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...and the funny thing about it? Voters fell for it. JournoListers promulgated two lies: that Sarah Palin was unqualified, and that Barack Hussein Obama was qualified.

The Daily Caller...

Sarah Palin’s speech to the 2008 Republican convention impressed more than a few doubters, including even some members of Journolist, an online community for liberal journalists.

“This speech is gangbusters,” wrote Ari Melber of the Nation. “Her tone is pitch perfect.” Adele Stan of the Media Consortium agreed: “Palin is golden.”

The exuberance appeared to unnerve the Guardian’s Michael Tomasky. “People get a hold of yourselves!” Tomasky wrote to his fellow Journolisters. “It’s a very good speech with good lines. But there’s very little substance.” [emboldenings and linkys mine. So I know how to find these assholes. -ed.]

Oh, but Barack Hussein Obama, with help from 'independent' media sources, fooled the entire nation with his one-meaningless-word: CHANGE. We see not what he meant, and it's not a good thing. CHANGE is anti-Constitution, and doesn't create JOBS.

Rebecca Traister of Salon wrote to say she was grateful for Tomasky’s message discipline. (“This is a reassuring sentiment, since at the moment, I feel like we’re in End Times.”) But the rest of the country apparently didn’t agree. Polls a few days later showed Obama’s lead in the race had narrowed to virtually nothing.

Palin’s speech had been remarkably effective. This troubled members of Journolist. On Sept. 8, 2008, five days after Palin’s national debut, some members of the group discussed producing coordinated propaganda designed to wound Palin and boost Obama.

That 'coordinated propaganda' resulted in bad moose jokes, Tina Fey, and Andrew Sullivan chasing around after Sarah Palin's vayjayjay for the next two years.

At an appearance in Colorado immediately following the convention, Palin had remarked that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive for the taxpayers,” a point that seems commonplace now, but that at the time struck some as controversial.

Ryan Avent, then blogging for the Economist, now an editor there, complained that Obama’s supporters were missing a chance to attack. “If we were the GOP, we’d be taking this opportunity to shout long and loud how unprepared Palin is—‘She doesn’t even know what Fannie and Freddie are…in the middle of a housing crisis!’….That’s the difference in the game as played by us and by them.”

Michael Tomasky responded: “So why aren’t Dems doing that? Just wundrin’.”

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?”

Some back and forth between the journolisters, summed up by Ed Kilgore...

Ed Kilgore of the Progressive Policy Institute, another supposedly “independent analyst,” did the same, even outlining specific, campaign-approved talking points: “It requires no particular strategic genius or ‘message coordination’ to recognize that we and the Obama campaign have the next two months to demonstrate that McCain and Palin represent the status quo party, the status quo ideology, and status quo policies,” he wrote.

The results we already know. The Main Stream Media followed almost to the letter this routine...

Todd Gitlin of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism had already made up his mind. Gitlin, whose job is to train the next generation of America’s most elite journalists, wrote this impassioned plea on behalf of the Obama campaign:

“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!”

Todd Gitlin, you dirty bastard, you should be run out of Columbia University on a rail whilst covered with still-steaming tar and feathers.

There you go, American voters. You've been manipulated from the start by these limp-wristed 'progressives' who've fooled you into thinking they are merely reporters. Instead, we see them as they are: mentors to Leftist ideology; pushing 'their' candidate to a win.


A shame that, now, we all have to suffer from BHO's incompetence, because of these fools.

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