JournoList’s Transgressions
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010While the CSM’s Patrik Jonsson is trying to pass the JournoList scandal off as a nothing a big deal in this article, this Daily Caller post rips the lid off the JournoList’s willingness to traffic in censorship. It isn’t a stretch to say that JournoList members are downright hateful:
If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all.
In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.
In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”
Ms. Spitz’s hatefulness is disgusting and disturbing. It’s irrelevant that she works by NPR. This is proof, along with Ezra Klein’s starting the group, that the erstwhile MSM employs hatemongers who viscerally hate people and who don’t think twice about shutting up those that report things differently. They don’t even think it’s a big deal: (more…)