John on September 1, 2010
Here is Max Fisher deploring the politicization of the hostage taking: Lee, who police say may have explosives, has long protested the Discovery Channel building and has posted a crazed, rambling Internet “manifesto“, calling the human species the “most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around” and insisting that the Discovery Channel air his views. Though Lee is clearly sick, and though the hostage crisis is still ongoing as of this writing, [...]
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John on August 28, 2010
Caleb Howe at Red State discovered it. Sometime today Google Maps made the Lincoln Memorial disappear. Here’s what you get if you type “Lincoln Memorial” into Google Maps: Obviously, the FDR Memorial is not the Lincoln Memorial, though it is nearby. A look at the edit screen shows that Google Maps users have been maliciously editing the page all day in what is clearly a coordinated effort: Changed 8 hours [...]
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John on August 25, 2010
Jim Hoft does a great job getting to the bottom of a story which had mysteriously vanished off the radar: Dem operative and firebomber Chris Powers…is was a paid canvasser for Russ Carnahan… The Carnahan campaign and their supporters have either ignored the incident rather than recognize the serious nature of a federal crime, instead allow the incident to be reported and used as an example of right wing domestic [...]
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John on August 18, 2010
I think the lesson here is don’t blog from the beach. Yesterday, from his sandy vacation spot, Chait took the following paragraph from Jennifer Rubin’s Commentary piece and used it to discern nativist intent (note: he says “someone” sent it to him): Obama has shown his true sentiments now, after weeks of concealing them, on an issue of deep significance not only to the families and loved ones of 3,000 [...]
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John on August 7, 2010
Media Matters, which must have published 100 posts about the Shirley Sherrod affair and the importance of context, has some splaining to do: Here was Media Matters’ (sic’ed) headline: “Beck sidekicks Gray and Burguiere: Keith Olberman and media responsible for Manchester shooting.” The sidekicks are Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere, who co-hosted with Beck out today. And why did Media Matters write this? Well, because that is what Gray and [...]
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John on August 6, 2010
After posting a bit of the Rachel Maddow show, some readers sent Charles Johnson photos of aborted babies. At least that’s what it sounds like happened, he isn’t real specific. He replies to their act of “hate” with calm dignity and aplomb: When you do this kind of thing, all you do is harden my resolve to stand against your Dark Ages insanity — and intensify my disgust for you [...]
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John on July 30, 2010
In a widely read and discussed piece at the Daily Beast, Reihan Salan asks: Has a shadowy gang of left-wing journalists and intellectuals been plotting to manipulate the news cycle… His answer is, yes, perhaps so, but they’d be doing it with or without Journolist. Salan is more right than he probably knows. The list of those identified as former members of the group is now up to about 146 [...]
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John on July 28, 2010
Roger Simon weighs in and gets a quote from Chuck Todd at NBC News: Chuck Todd, political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC News, who was not part of Journolist, told me this: “I am sure Ezra had good intentions when he created it, but I am offended the right is using this as a sledgehammer against those of us who don’t practice activist journalism. “Journolist was pretty [...]
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John on July 27, 2010
As a frequent and vocal critic of Ezra Klein for reasons I won’t revive now, it pains me to note that he is practically the lone voice of reason in the most recent Journolist installment from the Daily Caller. The focus this time is a discussion of message coordination for team Obama, i.e. should the Journolist come right out and collude on media strategy to help him win. After the [...]
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John on July 26, 2010
Keach Hagey and Kenneth Vogel of Politico have written a hit piece aimed at Tucker Carlson and Andrew Breitbart. Their central contention is that the conservative media impresarios have succeeded only because they strip statements of context, thereby producing dishonest, yellow journalism. You’d think that a piece lecturing others about the importance of context would make an extra effort to provide some: The ACORN videos were later revealed to have [...]
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John on July 23, 2010
The latest installment of the Daily Caller’s series of reports on Journolist shows the group discussing Keith O in less than flattering terms: The Nation’s Katha Pollitt began the group’s rant. “He and Michael Musto did this whole long riff about beauty contestant Carrie ‘opposite marriage’ Prejean’s breast implants, stupidity, breast implants, tacky clothes, earrings, breast implants. They went on and on about how she was ‘part plastic’ and pathetic. [...]
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John on July 22, 2010
In this edition we ask the age old question: Is tentacle porn an area of policy expertise? The American Spectator gets into the Journolist act with a series of posts that they believe are more typical of what went on at Journolist. Here’s a sample: >To: [Journolist member A] >Maybe you’re just angry because Palin is hot and you are hideous. Something to think about. –~–~———~–~—-~————~——-~–~—-~ You received this message [...]
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John on July 21, 2010
The Daily Caller has their first follow-up post up. Death wishes? Check. Violations of Godwin’s law? Check. Claims conservatives oppose Obama cause he’s black? Check. Arguments for government censorship of conservative media outlets? Check! Sample: This is core of the Bush/Cheney base transmorgrified into an even more explicitly racialized/anti-cosmopolitan constituency. Why? Um, because the president is a black guy named Barack Hussein Obama. But it’s all the same old nuts [...]
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John on July 16, 2010
Lee Fang has made a career out of twisting statements outside of their actual context and using them against conservatives. This time he has really outdone himself. He offers a minute long video demonstrating the racism of the Tea Parties. But as is often the case with Fang’s work, there are a few problems: Activist 1 is being smeared as a racist by Think Progress, even though he was attending [...]
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John on June 28, 2010
John Hawkins at Right Wing News raises a good question in his discussion of Frum Forum. Why don’t conservative bloggers get media gigs? Let’s say you don’t like my material — well, I’m a peon compared to Ed Morrissey & Allah at Hot Air. Ace from Ace of Spades HQ has proven he can draw and hold a big audience. Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit does phenomenal work and probably [...]
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John on June 28, 2010
I’ll give him this much…he comes closer to admitting he acted like a creep than most politicians or journalists caught being creeps: I was cocky, and I got worse. I treated the list like a dive bar, swaggering in and popping off about what was “really” happening out there, and snarking at conservatives. Why did I want these people to like me so much? Why did I assume that I [...]
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Morgen on June 27, 2010
So yesterday afternoon I spent a couple of hours looking through Dave Weigel’s old blogs. (I actually have more of a life than this statement implies.) There seems to be a widely held presumption that Weigel was some sort of wolf in sheep’s clothing, a conservative-hating liberal posing as a “libertarian” blogger who was hired by the Washington Post to cover the conservative beat. Certainly there is plenty of supporting [...]
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John on June 26, 2010
Sanchez is the guy who coined the term “epistemic closure” to describe what was wrong with the right. It’s a smart ass way of saying conservatives are close minded. In his defense of Dave Weigel and JournoList, Sanchez shows that he’s succumbed to another failing, Metaphysical Anti-Realism. That’s the belief that our language doesn’t really connect to any truth. It’s all just useful fiction: It seemed to many of us [...]
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John on June 25, 2010
Today, Weigel resigned his job at the Post. Fellow post blogger and JournoList founder Ezra Klein has a piece up defending the list serv and expressing pride in its contents. He also promises to destroy said contents post haste. No doubt there are many more intemperate statements in the archives which will forever be lost to history. Klein tells his readers that this incident is a good example of the [...]
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John on June 25, 2010
Dave Weigel resigned today after the Daily Caller printed a new batch of his JournoList comments, all of which bashed conservatives in one form or another: The e-mails have conservative pundits around Washington giddy over the prospect of taking-down Weigel, who has become a lightening rod of criticism because of his prime real estate at the Washington Post covering conservative politics. Summing up the growing controversy, an obviously annoyed Adam [...]
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