The Journolist trainwreck
Technology evolves.
Man doesn’t.
The Daily Caller has exposed the little kaffeeklatsch of liberals who pose as journalists — the Journolist — by publishing some of their online comments.
The same pack journalists who despised Nixon (and love his political godson — Obama – just as socialist and thin-skinned) despise Palin. The only difference is that instead of going to a bar and among other things running down Palin, they sit at home and communicate by gadget.
Journolist is a press club bar and it has its PR and political types who like to hang out. The difference is these fools thought their electronic conversations were private. They are not. They are public. Climatologists also thought e-mail was private. Why is it that self-important liberals who love brains as much as a zombie does are so foolish as to believe there is such a thing as privacy online.
Hello? It’s the WORLD WIDE WEB.
So they said some mean things. One producer at a lowly NPR affiliate said she wanted to watch Rush Limbaugh die. Now that this fantasy has been made public, she apologized.
From Rush Limbaugh: “Now, that simple isn’t true. She said it, she wrote it, she stood by it. Why apologize? Sarah, this is where you people just flummox me. You wrote it. You meant it. Stand by it. She apologizes to ‘anyone I may have offended and I regret-these comments.’ She doesn’t regret ‘em, and she hasn’t apologized to me. She just apologized to anybody she ‘may have offended,’ but why apologize in the first place? She’s buckling to pressure. She meant to say it.”
And this gal wonders why she is getting $40k a year and he’s making hundreds of millions of dollars — so much so that the state of New York had to lay off a few of the governor’s mistresses when Limbaugh became a tax refugee in Florida.
Of course he is right. I have apologized for getting things wrong. I have apologized for unintentionally insulting someone. But I don’t see apologizing for expressing a true feeling.
And of course, this whole thing is overblown. Some nobody in NPRville wants to watch Rush Limbaugh die. Yes, and dog bites man, too. If that surprised you, drop me a line because I have this Nigerian e-mail I want to share with you for only $10,000.
Her fantasy of Limbaugh’s death itself was a joke.
From James Taranto: “It’s a strangely passive reverie. She doesn’t dream of killing Limbaugh but of watching him die of natural causes — as if nature isn’t going to catch up with Sarah Spitz one day. All we can say is, if this is what her fantasy life is like, her real life must be really dreary.”
It’s liberal. It’s why when caught instead of defending her position, she wimped out hoping that saying sorry gets her off the hook like it did with Mommy and Daddy.
Tucker Carlson, proprietor of the Daily Caller, defended his online publication’s publication of this Journolist drivel.
I loved this part from Tucker Carlson: “So why don’t we publish whatever portions of the Journolist archive we have and end the debate? Because a lot of them have no obvious news value, for one thing. Gather 400 lefty reporters and academics on one listserv and it turns out you wind up with a strikingly high concentration of bitchiness. Shocking amounts, actually. So while it might be amusing to air threads theorizing about the personal and sexual shortcomings of various New Republic staffers, we’ve decided to pull back.”
Bravo.
The Daily Caller opened the refrigerator door at night to watch the cockroaches race by. You can be a journalist or a Journolist, but from now on, you cannot be both.
As James DeLong wrote: “The real problem with JournoList is that much of it consisted of exchanges among people who worked for institutions about how to best hijack their employers for the cause of Progressivism. Thus, the J-List discussion revealed yesterday in the Daily Caller was about how the group could get their media organizations to play down the Reverend Wright affair and help elect Barack Obama. Were I an editor of one of these institutions, I would instantly fire any employee who participated in this gross violation of his/her duty. For example, the J-List included Washington Post reporters, and the idea that the paper has been turned into a propaganda organ is a big reason it is bleeding readers and influence. Of course, it is possible that the Post’s editors were on the list, since the membership is not known, in which case the corporate executives should fire the editors, or the board should fire the executives, or the stockholders should fire the board. (If Director Warren Buffett was on J-List, I give up.)”
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