More Hope & Change… Top Obama Adviser Participated on Journolist
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 22, 2010, 11:09 PM
In case you were wondering what we mean by the state-run media…
(Ed Driscoll)
The “Journolist” is a listserv comprised of several hundred top liberal journalists from influential American and British media outlets, as well as like-minded professors, union reps and activists. Leftist media hack and WaPo journalist Ezra Klein founded Journolist with far left crank Joe Klein from TIME magazine in February of 2007. Klein admitted that Journolist was an “insulated space where the lure of a smart, ongoing conversation would encourage journalists, policy experts and assorted other observers to share their insights with one another.” But, you had to be a leftist to join this group. It was an exclusive club. And, it grew to include 400 of the most prominent leftist American journalists who shared ideas and helped spin the far left narrative in the state-run media. This is where far left cranks colluded to spit out the DNC’s talking points and to defend President Barack Obama’s radical past and socialist agenda. Ezra Klein reportedly shut down Journolist on June 28, 2010 after leaks were reported. Andrew Breitbart announced recently that he would reward $100,000 to anyone who could provide the full “JournoList” archive, source fully protected.
Now we find out that one of Barack Obama’s top advisers was a member and participated on Journolist.
Jared Bernstein was an Obama economic adviser and member of Journolist.
The Volokh Conspiracy reported:
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 list.
Bernstein’s bio at Politico, which appears not to have been updated since 2008, states: “He is an economic adviser to the Obama campaign.”
He was known to many for his regular appearances on the financial channel CNBC. His primary employer in 2008 was the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor progressive think tank, but according to his bio when appointed to the Obama-Biden Administration, he also was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office.
Reached today at the Office of the Vice President, Bernstein revealed that his position with the Obama campaign was as something called a “surrogate.” “I was not paid by the campaign,” he explained. “They would call me from time to time to represent their positions, that side of the debate.”
Asked when he left JournoList, Bernstein replied, ‘‘I think I left the list around the time I came here.” Bernstein was announced as Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President-elect on December 8, 2008.
Don’t look for this to make any headlines tomorrow.
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Chisum commented:
Love the graphic.
Buffalobob commented:
When can we tag this as Jurnalgate?
mark commented:
Something else is up. What is it? All the wheels are coming off Obama’s bus now. Black Panthers, NAACP, Blago, Economy, Jobs, Debt, crisis in the AG Dept, Gulf Oil Spill, C. Rangel, and on and on. Never ever underestimate the depths of depravity among these libs. Don’t underestimate anything. They will do anything and everything to remain in power. Something else is going on. Be wary.
Ed Driscoll commented:
Thanks for the link, but I did want to mention that it was actually my partner in punditry on the radio, Steve Green, the VodkaPundit, who designed the JournoLogo — but as he said, he’s welcoming everyone to “Steal this Logo.”
myohmy commented:
Duh! The old media are populated with political hacks and sheeples of the democratic establishment.
jorgen commented:
Why not? Journolist members are campaigners, not journalists.
Estragon commented:
While most of us understood the far-left agenda which has been pursued and advanced by the legacy media for decades now, in conjunction with and in support of the Democratic Party, I think most of us are shocked at the actual level of backroom manipulation of the news and the conspiratorial admissions we have seen.
Adding Democratic Party ops to the fun isn’t so shocking, but in combination with everything else it should kill forever the pretense of “objective reporting” and “honest opinion” the leftists have hidden behind for so long.
They are partisan hacks with a stake in the game who are trying to cheat to help their side, plain and simple. This applies not only to the “opinion journalists” and “bloggers” who contributed most of the suggestions revealed thus far, but also to the many so-called “hard news” reporters on the list who read this garbage and never objected or withdrew. Their silent assent damns them with the rest.
Militant Conservative commented:
no news here just proof of a fact already known.
powder is dry.
Dixie commented:
This helps explain why, long before he announced his candidacy, we kept seeing news stories involving Barack Obama….going all the way back to his appearance in Louisiana w/ Oprah after Katrina. It was glaringly obvious that the media was favoring this unheard of man who came out of nowhere.
Yep, now it all makes sense.
Khan Krum commented:
As Rush brilliantly summed it up yesterday:
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
Evolution of Fascism:
Lenin, 1917: Class-based International Socialism
Hitler, 1933: Race-based National Socialism
Obama, 2008: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
kato commented:
This whole presidency reeks of being scripted, with an Orwellian news media being an essential tool of Big Soul Brother’s jive act.
TXPatriot commented:
Important note: In the update, the column points to Peter Orzag as also being a member of this listserv,
Opus #6 commented:
Am I to assume that somebody took Breitbart up on his offer of 100K? God bless Breitbart. He knows something about human nature and motivation.
Mats commented:
So sad to see so many jews help a man who wants to destroy Israel and hand it to the islamic beast.
Kapos.
Lurker commented:
Beck offering $1 million for whole JournoLists archive…
Doesn’t seem any sites are reporting on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5WqyQ4zS2I
newton commented:
The level of political incestuousness has reached stratospheric heights…
Codevilla was right. It’s time to overthrow this “Ruling Class”. And I mean, obliterate it.
Karen commented:
Here are pictures of a lot the “diverse” journolist group:
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=29858
LOL.
Chisum commented:
Obama Journolist Operative Invited Other Journolistas to White House
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-journolist-operative-invited.html
Florida commented:
Peter Orzsag was/is also a member. Maybe that’s why he’s stepping down.
caolila commented:
For 7 years I bought Time magazine, mostly to encourage my middle to junior high kids to read and then…….I stopped. So glad I kicked that habit.
Then, I got rid of the TV for 5 years. Only recently has that come back into my life since the kids are out of the house. It is unbelievable how politically correct shows like Criminal Minds and Bones are. They subliminally present our kids with approval of gays, casual sex, prefering other cultures over our own. I was astonished when I watched those shows.
