Tucker Carlson waded through the five JournoList e-mails he has and found that everyone in Dave Weigel Chat wanted to stop the media reporting about Jeremiah Wright in 2008. It seems the JournoListers said they thought reporting on the story was bad for America. “This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people,” some Briton said, as if he knows the American people. But the Jeremiah Wright discourse was the discourse that actually served the people, as simple math tells us Jeremiah Wright=hating America and Jeremiah Wright=Barack Obama, therefore Barack Obama=hating America.
Understandably, most of JournoList was probably like, “Yeah, meh, this Wright thing is stupid and bad.” But that is boring, and what this article really exposes are the people on JournoList everyone probably rolled their eyes at.
For one, Thomas Schaller, a political science professor and Baltimore Sun columnist. He decided their Baby-Sitters Club should put out a “smart statement expressing disgust” about the Wright stuff. Because the entire media will certainly listen to a listserv of some geeks. They were almost as important as Obama himself!
And then like five or six guys supported this inane, self-important idea. So now Tucker has a story of A BIG CONSPIRACY (of those with negligible power).
Finally, Spencer Ackerman, who was with the Washington Independent, decided that what needed to be done was calling people racists. That would fix the whole Wright mess! “We’ll know who doesn’t deserve this treatment — Ross Douthat, for instance — but the others need to get it.”
Haha, yes, the Baby-Sitters Club loves that lame-o Ross Douthat, but the rest of those evil conservatives and their water balloons shall feel the wrath of the BSC!
Tucker Carlson was already dumb, so he is not made more dumb by posting this dumb thing. But some of these JournoList guys seem kind of dumb too! Perhaps being afraid of the Jeremiah Wright controversy was just in a different time, and because of the economy there was a scarcity of baby-sitting jobs, so there was a lot of fear going around. [Daily Caller]
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Tucker who?
So a story that was a really big story, according to Carlson, was NOT a story because these guys got all ninja-like and spiked it before it could come to the attention of the media.
Mission Accomplished!
Didn’t Tucker just surrender and go to gaol? Oh no, that was Lindsay Lohan, same diff.
Tucker is just jealous of Ackerman because Spencer quits his jobs while Tucker either gets fired or is voted off.
At last we can see how the liberal, elite, lamestream media controls America. Manipulating important stories, distorting facts, suppressing the Truth, etc, etc. Media bias is how President Gore got elected. It explains why his preventing those 9/11 terrorist attacks was made into such a big story. Curse you liberal elites for keeping George Bush from winning the White House in 2000!
I’m starting to get the distinct impression that writers at the Daily Caller have no idea how intelligent people talk to one another, and mistake it for witchcraft. They get confused when email is used for anything other than forwarding racist jokes, taking Nigerian business opportunities and buying boner pills.
This was quite an effective, nasty conspiracy; without JournoList’s repression of the Wright story it might have been all over the media for weeks, incessantly, the cable news would not have stopped talking about it and everyone not in the media would get sick of hearing about it, even though it was nothing but a stupid sideshow.
So THAT’S why there was nothing about Wright in the media during the run-up to the election. This explains it all!
I thought Jeremiah was a bullfrog?
[re=621294]Potater[/re]: Don’t you remember? He was the guy who wore a tiara and made everyone yell all the time. Then Johnny Carson called him a “dunderhead” on the TV which made it ok for us to completely forget who he was!
2008 makes 2009 look like 2006.
Is anyone surprised that Tucker has No Body Hair?
Rev. Wright looks bitchin’ in electric (?) blue, but his rug is another story.
So Tucker Carlson’s fantasy soap opera has an all-boy cast. Somehow I’m not surprised. Actually, I’ll bet the only reason he was going through their entire listserv output was that he was looking for references to himself and, not finding any, decided to take ‘em down in a jealous rage.
[re=621294]Potater[/re]: Christ. Tucker Christ. The real question is who is Jeremiah Wright? Sounds kinda Muslin.
[re=621314]JMP[/re]: Tucker thinks that the nation missed an important opportunity to have a thoughtful and honest conversation about race, thanks to those dicks at Journolist.
