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Journolist Equals Liberal Fascism
This lingering journalistic scandal isn’t going away anytime soon — despite the media’s attempt to kill the story.
“The only morality [that] they recognize is what will
further their cause — meaning they reserve unto themselves the
right to commit any crime, to lie [and] to
cheat…”
— Ronald Reagan,
speaking candidly about the Soviet Union during his first press
conference as president, Jan. 29, 1981
“Spencer Ackerman of the Washington
Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from
Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject [and
lying]. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote,
‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them
racists.’”
— The Daily Caller’s
Jonathan Strong in a stunning investigative exposé of the
hidden machinations behind “Journolist,” a secret listserve of
several hundred liberal journalists, activists and academics,
July 20, 2010
We always knew that most liberal journalists were biased. Now we know that many of them are dishonest — and that, like their leftist forbearers in the Soviet Union, they reserve unto themselves the right to lie and to cheat to further their political ends.
We know this because of the Daily Caller’s astonishing report yesterday that a cabal of liberal journalists, activists, and academics acted in concert, and with malice aforethought, to kill and bury stories that were unfavorable to their political masters: Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Indeed, these “journalists” were so blindly and zealously committed to the left-wing political agenda that they advocated smearing their political opponents with wholly unfounded charges of “racism” and “bigotry.”
Thus Ackerman’s call for his fellow lefty “journalists” to “pick one,” any one conservative. After all, “who cares” who it is? Who cares about their innocence? Just pick a prominent conservative and call him a racist. Smear him! Show no mercy! Destroy his reputation and kill his public image! Now!
I must confess that as worldly wise as I like to think that I am, I have been stunned, shocked and appalled by the raw partisanship and animalistic lust for power displayed by this pack of left-wing journalists.
Of course I always new most Washington journalists were leftists. But what I didn’t realize were the depths of intellectual dishonesty and dishonor to which many Washington journalists would descend in order to protect leftist pols and smear conservatives.
“Have you no sense of decency?” Mr. Ackerman. “Have you no sense of shame?”
Apparently not. But Ackerman is not alone. As the Daily Caller reports, several hundred journalists, activists and academics secretly conspired on Journolist. What did they know and when did they know it — and with whom did they conspire and why?
Did anyone pay them for favorable news coverage? Were they promised jobs and privileges for toeing the party line? And whom else were they commanded to punish in the public prints? What other lies did they purposely, and with malice aforethought, disseminate throughout the media?
In short, there are a lot of unanswered questions that still surround the lingering Journolist scandal. Which is why I have urged Journolist co-conspirators Ezra Klein, David Weigel, Jonathan Chait, Michael Tomasky, Matthew Yglesias, and Spencer Ackerman to come clean and to release the Journolist archives in toto.
The public has a right to know what reportorial actions these “journalists” were coordinating, with whom and why.
Sure, there may be no legal right to know, but there is a moral and professional right to know. We’re not talking about private love letters, after all. We’re talking about coordinated journalistic actions designed to shape and influence what is reported in the public prints.
Moreover, these journalists are very influential; they write for the “big media.” Klein, for instance, reports for the Washington Post, Chait for the New Republic; Weigel for MSNBC; Tomasky — The Guardian; Yglesias — Think Progress; and Ackermann — Danger Room. These are the same media outlets that are often in high-dudgeon about the public’s “right to know.”
Well, turnaround is fair play — and entirely justified right now. The Left’s journalistic empire has destroyed too many innocent people for too long. It’s time, then, that these “journalists” be held to account for their misdeeds.
Public exposure, public pressure, and moral suasion ultimately destroyed the “evil empire,” and it will destroy the Left’s journalistic empire as well. Which is why Journolist insists on covering up its journalistic crimes. But moral suasion can be a powerful and righteous force; and it just might force Klein, Chait, Weigel, Tomasky, Yglesias, and Ackerman to do the right thing — even though, sadly, they’d quite clearly prefer not to.
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John R. Guardiano blogs at www.ResCon1.com, and you can follow him on Twitter: @ResCon1.
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FTM| 7.21.10 @ 6:20AM
Well, well, well...
I hadn't heard about this little stunt yet. How interesting. Seems the same basic M. O. as the Climategate fiasco. Wonder how many offical Democrat political party operatives are involved? I wonder what a collection of RICCO prosecutors could find out after a couple deals against prosecution were cut.
If this is a true case and not a false alarm then this is potentially bigger than Watergate.
ENOUGH ROPE| 7.21.10 @ 12:58PM
Fire these journalists by refusing to watch or buy their publications.
drudge ette obama| 7.22.10 @ 5:59AM
"Are you or have you ever been a member of Journolist?" That's the question to be answered before reading any stinking article. Here's why..
Drudge has a link to a Reuters article by Patricia Zengerle about Race and Obama. And what does she do? She quotes another "journolist" Krugmann of the NYT as part of the article - and wait til you read what she included....
"When the right-wing noise machine starts promoting another alleged scandal, you shouldn't suspect that it's fake -- you should presume that it's fake, until further evidence becomes available," columnist Paul Krugman wrote in The New York Times.
How is that reporting?
Erich Riesenberg| 7.22.10 @ 12:36PM
It is wretchedly confusing, but my understanding, and as you actually cite, Paul Krugman is NOT a reporter, but a columnist.
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 9:42PM
But for every Wright there is a Duke.
For every Sharpton there is a Buchanan.
You all deserve each other.
Charles Martel| 7.22.10 @ 3:08AM
Right, and for every Leftist conspiracy of journalists embedded at the pinnacles of what is still laughingly called "mainstream" journalism, there's a Right-wing conspiracy of journalists embedded at the pinnacles of what is still laughingly called "mainstream" journalism.
Oh wait, no there isn't.
Stop trying to change the subject, Alinskyite.
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Bubba| 7.22.10 @ 1:03PM
Ah yes, just a case of moral equivalence, right Mr. Brooks? Besides being a logical fallacy or two, this is the typical tack of the left - when something bad comes to light (in this case, evidenced for 40 years), make it seem as though there is some sort of karmic equivalence. Nice.
Richard Rogers| 7.22.10 @ 2:08PM
Let's apply a little uncommonly-practiced logic to the idea of moral equivalence. In order to find Rev. Wright acceptable, someone would have to find Duke acceptable. Who's going to raise their hand? Would that be anyone of presidential stature? If that logic is over your head, consider your second example. In what crime did Buchanan conspire? Who remembers Shuanna (sp?) Brawley?
Ms. Jones| 7.22.10 @ 4:11PM
Tawana Brawley was the liar's name. Good point. I wonder how many pols ingested the malicious, racist rantings of David Duke . . . that's still alive, that is.
JmsA| 7.22.10 @ 2:25PM
Alan Brooks,
Vetus defessus ineo , nusquam magis.
Say thanks now, Charles Martel just handed you your hat.
Maddox| 7.21.10 @ 6:28AM
Why are you shocked?
Anyone who has been paying attention could see the collective deceit in journolism for decades. The bias is that obvious.
The left plays dirty and until Americans hold them responsible for it, they will win.
Harry the Horrible| 7.21.10 @ 8:36AM
Nobody is shocked. There is a reason that "traditional" media outlets are in decline.
And there is a reason that the Federales keep coming up with proposals to prop them up...
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 9:53PM
David Duke is worse than Wright, as Duke ran for high office in LA.
Even an a-hole such as Wright wouldn't make that mistake. And now watch, someone here will dig up an article from 1963 about Wright running for alderman. What is it you people are worried about? Blacks just want to get ahead like you do now-- they are not Black Panthers, they wont burn Newark and Detroit again.
Their heroes are basketball players and rappers, not Bobby Seales and Huey Newtons.
