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.
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 [...]
If that’s possible. UPDATE: Headline changed. The Standards and Practices Dept. suggested that I tone down the blue rhetoric a bit, in the hope that this will become a more family-oriented blog. (Hah.)
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 [...]
After seeing if I could drum up interest yesterday in buying the infamous JournoList archives for the benefit of my second favorite blogger, Andrew Breitbart takes up the challenge and offers $100,000 for them. Awesome, Andrew! I’m very happy about this development. Go get ‘em!
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 [...]
Ann Althouse, the popular blogger and University of Wisconsin law professor, wants to do an academic study of the Journolist phenomenon. To do this, she needs a complete archive of the emails that were served on that listserv. Considering that the listserv had, by some accounts, as many as 400 participants, there must be at [...]
Now that Dave Weigel has moved on to better things, the spotlight has turned to Ezra Klein’s Journolist listserv. By some accounts, as many as four hundred were registered on this listserv. What do you think the chances are that there are NO complete archives of the messages that were reflected by this listserv? I [...]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been delisted today by the NYSE. They will probably be listed on the “pink sheets,” the part of the over-the-counter market reserved for the hopelessly speculative penny stocks. Make no mistake about it: Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and their fellow-travelers in the Democratic Party, to their shame, caused this to [...]
First it was the leaking oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, to which the President of the United States was obviously much slower in responding than the presumably evil Bush 43 was in responding to Katrina. Now comes the crisis of the deadly IDF response to the phony humanitarian mission to Hamas, which forces the President to [...]