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    • Sarah Palin strikes back at Journolist’s ’sick puppies
      From a remote location on an island off Alaska’s coast, former Governor Sarah Palin is blasting what she describes as the “sick puppies” in the media who immediately and ruthlessly attacked her when Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.

      In exclusive remarks to The Daily Caller, Palin described “hordes of Obama’s opposition researchers-slash ‘reporters’” descending upon Alaska in the days after she was picked by McCain.

      She said the media became a key reason she decided not to finish out her term as governor and faults, in part, the McCain campaign for failing to vigorously defend her.
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      The effort to discredit and demonize Sarah Palin after her VP nomination was quite coordinated and profound.

      (tags: sarah_palin Journolist)
    • CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina consultant hints at big campaign check
      A week after financial statements showed Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer with more than 11 times more cash on hand than her Republican rival, a consultant for GOP candidate Carly Fiorina this morning predicted Fiorina would about match Boxer's spending and might be set to write her campaign a check.

      In a panel discussion at a meeting of the American Association of Political Consultants in Sacramento, Fred Davis said, "I think, at the end of the day, both of these campaigns are going to end up with roughly similar budgets."

      Boxer last week reported having $11.3 million on hand. Fiorina had about $950,000.
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      Fiorina will not be wanting of funds in this race.

      (tags: carly_fiorina)
    • Journolist Shocker: When McCain picked Palin, liberal journalists coordinated the best line of attack
      In the hours after Sen. John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the last presidential race, members of an online forum called Journolist struggled to make sense of the pick. Many of them were liberal reporters, and in some cases their comments reflected a journalist’s instinct to figure out the meaning of a story.

      But in many other exchanges, the Journolisters clearly had another, more partisan goal in mind: to formulate the most effective talking points in order to defeat Palin and McCain and help elect Barack Obama president. The tone was more campaign headquarters than newsroom.
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      NOT
      When I was writing about Palin, the negative comments were coordinated and profuse.

      (tags: JournoList McCain sarah_palin)
    • Journolist: The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy
      Everyone knew most of the press corps was hoping for Obama in 2008. Newly released emails show that hundreds of them were actively working to promote him.
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      shocking….NOT

      Now, after learning I'd been targeted for a smear attack by a member of an online clique of liberal journalists, I'm inclined to amend my response. Not to say there's a media conspiracy, but at least to note that hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism.

      My guess is that this and other revelations about JournoList will deepen the distrust of the national press. True, participants in the online clubhouse appear to hail chiefly from the media's self-identified left wing. But its founder, Ezra Klein, is a prominent writer for the Washington Post. Mr. Klein shut down JournoList last month—a wise decision.

      (tags: Journolist journalism ezra_klein)
  • Day By Day,  Ezra Klein,  JournoList

    Day By Day July 22, 2010 – Journolist Collusion

    July 22, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Say it ain’t so, Chris.

    You mean the LEFT-leaning MSM and New Media folks actually participated in group-thinlk promoting their causes and candidates, like Barack Obama?

    I guess so and The Daily Caller has been publishing the archives of Journolist which were deleted by Ezra Klein when it became apparent that the “journalist” corruption would be further exposed and after Dave Weigel was fired (resigned) from the Washington Post.

    Let’s look at the listsev when their candidate Barack Obama won the Presidency:

    Nov. 3:

    DAVID ROBERTS, GRIST: It’s all I can do not to start bawling.

    LUKE MITCHELL, HARPER’S: I’m picturing something like VJ Day in Times Square. Seriously!

    JOHN BLEVINS, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW: It’s all I can do to hold it together.

    Nov. 4:

    MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I’m looking
    across the street at my polling place, and the line is wrapped around
    the block. I nearly burst into tears when I saw it. I’m feeling like
    today is closing the door on a terrible era, and opening another. I’m
    glad you started this thread because I was feeling kind of like I was
    the only one who is deeply emotional today.

    HENRY FARRELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I had
    to close my office door yesterday because I was watching YouTube videos
    of elderly African Americans saying what this meant to them and tearing
    up.

    JOSH BEARMAN, LA WEEKLY: 11 months
    ago I burst into tears by myself on a plane while watching Hardball when
    my mind wandered to the image of President Obama being sworn in. I’ve
    been fighting it ever since.

    EZRA KLEIN, AMERICAN PROSPECT: OHIO!

    ALEC MCGILLIS, WASHINGTON POST: If you need further
    proof that VA is looking to go blue, check out what’s going on in VA-5
    in deepest Southside Virginia, where Tom Perriello, my college roommate
    and a very good guy, is now up .06 percentage points — 2,000 votes —
    against Virgil Goode with 88 percent reporting.

    GREG ANRIG, THE CENTURY FOUNDATION: This is really happening.

    ADELE STAN, THE MEDIA CONSORTIUM: At last I can breathe.

    SPENCER ACKERMAN, WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT: YES WE DID!

    STEVEN TELES, YALE UNIVERSITY: I’m not sure why, but
    this part of the Battle Hymn of the Republic came to me . . . . Glory!
    Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
    Since God is marching on.

    SPENCER ACKERMAN: [quoting Obama] “…we may not get there in one year or in one term, but America I promise you, we as a people will get there.”

    HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.

    MICHAEL TOMASKY, THE GUARDIAN: I’m just jelly. Lord!

    HAROLD POLLACK, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: I am awed by
    the responsibility we have taken on. Tomorrow a desperately ill
    African-American woman will present at my university hospital for care,
    and she will be turned away. She will expect us to live up to what we
    feel tonight. So we’ve got a lot to live up to.

    ADAM SERWER, AMERICAN PROSPECT: My take.

    SPENCER ACKERMAN: Goddamn, did an Obama speechwriter ghost that post? That’s pitch-perfect, Adam. Take a bow.

    RYAN DONMOYER, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Best quip I heard
    today, courtesy of a Facebook friend: “I wonder if Sarah Palin is still
    unclear about what a community organizer does.”

    Nov. 5

    SETH MICHAELS, MYDD.COM: there are flag-waving whooping crowds around the white house. afl-cio hq is insane here.

    KATE STEADMAN, KAISER HEALTH NEWS: i can’t
    imagine anything like it except a world series/superbowl win, and
    several of my co-walkers told me it never gets the entire city so riled.
     i think what makes it even more amazing is the incredible diversity in
    this city and how we all came together for this, especially in victory.

    MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I’ve never felt anything like U Street tonight. Huging, kissing strangers…everything.

    But, never fear there is a new list for LEFT group-think.

    And, they talk about the vast RIGHT wing conspiracy………

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