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March 17, 2009
The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: Lefty Bloggers, Journalists Trade Tips and Ruminations on Secret ListServ
And yet the fractured, factionalist right wing has been accused of coordinating messages for years.
Projection isn't just a river in Egypt.
Last April, criticism of ABC’s handling of a Democratic presidential debate took shape on JList before morphing into an open letter to the network, signed by more than 40 journalists and academics — many of whom are JList members.
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One byproduct of that secrecy: For all its high-profile membership — which includes Nobel Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman; staffers from Newsweek, POLITICO, Huffington Post, The New Republic, The Nation and The New Yorker; policy wonks, academics and bloggers such as Klein and Matthew Yglesias — JList itself has received almost no attention from the media.
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Several members volunteered that JList is unlike listservs such as Townhouse, the private, activist-oriented group formed by liberal blogger Matt Stoller.
“No one’s pushing an agenda,” said Toobin.
No one's pushing an agenda. They just happen to all be left-wingers, some of whom in the MSM, who compose hostile letters to ABCNews for its supposed unfairness (to left-wing candidates).