Is it just me, or is there a lot of news out there, today? There are about a dozen stories that I would like to touch on, and I don’t even know where to begin…I guess that means a link-fest is in order.
Before we get started, I’ve got a question: Why do I keep hearing Obama PSAs? Why can’t I escape his droning voice even on my conservative talk radio station? Why do I have to hear his PSAs about the Census, volunteerism, or whatever his latest enthusiasm is? Did Bush do these, too? Maybe he did, and I just didn’t notice because Bush’s voice didn’t annoy me? I don’t know. I just find it annoying.
And away we go:
• Here’s another totally unsurprising, but disturbing revelation about Obama’s pick for Medicare and Medicaid administrator:
Israel Matzov: Berwick a member of anti-Israel Physicians for Human Rights
Does Obama know anybody who isn’t anti-Israel?
•Journolist, Day 5…I told you there’d be more mobilization against Palin, there. This time, the Journolisters express admiration for Palin’s political skills, which leads some of them to coordinate a message to destroy her.
Ed Morrissey: Journolist, Day 5: Let’s campaign for Obama!
I think we all know who Jim Treacher is talking about….
I found this particular entry vexing:
Luke Mitchell, then a senior editor at Harper’s magazine, asked Tomasky if his paper would be able to help: “Michael – Isn’t this something that can be fanned a bit by, say, the Guardian?”
Tomasky didn’t think it would work….
Mitchell replied: “Fair enough! But it seems to me that a concerted effort on the part of the left partisan press could be useful. Why geld ourselves? A lot of the people on this list work for organizations that are far more influential than, say, the Washington Times.
“Open question: Would it be a good use of this list to co-ordinate a message of the week along the lines of the GOP? Or is that too loathsome? It certainly sounds loathsome. But so does losing!”
Does he mean coordinate a message the same way political party strategists do, not only in the RNC, but DNC, as well? Only they’re journalists? Or did he mean coordinate a message about the GOP? Either way, they’re caught with their pants down, although to be fair, Erza Klein was against the idea:
“Nope, no message coordination. I’m not even sure that would be legal. This is a discussion list, though, and I want it to retain that character,” he wrote.
The end result, of course, was message coordination, and if they were trying to do so “along the lines of the (loathsome) GOP”, (the way the GOP does?) that begs the question, do some of these guys consider themselves to be the propaganda arm of the Democratic party or something?
One of them, Todd Gitlin, is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, “whose job is to train the next generation of America’s most elite journalists”…..
“On the question of liberals coordinating, what the hell’s wrong with some critical mass of liberal bloggers & journalists saying the following among themselves:
“McCain lies about his maverick status. Routinely, cavalierly, cynically. Palin lies about her maverick status. Ditto, ditto, ditto. McCain has a wretched temperament. McCain is a warmonger. Palin belongs to a crackpot church and feels warmly about a crackpot party that trashes America.
“Repeat after me:
“McCain lies about his maverick status. Routinely, cavalierly, cynically. Palin lies about her maverick status. Ditto, ditto, ditto. McCain has a wretched temperament. McCain is a warmonger. Palin belongs to a crackpot church and feels warmly about a crackpot party that trashes America.
“These people are cynical. These people are taking you for a ride. These people are fakes. These people love Bush.
“Again. And again. Vary the details. There are plenty. Somebody on the ‘list posted a strong list of McCain lies earlier today. Hammer it. Philosophize, as Nietzsche said, with a hammer.
“I don’t know about any of you, but I’m not waiting for any coordination. Get on with it!”
How many future journalists are being taught to consider themselves the propaganda arms of the Democratic party?
•See also BFH at iOWNTHEWORLD, who has been busy matching faces to the names… A Paler Shade Of White – The Journolist Conspirators
and Powerline: JournoList Sinks Lower.
•Dan Riehl, inspired by Joan Walsh of Salon’s deplorable race-baiting, did a little googling to find out more about Shirley’s hubby, Charles Sherrod, and what do you know! He came up with more deplorable race baiting:
Sherrod: “We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle Toms …”
Go watch the video…Riehl has also been uncovering the Sherrod’s embrace of the Marxist Black Liberation Theology. Nice couple…I’m thinking the Obama administration would just like this whole story to go away…meanwhile, the MFM is in spin overdrive trying to blame this debacle on shoddy journalism (Fox News, and Breitbart).
More: Have you seen this clip of Ann Coulter smacking around Rick Sanchez on the subject of the Breitbart video?
•Michelle Malkin has a few things to say about the NYT’s news leaks: The blabbermouth media strikes again
Check out the photoshops in honor of “The Fishwrap of Record: Our enemies’ favorite rag”.
•Peter Wehner: Commentary Contentions: The Obama Presidency Unraveling:
“Unraveling” is a good word for it. I reject “failing” because he’s been so successful in transforming the economy to the European-style Social Democracy Progressives dream about. What’s unraveling is his support…what’s unraveling is his ability to fool people, what’s unraveling is Democratic prospects at the polls, this November:
It is somewhat amusing and somewhat poignant to witness former Journolisters offering panicked and pathetic explanations for why the political world is crumbling.
•Quin Hillyer, E.J. Dionne, Prevaricator Extraordinaire
E.J. Dionne has not only devolved from a thoughtful columnist into a left-wing hit-man, but he has devolved even further, into the realm of a flagrantly dishonest left-wing hit-man. Today’s column contains falsehood after falsehood. First, he says the Sherrod flap grew out of a “doctored video pushed by right-wing hit man Andrew Breitbart.” Truth: The video was not doctored (it was an excerpt), and wasn’t even excerpted by Breitbard himself. And Breitbart himself used it in a way meant not to attack Sherrod but to note the applause by the listeners, which was a legitimate point. It was the NAACP and the Obama administration that over-reacted; conservatives, to our credit, asked for more context, and also provided fulsome, generous (perhaps even overly generous) testimonials to the unfairness done to Sherrod.
Read the whole thing…Dionne has lowered himself to smearing J Christian Adams, now.
•Doug Ross is still waiting for his apology from 538’s Nate Silver re: Dealergate….
•Here’s something on an upbeat note; Mike Pence’s speech at the RightOnLine conference in Las Vegas, last weekend:
More from the conference can be seen at The AFP blog.
Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, thanks!
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