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JournoList: 151 Names Confirmed

  
At Free Republic, blogger Buckeye Texan offers this list of known "journ--listers" who conspired to shove Buraq Hussein Obama down our throats:

1. Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect
2. Thomas Adcock - New York Law Journal
3. Ben Adler - Newsweek, POLITICO
4. Mike Allen - POLITICO
5. Eric Alterman - The Nation, Media Matters for America
6. Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
7. Greg Anrig - The Century Foundation
8. Ryan Avent - Economist
9. Dean Baker - The American Prospect
10. Nick Baumann - Mother Jones
11. Josh Bearman - LA Weekly
12. Steven Benen - The Carpetbagger Report
13. Ari Berman - The Nation
14. Jared Bernstein - Economic Policy Institute
15. Michael Berube - Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University
16. Brian Beutler - The Media Consortium
17. Lindsay Beyerstein - Freelance journalist
18. Joel Bleifuss - In These Times
19. John Blevins - South Texas College of Law
20. Sam Boyd - The American Prospect
21. Ben Brandzel - MoveOn.org, John Edwards Campaign 
22. Shannon Brownlee - Author, New America Foundation
23. Will Bunch - Philadelphia Daily News
24. Rich Byrne - Playwright
25. Jonathan Chait - The New Republic
26. Lakshmi Chaudry - In These Times
27. Isaac Chotiner - The New Republic
28. Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
29. Michael Cohen - New America Foundation
30. Jonathan Cohn - The New Republic
31. Joe Conason - The New York Observer
32. Lark Corbeil - Public News Service
33. David Corn - Mother Jones
34. Daniel Davies - The Guardian
35. David Dayen - FireDogLake
36. Brad DeLong - The Economists’ Voice, University of California at Berkeley
37. Ryan Donmoyer - Bloomberg News
38. Adam Doster - In These Times
39. Kevin Drum - Washington Monthly
40. Matt Duss - Center for American Progress
41. Gerald Dworkin - UC Davis
42. Eve Fairbanks - The New Republic
43. Henry Farrell - George Washington University
44. Tim Fernholz - American Prospect
45. Dan Froomkin - Huffington Post, Washington Post
46. Jason Furman - Brookings Institution
47. James Galbraith - University of Texas at Austin
48. Kathleen Geier - Talking Points Memo
49. Todd Gitlin - Columbia University
50. Ilan Goldenberg - National Security Network
51. Arthur Goldhammer - 
52. Dana Goldstein - The Daily Beast
53. Andrew Golis - Talking Points Memo
54. Jaana Goodrich - Blogger
55. Merrill Goozner - Chicago Tribune
56. David Greenberg - Slate
57. Robert Greenwald - Brave New Films
58. Chris Hayes - The Nation
59. Don Hazen - Alternet
60. Jeet Heer - Canadian Journolist
61. Jeff Hauser - Political Action Committee, Dennis Shulman Campaign
62. Michael Hirsh - Newsweek
63. James Johnson - University of Rochester
64. John Judis - The New Republic, The American Prospect
65. Foster Kamer - The Village Voice
66. Michael Kazin - Georgetown University
67. Ed Kilgore - Democratic Strategist
68. Richard Kim - The Nation
69. Charlie Kireker - Air America Media
70. Mark Kleiman - UCLA The Reality Based Community
71. Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
72. Joe Klein - TIME
73. Robert Kuttner - American Prospect, Economic Policy Institute
74. Paul Krugman - The New York Times, Princeton University
75. Lisa Lerer - POLITICO
76. Daniel Levy - Century Foundation
77. Ralph Luker - Cliopatria
78. Annie Lowrey - Washington Independent
79. Robert Mackey - New York Times
80. Mike Madden - Salon
81. Maggie Mahar - The Century Foundation
82. Dylan Matthews - Harvard University
83. Alec McGillis - Washington Post
84. Scott McLemee - Inside Higher Ed
85. Sara Mead - New America Foundation
86. Ari Melber - The Nation
87. David Meyer - University of California at Irvine
88. Seth Michaels - MyDD.com
89. Luke Mitchell - Harper’s Magazine
90. Gautham Nagesh - The Hill,  Daily Caller 
91. Suzanne Nossel - Human Rights Watch
92. Michael O’Hare - University of California at Berkeley
93. Josh Orton - MyDD.com, Air America Media
94. Rodger Payne - University of Louisville
95. Rick Perlstein - Author, Campaign for America’s Future
96. Nico Pitney - Huffington Post
97. Harold Pollack - University of Chicago
98. Katha Pollitt - The Nation
99. Ari Rabin-Havt - Media Matters
100. Joy-Ann Reid - South Florida Times
101. David Roberts - Grist
102. Lamar Robertson - Partnership for Public Service
103. Sara Robinson - Campaign For America's Future
104. Alyssa Rosenberg - Washingtonian, The Atlantic, Government Executive
105. Alex Rossmiller - National Security Network
106. Michael Roston - Newsbroke
107. Laura Rozen - POLITICO, Mother Jones
108. Felix Salmon - Reuters
109. Greg Sargent - Washington Post
110. Thomas Schaller - Baltimore Sun
111. Noam Scheiber - The New Republic
112. Michael Scherer - TIME
113. Mark Schmitt - American Prospect, The New America Foundation
114. Rinku Sen - ColorLines Magazine
115. Julie Bergman Sender - Balcony Films
116. Adam Serwer - American Prospect
117. Walter Shapiro - PoliticsDaily.com
118. Kate Sheppard - Mother Jones
119. Matthew Shugart - UC San Diego
120. Nate Silver - FiveThirtyEight.com
121. Jesse Singal - The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly
122. Ann-Marie Slaughter - Princeton University
123. Ben Smith - POLITICO
124. Sarah Spitz - KCRW
125. Adele Stan - The Media Consortium
126. Paul Starr - The Atlantic
127. Kate Steadman - Kaiser Health News
128. Jonathan Stein - Mother Jones
129. Sam Stein - Huffington Post
130. Matt Steinglass - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
131. James Surowiecki - The New Yorker
132. Jesse Taylor - Pandagon.net
133. Steven Teles - Yale University
134. Mark Thoma - The Economists' View
135. Michael Tomasky - The Guardian
136. Jeffrey Toobin - CNN, The New Yorker
137. Rebecca Traister - Salon
138. Tracy Van Slyke - The Media Consortium
139. Paul Waldman - Author, American Prospect
140. Dave Weigel - Washington Post, MSNBC, The Washington Independent
141. Moira Whelan - National Security Network
142. Scott Winship - Pew Economic Mobility Project
143. J. Harry Wray - DePaul University
144. D. Brad Wright - University of NC at Chapel Hill
145. Kai Wright - The Root
146. Holly Yeager - Columbia Journalism Review
147. Rich Yeselson - Change to Win
148. Matthew Yglesias - Center for American Progress, The Atlantic Monthly
149. Jonathan Zasloff - UCLA
150. Julian Zelizer - Princeton University
151. Avi Zenilman - POLITICO