By overreacting you are playing into the Reverend Wright's of this world's hands.
shogun| 7.21.10 @ 11:49PM
You sound like you are on the list! That is an old trick "do not overreact". You and your commy friends have no idea what's comming. Just wait and see!
Charles Martel| 7.22.10 @ 3:21AM
What overreaction? Are you suggesting that the facts that the current leader of the Free World sat for twenty years in the pew of a church run by a rabidly anti-American racist, that he repeatedly called him his mentor, and that he went so far as to name one of his two autobiographies -- his only actual accomplishments prior to assuming the presidency -- after the title of one of the latter's sermons, are or were irrelevant as windows into the former's soul?
Much of what we now know about Obama's conduct in office was first gleaned from this relationship during the campaign by those with eyes to see. Unfortunately, these facts were deliberately obscured in a coordinated effort by Leftist journalists. We on the Right have long suspected this; this news is the smoking gun.
Every citizen of this country should be forced to learn and acknowledge this before again entering a voting booth. Daily Caller has performed an invaluable service to the Republic and, by extension, to all of humanity.
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Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:16PM
You forgot conducted his marriage and 'baptised' his children.
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 9:39AM
There is only one response to 'Journolists':
"Are you an unrepentant communist or just a useful idiot?"
Repeat the question until they answer.
So, ALAN BROOKS, I ask you yet again,
Are you an unrepentant communist or just a useful idiot?
Please tell us.
Nolite conculare me!!!
Don't tread on me!!!
Translation provided for those whose education did not include dead languages...
JmsA| 7.22.10 @ 2:32PM
Dan Hirsch,
He's a combination of both to varying respective degrees, depending on how cynical he feels at that particularly moment. Don't hold it against him, though, for he's witnessing the unraveling of that which he holds most dear.
Achilles Toejam | 7.22.10 @ 4:35PM
David Duke? Give us a break Brooks, that's ancient history that in the scheme of things amounted to nothing because he never attained power and Duke wasn't a spiritual advisor pouring the perverted gospel of liberation theology into the president's ear for 20 years. If you want we can talk about the high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member that recruited 150 people the late Sen. Byrd who received praise and accolades from leftists in government and in the media upon his passing or the total whitewashing of the Democrat opposition in the 50s and 60s to civil rights legislation, what inconvenient truths.
Don't presume to tell us about the splinter in our eye when you have a log in your own!
Also I fail to see your point in comparing Sharpton to Buchanan. Sharpton is a parasite on his own race, he's the kind of guy Margaret Sanger would and did seek to recruit to help her with her work in the black community. Oh that's right Planned Parenthood it's called today the sacred cow of the left and what a revelation Obamacare is really allowing federal funding for abortions but I thought Obama promised Stupak... that's weird, still on course to fulfill Sanger's dream of keeping the weeds down? Eugenics of the 1930s as a core tenant and party platform of the left and now taxpayer-funded, I could never really get my head around that faustian allegiance.
Rosegrower| 7.22.10 @ 11:15PM
David Duke was no worse than the recently departed and greatly admired Robert Byrd (D- WVA). And if you believe Reverend Wright isn't a dangerous fanatic, think again. His intention is to keep blacks believing they are perpetual victims who are owed a living by the evil crackers who rule the world. He keeps his minions ginned up, and his "church" afforded Barack Obama his education in how best to leverage political power. The lessons learned - 1) create as much class envy as possible, and 2) if that fails, play the race card. As to your contention that basketball players and rappers are heroes in the black community, I find that symptomatic of the success of the Rev. Wrights of the world. The likelihood that ANY person can achieve the success of a Reggie Bush or Lebron James is infinitisimal, given the skill set and work ethic professional sports demands. Why not aspire to be the next Bill Gates? It seems only Asian-Americans see that as worthy - and they are the only minority group to be overrepresented in professions such as engineering, law and medicine. No one told them they were victims, so they established realistic goals, worked their a**es off to achieve them, and fostered a value system that has created generations of overachievers.
Kevin | 7.21.10 @ 6:31AM
I am thoroughly disgusted with the liberal media lies, propaganda and corruption. MSNBC makes me sick seeing what they've become. We need more people like you and Fox reporting the truth. Well done John, keep up the good reporting.
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 9:56PM
will write it over 'n' over:
by overreacting you are playing into the Reverend Wrights of this world's PAWS.
His grasping wittle paw- paws.
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:21PM
And, useless idiot, you recommend silent passivity, which is just as helpful to your cause? Right. Pull the other one.
Manipulative lying subversion is hard to over-react to.
whit seven| 7.21.10 @ 6:33AM
And some of the journalists in the soviet union feared for their lives and got fairly adept at writing in a way that told the truth to the skilled observer. What excuse do these entitled, overpaid lying hacks have? Career advancement? A government position?
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 9:58PM
Wright's gwasping wittle itty bitty PAW PAWs.
Wright is sucking you in!
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 9:41AM
Alan,
As he has you and already shat you out!
Useful idiot or unrepentant communist, Alan? Which is it?
JmsA| 7.22.10 @ 2:48PM
Dan Hirsch,
Not to belabor the point: Useful idiot and unrepentant communist are not mutually exclusive.
Katharine| 7.22.10 @ 1:37PM
So by addressing liberal bias in the media, as evidenced by these journalists coordinating to protect Wright and Obama, we're really doing what they want us to do? Right, because ignoring this proof of left-wing bias would be the intelligent (and, of course, non-racist!) thing to do ... you sound like someone who REALLY just wants this story to go away.
Deborah D | 7.21.10 @ 6:34AM
Wow! Then this morning Daily Caller comes out with specific requests by these journalists for the government to pull Fox News' license. Oh, but there's no liberal bias in the media, right?
Obama is the MSM's Waterloo -- Rush was right again!
Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 10:01PM
Wright is playing you--
what masochists you are.
Inge| 7.22.10 @ 4:55AM
Well said!! With these actions they clearly demonstrated their mental disorder; if anyone thinks they have moral decency-think again, it's missing. Anyone with the slightest conscience would never participate in such a filthy action.
Appleby| 7.21.10 @ 7:24AM
And the next thing you will expect us to be surprised and shocked about, I suppose, will be that the annual hysterical screaming about some Pandemic that never materializes is started by people who are trying to deflect our attention from the latest outrage by the Apparatchiks in Chief?
Believe it or not, a lot of us were actually getting educated in the Sixties and we saw this coming 40 years ago.
Tenn Slim| 7.21.10 @ 8:53AM
I call your attention to the Am Spec article "Ruling Class" Author Codevilla. I too was educated in the 60s, and I honestly never saw this day coming. Many of us were too busy holding the NAM fort.
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Semper FI
Mystie| 7.21.10 @ 7:40AM
Not only should these journalists "come clean and to release the Journolist archives in toto," they should resign their jobs or be fired by their employers for violating basic journalistic ethical standards. THAT would be "doing the right thing."
stephanie| 7.21.10 @ 7:59AM
Hey Mystie, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
Maddox| 7.21.10 @ 9:54AM
Their employers are more of the same and have promoted this yellow journalism. Ethics in journalism no longer exist for those who have sold their principles to the leftist. Their morals have been replaced by the superiority they feel as they tell themselves they are promoting an agenda that will bring the utopia that never will never be.
JAWilson| 7.21.10 @ 7:50AM
When the membership of this criminal organization becomes known, we have to pursue them and make them pay for the crime of electing the equivalent of the Mafia into office.
S Ruger| 7.21.10 @ 8:07AM
Typo: "Of course I always new ..."
Charles Martel| 7.22.10 @ 3:25AM
Yes, that prompted a double-take and a chuckle. One wonders, what did he now and when did he now it?
