Sedition! Cats and Dogs Sleeping Together! Outlook: Hails of Frogs with a 50% Chance of Boils
Hold the front page—Terrible hack Dana Loesch of the inaptly named Breitbart organ Big Journalism has a scoop!
Journolist 2.0: OccupyDC Emails Show MSM, Dylan Ratigan, Working With Protesters To Craft Message
Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy D.C. email distro public and searchable. The names in the list are a veritable who’s who in media.
Journolist 2.0 includes well known names such as MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, Rolling Stone’s Matt Tiabbi who both are actively participating; involvement from other listers such as Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald plus well-known radicals like Noam Chomsky, remains unclear. The list also includes a number of Occupy organizers, such as one of the Occupy Wall Street main organizers Kevin Zeese.
As John Cole observes, this news is as earthshattering as the fact that Breitbart himself is an opportunist maniacal asshole (I paraphrase):
Has anyone at Breitbart HQ watched so much of five minutes of Ratigan over the course of the last two years? Read any Taibbi? They aren’t secretly doing anything- Dylan Ratigan has been screaming about this stuff for years. Hell, Taibbi just publicly gave advice to #OWS.
I am shocked—SHOCKED, I tell you—to think that some in the media might help a protest movement to foment unrest. So are the commenters at Big Journalism, as you can see if you don your knee boots and gasmask and tread warily into the mire (and may I say, you look quite fetching in them, even on a Monday morning):
Petroglyph 14 hours ago
This is seditious and treasonous. There is no other definition which I can think of to describe people who have turned on America and wish to destroy it. They should be treated as such. We ARE under attack.
There’s much more like this over at the link, where the commie Ratigan and his ilk are taking a pasting:
Charm2 14 hours ago
Good work Big Jornalism! I look forward to seeing how the commie apparatchiks deal with this revelation.
That’s Dylan Ratigan, by the way, the long-time and often intemperate agitator against Wall Street corruption who hosted the execrable Ted Rall for a very serious discussion of the prospects for insurrection (on Rall’s terms, of course) last year, as we covered at the time, when we also discovered that Ratigan self-identifies as (fainting couches are over there) a conservative:
The story springs off from Breitbart’s acquisition of a large cache of emails, which he’s obviously going to try to milk for all they’re worth. Quite how these emails came into his possession is still a bit hazy, but given the problems the publication of leaked private communications has led to for other media outlets in the past year or so, it may be worth watching this space.
Posted by YAFB on 10/17/11 at 11:40 AM • Permalink
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