Mayor Bloomberg plunged into the governor's race today by endorsing Democrat Andrew Cuomo

JournoList Update of Nothing
Oy I am in a lousy mood, stemming not only from the latest uproar from the putrid Mr. Breitbart and Shirleygate, but also from an obligatory update still related to the swinish Mr. Breitbart, how is it this political pumpkinhead and ethical serpent is taken seriously in any sense? Normally I would never subject myself or my readers to the petty antics of this idiot, but the watch was put on the story and alleged events have occurred, and I suppose any background information on the nauseating...

American Spectator EXCLUSIVE: The Infamous Journolist 'Tentacle Porn' Thread
Hey, you didn’t think we were going to let Tucker Carlson’s arriviste operation get all the good stuff, did you? The Spectator ’s John Tabin has the scoop : For some baffling reason, liberal Journalist seem to have believed that they could expand the membership of an email listserv to include 400 people without worrying that anyone would be ethically flexible enough to violate the off-the-record ground rules. They are now being spectacularly embarrassed by leaks from that...

When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist
I hoped to let my quick Accounting of the constant inaccuracies in the Daily Caller's selective quotations from JournoList stand as my last word on the matter. But Tucker Carlson's sanctimonious and evasive statement on the way his site has been covering this story is a bit rich. So allow me one more post. Tucker doesn't bother to mention the actual questions that have been raised: That his stories have misstated fact, misled readers and omitted evidence that would contradict his Thesis. He...

JournoList 'Sick Puppies' Planned Attacks on Sarah Palin; Systematic Femisogyny In Action
The most insidious form of Media Bias is deciding what to cover and, more importantly, what not to cover.

Letter from Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson on The Daily Caller’s Journolist coverage
We began our series on JournoList earlier this week with the expectation that our stories would be met with a fury of criticism from the Left. A hurt dog barks, after all. The response hasn't been all that furious, actually, probably because there isn't much for the exposed members of JournoList to say. We caught them. They're ashamed. The wise ones are waiting for the tempest to pass. There have, however, been two lines of argument that we probably ought to respond to, if only because...

Journolist and the Ackerman Question
JournoList has been much in the news lately, as story after story appears about the postings to the private message board for Left-wing Journalists and academics. A few members of JournoList were not Left-wing, but without the release of the full membership, the evidence points to a very heavy weighting towards the Left with a few Centrists thrown in. JournoList's founder, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, freely admits it was intended to be a gathering place for lefty Journalists and their...

Tea Party grizzlies vs JournoList wolf pack
Fred Barnes's WSJ op ed today got us to thinking about the difference between liberal and Conservative Journalists. Twittering about it this afternoon, we came up with the metaphor of wolf pack behavior for the JournoList folks on the Left side of the aisle. Working as a team, they select their quarry and close in for the kill in a coordinated attack from all sides. Sarah Palin is calling them "sick puppies ." But what animal works best as a metaphor for journos...

JournoList 'Sick Puppies' Planned Attacks on Sarah Palin
The most insidious form of Media Bias is deciding what to cover and, more importantly, what not to cover.

JournoList fallout: Palin blasts "sick puppies" in the media
The Daily Caller’s headline makes it sound like she’s responding to today’s JournoList revelation , but I don’t see any evidence of that in what she says. Sounds like she’s ripping on the Media generally — a familiar refrain, albeit in unusually strong terms here — rather than the Obama Glee club at J-List specifically. No matter. Palin fascination plus the irresistible “sick puppies” headline should pull more traffic to their site for...

Epistemic Closure And JournoList
The JournoList was a self-reinforcing feeback loop of

On Journolist
Journalists are an oxymoronic tribe of fierce individualists. We're in constant competition with each other, but we're thrown into each other's company--on press buses and planes--and often find ourselves in coy discussions about the amazing things we witness together. This is the stuff of memorable and close friendships; it is also valuable professionally to hear what others are thinking and test your ideas against theirs (as obliquely as possible because you don't want people stealing your...

