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Breitbart: 100K for the Journolist!

Cue the screaming.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 29th, 2010 at 03:29 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I believe that it was Tom Clancy who noted that (back in the Cold War era, at least) the CIA was always prepared to spend real money when purchasing treason.  Apparently, would-be agents simply assumed that the decadent capitalist Western spy agency would offer money as a matter of course, and the CIA didn’t argue with them; it wasn’t as if Communist subjects ever had a really good idea of what the actual market value was for the intelligence that they were selling, and the American public at the time wasn’t really inclined to quibble.  Or even care.  And so we paid, if not top dollar, more than most for useful information.

I mention this because Andrew Breitbart decided to have him some fun:

I’ve had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I’d really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public a unique insight in the workings of the Democrat-Media Complex, I’m offering $100,000 for the full “JournoList” archive, source fully protected. Now there’s an offer somebody can’t refuse.

That is, unquestionably, the most diabolically clever thing that I’ve seen all week.  And I’m preemptively including the rest of this week, too: this will be hard to top.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • JadedByPolitics

    these pathetic whiny losers on left are going to have ONE of them turn and make themselves 100K PLUS go around the FOX Network to discuss the “insides” of liberals and setting meme, HAHA!

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    there will be nervous individuals throughout the liberal media…

  • acat

    And the beauty part is, all it takes is one down-on-his-luck writer, one writer with a nose candy habit that’s getting a little out of control, one Dem party guy who got pushed aside and can’t find a new rock to hide under…

    Money is a wonderful motivator, and the full Journolist archive would be a very worthwhile investment for Breitbart.

    Genius at work – must be why it looks like so much fun.

    Mew

  • Wubbies World

    Breitbart is the man!

    Everyone has their price, or breaking point. You know there is at least one or two people who will actually think about it seriously, and they may give in as well.

    I like the example of the journalist who was taken hostage in Gaza and converted to Islam so they would release him. That is typical of a lot of libs with no real anchor of conviction. Someone may actually bite.

  • jstjoan

    for the American public. Either the emails expose their blatant collusion or they become too paranoid to continue the practice.

  • jstjoan

    Someone in the comment section of the BigGov’t article links to two web article that both name names from Journolist.

    Here’s the links:

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/03/26/journolist-revealed-inside-the-liberal-media-email-cabal.aspx

    http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/06/who_smeared_dav.php

    Here’s the names from them:

    * CNN analyst and Supreme Court scholar Jeffrey Toobin.
    * New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman.
    * Time writer Joe Klein.
    * The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates.
    * The Nation columnist Eric Alterman.
    * The Nation’s D.C. editor Christopher Hayes.
    * The Nation columnist (and prize-winning poet) Katha Pollitt.
    * The New Republic editor Jonathan Chait.
    * The New Republic editor Noam Scheiber.
    * The New Republic writer Isaac Chotiner.
    * Boston Globe columnist Jesse Singal.
    * ThinkProgress blogger Matthew Yglesias.
    * ThinkProgress blogger Matt Duss.
    * Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen.
    * Washingtonian senior web editor and Atlantic contributor Alyssa Rosenberg.
    * Political writer Rick Perlstein.
    * UC Berkley economics professor and blogger Brad DeLong.
    * DemocratStrategist.org -Ed Kilgore
    * National Security Network Fellow and Former DIA Intelligence Officer Alex Rossmiller