Sources are listed at the end, HERE.  Great work, BT!

 

As far as I'm concerned, all these people should -at the very least- lose their jobs.  This list went way beyond political advocacy, and truly may have thrown the election for Obama through their combined and intentionally biased media barrage.... at hundreds, literally hundreds, of prestigious (and not-so-prestigious) outlets. 

Tell you what I really think?  These people treacherously undermined our democratic process, and it's hard for me to believe it was legal. 

If there's a lawyer in the house, I'm curious:  Doesn't this conspiracy in many cases constitute "honest services fraud"?  And as such, couldn't some of these individuals conceivably be prosecuted under the "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act" (RICO)? 

AP's Ode to Impoverished Gazans Hauling Donkey Carts to Gather Pebbles

I try never to blog on Shabbes, but when it seems any spark could set off another World War and there are attacks going on, I get anxious.  It's no excuse, I know.  So, hoping that you don't have occasion to read this until after nightfall, here's the latest.

After Misc. Arabs in Jew-free Gaza fired a Grad rocket into the city of Ashkelon on Friday, Israel retaliated on Shabbes.  Thankfully, the IDF was able to take out a HAMAS "senior commander."  Kol Hakavod L' Tzahal.

P.S. The New York Times account is mediocre in terms of bias, until you get to this prize-winning bilge in the last paragraph:

... Israel maintains a system of warning shots, then a shoot-to-kill policy for Palestinians who approach the Gaza-Israel border. The policy was initially created to scare off militants firing rockets close to the sensitive area, but it also endangers impoverished Gazans who frequently haul donkey carts close to the border to gather pebbles, which they later sell to builders to make cement, and to collect scrap metal to recycle.