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D. Singh| 7.21.10 @ 8:07AM
Sir
This article reveals just how far the Left-liberal class has slipped in its moral probity.
Indeed, it reminds one of a famous quote by the great Russian and anti-Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
“In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
Ed| 7.21.10 @ 8:11AM
Most of us who read The American Spectator have known for a long time that the lamestream media was biased. Journolist confirms this.
This is a huge scandal, but only Fox News viewers and readers of the conservative blogosphere will hear about it.
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 9:46AM
Ed,
But there is a difference. Now we know that they are not just useful idiots; they are, in fact, unrepentant communists!
This is actually an important difference, their desire is our dissolution and destruction. Their only possible defense is they do not understand the inevitable outcome of their desires. So maybe they are just useful idiots...
See, it is a good question to ask any left leaning person: Are you an unrepentant communist or just a useful idiot.
Nolite conculare me!!!
Louis Jenkins| 7.21.10 @ 8:22AM
Liberal newsmedia types lie. The ultimate truth. I no more take notice of their lying antics than a monkey grinder. And that's about all they can do. The Chief Grinder plays his tune, and the monkies dance. Thanks for the article Mr. Guardiano.
Tenn Slim| 7.21.10 @ 8:49AM
Opine
Forget it. The Leftist media is in full throttle. The Ends Justify the Means. Until the entire Leftisit Movement is trashed, we will see the blatancy and more's of these folks. It is astonishing to the USA Electorate that this could even be happening. Expect no mercy, no honesty, no truth, from the likes of the Left.
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Semper FI
WE WILL PREVAIL
Ron| 7.21.10 @ 9:26AM
I guess they can't blame this on Bush.
Akaky| 7.21.10 @ 6:41PM
Sure they can. You can blame anything on Bush if you try hard enough.
Tom| 7.21.10 @ 9:33AM
It's probably time to stop calling it the Main Stream Media (MSM). It's not even the State Controlled Media. It's the Socialist Democrat Party Media.
Robert Pinkerton| 7.21.10 @ 10:32AM
The acronym MSM
While, granted, in a political context like this one, that acronym signifies "Main-Stream Media;" in epidemiology it stands for "Men [who have] 'Sex' [with] Men" -- correcting for semantic laxity, "Males [who] Sodomize [other] Males," a "daisy chain" so-called.
Is there that much of a difference beterrn that and Jounrolist?
Sheila| 7.21.10 @ 10:20AM
I guess it's up to me to bring up the elephant in the room, since you all seem determined to ignore it. Klein, Chait, Tomasky, Weigel - what do all these names have in common? It's not merely a conglomeration of liberals, folks, it's a group with an agenda. Tribalism + democracy + stupidity = racist idiocracy. You all have the government you deserve. Decline and fall.
Willy Loehman| 7.21.10 @ 10:23AM
N0!It is shocking. There is a difference between the Hive acting as an affinity group and consciously meeting to promulgate the "party line". They are active and conscious members of a conspiracy.
PolishKnight| 7.21.10 @ 10:23AM
I remember a conservative speaker back in the early 90's calling for fellow conservatives to simply stop buying liberal cartel newspapers.
Back then, this was easier said than done since the rags were still the "record" and useful for listings for community events, housing sales and rents, and employment listings among others. You HAD to read these newspapers for those essential tasks at times and it was best to read the largest one even as they were all entirely leftist.
That was then. This is now.
Anyone looking for a job through a newspaper want ads is a fool. The thick sunday paper, a fun time to settle down and go through the sales ads for the latest power tool or sectional sofa has been replaced by going online and even getting a special internet discount for doing so. Isn't it wonderful?!?! And THAT was their main source of revenue to boot.
If you want to read your favorite comics, even, you can quickly satisfy that craving online.
The only reason now to buy a leftist rag is to read prepackaged dogma that you've already bought into anyway. That's a lot like going to church. I still see lefties doing it thinking they're impressing someone or just to "support" the cause.
I regularly get stopped by Washington Post salespeople offering me incentives to subscribe. No thanks. Good luck with that subsidy!
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:27PM
No, don't wish them luck with the subsidy even ironically or as a joke. It is a very probable logical progression.
Ron Turner| 7.21.10 @ 10:38AM
Curious if anyone at AmSpec is going to comment on Breitbart's ridiculous hit on Shirley Sherrod. National Review is arguing that she should get her job back, while the idiot Breitbart is still screaming bloody racist murder ...
Paul from SA| 7.21.10 @ 12:29PM
You're wrong. I've listened to Mr Breitbart's explanation several times. His story is about the NCAAP, not about Sherrod.
Where did you hear about Breitbar screaming bloody racist murder toward Sherrod? Was it a liberal source?
Nick| 7.21.10 @ 4:38PM
Mr. Turner,
Mr. Breitbart didn't "hit" Mrs. Sherrod, he hit the NAACP. Very effectively, in my opinion.
I'm curious if idiot liberals are ever going to condemn Dan Blather for trying to wreck President Bush's re-election effort using faked documents?
Ms. Jones| 7.22.10 @ 4:24PM
Maybe I'm becoming way too cynical . . . does anyone find it interesting that the NAACP is claiming it was "snookered" by Breitbart, when it was the NAACP who released the full video which supposedly exhonerated Ms. Sherrod? Her speech was made at an NAACP event. She claimed on CNN that her resignation was demanded by "The White House" because "You're (she) going to be on Glenn Beck tonight". Now Gibbs is denying the White House had anything to do with the demand, and is doing his double-speak tap dance in response to reporters' questioning why the White House seems to fear Glenn Beck. Beck, incidentally, did NOT run the story the day it first came to light, but instead DEFENDED Ms. Sherrod on the basis of lack of context for her remarks. Hmmmm. . . something smells very, very fishy. Especially since Ms. Sherrod has now been offered a more important, high profile job in the Administration for her "travails".
Bill Hussein Moyers| 7.21.10 @ 10:44AM
Anyone who saw the glowing reception Rev. Wright got at The National Press Club could see how far out and whacko the DC press corpse (pun intended) is. And they call tea-partiers mind-numbed right-wing zombies.
scotchieguy| 7.21.10 @ 10:36PM
Hey, are you related to "Bill Hussein O'Stalin?"
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:30PM
A not-coincidental parallel, the biggest standing O received by a speaker at Copenhagen Climate Con, attended by every government and leftist NGO on the planet, was for Hugo Chavez' virulent anti-West anti-industrial society rant.
martin j smith| 7.21.10 @ 10:52AM
I see no surprise in the behavior of the MSM and I am somewhat annoyed by those at this stage are surprised. Annoyed because this has been happening for years--though I will admit its getting worse and more obvious --if one can be more obvious. I think the key issue is how to make use of it against the Democrat Left Party. after all the MSM and that entity are one.. The NAACP" resolution" provides excellent fodder along with other relate stories and there are so many more. The voters who do not pay attention need to be reached somehow and "educated" .
Bust most important: Republican/Conservatives have be more agressive in attacking the Left and Less defensive about the smears and lies--much less defensive--again such as charges of "racism"
Clinton nee Publius | 7.21.10 @ 10:53AM
This is more than a turning point or other form of "Waterloo". This is the line in the sand that must not be allowed to be swept under the rug. If TAS, Daily Caller, Fox News and the rest of the media not involved in this conspiracy does not stay on top of this story until these people are removed from our midst, then the rest of the media will be complicit in the destruction of our democracy and the American Way of Life.