Chisum commented:
Journolist Equals Journalistic Corruption
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/07/23/journolist-equals-journalistic
seven commented:
Journolist spit and drool. Looks like they were the attack and talking points generators. Regurgitating talking points did work for a while.
Now it is exposed, it will be worse than they planned.
Robert commented:
They saw themselves as “the non-official ‘Obama] campaign” “shaping the terms of the conversation and saying things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn’t say” such as “scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing christian wing-nut a heartbeat away …… bang away at McCain’s age making this unusually significant.”
Newspaper and media corporations colluded in using their position to influence a national presidential election.
wanumba commented:
Isn’t this classic libel and slander executed via a RICO structure – coordinated, pre-planned and designed expressly to damage?
Class action suit of all the targeted people, against the “JOURNOLIBELIST” and every last media organization that sponsored or published or broadcast their slanderproduct? One could even argue it was a form of intimidation and blackmail – scaring people off because they knew what was in store for them if they tried to challenge or run for office?
God bless Sarah Palin. He is showing her that her standing firm was, and remains the right thing to do. They threw EVERYTHING VILE at her, out of their own filthy hearts, confident in their “secure space”, their hate and their self-centered egotistical brutality, yet they are the cockroaches caught in the light, now scurrying to the cracks. Two weeks ago, the journolist fortress was a solid redoubt, this week, it as if it was ancient Jericho, the walls just falling flat, the inhabitants totally exposed, scrambling to run, to hide, in 100% defence mode.
Awesome – now it’s the American People’s job to make sure each one of them is hunted down and held to account for their perfidity in court.
NEW MEDIA!
aprilnovember811 commented:
I love the word “progressive.” We know what you are, COMMUNISTS! They’re like cockroaches. They’re all over the place. Even if you cut off the head they’ll live for about ten days. Can you imagine, what military secrets and so forth that they have given away. These people are nothing but spies, and should be tried for treason.
aprilnovember811 commented:
“Something else is up. What is it? All the wheels are coming off Obama’s bus now. Black Panthers, NAACP, Blago, Economy, Jobs, Debt, crisis in the AG Dept, Gulf Oil Spill, C. Rangel, and on and on. Never ever underestimate the depths of depravity among these libs. Don’t underestimate anything. They will do anything and everything to remain in power. Something else is going on. Be wary.”
I’ll tell you what’s up. Obama is a plant for the Weather Underground, and the Muslim Brotherhood. All of the time he’s in there, he’s spying and giving away secrets to our enemies. Just look at him. Someone writes whatever he reads from the teleprompter. When he doesn’t have it, he’s clueless. I don’t think he’s particularly bright, or his brain is fried from his drug use, or alcohol. I’m afraid they’re setting something up for the fall, to try to take the election. The Weather Underground, felt it was alright to kill thousands, if not millions of people. I think people are going to die, at the hands of these people. They’re insane.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Andrew, if you up the reward to 1 million to get that list, I’ll gladly chip in. I want to see the names of the ugly, American Traitors on there. We need to go after them!
Chisum commented:
I found this at Flopping Aces:
Welcome To Obamaland
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e309/uleryrns/animated/3279236161_c0e90e2e6d_o.gif
dunce commented:
These journolistas will [and have] tell a lie on credit when they can get cash for the truth.
AuntieMadder commented:
mark
July 22nd, 2010 | 11:41 pm | #5
I think that while we’re being distracted by all of these other stories, most of which they’re not even bothering with to defend themselves, Crap & Tax is being ironed out in DC.
Whatever it is, you’re right. Be wary.
AuntieMadder commented:
aprilnovember811
July 23rd, 2010 | 9:36 am | #33
You may be right about that, too.
AuntieMadder commented:
seven
July 23rd, 2010 | 7:22 am | #26
Journolist spit and drool. Looks like they were the attack and talking points generators. Regurgitating talking points did work for a while.
Now it is exposed, it will be worse than they planned.
And it’s only partially exposed. The Daily Caller is leaking it out, little by little, a piece or several pieces per day.
Whoever devised this strategy is brilliant. Had The Daily Caller gone through it all and written one long piece or several long pieces to expose it all, we, the readers, would have been shocked and outraged. Then, more BS would have come out of DC to attract our attention and focus and the Journolist story would have died. The way The Daily Caller is reporting this expose is keeping the story alive.
This strategy is keeping Journolist members on edge, too, always worrying and wondering if and when their most incriminating contributions to Journolist will be reported. After years of keeping on the defensive Palin and others who they conspired to lie about and ruin via propaganda posed as journalism and news reporting, they deserve no better and no less.
I’m curious and await finding out if and how much these conspirators perpetrated their crimes using Journolist when they smeared GW Bush. It’s obvious that this conspiracy to ruin political careers didn’t start with the 2008 campaigns for the presidency, that Bush was also one of the victims of their conspiracy to slander and ruin. However, if they were using a listserv before the creation of Journolist, that archive of documentation may be lost to us forever. If they weren’t using listserv or anything like it then, again, there’s no proof in the form of documentation. As of today, only their lies and efforts to conspire that they typed into Journolist can be proven and reported. As Journolist was created in 2007, I’m hoping the archive contains evidence of at least some of their lies and slander of Bush. I would like to see him, too, vindicated, as Palin has been vindicated.
Fwiw, it’s a good thing I’m not a criminal or a conspirator because, unlike the idiots of Journolist, I’m smart enough to know better than to document my involvement in a crime. These libturds believed themselves to be so intellectually superior to the rest of the country, that they started a listserv to share and document their conspiracies to slander, ruin, lie, commit campaign fraud, and so on.
I say it all the time: The hypocrisy of libturds knows no bounds.