 

 

 

 

In a Gibbs v. Limbaugh contest, what's your bet?

 
  
  
Forgive me for posting the entirety of this, but it's all so entertaining. From a WSJ 'blog' called the Washington Wire:

At a briefing today to discuss the administration’s efforts to rescue the auto industry, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs took on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh—and every other critic “sitting in the cheap seats” –for criticizing the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler as a “government takeover” that smacks of socialism.

Told by a reporter that “You had Rush Limbaugh today — today or yesterday — talking Obama Motors again,” Gibbs, who doesn’t often provide free advertising by taking on his critics by name from the podium, let fire.

“Look, Rush Limbaugh and others wanted to walk away. Rush Limbaugh and others saw a million people that worked at these factories, that worked at these parts suppliers, that had — that supported communities, and thought we should all just walk away. The president didn’t think that walking away from a million jobs in these communities made a lot of economic sense,” Gibbs said.

He was just getting up to speed.

“We’ve got auto companies that for the first time since 2004 all showed an operating profit in the first quarter of this year. It’s adding jobs. And the money that this administration invested — about $60 billion — we believe we’re on the path to recouping all of that. That’s a significant story.

“I’ll let those that sat in the cheap seats a year-and-a-half ago and wanted to walk away” from a milion workers, he continued, “explain to every one of those workers why they made that decision.”

Finally, he wrapped it up: “And then you should ask Mr. Limbaugh — I don’t know what kind of car he drives, but I bet it’s not an F-150.”

The F-150 truck, we should note, is made by Ford, which didn’t get federal rescue funds.

 

At least we can all rest assured that The Won doesn't sit in a "cheap seat."  What did Team Obama pay to sit in the Oval Office? Three quarters of a million?

 

 

(What's amazing is that they still had a "stash" of $8,957,536 cash on hand when all was said and done -- or am I reading this wrong?)

Arab "peace partners" Attack Israel... and other news

Israeli city of Ashkelon, population 112,000

 Sorry I wasn't around yesterday, I've been working hard at the day job (and will need to again today).

Here are today's headlines:

• US urges Saudi, Syria to back direct Mideast peace talks
• Palestinian rocket hits Israeli city (Ashkelon, no injuries)
• U.N. rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade

That just about says it all.  Have "peace talks," concede your defenses, and let your ostensible peace partners fire rockets into your cities and towns.  It makes total sense... unless of course you live in Israel and it's you and your kids they're trying to kill.

Protest Against the Disengagement Expulsion, 2005.

Prayer for Fortitude

My dear Rabbi Lazer Brody "beams" holy inspiration all over the world.  B"H, he sends us this prayer for fortitude... via YouTube.    

 

 

And as always, we need to remember to take a minute - or three - to give thanks, as we've all seen that "grateful people aren't bitter" and/or that "bitter people aren't grateful." 

 

Todah, Rabbi, todah rabah. from Galut.

Caddell & Schoen are very nice but offer too little, way too late

The Husband was enormously pleased this morning to see Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen call out President Obama for his "divisive approach to governance" that has "weakened us as a people and paralyzed our political culture."

My reaction, on the other hand, was one of fury.  Where have they been?  If they can see it now, why now?  Why not sooner?  Why not before the "Super Delegates" of the Democrat Party annointed him The Won? 

I don't often write letters to editors anymore, as I have enough problems trying to store the ones I have submitted to no avail already, but I gave it a quick shot just in case:

 

To The Editor [wsj.ltrs@wsj.com]:

I suppose I should be grateful that stalwart liberals such as Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, both of whom I respect, have finally seen the light -- or more precisely, the darkness of impending doom.  When I read "Our Divisive President," I was however more angry than appreciative.  Where were Caddell and Schoen when - more than half a year before the presidential election - Obama spoke of his "typical White" grandmother?  If that wasn't blatant and offensive racial divisiveness, I don't know what you would call it.

 

If Caddell and Schoen were not personally offended by that remark, at that time, they need to figure out the reason(s).  We cannot begin to treat racial and other forms of divisiveness until we understand the obstacles automatically brought to bear that prevent us from recognizing it in the first place.

 

 

 

 

ahmadinejad doesn't even bother to close the curtain

EoZ reports:  An Iranian delegation is expected to arrive in Gaza in the next few days....

