Jonathan Strong of the Daily caller: Political operatives on Journolist worked to shape news coverage The first two paragraphs:

Despite its name, membership in the liberal online community Journolist wasn’t limited to journalists. Present among the bloggers, reporters and editors were a number of professional political operatives, including top White House economic advisors, key Obama political appointees, and Democratic campaign veterans. Some left government to join Journolist. Others took the opposite route. A few contributed to Journolist from their perches in politics. At times, it became difficult to tell who was supposed to be covering policy and who was trying to make it.
Two of the administration’s chief economic advisors, Jared Bernstein, the vice president’s top economist, and Jason Furman, deputy director of the National Economic Council, were members of Journolist until they began working officially for Obama.

And it gets worse from there. Just because you're paranoid . . .

Caddell and Schoen: Our Divisive President.

Trever Louden looks at the membership roster, only partially disclosed right now, of Ezra Klein's defunct JournoList. He concludes:

JournoList was not just a bunch of “liberal’ journos with too much time on their hands.
It was a network of high level opinion makers, united by a “progressive” vision for America. They believed that their superior judgment and insight obligated them to present Americans with a view of reality that they would be too stupid and reactionary to grasp unaided.
At least a few, perhaps many, were committed Marxists who saw journalism, not as a profession, but as a revolutionary tool.
This disgraceful episode should dispel forever the “progressive” lie that the American MainStreamMedia and its “liberal” core, can be trusted to uphold the objective standards of their profession.

If only Barney Frank were as careful with our money as he is with his own! From the New York Post's report of Barney's recent visit to my neck of the woods: Rep. Barney Frank causes scene demanding discount

Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island's popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn't have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, "Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation."

Wow!

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber

In the Mail

Same as it ever was

Music by the Talking Heads. Lyrics and vocals by Politzoid:

In the Mail

Reagan, Cash and Hope

What happened the year you were born.

"Call them racists"!

So, it turns out there was a large, secret cabal in the media working to bury unfavorable stories about Obama during the 2008 campaign, like the Jeremiah Wright thing. And it seems to have included reporters who were claiming objectivity. [Update. Actually, there's no evidence of that, at least not so far.] Just 'cause your paranoid, doesn't mean there isn't really a conspiracy!

Let the spinning begin! When the left gets caught being leftist, they spin like nuclear-powered dradles.

This must be what Breitbart meant by these tweets.

Update. Here's an example of the spin, from MMFA. Liberal Journalists were just "talking to each other." Well, someone remind MMFA of what they were saying:

I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

Officer David Salgado of the Phoenix police force has sued to overturn the Arizona immigration law on the grounds that it will force him to engage in racial profiling. Of course, the law specifically outlaws the violation of anyone's civil rights (see page 4), but, you know . . .

Anyway, you have to give Officer Salgado credit for taking the initiative and going out and hiring a lawyer with his own money to force the state to do what he thinks is right. As AFP notes:

Salgado, a Mexican-American Phoenix resident, told reporters: "I'm not a politician, or an activist."
"But when the law was passed, I took action because I felt it was my duty to do so," he added, in explaining why he brought the suit.

Oh, sorry, wait a minute. One of the stories about the suit says that it was "also filed by an advocacy group called Chicanos Por La Causa." Maybe they're splitting the cost. Two questions, though. How do(es) Chicanos Por La Causa get the money to pay its (their) share of the lawyer's fee? And what exactly is La Causa that these Chicanos are por? Actually, forget those questions. It would be racist just to ask, wouldn't it?

Suppose, a month or two ago or so, you were a Chinese apparatchick who knew this policy was about to be implemented:

The government calls it "sealed management." China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.

It's Beijing's latest effort to reduce rising crime often blamed on the millions of rural Chinese migrating to cities for work. The capital's Communist Party secretary wants the approach promoted citywide.

So, knowing this, you're talking to the Obama administration's Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor,Michael Posner, and he's telling you what a human rights problem the USA has because of Arizona's new immigration law. According to Mr's Posner's subsequent description of your conversation:

“We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society.”

I mean, how did you keep yourself from laughing in his face?

The St. Louis Tea party's response to the NAACP.

As my buddy Pete points out, the death of the mega-talented Harvey Fuqua has gone almost unnoticed. It aint as easy as he made it look:

Andrew McCarthy explains why he opposes Elana Kagan's appointment to the Supreme Court, in no uncertain terms.

"This type of conduct" seems to be making a comeback. It was quite common here in New York in the 1970's. Hope and change.

Bill Clinton at Bob Byrd's funeral:

"He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected," former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd.
"And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done come and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."

Man, I'd almost forgotten what an inexhaustible supply of baloney is contained within the heart and soul of this man. Fleeting association? Fleeting? Actually, the KKK had gone out of existence in West Virginia until Byrd, on his own, revived it in the 1940's, and became its local Grand Kleagle. It would be less of an obfuscation to say that Al Capone had a fleeting association with the Chicago mob. And he spent the rest of his life making it up? I guess the rest of his life didn't begin until after 1964, twelve years since he first succeeded in his goal "to get elected." That would be the year he served as one of the leaders of the Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Bill.