This is the call to arms. This is the first shot in Charleston harbor. This is Lexington. Either we turn the tide here or the tide will just drown us and everything we worked to create. We need to remember that the Republican Party is also complicit in this activity (what else explains their lack of response and outrage), so we need to be cognizant of the fact these people will stop at nothing to usher in tyranny. We must not let this stand. We must stay on this until every single one of these people are removed from our society or we will continue to suffer the symptoms of the disease they spread.
Paul from SA| 7.21.10 @ 10:56AM
We knew this the whole time.
This is huge. This is the proof the people of America need to see and hear about. I want an investigation. I want names. I want the truth and whole truth to be reported.
Every liberal journalist who knew and did not report this needs to be identified, exposed and questioned.
Paul from SA| 7.21.10 @ 12:31PM
Yes, identified, exposed, questioned -- and then discredited!
Maddox| 7.21.10 @ 9:41PM
Identified, exposed, questioned and then discredited... like Dan Rather and the global warming scam email exposures.
I wish...but do not expect anything different.
We are ruled by criminals who are being supported by propaganda.
Petronius| 7.21.10 @ 11:35AM
Finally we now know how these bastards coordinate their attacks, but then they have always believed that they should be running the world. I recall one of the worst pharisees, Sam Donaldson carrying on with his colleagues on the ABC Sunday morning round table where he was doubly put out because David Brinckley moderated not him, about the complaint letters he received from people who told him to respect President Reagan because, "we elected him, not you. Who elected you?" Now they are all out in the open. And their line is, 'we elected us because
we're the only ones who count.' It works because people have never ceased believing what they read in their morning papers all of their lives. If it's between page 1 and the sports section, it must be true. The gullible public must quit checkmating itself with it's own assumptions if we are ever to defeat this pack of traitors. Anybody see any evidence of that?
Ralph| 7.22.10 @ 1:53PM
I think what you said toward the end is the real "elephant in the room." The public that have been educated over the last 30 years plus such that the lies are quite logical, acceptable, and make a great deal of sense. Turning this ship is going to take a long time and it will absolutely require more people with so-called "conservative" values entering the field of education - in particular higher education.
I recently watched a documentary on the "Weathermen Underground." Toward the end several comments were made to the effect that they finally figured out that violence was not going to work to influence change, so they had to try a different approach. No mention was made of what that approach was, but at the end when several of the prominent members of the group were high-lighted in the "this is what happened to them since" manner, every one of them was a faculty member at a university. If we really want to make a change in direction, we need to modify the higher education in this country as the followers of Saul Alinsky's expressed rules for radicals (I do not use his name lightly in this context) have done over the last 30-40 years.
It's time to "lift where you stand" and start to educate in a reasonable way concepts like "the law of the harvest" (Covey addresses this nicely)and that a given end does not justify "any means" as Alinsky taught. It is a war of words and ideas and ideals that needs to be fought calmly and steadfastly.
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:34PM
Yes, the evidence is that FoxNews outdraws its next 3 or so competitors combined. And growing.
And the Grey Lady is a dead woman walking.
Mimi| 7.21.10 @ 11:43AM
I'm just wondering....These so called journalist....Did they know, or aware of the harm they did to the country? Was the failure to not report... the complete truth of the background of the "O", to inform the voters, to favor and push their agenda....be swept under the rug? I don't think this can ever be forgiven or forgotten. The Main Stream News... needs a huge over-haul, a good sudsy scrub..... and be punished by WE THE PEOPLE. They , along with those they have elected.....Have LOST the TRUST of those they serve!!!!!
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 9:51AM
Mimi,
They have given themselves a name: They are
"JOURNOLISTS!"
We should respect their desire and call them that whenever we write or talk about them.
Hooray! Look at the Journolist copying his talking points from his journolist update.
martin j smith| 7.21.10 @ 11:49AM
Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a Conservative sponsored day without TVand a very interesting day would be one where ratings would be expected to go thru the roof. I wonder what that might be ? That would mean NO TV AT ALL( EXEMPTING FOX NEWS )
Ken Smith| 7.22.10 @ 8:14PM
Slamming the door in the face of these cockroaches a super idea - given that it is against the law to do anything more violent to them.
Keoni| 7.21.10 @ 1:42PM
How about a list of names. Let the yellow journalists be known.
JmsA| 7.22.10 @ 2:00AM
Keoni,
This is a partial list from Clarice Feldman at AT:
1. Ezra Klein
2. Dave Weigel
3. Matthew Yglesias
4. David Dayen
5. Spencer Ackerman
6. Jeffrey Toobin
7. Eric Alterman
8. Paul Krugman
9. John Judis
10. Eve Fairbanks
11. Mike Allen
12. Ben Smith
13. Lisa Lerer
14. Joe Klein
15. Brad DeLong
16. Chris Hayes
17. Matt Duss
18. Jonathan Chait
19. Jesse Singal
20. Michael Cohen
21. Isaac Chotiner
22. Katha Pollitt
23. Alyssa Rosenberg
24. Rick Perlstein
25. Alex Rossmiller
26. Ed Kilgore
27. Walter Shapiro
28. Noam Scheiber
29. Michael Tomasky
30. Rich Yesels
31. Tim Fernholz
32. Dana Goldstein
33. Jonathan Cohn
34. Scott Winship
35. David Roberts
36. Luke Mitchell
37. John Blevins
38. Moira Whelan
39. Henry Farrell
40. Josh Bearman
41. Alec McGillis
42. Greg Anrig
43. Adele Stan
44. Steven Teles
45. Harold Pollack
46. Adam Serwer
47. Ryan Donmoyer
48. Seth Michaels
49. Kate Steadman
50. Matt Duss
51. Laura Rozen
52. Jesse Taylor
53. Michael Hirsh
54. Daniel Davies
55. Jonathan Zasloff
56. Richard Kim
57. Thomas Schaller
58. Jared Bernstein
59. Holly Yeager
60. Joe Conason
61. David Greenberg
62. Todd Gitlin
63. Mark Schmitt
64. Kevin Drum
65. Sarah Spitz
Mimi| 7.22.10 @ 3:12PM
Thanks for the list!....So this is the Journ-o -list, who their dear MSM bosses know they will never be believed or read by anyone ever again. They have lost all credibility. Yeh, as I posted yesterday NEVER FORGIVEN or FORGOTTEN. Hope they all have put away some monies, when their pay-checks END!!! Maybe they could take a trip across this great country and see what we the people are all about. Try starting in Boston near quincy market....Where it all started . You know a patriotic trip from sea to sea. Along the way they can check-out some un-employment offices and see the results of this " NOT DEALT WITH " downturn. Yes the suffering too. Then you all can just keep going anyplace but here. AMERICA does not need you or your Ilk!!!!
leslie| 7.22.10 @ 3:48PM
Unfortunately, Mimi, until they repent of this feverish anti-American mindset, such a patriotic immersion would be wasted on these puppets.
leslie| 7.22.10 @ 4:12PM
These wordsmiths have been operating in plain sight for so long, the public will find it hard to shake off the delusions it has been fed . We decide the ending of this unfolding cautionary tale. For many of us , the answer must include restoring God's place in our country's educational and governing arenas. Without a clear foundation for change our efforts will only stir up the muddy waters...
Ken Smith| 7.22.10 @ 8:20PM
Dennis Prager talked about this group today. He said the number of names identified so far is (or about) 400. I haven't yet seen such a list of names. Besides print journalists - there certainly are some smelly suspects who are broadcast journalists. Does anyone have more info?
dw| 7.21.10 @ 1:52PM
The bigger problem is that these excuses for what passes as journolist have been educated in our schools of higher education. It has for these personality types become a simmering pool of leftist indoctrination where they are brainwashed at an early impressionable age and then they further reinforce each other to betray our founding heritage. These type hold themselves up to be above the rest of us in both intellectual ability and independent conviction that ultimately translates into a conditioned responce to be contrarion in thought and deed. They have bought the rationalization that America is the problem, not the solution. It becomes more important to be considered intellectully sophistacated by their own, rather than lower themselves to the level of us primitive jingoist. Selling their country, their profession, their souls is a small price to pay if the alternative involves such trite values as love of country.