 

[However] ... Al Arabiya quotes Iran's PressTV that a political delegation from Iran is not being allowed into Gaza from Egypt. I am not sure if these are the same people.

 

Sharansky in 2005, as per my post just previous:

".... In my view, the disengagement plan is a tragic mistake that will exacerbate the conflict with the Palestinians, increase terrorism, and dim the prospects of forging a genuine peace."

Five years later, not only do we have an oppressive, repressive, ruthless and brutal terrorist regime controlling the Gaza strip, but Iran is there... with their delegations, their advisors and their sophisticated weaponry, all out in the open. 

 

So, why is it that so few listened to Sharansky?  And to Jabotinsky before him?  Why did no one listen as, night after night, Sean Hannity ticked off the radical associations in the life of Buraq Hussein Obama? 

That's my new question -- not how did these fighters and prophets know and keep going, but what prevents people from listening to them or believing them?

 

Those were the days... when the window was open

 

"... America can change.

That is the true genius of this nation."

Buraq Hussein Obama, in his famous "race speech," March 2008

 

  http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061207-2.html
 

Natan Sharansky, May 2005:

".... In my view, the disengagement plan is a tragic mistake that will exacerbate the conflict with the Palestinians, increase terrorism, and dim the prospects of forging a genuine peace. Yet what turns this tragic mistake into a missed opportunity of historic proportions is the fact that as a result of changes in the Palestinian leadership and the firm conviction of the leader of the free world that democracy is essential to stability and peace—a conviction that is guiding America's actions in other places around the world—an unprecedented window of opportunity has opened.

Recent events across the globe, whether in former Soviet republics like Ukraine or Kyrgyzstan, or in Arab states like Lebanon and Egypt, prove again and again the ability of democratic forces to induce dramatic change. How absurd that Israel, the sole democracy in the Middle East, still refuses to believe in the power of freedom to transform our world."

If it was absurd five years ago that Israel refused "to believe in the power of freedom to transform our world," how much more absurd is it that the United States, having opened that "unprecedented window of opportunity,"  has now slammed it shut?

Obama talks about transformation, but it is not a transformation brought through freedom and democracy.  In his worldview, the totalitarian regimes of Castro and Chavez are more appealing for their redistribution of wealth than they are abhorrent for their tyrannical oppression.

Obama's byword is "justice."  Economic justice, environmental justice, racial justice, the list goes on and on.  In his much-adored "race speech" in Philadelphia, Candidate Obama exhorted the duly-hyphenated African-American community to "insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life."

We should have thought, we could have known, we didn't ask.  What is a "full measure"? 

We should have thought, we could have known, we didn't ask... what sort of CHANGE he had in mind. 

In retrospect, we should have been filled with fear and loathing when he explained:

"It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.

But it is where we start."

We should have thought, we could have known, but no one asked what, if anything, would constitute "enough." No one asked in what direction this path of change would take us, or where it might end. 

I guess "Justice" sounded so good, so shiny and new, that no one remembered to ask about freedom and democracy.  We were so anxious to throw out the leader of the free world, that we cast aside his firm convictions as well. 

We threw out the baby with the bath water.

Much to our everlasting shame and degradation.

The "Plantation Politics" of the Democrat Party

In asking if fighting for smaller government is racist as charged, Daniel Greenfield pegs the purveyors:  

"This plantation politics that promises protection in return for fealty is not only degrading and undemocratic, it is dangerous to everyone involved."

 

It never occurred to me before I read this, but I bet you could juxtapose many comments of actual slave-owners with those of today's Democrats. Both perspectives base their judgments on skin color, both deal not with individuals but with the construct of a group (based on skin color), and both get exactly what they want (and no more) from the people they claim to "protect."

 

You could also call it "protection politics" -- It's less of a kick in the gut, but the similarity of tactics is unmistakable.

 

Baruch Dayan haEmes

The IDF Spokesman has confirmed: Six Israeli airmen were killed in the helicopter crash in Romania, reported earlier.

My love and condolences to their families.  May they be comforted among all the mourners for Zion and Jerusalem.

Netanyahu, earlier this evening:

"This is a difficult day for the entire House of Israel,” he said. “To day we ache and ask 'how have heroes fallen?'” [Samuel 2, 1:25]. 

.... "The IDF, its soldiers and commanders who are present here today are the guarantee of our fate.”

 

Amein.