Journolister on Obama election night 2008: "I’m just jelly. Lord!" Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
"So I’m reading about Sarah Palin’s speech in Wisconsin today, which was brilliant by the way. I think the question has been answered because this sounded like a campaign speech to me.
Anyway the liberal hack reporter for the Associated Press, some joker named Todd Richmond, of course littered the article with the usual “subtle suggestions” intended to slant the narrative in the “correct” manner so we rubes in trailer park country get the right message.
First, the fool reports that “hundreds” of people showed up to hear Palin’s speech. Later, when he has to report the crowd estimate from the Capitol Police of 6,500 he makes sure to tell us that the Capitol Police is an agency of Gov. Walker’s Administration. Thanks, I thought they were an agency of the Justice League of America…boy do I feel dumb. I get it though, they’re an Executive Branch agency so it must be a conspiracy to boost those crowd numbers all the way up to the completely unrealistic and astronomical number of between six and seven thousand people! Where’s Oliver Stone? By the way…
how many people did the media say were at the Obama Inauguration? It was like six billion right? How about the “Million” (Ha!) Man March?
The best part was Richmond’s interview with a union creep named Tim Wersland who “can’t believe these people are for real” and thinks Palin is “biased”. Imagine that…a liberal reporter who pretends to be neutral, using a statement from an anti-Palin protester who calls her “biased” to try to…suggest…and she’s never said she wasn’t biased you idiot…she’s a politician, she’s not supposed to be biased…you are, you @#$%… I’m getting a nosebleed.
Of course this Wersland goon was only one of “hundreds” of counter-protesters…see, now “hundreds” is a lot! So Imagine how embarrassed Richmond was when he saw that a Reuters journolist named Nick Carey also interviewed Wersland for his article which was posted two minutes later. Gee, that’s embarrassing. I guess that’s why a few hours later Richmond (AP) deleted that part of his article and replaced it with a quote from some “lady” named Kathy Abel who wants us all to know that she hated Palin “before it was cool”…my response to that would get me banned from this site.
You’d think that out of the throngs of counter-protesters…I mean…what are the odds that two reporters working for different news agencies would stumble upon the same “man on the street” and interview him…and apparently never see each other even though the articles were posted within minutes of each other?
In all fairness, Wersland seems to have that kind of luck with the media. He was previously interviewed…out of the many thousands and trillions of anti-Walker protesters…on March 11th by IPS News reporter Katrin Dauenhauer who
- happened to stumble upon this random iron worker.
It’s almost like the media have certain “go-to” people for sound bites.
Here are the links, see for yourself. This is how stupid they think we are.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/16/us-usa-campaign-palin-idUSTRE73F2UP20110416 The Nick Carey article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_tax_rally The original Richmond article
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/16/2804338/labor-protesters-surround-tea.html “The corrected version”
http://www.socialistbulletin.com/international/wisconsinpolicesupportprotest The March 11 interview"
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7/21/10, "Obama wins! And Journolisters rejoice," Daily Caller, Jonathan Strong
More Journolisters on Obama election night:
"DAVID ROBERTS, GRIST: It’s all I can do not to start bawling.
LUKE MITCHELL, HARPER’S: I’m picturing something like VJ Day in Times Square. Seriously!
JOHN BLEVINS, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW: It’s all I can do to hold it together.
Nov. 4:
MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I’m looking across the street at my polling place, and the line is wrapped around the block. I nearly burst into tears when I saw it. I’m feeling like today is closing the door on a terrible era, and opening another. I’m glad you started this thread because I was feeling kind of like I was the only one who is deeply emotional today.
JOSH BEARMAN, LA WEEKLY: 11 months ago I burst into tears by myself on a plane while watching Hardball when my mind wandered to the image of President Obama being sworn in. I’ve been fighting it ever since.
EZRA KLEIN, AMERICAN PROSPECT: OHIO!...
ADELE STAN, THE MEDIA CONSORTIUM: At last I can breathe....
STEVEN TELES, YALE UNIVERSITY: I’m not sure why, but this part of the Battle Hymn of the Republic came to me . . . . Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on....
RYAN DONMOYER, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Best quip I heard today, courtesy of a Facebook friend: “I wonder if Sarah Palin is still unclear about what a community organizer does.”
Nov. 5
SETH MICHAELS, MYDD.COM: there are flag-waving whooping crowds around the white house. afl-cio hq is insane here....
ALYSSA ROSENBERG, GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE: I’ve gotta be all non-partisan on GovExec, so I hope you’ll all indulge me a minute here....A lot of horribly ugly stuff got repudiated tonight."...
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