Hence the notion of a living constitution, so they may be better able to destroy it. Free speech gives them the right to denounce America to the world and let Muslims build on the ground zero site. Never mind that the Muslims have a history of consrtucting mosque on the sites of their war victories, we must still tolerate the intolerable in the name of freedom of religion.
Anything they can do to tear away the foundations that America has been built on is justified in their minds.
The war to win our country back will not be won in November. That will be a battle victory in a long line of battle victorys. The degree of their entrenchment in this country has reached the white house, the scientific community, the media and the one common denominator in that equation is our perverted educational system.
We owe it to our founders and our children to never give in and to forever delegitimize these traitors.
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 10:12AM
dw,
We ain't dead yet!
Best response to Journolists?
Loud, rolling laughter. Guffaws are great - laughter is the one thing they can neither stand nor defend.
leslie| 7.22.10 @ 3:42PM
couldn't have said it better
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:40PM
About the Ground Zero Mosque, and the PA memorial: are you aware that it is standard solid Islamic doctrine that ANY ground ever occupied or controlled by Muslims is Muslim territory FOREVER? It cannot be really ever sold or abandoned, but is subject to uncompensated reclaim as soon as circumstances (legal or military, e.g.) permit.
Bo Darville| 7.21.10 @ 2:09PM
The thing I find the most shocking is the blatant "us" versus "them" dualism which is an idicator of the social isolationsim. How can you see people who disagree with you on some political issues as a sort of non-human that deserves nothing but disrespect and scorn? That's very disturbing that some of our most intellectual journalists have fallen prey to such a lazy way of thinking.
Louise in MO| 7.21.10 @ 10:49PM
It's not just a lazy way of thinking, it is a dangerous way of thinking!
Oldefarte| 7.21.10 @ 2:27PM
It's POLITICALLY CORRECT to isolate thess writers [they are not and never have been 'journalists'], when the truth is that the newspapers/magazines that write their paychecks are also liberally/progressively biased/prejudiced. Every major and minor newspaper is in this closet, since most of the smaller papers get their news stories from the news wires, written by liberals. Let me connect the dots for all of you-----journalism college students are taught/indoctrinated/brainwashed by extremely liberal college professors, and, upon graduation, go out into the world and get hired by the MSM [whose staffs are already so biased]. These news writers are instructed by their editors/bosses to only submit for publication stories that carry the liberal bottom line [just as any Hollywood actor,etc who wants to work in that bastion of liberalism must tow the company line of liberalism and Democratic Party politics]. Once again, American taxpayer-voters [due to this biasness] should immediately cancel their newspaper/magazine subscrimptions and obtain their news from either Fox or the now multitude of alternative news sources available that are not biased[if they desire the TRUTH]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haynes| 7.21.10 @ 3:01PM
The Germans called this the "wolf pack" strategy.
David| 7.21.10 @ 3:52PM
Ron Turner and Paul from SA, Paul where did you get Breitbart's explanation? Please respond asap. I am in bitter argument with Cindy Sheehan herself about the Sherrod incident.
I can't believe all the people who are saying Sherrod redeemed herself and are now singing her praises. Even the likes of the usually super intelligent Charles Krauthammer praised her last night. Fine, she got off the "racist" bent only because she realized that this was really a battle between "rich" and "poor". She simply moved from one form of discrimination to another.
In other words, she was, is, and will continue to fulfill Bam Bam's socialist dream of redistribution of wealth. I don't know about everyone else, but I do know that no "poor" person ever gave me a job. I have only been employed by those with lots of money.
I don't know how conservatives are missing that. They need to point that out to the entire country. I warn everyone, you had better stop singing her praises or she will be made into the next Rosa Parks to hang around whitey's neck for the next 30 or 40 years.
bobmontgomery| 7.21.10 @ 5:09PM
Amen. That needed to be said. Both the NAACP and the White House were quicker to uncondemn than they were to condemn. They will play it to the hilt.
Paul from SA| 7.21.10 @ 7:13PM
I saw Breitbart on tv last night, live, and then I heard him this morning on the radio, live.
Both were live, no third-party reporting.
I thought Sherrod got the shaft from Obama. Although she sounds like an anti-conservative, she did denounce her prior actions, on stage, on tape for the world to see.
She was fired for the wrong reasons. I disgree and agree with you. Perhaps she is a bad person and should be fired for other reasons. But I commend her for saying what she said on stage.
Louise in MO| 7.21.10 @ 10:58PM
If you watch the remainder of the speech by Shirley Sherrod, it reinforced her brand of racism.
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 10:18AM
AND the NAACP crowd laughed and cheered when she said she was going to deny government benefits to a citizen because of his race.
They have excused that by saying Sherrod had prefaced her remarks by explaining that this was part of her journey from racism. But if the crowd really thought that her racism was bad, they would have cried "Shame, girlfriend, shame!" But they did not, they cheered.
Ever been to a Missionary Baptist Religious service? That's what they do, they call out "Shame", it's kind of like doing the "wave" at a football stadium.
Ms Jones| 7.22.10 @ 4:37PM
Since you are in touch with Cindy Sheehan, will you please inform her from this Army Mom that she is desecrating the memory of her hero son with her anti-war BS? Our sons VOLUNTEERED for service knowing full well the price they might eventually pay. To be charitable, perhaps her grief has deranged her.
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:44PM
Don't forget the Hatch Act, which explicitly forbids political activity or favoritism on the part of civil servants. A few of her statements about Bush etc. in a public forum should have put her in jail.
bobmontgomery| 7.21.10 @ 5:28PM
"Moral suasion" may force someone else to do the right thing and force the perps to deliver the goods, but as for the perps themselves, not likely. See Journalism 101 in Oldefart's comment above.
diane smith| 7.21.10 @ 7:42PM
What these hacks lack in mentality, they more than make up for in venality. I would hate to be a journalist today and be lumped in with the dregs of humanity described in Journolist. If I were, I would get want to work with a better class of people - - say, those who empty Porta-potties at construction sites.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 8:16PM
"Liberal Fascism" is a hilarious and foolish oxymoron.
Anyone who uses this term demonstrates a) a woeful lack of historical knowledge, particularly of 20th century Europe (and America); b) an inability to disentangle political hyperbole from historical claims; and c) a complete lack of education in even the most basic political science.
By definition to be "fascist" is to be anti-liberal. Fascism is reactionary, militaristic, and completely opposed to increasing the amount of political autonomy of people. The "conservatism" (which is not conservatism) of Palin, Beck, Bachmann, Limbaugh, et al. is actually a form of reactionary, nationalistic politics -- far closer on the political spectrum to fascism than ever liberalism could be.
Nick| 7.21.10 @ 8:38PM
Nate the dazi,
No, "liberal Christianity" is an oxymoron.
If you had actually read Mr. Goldberg's book, you would know that it was none other than H.G. Wells who coined the term "liberal fascism." No right-wing extremist was he.
Also, Il Duce was always a man of the left, until his death. He defined fascism, not you.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 9:24PM
Nick,
You seem to believe that someone's use of the phrase "liberal fascist" makes it accurate or somehow true. It's a weird, circular form of logic that I reject. Goldberg's book was a howler, almost universally mocked and shredded by critics. His historical sense is shallow and daft -- but Newtonian compared to yours. To say Mussolini was a man of the left is like saying the Pope is a Methodist or a Hindu.