Ah, OK, I think I am starting to get it. When conservative political leaders, politicians, media figures, and strategists conspire together to decide what issues and stories they are going to stress and repeat and spin in unison ad infinitum, in order to establish one of their campaign memes (Gore is a liar, Kerrey faked his medals, Obama is black and hangs around with black racist black Amurrica-hating black preachers who are blkack) this is OK, but when some journalists, during casual shopt talk, express the view that they as journalists should resist allowing the right wing spin machine to dictate news coverage, they are an evil, unamerican cabal of some sort.
Organized media manipulation, good. Semi-disorganized talk within the media about maybe kinda trying to resist being manipulated, bad. Okey-dokey.
Tucker, he is the man for whom the word “tool” was coined. He is such a ginormous tool, if he were a dinosaur, he would be toolosaurus erectus. If he were a bird, he’d be a tool pigeon. They should sell him in Sears with a lifetime warranty, he is such a fucking tool. He should drive around in a big white van that says “Snap-On” on it. Fucking tool.
Jeremiah who? I never heard of the man, but he sounds awful. Why am I only hearing of this now!? I mean if this story had come out it could changed the outcome of the 2008 election and history.
[re=621318]facehead[/re]: Isn’t Wonkett supposed to be funny? Her lectures are boring. Tucker Carlson is so not hurting America.
God DAMN “Tucker” Carlson!
Really, really timely and relevant article, Tuck. Shit, when the end of the world happens, Daily Caller readers won’t know about it for ~11 months.
This is the journalistic equivalent of jacking-off on the chalk outline of a dead hooker.
High five, Tucker! Ya totally nailed ‘er, dude!
[re=621314]JMP[/re]: and the teabaggers would have made it one of their major talking points.
[re=621332]Prommie[/re]: Definitely not Snap-On, more like Harbor Freight. Snap-On actually sells useful tools.
Maybe Strap-On…
Tucker Carlson is the sad little babby Breitbart, hopped up on sugar instead of marching powder.
You people do realize that this very thread will someday be proof of liberal something-or-other, don’t you? Just don’t cry to the editors when you are outed.
[re=621321]Ducksworthy[/re]: The Tuckster keeps a year’s supply of Nair in his desk drawer, safe from his wife’s piggly little fingers. Next thing you know, she’ll be wanting teh penis sex.
[re=621308]tbogg[/re]: +
Btw: Give them some credit. The JournoLists were able to spike the story that it was the Japanese who won WW2.
[re=621332]Prommie[/re]: Prommie is a genius, has anyone noticed? The tool rant … I LOLed
[re=621351]Extemporanus[/re]: Great. Now I have to deal with the FapTucker image. Thanks ever so.
I remember watching Conan O’Brien do that Big Mouth Billy Bass/Jeremiah Wright routine over and over and over again. Laughing and crying at the same time.
It was, to put it mildly, the most overcovered non-event in the history of journamalism.
[re=621332]Prommie[/re]: oh snap! [re=621411]HuddledMass[/re]: word.
[re=621397]Humpback[/re]: Keep it up Carlson and we’ll (the libspirators) will send Jon Stewart over to make you lose another job.
These same journalists are probably sitting around right now telling each other that a black guy with a billy club standing outside a majority black polling place in 2008 really didn’t scare anyone into not voting.
[re=621307]weejee[/re]: You can tell them apart, because Lohan is the one with the fake boobs, and Carlson is just a fucking boob.
why does everyone named Tucker suck?
This rates right up there with the “Obama is President because the illegal aliens voted for him” meme.
[re=621473]actor212[/re]: Oh, they’re real; you can tell because they got so much smaller when she turned all anorexic and drug-addled.
JMP summed up a certain zeitgeist: ” This was quite an effective, nasty conspiracy; without JournoList’s repression of the Wright story it might have been all over the media for weeks, incessantly, the cable news would not have stopped talking about it and everyone not in the media would get sick of hearing about it, even though it was nothing but a stupid sideshow. ”
Sarcasm, with blinders fully on.
Facts are that the MSM DID, in fact, sit on the story for about two (2) years, before the blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree. Thereafter, the trolls had no choice BUT to cover the story, mostly doing their best to minimize it, pooh-pooh it, blame the messengers (we great unwashed, who’ve of late proven so ungrateful for the managed “news” that our “betters” deigned to spoon-feed us), etc. ad nauseam.
