The great blog American Thinker offers us a nugget of fact-based truth: Journolist, the “unofficial Obama campaign,” proves that irresponsible, false charges of racism are accepted on the left as a political tactic.
Then again, a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. Here is Sullivan’s rather bloodless post acknowledging that Journolist critics might have a point.
Here’s what Ezra Klein wrote today: In another wrinkle they haven’t mentioned, Journolist included Gautham Nagesh, a Daily Caller reporter (he’s since moved to The Hill). He leaned conservative, and frequently disagreed with other members of the list. It also included almost 400-some other people. If I had thought there was some deep and dark [...]
I’m going to be on news.google.com today to see how the leftish do damage control. The emerging meme is that there is a “secret conservative listserv that’s just like JournoList.” It’s going to be Bill Clinton style message coordination again. Remember? Conservatives said that he committed a felony, and the leftish reflexively SCREAMED that “He was [...]
Dave Weigel joins MSNBC. LOL
Some things I discovered from my bloggish interactions yesterday: Ethics in journalism — at least in Washington D.C. – are a pipe dream. Journalists can get into secret clusterfucks with their sources (Journolist being the most obvious example) and nobody gives a rat’s ass. Dave Weigel was a good journalist who was hired by the Washington Post as their [...]
Check out this ABC News clip: Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan cherry-picks his critics and professes love for the courageous and manly journalist. (There’s a reason why he never opens comments on his posts.)