The Tucker Carlson Journolist-Disclosure Email Exchange

Tucker Carlson Angers Ezra Klein By Saying Journolist Had A 'High Concentration Of Bitchiness'
The second line of attack we've encountered since we began the series is familiar to anyone who has ever published a piece whose subject didn't like the finished product: 'You quoted me out of context!'" Of the first, Carlson says clarifies that he is not opposed to "political opinions," but does "object to Partisanship" (these are assumed to be two different things, the difference being that Partisanship is "by its nature dishonest."). He also disparagingly revokes the...

TUCKER CARLSON ON The Daily Caller's JournoList Coverage. "Gather 400 lefty reporters and academics...
Tucker Carlson ON The Daily Caller’ s JournoList Coverage. “Gather 400 lefty reporters and academics on one Listserv and it turns out you wind up with a strikingly high concentration of bitchiness.”

» Obama Campaign Adviser Participated on JournoList
Jared Bernstein, chief Economist for Vice President Joseph Biden, served in 2008 as an economic adviser to the Obama campaign. At the same time, he was a member of JournoList , the Controversial progressive email

JournoList 'Sick Puppies' Planned Attacks on Sarah Palin; Systematic Femisogyny In Action
Latest post at NewsReal: The most insidious form of Media Bias is deciding what to cover and, more importantly, what not to cover.

Death wish redux: Rush Limbaugh responds to JournoList's hate speech
Yesterday we told you about the JournoList member who joked about Rush Limbaugh’s recent cardiac scare, and yearned for the chance to watch him die before her eyes. Rush Limbaugh has now responded to these revelations from the Daily Caller. He told the Washington Examiner in part : Funny thing….a number of my friends sent me the Daily Caller piece and the most shocking thing to them in the story was the advocacy of having government shut down Fox News. That the left wants me dead...

JournoList 'Sick Puppies' Planned Attacks on Sarah Palin
The most insidious form of Media Bias is deciding what to cover and, more importantly, what not to cover.

COORDINATION: Obama Campaign Advisor Participated On JournoList. "One question that has arisen in ...
COORDINATION: Obama Campaign Advisor Participated On JournoList. “One question that has arisen in the last week is how closely JournoList members, not only discussed how to shape the news to advance the fortunes of Barack Obama, but coordinated with the Obama campaign. Jared Bernstein's position as an unpaid adviser and surrogate shows that there was at least one direct link between JournoList and the Obama campaign.”

Wow, is Sterling-Cooper on the JournoList, too?!
Well no, they’re fictional — but then, considering the postmodern worldview of many on the list, that’s probably a feature, non a bug. In any case, the American Spectator’s John Tabin has a Post on “JournoList, Media Conspiracies, and ‘Japanese Tentacle Porn.’” The latter of which, being sort of Cthulu-esque is better seen in the corner of the above screen capture from the first episode of Mad Men’s third season last year than...

JournoList Members Protected Obama In 2008
We knew this was happening - we knew that many in the MSM were protecting Obama, were refusing to vet him, to investigate allegations against him, or those with whom he was very close, like Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But here’s the thing. A number of these Journalists (and academics), including from major news outlets, wrote down their plans to do what they could to protect Obama, both in the Primaries, and in the General Election. And did they ever. Check out this interview with...

FROM MATT YGLESIAS, a JournoList explanation that doesn't wash....
FROM Matt Yglesias, a JournoList explanation that doesn’t wash.

JournoList 'Sick Puppies' Planned Attacks on Sarah Palin; Systematic Femisogyny In Action
Chris Hayes of the Nation wrote in with words of encouragement, and to ask for more talking points. "Keep the ideas coming! Have to go on TV to talk about this in a few min and need all the help I can get," Hayes wrote. 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 ...

Journolist and the Ackerman Question
Hugh Hewitt asks, “Given that Plagiarism is a hanging offense in the MSM, ought not outright falsification to be seen as just as serious an offense against the suppose code of truth-telling?” Former New Republic scribbler Spencer Ackerman, who is now with Wired, proposed the manufacture of just to such an attack on Barnes and Bush to the JournoList’s annointed when the Jeremiah Wright story exploded in 2008. Ackerman admitted on JournoList that he wasn’t interested...

MORE ON JOURNOLIST: Election Night 2008 and Nate Silver's Life on J-List....
MORE ON JournoList: Election Night 2008 and Nate Silver's Life on J-List.