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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (80933)	8/3/2010 10:59:33 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 90947

Thanks for the reminder of that. Yes, he abandoned economics long ago.

To: Bill who wrote (80933)	8/7/2010 12:06:18 PM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

JournoList: "Yeah, That's the Line!" August 5, 2010 12:00 A.M. Jay Nordlinger, National Review I know that “Journolist” has been mightily picked over — and picked on — but I have done very little of it. And would like to do some picking now, if you can bear with me. “Journolist,” you remember, is — was — an e-mail community of hundreds of liberal or left-wing or whatever journalists. Plus professors, operatives, and some assorted others. They hashed things out privately — but the Daily Caller has obtained their e-mails, or at least a lot of them, and published them. Or some. Enough to get the flavor — more flavor than you would probably want. Okay, let me commence with a little picking . . . >Bob Novak used to say, ‘That’s the line” — he said it with dismissive contempt. Someone else, usually on the left, would make some excuse or give some talking point, and Novak’d say, “That’s the line.” I can just hear him. My friend Jeff and I took this up between ourselves: Someone would say something — maybe even one of us would — and we’d say, “Yeah, that’s the line!” It was just kind of fun. “I don’t think I’ll play very well tomorrow because I’m in the process of making some swing changes.” “Yeah, that’s the line!” So I was interested to see that a Journolister headed an e-mail — or “e-mail thread” — “The line on Palin.” He was not being ironic, as far as I can tell. He was really and truly formulating a line. And the line was this: “John McCain picked someone to help him politically, Barack Obama picked someone to help him govern” (Biden). You know, I remember hearing that a lot, from the Left, in the immediate post-Palin days. Do you? Okay, some more line-formulation — I’ll quote from a Daily Caller piece on Journolist: After Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat, threatening to kill the health care legislation by his presence, [a Washington Post reporter] stressed how important it was for reporters to highlight what a terrible candidate his opponent Martha Coakley had been. “I think pointing out Coakley’s awfulness is vital, because it’s 1) true and 2) unreasonable panic about it is doing more damage to the Democrats.” It seems to me that journalists don’t think and talk this way, or should not; party operatives think and talk this way. Party operatives sit around coming up with the line. To see journalists doing it is a little . . . sick-making. >Always, there is the herd mentality ... Message 26738899