Nick| 7.21.10 @ 9:43PM
Nate the dazi,
Your knowledge of history is the same as your knowledge of the Constitution: Non-existent.
Mussolini was a rabid socialist. He was named after two lefty revolutionaries. He was too radical for the communists in Italy. Try googling it.
Mr. Goldberg's excellent book has pages of endnotes. The only critics who "mocked" it were commie pinkos who didn't like being exposed.
Like your fellow democrat Socialist Workers, you are a liberal fascist, Nate.
Trish| 7.21.10 @ 9:48PM
Mussolini nationalized industry Nate. He was a socialist like his good friend Adolph. Btw, who were Goldberg's critics? Hmmm, probably members of Journolist or their elitist lefty buddies.
Charles Martel| 7.22.10 @ 3:34AM
Sorry, Nate, but you are making things up and Nick isn't; therefore, he wins.
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Bubba| 7.22.10 @ 1:24PM
Oh, Nate... I'm going to reciprocate your use of ad hominem by guessing you are a recently-minted college grad, who was mentored by some tweedy-jacketed, bearded prof who didn't like communism to be conflated with fascism, notwithstanding the evidence. Study Stalin/Lenin and Mussolini/Hitler, and consider asking the following questions:
1. did they follow a Western religious tradition?
2. did they like capitalism?
3. did they employ variant forms of socialism?
4. were they acolytes of evolutionary theory?
5. did they believe in any type of binding morality for all people at all times?
6. was there a group who served as the bogeyman for their plans (as 'us' v. 'them')?
7. was their ideology life-affirming or -destroying?
Then, ask the same 7 questions about our decreasingly cheerful President.
Brian H| 7.22.10 @ 9:49PM
So was Hitler. He wasn't kidding when he named the party National Socialist. The only distinction from Bolshevism was the explicit "Aryan" favoritism. State industry, child rearing, civilian disarmament, elimination of all competitive ideologies including churches not explicitly subordinating themselves, etc. Even the red background color of the Nazi flag was a deliberate appeal to Communists to see National Socialism as their true home.
Trish| 7.21.10 @ 9:56PM
Where do you get your definitions? Lets stick with 'leftists' when referring to contemporary 'liberals' for the sake of discussion. They are fascist in that they are 'completely opposed to increasing the amount of political autonomy of people'. Case in point is the revelation of your pals at Journolist. Censor dissent.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 10:24PM
Trish --
There's a political spectrum that's pretty uncontroversial except among a few oddly misinformed pundits on the right.
The spectrum basically goes like this:
Far left (communist) -- left (democratic socialist) -- LIBERAL -- right (reactionary) -- far right (fascist).
The spectrum has the heuristic advantage of showing extremes on either side of the desired middle. (Compare to Aristotle's Golden Mean.)
Democracies generally veer and sway between poles. Both poles have all kinds of ugly problems with them, including the nationalization of industry. But conflating them decreases your ability to analyze them. Things that have similarities are not necessarily the same: a hand grenade and a can of Campbell's Cream of Asparagus soup have many similarities, but they're very different objects.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 10:33PM
Where is conservatism in this spectrum? you ask.
It's a good question, Trish.
"Conservatism" doesn't denote a particular political system or philosophy. It's an entirely relative term that differs society to society.
In England -- for a century or more -- conservatives were revolted by capitalism and the industrial revolution. They were pro-monarchy, pro-high church Anglicanism, and deeply disgusted by any idea of change -- particularly those changes brought by science and free markets.
In today's Russia, "conservatives" are people who long for the return of the USSR; they're fiercely nationalistic (like you guys on the right), and can't stand Russia's submission to the values of the west.
Even in America, "conservatism" once meant something very different from today's Glenn Beck, blubbering and weeping on national television like an hysterical woman.
Any questions?
Ms. Jones| 7.22.10 @ 4:54PM
Do you actually watch Glenn Beck? I saw him become choked up when discussing the possibility of never again seeing the faces of his wife and children, or reading the printed page--wouldn't you? I never saw him blubbering or weeping--and thanks for the misogyny, by the way. But of course, you progressives mocked his diagnosis of macular dystrophy as a ratings ploy. Perhaps, like Sarah Spitz, you will laugh with malicious glee to see Glenn Beck in sunglasses with a white cane.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 10:44PM
It's confusing because the desired middle is NOT a combination of the poles: it rejects both of them, just as temperance rejects on the one hand gluttony and on the other stinginess. But consider how foolish it would be to say stinginess and gluttony are the same!
Dan Hirsch| 7.22.10 @ 10:29AM
Nate;
Your political spectrum is real cute. But it does not work along a single axis, ie attribute. To wit, communism and socialism are political systems based on public ownership of the means of production. Right and reactionary as you point out are easily applied to any number of situations. The proper right end of your scale should be private ownership of the means of production, then further right would be private property owned by citizens.
But Nate you wouldn't want people to realize just how thievish your end of the political spectrum is, would you. Too bad most Americans are only now beginning to see the left for what it is, people who want to take our rights, our property, and if we complain, our lives.
Are you an unrepentant communist or just a useful idiot?
scotchieguy| 7.21.10 @ 10:30PM
The term "fascist" is probably the most mis-used, and hence, least understood word in the history of language. Like the "left" hijacking the term "liberal," which traditionally refers to the political theory of liberating one from the constrains of oppresive gov't, the same people on the left constantly refer to a "fascist" as a "jack-booted thug," an often violent and sick extension of the state--i.e. a Nazi. If one reads Goldberg's brilliant book, he will realilze the Nazis actually took much of their theories from Woodrow Wilson, the original "fascist." The ultimate goal of fascists is not perverted violent control of the masses, but rather the systematic control and dominance of the people into a utopia, whereby everything is in the name of the state. The state takes care of everyone, and everyone, in turn, is totally dependent upon the state. This is where we seem to be headed, and in a hurry.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 10:45PM
The Nazis took ideas from Wilson!
Nonsense. Have you ever read any HISTORY books about Hitler or the Nazis?
A great place to start (and you have much work to do, so get to it) is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It has actual information about where the Nazis got their "theories," and no, they didn't get them from Woodrow Wilson!
Paul from SA| 7.21.10 @ 11:02PM
The Nazis were heavily influenced by Wilson. It's not nonsense. It's history. It's documented. It's not a progressive/leftist/liberal/Democrat/Marxist myth.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 11:11PM
Paul --
The idea that Wilson "influence" the Nazis is just horseshit. Again, you can assert with bold confidence anything you want. It's a free country. But it won't make it true. That's not how history works.
Ms. Jones| 7.22.10 @ 4:59PM
The first ever U.S. propaganda office was set up by the Wilson Administration. George Creel, the leader of the Committee on Public Information, used various forms of censorship to get out the anti-German message. Joseph Goebbels, the head of propaganda in Nazi Germany, had books and writings of George Creel. Goebbels called Creel his “role model” when it came to creating hysteria and thought-control' in his private diaries.
GavInTucson| 7.22.10 @ 12:43AM
Nate, try reading Mein Kampf and the writings of Goebells (sp). Hitler and old Joe clearly identified themselves as Socialists-- they just weren't into the idea of Bolshevism.
And, yes, they do point to Wilson as part of their inspiration in the realms of eugenics, euthanasia, propaganda, and statism. Forget the "history" you were taught in school (by your liberal masters). Go to the original sources and the truth will be yours. Read what they themselves have written, not what you were "told" about them.
Charles Martel| 7.22.10 @ 3:42AM
It's "Goebbels", but otherwise you are spot on.
Placement of the Fascists on the Right end of the political spectrum is a popular and persistent misconception. A more useful model is one that reflects the degree of control available to the state and which thus has totalitarianism on the left and anarchy on the right. Classical Liberalism and Conservatism sit entwined at its center.
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Bubba| 7.22.10 @ 1:40PM
Spot on. There was actually a propaganda effort by the Soviets to place Nazism on the right end of the spectrum in the 20s and 30s (believe this is detailed in Tyson's "Target America" - memory fails...). The reasons were clear - the Soviets knew that Nazis were fellow socialists and would cause harm to the dialectic by being Leftist/anti-capitalism in the eventual fight with Western republics. In fact, it was a well known axiom among the political officers of both the Wehrmacht and Red Army that the easiest ideological converts for the communists were the nazis, and vice versa. Mussolini, previously a Marxist, is a case in point - much easier than having to convince the Brits or GIs that freedom/individualism/God is a bad thing.
BTW, "conservatism" is NOT a relative term (see Evan's "The Theme is Freedom") else LBJ and BHO would be conservatives in trying to conserve the progressivism of Wilson and and FDR. That Nate believes this is instructive. Conservatism as political theory says there are certain hard rights that ought to be conserved, for all people at all times, as detailed by the Declaration's self evident truths. Assuming you are open minded, Nate, try Evan's book for an alternative treatment of American history.
Larry in Iowa| 7.22.10 @ 1:05PM
Today the word "Liberal' means the opposite of it's traditional meaning. It has been appropriated by the very same people who cheered Mussolini before his invasion of Ethiopia and supported Lenin and Stalin's need to "break eggs to make omelets." They cheered Mao, supported the Viet Cong and made Pol Pot possible. Now that they have sullied the term "Liberal" to the point that is has become politically untenable they are again picking up their old label of "Progressive."
Traditional liberals, such as the founding fathers, believe in limited government, individual responsibility, private property and an opportunity society. To equate the self described "Liberals" of today with traditional liberalism is an exercise in Orwellian newspeak, where words are used to mean the opposite of what they really mean.
When a person applies the traditional meaning of liberalism to those who hide behind that label today it can only be from ignorance or an intention to deceive.
JmsA| 7.22.10 @ 2:54PM
No, it is not an oxymoron in the current context of the increasingly restrictive policies promulgated, if not enacted into law by the liberal, progressives, leftists, socialists, communists, or whatever else they may be called or call themselves. It is not what you are called, but how you act.
Pat Fields | 7.21.10 @ 8:40PM
The 'Press' began nudging me away from it during the 60's and has been pushing harder since.
These past couple decades they've pretty well locked me out forever. I haven't bothered watching televised 'news' for more than five years now and don't even pick up discarded papers (except Investor's Business Daily) out of vague curiousity either.
Every bit of discourse I absorb surrounding the news comes across the Internet ... every single iota. I get a very broad spectrum of (sincere) opinion and a great deal more detailed factual data surrounding the topics and items than I ever got from the standardized media, so I couldn't care less if they all went bust tomorrow morning and disappeared in a little ... poof.
Trish| 7.21.10 @ 9:43PM
I would ammend the title to 'fascism' and drop the 'liberal'. They are and have been the fascists that this reveals. I am not in the least surprised. They will tolerate no dissent. As usual, they are exactly what they accuse their oppostion of being. Nazis.
Osamas Pajamas| 7.21.10 @ 10:05PM
Quick --- before it's too late! We need a copy of all the secret enlistees at Journolist.com --- before the website owner[s] kill the list or the website!
Osamas Pajamas| 7.21.10 @ 10:06PM
The Democrats have this "enemies list" --- denominated in epithets aimed at the people whose wallets they wish to hijack and take up residence inside. You can be a ‘Racist!’ and you can be a ‘Homophobe!’ and you can be a ‘Teabagger!’ --- a homosexual man taking his partner's testicles into his mouth. You can be ‘Selfish!’ and you can be a ‘Hick!’ and you can be a ‘Rube!’ You can be a ‘Right-wing-nut!’ and you can be "Unenlightened!" and you can be a ‘Fascist!’ --- although no one more closely approaches the precise description of ‘Fascist!’ than the usual Demo propagandist --- either official, or self-appointed.
So all you have to do to occupy multiple epithets on the Demos' enemies list is to insist that they take their hands off yourself, off your wallet, off your property, off your kids, off your diet, off your healthcare, off your household appliances, off your car, off your weapons of self-defense, off your liberty, and off your freedom of speech. Insist on all these good things - and that qualifies you to be spat upon by nasty, mean-spirited scum --- by The Friends of All Mankind --- by a gang of lying, thieving, sticky-fingered, bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thugs --- by the Democrat party, in other words. No political party in the history of America more profoundly deserves absolute and outright destruction.
Osamas Pajamas| 7.21.10 @ 10:07PM
OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.
And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.
He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.
He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.
He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.
He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.
He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.
sacotchieguy| 7.21.10 @ 10:19PM
Nice words. To add to this, Beck's latest wild theory, and this makes sense, is that Soros' plan was to have Barry stir things up for one term, really agitate people, and then, as is now happening, his ratings sink, and in waltzes Hill, who will be seen as a "relative conservative," who then take reigns in 2012, and then really leads us into the so-called "one world gov't." So crazy and off the wall, I actually think there is something there. Just look at all the cheap-ass race-baiting going on this week...something to ponder. The next three months are going to seem like the wildest roller-coaster ride.
Osamas Pajamas| 7.21.10 @ 10:08PM
SAM ADAMS IS MORE THAN JUST A GREAT YANKEE BEER! TAX HATER SAMUEL ADAMS, ON A ROLL AND ARMED TO THE TEETH, AUGUST, 1776……
"You darkeners of counsel, who would make the property, lives and religion of millions depend on the evasive interpretations of musty parchments; who would send us to antiquated charters of uncertain and contradictory meaning, to prove that the present generation are not bound to be victims to cruel and unforgiving despotism, tell us whether our pious and generous ancestors bequeathed to us the miserable privilege of having the rewards of our honesty, industry, the fruits of those fields which they purchased and bled for, wrested from us at the will of men over whom we have no check.
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, and supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Dismissing, therefore, the justice of our cause, as incontestable, the only question is, What is best for us to pursue in our present circumstances?”
“It does not take a majority to prevail….but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Osamas Pajamas| 7.21.10 @ 10:09PM
What this country needs is a truly LIBERAL president and congress and judiciary! And I forgive the reader for suspecting that this must be some kind of bad joke!
But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism."
They benefit from the imprecise American political terminology ---- we say "the government" here in the USA ---- rather than "the state." And that's a dangerous problem. Famous brands of statism in recent centuries have been Nazism, socialism, fascism, communism, and welfare statism ---- this last is sort of a mix of fascism and socialism.
Liberalism, on the other hand, is a political philosophy of small, cheap government ---- it is a constabulary ---- and the job of a liberal government is to enforce human rights within its own jurisdiction. I speak of the inalienable and perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness.
The first article of private property is "the self" and all other rights are derivatives of and flow from these cardinal rights. These rights ----The Rights of Man ---- are the gift of nature or of nature's god ---- and they belong to all human beings, everywhere.
Show me a Democrat who subscribes to all of the above, without qualifications or weasel words. The words "liberal" and "liberalism" were hijacked by the Democrats and socialists and fascists long ago ---- and it was the mistake of conservatives and libertarians to let them get away with it.
It is long past time that liberalism be reclaimed, defined, and explained by its rightful owners ---- by the champions of freedom, i.e.: not by Democrats.