Just because your AGENDA–you’ve never been secret enough about it so that a cautious man couldn’t spy you in the weeds–failed spectacularly (in this instance) doesn’t mean that you don’t have one. WE SEE YOU, troll.
[re=621473]actor212[/re]: Thank you. I haz learned something new today.
Whats with the knuckle-draggers?
Prommie wrote: ” …when some journalists, during casual shopt talk, express the view that they as journalists should resist allowing the right wing spin machine to dictate news coverage, they are an evil, unamerican cabal of some sort.Organized media manipulation, good. Semi-disorganized talk within the media about maybe kinda trying to resist being manipulated, bad. Okey-dokey.
Tucker, he is the man for whom the word “tool” was coined. He is such a ginormous tool, if he were a dinosaur, he would be toolosaurus erectus. If he were a bird, he’d be a tool pigeon. They should sell him in Sears with a lifetime warranty, he is such a fucking tool. He should drive around in a big white van that says “Snap-On” on it. Fucking tool. ”
No sarcasm intended, dude, but it apparently DOES take one to know one. Thou surely art the reincarnation of Jerry Rubin. In the end, you’ll be grateful for the day that you didn’t look both ways before stepping off the curb. (I mean, isn’t it exhausting, being alternately arch and profane and sarcastic and rude and condescending and sophomoric, each in turn, endlessly? God, quit being on the make all of the time and join the human race!…At least Tucker is mostly just juvenile.)
Read more at Wonkette: http://wonkette.com/416780/america-hating-journolist-was-in-conspiracy-with-jeremiah-wright-daily-caller-reports#ixzz0uFUprSNJ
[re=621508]jack sprat[/re]: Uh, are you being serious? The mainstream media, which as usual was carrying water for the right wing, constantly covered the fake Rev. Wright controversy, would not shut about it. And you’re claiming they ignored it for two years? Really? REALLY? Wow. I’ve known conservative trolls were out of touch with reality (just look how many of then deny the proven facts of evolution global warming), but that’s crazier than usual.
[re=621559]jack sprat[/re]: huh? Someone hear something? Like a gnat buzzing.
Notice the skillful use of cut and paste.
Sarah Palin calls this a BOMBSHELL!
[re=621332]Prommie[/re]: he’d be an Awl: the simplest tool in the world
It’s funny, because as far as I can tell, Spencer Ackerman was, well, completely right. I mean, the same tactic of taking things that Jeremiah Wright had said, excising any clarifying context to make them sound as scary as possible, and then report them without revealing that at all to anyone, is pretty much exactly what Breitbart and his ilk have done time and time again, first with ACORN, and then now with Shirley Sherrod. Each time, it was the same exact tactic. And except that the Wright thing largely fell flat, the duplicity never really came to light until after plenty of lives had been ruined.
And… well, there’s one other quality that Wright, the ACORN workers in question, and Ms Sherrod all have in common. Sort of the elephant in the room, there.
Jack Sprat’s bile is of a different choler.
[re=621840]TheWaltonFirm[/re]: While the Awl’s simple, it’s still beaten on the simplicity front by the very first tools: the rock and the stick (tie). Hell, other apes, elephants and octopi use them.
The Journolist, celebrity journalists, partisan press antagonizing each other and not the government–it is all a sign of the rise of the new celebrity press. A press that is concerned more about its image and its position in the political hierarchy it is supposed to be monitoring than it is about the people. Indeed, it seems what American journalism needs is another I.F. Stone, another Ernie Pyle, another Seymour Hersh. Instead, we are stuck with Keith Olberman, Sean Hannity, and the myriad of other “celebrity journalists” who seek fame, not fact. Read more here: http://bit.ly/bwf8g7
Frankly, I thought “God Damn America” was pretty accurate, for a guy who believes in an invisible sky god, and all.
My second favorite part of the Jeremiah Wright thing was how right-wingers thought they had a winning issue if the media would just talk about it more, even though polling of the general public make it consistently clear that yes, everyone knew about it, but only a tiny portion of people cared about it.
My favorite part was how Obama was being attacked for what his REVEREND was saying while simultaneously being attacked for allegedly being a Muslim.
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