Give us lefties to match those media

The Great Left-Wing Conspiracy uncovered so far:

Here is the list as it stands today, courtesy of Buckeye Texan, as published on Free Republic (hat tip: Clarice Feldman):
  1. Spencer Ackerman – Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect
  2. Thomas Adcock – New York Law Journal
  3. Ben Adler – Newsweek, POLITICO
  4. Mike Allen – POLITICO
  5. Eric Alterman – The Nation, Media Matters for America
  6. Marc Ambinder – The Atlantic
  7. Greg Anrig – The Century Foundation
  8. Ryan Avent – Economist
  9. Dean Baker – The American Prospect
  10. Nick Baumann – Mother Jones
  11. Josh Bearman – LA Weekly
  12. Steven Benen – The Carpetbagger Report
  13. Ari Berman – The Nation
  14. Jared Bernstein – Economic Policy Institute
  15. Michael Berube – Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University
  16. Brian Beutler – The Media Consortium
  17. Lindsay Beyerstein – Freelance journalist
  18. Joel Bleifuss – In These Times
  19. John Blevins – South Texas College of Law
  20. Eric Boehlert – Media Matters
  21. Sam Boyd – The American Prospect
  22. Ben Brandzel – MoveOn.org, John Edwards Campaign
  23. Shannon Brownlee – Author, New America Foundation
  24. Rich Byrne – Playwright
  25. Kevin Carey – Education Sector
  26. Jonathan Chait – The New Republic
  27. Lakshmi Chaudry – In These Times
  28. Isaac Chotiner – The New Republic
  29. Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic
  30. Michael Cohen – New America Foundation
  31. Jonathan Cohn – The New Republic
  32. Joe Conason – The New York Observer
  33. Lark Corbeil – Public News Service
  34. David Corn – Mother Jones
  35. Daniel Davies – The Guardian
  36. David Dayen – FireDogLake
  37. Brad DeLong – The Economists’ Voice, University of California at Berkeley
  38. Ryan Donmoyer – Bloomberg News
  39. Adam Doster – In These Times
  40. Kevin Drum – Washington Monthly
  41. Matt Duss – Center for American Progress
  42. Gerald Dworkin – UC Davis
  43. Eve Fairbanks – The New Republic
  44. James Fallows – The Atlantic
  45. Henry Farrell – George Washington University
  46. Tim Fernholz – American Prospect
  47. Dan Froomkin – Huffington Post, Washington Post
  48. Jason Furman – Brookings Institution
  49. James Galbraith – University of Texas at Austin
  50. Kathleen Geier – Talking Points Memo
  51. Todd Gitlin – Columbia University
  52. Ilan Goldenberg – National Security Network
  53. Arthur Goldhammer – Harvard University
  54. Dana Goldstein – The Daily Beast
  55. Andrew Golis – Talking Points Memo
  56. Jaana Goodrich – Blogger
  57. Merrill Goozner – Chicago Tribune
  58. David Greenberg – Slate
  59. Robert Greenwald – Brave New Films
  60. Chris Hayes – The Nation
  61. Don Hazen – Alternet
  62. Jeet Heer – Canadian Journolist
  63. Jeff Hauser – Political Action Committee, Dennis Shulman Campaign
  64. Michael Hirsh – Newsweek
  65. James Johnson – University of Rochester
  66. John Judis – The New Republic, The American Prospect
  67. Foster Kamer – The Village Voice
  68. Michael Kazin – Georgetown University
  69. Ed Kilgore – Democratic Strategist
  70. Richard Kim – The Nation
  71. Charlie Kireker – Air America Media
  72. Mark Kleiman – UCLA The Reality Based Community
  73. Ezra Klein – Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
  74. Joe Klein – TIME
  75. Robert Kuttner – American Prospect, Economic Policy Institute
  76. Paul Krugman – The New York Times, Princeton University
  77. Lisa Lerer – POLITICO
  78. Daniel Levy – Century Foundation
  79. Ralph Luker – Cliopatria
  80. Annie Lowrey – Washington Independent
  81. Robert Mackey – New York Times
  82. Mike Madden – Salon
  83. Maggie Mahar – The Century Foundation
  84. Amanda Marcotte – Pandagon.net
  85. Dylan Matthews – Harvard University
  86. Alec McGillis – Washington Post
  87. Scott McLemee – Inside Higher Ed
  88. Sara Mead – New America Foundation
  89. Ari Melber – The Nation
  90. David Meyer – University of California at Irvine
  91. Seth Michaels – MyDD.com
  92. Luke Mitchell – Harper’s Magazine
  93. Gautham Nagesh – The Hill, Daily Caller
  94. Suzanne Nossel – Human Rights Watch
  95. Michael O’Hare – University of California at Berkeley
  96. Josh Orton – MyDD.com, Air America Media
  97. Rodger Payne – University of Louisville
  98. Rick Perlstein – Author, Campaign for America’s Future
  99. Nico Pitney – Huffington Post
  100. Harold Pollack – University of Chicago
  101. Katha Pollitt – The Nation
  102. Ari Rabin-Havt – Media Matters
  103. Joy-Ann Reid – South Florida Times
  104. David Roberts – Grist
  105. Lamar Robertson – Partnership for Public Service
  106. Sara Robinson – Campaign For America’s Future
  107. Alyssa Rosenberg – Washingtonian, The Atlantic, Government Executive
  108. Alex Rossmiller – National Security Network
  109. Michael Roston – Newsbroke
  110. Laura Rozen – POLITICO, Mother Jones
  111. Felix Salmon – Reuters
  112. Greg Sargent – Washington Post
  113. Thomas Schaller – Baltimore Sun
  114. Noam Scheiber – The New Republic
  115. Michael Scherer – TIME
  116. Mark Schmitt – American Prospect, The New America Foundation
  117. Rinku Sen – ColorLines Magazine
  118. Julie Bergman Sender – Balcony Films
  119. Adam Serwer – American Prospect
  120. Walter Shapiro – PoliticsDaily.com
  121. Kate Sheppard – Mother Jones
  122. Matthew Shugart – UC San Diego
  123. Nate Silver – FiveThirtyEight.com
  124. Jesse Singal – The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly
  125. Ann-Marie Slaughter – Princeton University
  126. Ben Smith – POLITICO
  127. Sarah Spitz – KCRW
  128. Adele Stan – The Media Consortium
  129. Paul Starr – The Atlantic
  130. Kate Steadman – Kaiser Health News
  131. Jonathan Stein – Mother Jones
  132. Sam Stein – Huffington Post
  133. Matt Steinglass – Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  134. James Surowiecki – The New Yorker
  135. Jesse Taylor – Pandagon.net
  136. Steven Teles – Yale University
  137. Mark Thoma – The Economists’ View
  138. Michael Tomasky – The Guardian
  139. