“JournoList” on The Daily Caller

Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein’s infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) the ex-Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, and which is now the subject of an endless and embarrassing (for certain former Journolist participants) investigation by The Daily Caller, which has discovered e-mail chains suggesting that certain Journolist members were secretly devising partisan campaigns to advance Democratic Party interests. (more)

Editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson appeared on ‘Hannity’ on Fox News to talk about TheDC’s investigative series looking into the liberal listserv Journolist. (more)

This morning I asked Rush Limbaugh what he thought of references to him on the private left-wing journalist discussion group JournoList.  As reported in the Daily Caller, an NPR producer named Sarah Spitz wrote on JournoList that if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would “laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.” (more)

Nothing about this story is shocking in the least. The Journolist scandal simply reveals that the media establishment acts like any other establishment. It has its prejudices, biases, and agendas and it acts accordingly. In this case, the primary goal was the defense and the election of Barack Obama. No thinking person who paid any attention to the media during the 2008 campaign could have been surprised by this. Indeed, this kind of behavior was obvious long before 2008. The Dan Rather scandal strikes me as, in many ways, a far more shocking incident, since it involved actual forgery of evidence rather than spinning events in favor of a particular candidate. (more)

Daniel Davies – The Guardian

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If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would. (more)

We knew that the Internet was going to bring transparency. Now we are seeing concrete examples of what that means in the flesh-and-blood world. (more)

Prominent conservatives responded Tuesday to new reports of a 2008 discussion topic on Journolist, the now-defunct listserv of centrist and liberal journalists, that called for a smear campaign to paint Republicans as racists. (more)

A textbook tactic of statist radicals in America is the systematic character assassination of their enemies as racists. Loathe to engage their intellectual opponents in a real discussion of the issues, lest the radicals should be perceived for what they are and lose the fight to bring America under their heel, they prefer instead to slander their opponents, to intimidate and shout them down, and to destroy their credibility with whatever lies or twisted propaganda they can muster in a never-ending witch-hunt. (more)

Following TheDC’s explosive story about Journolist, publisher Neil Patel chats with “America Live” host Megyn Kelly about a few things more incendiary than sports. (more)

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign. (more)

In the first (and still best) “Austin Powers” film, a United Nations representative makes a faux pas and calls the film’s villain “Mr. Evil.” (more)

TheDC’s Jonathan Strong wrote a piece today detailing numerous e-mails sent by Dave Weigel, a reporter who  — until he resigned this afternoon — covered the conservative beat for the Washington Post. Strong’s article raises several troubling questions about Weigel himself, his superiors and colleagues at the Washington Post, and the hundreds of so-called objective journalists who are members of the Journolist e-mail group and have been privy to this information for months. (more)

Liberal Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has disbanded the “Journolist,” an e-mail list-serv catering to liberal journalists, professors and think tank experts, after e-mails from one of its prominent members were made public yesterday. (more)