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| When McCain picked Palin liberal journalists coordinated the best line of attack |
| 2010-07-22 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #6 Deny! Deny! Deny! Ya friggin morons! Glad this internet thing wasn't around back in the day, huh, Joe? Okay. Is it Hitler's deal... |
| Posted by: The Ghost of Walter Duranty 2010-07-22 18:54 |
| #5 They are no longer journalists No they are journo-Lists! |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-07-22 18:49 |
| #4 Schilling for the house. They are no longer journalists. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-07-22 16:33 |
| #3 Busted. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-07-22 16:07 |
| #2 Prior to this latest round of emails, it would've been possible to mount a decent defense of Journolist as just colleagues "shooting the $hit" around the water cooler-- this is basically what one of the smartest lib journalists, Jon Chait of TNR, argued yesterday. But today's email expose is the smoking gun. Journolister after journolister refers to "the line" against Palin, or "the spin" on Palin, or even, as with Ed Kilgore, sending out marching orders: "What we can do is to expose her ideology." "let’s don’t concede the claim that [Hillary Clinton] supporters are likely to be very attracted to her,” Joe Klein laid it open for all to see: Time’s Joe Klein then linked to his own piece, parts of which he acknowledged came from strategy sessions on Journolist. “Here’s my attempt to incorporate the accumulated wisdom of this august list-serve community,” he wrote. And indeed Klein’s article contained arguments developed by his fellow Journolisters. Klein praised Palin personally, calling her “fresh” and “delightful,” but questioned her “militant” ideology. He noted Palin had endorsed parts of Obama’s energy proposal. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-07-22 16:07 |
| #1 What surprises me is that anyone is surprised. The new media and bloggers all knew this was going on. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-22 12:40 |