Well, how about "progressivism?" Whuzzat?! “Cancer” is “progressive,” too. Isn't “progressivism” just another statist cancer? It chews you up, piece by piece, in the name of Da Peepul? Eat Da Rich? Moral cannibalism, anyone?
Friends of freedom! Friends of peace-through-strength! And friends of prosperity! Declare yourselves to be "liberals," then ---- and kick over the bloody coffee tables --- and overthrow and trounce the Democrats in 2010 and 2012!
scotchieguy| 7.21.10 @ 10:09PM
It's not that they are biased and lie. That's a given. It is the ignorance and apathy of your average rube out there that allows this to continue. Jefferson said w/out knowledge, we simply cannot be trusted w/ out newfound liberty. How apropos to today can you get?
WhiskeyJim| 7.21.10 @ 10:20PM
Using racism, one of the sorest wounds in American history, has got to be about as low as you can go.
Two caveats to this story:
1) As with all insidious action like this, we know it's still going on. It's just gone further underground.
2) They not only used racism, they CONCERTEDLY used racism as a knee jerk response to everything.
If there is any ethics in business, these guys should lose their jobs.
Nate| 7.21.10 @ 10:50PM
The Republicans are communists!
How do I know?
Well. Haven't you ever heard of the Union of Soviet Socialist REPUBLICS????
Republicans are also TERRORISTS!
How do I know?
Well. Haven't you ever heard of the Irish Republican Army???
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That's the level of argumentation around here. You guys need to read more and better books!
Nick| 7.22.10 @ 12:45AM
Nate the dazi, or should I call you Liberal Reader? You make the same "spectrum" argument he used to make.
Is that you Marxist Reader?
What was your Military Occupational STRATEGY again? Wasn't it t.o.w gunner? Ha-ha!
Once again, I will give you a free history lesson, "Nate."
The political terms "left" and "right" date back to the split between the followers of Hegel in the 19th century.
The Hegelians on the right were Protestants who were strongly in favor of monarchy. The ones on the left embraced atheism. (Big surprise!)
This was roughly 8 decades before Mussolini and his buddies were defining fascism.
Fascism/National Socialism and Communism/Universal Socialism are just two sides of the same coin.
Do you enjoy wallowing in your ignorance of history, Nate?
Charles Martel| 7.22.10 @ 3:45AM
Given the number and inanity of his posts here, yes, apparently he does.
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Ralph Novy| 7.22.10 @ 1:53PM
Hear, hear.
Yosemeti Sam| 7.22.10 @ 12:43AM
" ... Moreover, these journalists are very influential; they write for the "big media." Klein, for instance, reports for the Washington Post, Chait for the New Republic; Weigel for MSNBC; Tomasky -- The Guardian; Yglesias -- Think Progress; and Ackermann -- Danger Room. These are the same media outlets that are often in high-dudgeon about the public's "right to know." ...."
Um - PEN1 shock troops!
Posters of these should be circulated at every Post Office throughout America!
paulie4| 7.22.10 @ 10:58AM
I believe that this is the biggest story since the election, maybe since many elections. Yes, we all know that the media lists to port but to conspire to spread lies and repress the truth undermines the foundations of our country and threatens all Americans as much or more than any military threat. We need to stay on this story. Journalists who sold their souls need to be named and those that did their jobs without being perverted need to be named too.
Ralph Novy| 7.22.10 @ 1:52PM
No conspiracy....therefore no story.
End of story.
Do some fact-checking.
Harrison | 7.22.10 @ 12:28PM
For not believing in guns Liberals in the press seem to be holding a lot of smoking ones. Disgusting.
THE IMMORTAL| 7.22.10 @ 12:42PM
THIS IS A BIG STORY THAT NEEDS SOME LEGS.
Ralph Novy| 7.22.10 @ 1:50PM
It isn't just the legs that are missing. The story also has no head and no heart. All it has is disconnected fingers flailing away at internet-connected keyboards.
Soma | 7.22.10 @ 12:49PM
To know nothing of the past is to understand little of the present and have no conception of the future.
United Socialist America AKA: USA
Robert Stelton| 7.22.10 @ 12:57PM
Why argue with Brook. Flush the toilet!
Stelton
Ralph Novy| 7.22.10 @ 1:46PM
Wow. That such a "nonstory" as this could stir up such a hornet's nest of paranoid hysteria is truly astonishing. It'd be hysterically funny if it didn't indicate the existence of so much dangerous fear and ignorance.
ACynic| 7.22.10 @ 3:43PM
These Journolists would have been right at home working for Hitler's Die Sturmer , or Stalin's Isvestia or Pravda.
Goes to show there is simply no difference at all betwixt a nazi, a communist , a socialist and a "liberal progressive."
For these folks, the ends justifies the means in the purusuit of power.
To those who think all of the is a "non-story," note one of the goals of these "liberals" was to shut down any news outlet that dared criticize Obama and left-liberal view points. Of course, this is no different, again, than what Hitler or Stalin or Mao or Castro or Kim Jong did.
Ted Agnew| 7.22.10 @ 3:46PM
The Pulitzer Prize should be renamed the "Joseph Goebbles Prize"
There is no journalism. Just non stop left wing propaganda that is presented as "news."
WAKE UP| 7.22.10 @ 10:00PM
"David Duke is worse than Wright, as Duke ran for high office in LA. Even an a-hole such as Wright wouldn't make that mistake."
No no no; in a democracy, running for office in the clear light of day, with your prejudices on clear display, is actually proper (albeit in Dukes' case, absurd - but then he didn't win, did he; I rest my case) . Lurking in the shadows as Wright does, manipulating others to achieve your ends, whilst not risking your own self, is despicable - and indeed, it would be a mistake for Wright to run, because then all would see him for exactly what he is.
Wright reminds me of Billy Connolly on suicide bombers: "I wanna talk to the instructor! What does he tell them? 'I'm only going to say this once'?"
John| 7.22.10 @ 11:42PM
Good people, I wouldn't waste my time arguing with Nate. He is obviously a recent college grad and as such benefited by practically nonexistent admissions standards and of course learned only what his leftist professors wanted him to learn.
I'll close with a couple of quotes from FDR's buddy "Uncle Joe":
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin
James| 7.23.10 @ 12:21AM
Okay, Okay the media isn't about news anymore, it's a Liberal campaign tool. Jourolist's are taking that to next level. Let's not be be fooled, we are moving up, or down (depending on your political slant) very rapidly now, the sheer exuberance that comes through in the journolist's quotes, indicate a group of rabid fanatics that smell blood and are close to the kill.
Even with a blood bath in November, no Democrats are shaking in their boots at the group of timid Republicans that are threatening revolution, and they are very satisfied with what has been the third wave of the progressive takeover of America. The two Monster bills passed by the dems will strangle the life out of anything left of our Republic and capitalist system, eventually. If that is all Obama does it will have been enough. But the opposition still looks weak, and there are two years left, there is possibly much still to be accomplished.
If a strong leader does not emerge from the right, it's going to be another LONG two years of progressive agenda politics at any cost. The reactions must be as bold as the actions. We know the dems election games, race baiting and immigration, in just one fell swoop they changed the whole Hispanic population voters minds on policy, from jobs, to immigration, by suing Arizona. They are successfully playing to their base and pushing them out to vote, that's their only hope, all their policies are failures.
There is a large conservative base that want to get on issues, smaller government, repealing or defunding the Health and Financial bills, getting small and medium sized companies going again, and creating jobs, wealth and prosperity, ending entitlements to people who don't want to work, reducing Govt payroll - Where are the Republicans ? This is NOT the time to be playing it safe.
Let the newspaper go bankrupt - "All the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.'" -- Rorschach
Karen | 7.23.10 @ 8:50AM
So what! Is this news? I am not surprised.