Ed Driscoll

By Ed Driscoll

Bio

Get Updates From Ed Driscoll

The Bipolar World of the JournoList

August 9, 2010 - 10:12 pm - by Ed Driscoll

“[T]ake one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country?”

– Spencer Ackerman, then with the Washington Independent, now with Conde Nast’s Wired magazine , corresponding with his fellow JournoLista in April of 2008.

“Many expected racial tension during the 2008 presidential campaign, but it barely materialized.”

Advertisement

– Former JournoList member Matthew Yglesias in the Washington Post, ground zero for the leftwing listsev , on Sunday, August 8, 2010.

As Mark Hemingway writes in the Washington Examiner, Dave Weigel’s favorite newspaper:

Hmmm. I take it this means Yglesias has revised his opinion that the “Crucial Racist Vote” was responsible for Hillary Clinton’s primary victories? If the idea that racism “barely materialized” in the 2008 is now accepted wisdom, Yglesias and many of his fellow liberal pundits must have engaged in a great deal of intellectual dishonesty during the last presidential election.

Hey, what’s one more pivot amongst a decade’s worth? Though as the Professor wrote in June, when the Ministry of Truth MoveOn.org was caught deleting their infamous 2007 “General Betray-Us” ad (which the New York Times gave them a sweetheart rate to run) from their site, “Have you noticed how these people are always airbrushing? It’s kind of an admission that their stuff won’t sell if they tell the truth…”

Related: “Black tea partiers to NAACP: Believe it or not, we don’t hate minorities,” Allahpundit quips; Lloyd Marcus adds, “First Black Conservative Press Conference Sent a Powerful Message.”

Related: Speaking of pivots, “Keith Olbermann Revises History to Praise Clinton and Bash Gingrich.”

PJ Media appreciates your comments that abide by the following guidelines:

1. Avoid profanities or foul language unless it is contained in a necessary quote or is relevant to the comment.

2. Stay on topic.

3. Disagree, but avoid ad hominem attacks.

4. Threats are treated seriously and reported to law enforcement.

5. Spam and advertising are not permitted in the comments area.

These guidelines are very general and cannot cover every possible situation. Please don't assume that PJ Media management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment. We reserve the right to filter or delete comments or to deny posting privileges entirely at our discretion. Please note that comments are reviewed by the editorial staff and may not be posted immediately. If you feel your comment was filtered inappropriately, please email us at story@pjmedia.com.

1 Comments, 1 Threads, 2 Trackbacks

  1. 1. cfbleachers

    A friend sent me the link below, just last night. It’s a primer on Islam and the Koran.

    The JournoKlan will never allow for a frank discussion about such things. I don’t know if there are any counter arguments to this, because we can’t get our own media to vet an enemy, it is too busy propping them up…sometimes conspiring with them. The Walter Duranty crowd, feeds into the Howard Zinn crowd and begets the Michael Moore/Oliver Stone/Sean Penn crowd.

    Spencer obviously goes much deeper than this basic primer. But the primer makes some very key elemental points. Westerners cannot look at the situation with Western eyes. When someone is playing a game by different rules and insists that you play by your more strict rules, it handcuffs you and then starts the game. You are destined to lose.

    This is how our own media plays the game against its own countrymen. The Taqiyya Media, known in the West as Journolistas, have perfected the art.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded