asked myself if the WaPo blogger’s group Journolist was still alive and well. Do these reporters call each other before writing stories like middle school girls phone to coordinate what they’re wearing on pep rally day?

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Blogger Klein in for big surprise on “confusing” Constitution

Just when I thought progressives couldn’t get any zanier, politics blogger Ezra Klein went on MSNBC and set a new record. The program host talked about Republicans reading the US Constitution aloud when Congress convenes in January. This would be the first time that’s ever been done. The host had introduced Klein as one of “our favorite wonks.” Breitbart TV featured a video of the interview, tagging Klein as a "star blogger." Star bloggers are a dime a dozen these days, but most of them make a lot more sense than Klein.

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WaPo draws bigots’ attention with strange blurb on Glen Beck Rally

I was about to shut down today when I saw a blurb about Glenn Beck's rally in The Washington Post.

It’s hard for a thinking person to take The Washington Post seriously. I never link to the paper although I will cite it when I absolutely have to. There was the Obama salon—Politico said the WaPo publisher was going to sell access to White House officials, congressmen and even WaPo minions who write the daily dithering leftwingers love to read and cite.

Then there was the Journolist scandal—most political class media were afraid to report it because they had people on the list. The Journolist founder whose name I forget was some leftwing reporter who worked at WaPo and kept running his list. Democrat supporters gathered at the list like Holy Rollers gather at the river only the Journolist faithful were baptized in the blood of progressive politics and propaganda.

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Leftwing Journolist blogger tangles with conservatives on (where else?) Twitter

Leftwing bloggers are some of the most conflicted angst-filled people on the face of the earth. Don't believe me? Pick a leftwing blog and go read. It won't take you long to see what I'm talking about.

The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong writes about Journolister Matt Yglesias' exchange with conservative writers on Twitter. Apparently Yglesias thinks it's okay to fudge the statistics if you're justifying a political position like high speed rail.

Yglesias reportedly said, “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes.”

Yglesias now blogs for the Center for American Progress, a think tank that claims to be nonpartisan.

In my opinion, that's sort of like my hound dog claiming to be a poodle, but a think tank is entitled to describe its mission as it pleases.

Yglesias also displayed the anger I've witnessed when trying to talk rationally with politicos who think like he does. He dropped the F-bomb and hung up.

Journolist was a group of people who claimed to be reporters, bloggers, political operatives and others who in my opinion just wanted then Sen. Barack Obama to be president.

The group communicated on a listserv, talking about shaping the political narrative during the 2008 presidential elections.

The Daily Caller broke the Journolist story and government-allied media refuse to even talk about it. Makes them a little bit uncomfortable I suppose.

At any rate, tell your mom, dad, neighbors and hound dog you really can't trust high profile media brands anymore (not that you ever really could, considering what President John F. Kennedy pulled off.)

The left screams about Fox News for that very reason. It's the one cable network they can't control. And standards, for statists, aren't a problem. You want something accomplished, all you have to do is lie.

I repeatedly told my readers during the 2008 elections media was biased and would never give a GOP candidate a fair shake. I was right and I like saying that over and over just so you don't forget.

NBC’s Chuck Todd says Journolist ‘kept me up nights’

Most national branded media haven’t been enthusiastic about jumping on the Journolist story The Daily Caller broke. Hundreds of leftwing journalists belonged to the listserv founded by a 22 year old named Ezra Klein.

Roger Simon wrote an essay about the Journolist, and he includes remarks from NBC’s Chuck Todd who is technically NBC’s White House correspondent. Todd told Simon that Journolist was “offensive” and he said the list had “kept me up nights.” Because, you know, he tries to be “fair.”

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Daily Caller: Liberal journolisters wanted Fox News shut down

There’s been gossip about media giving big love to Democrats since 2008.  But The Daily Caller’s expose on a ‘Journolist’, a  listserv of several hundred journalists, professors and political junkies, reveals a situation far worse than many of us believed possible. Their behavior wasn't just shameful, it was juvenile.

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Breitbart dangles $100,000 'reward' for JournoList archive

New media titan Andrew Breitbart is offering $100,000 for anyone who comes forward with what bloggers call the 'JournoList.' Breitbart is agreeing to fully protect the source who comes forward. Breitbart's offer comes on the heels of Dave Weigel's departure from The Washington Post.

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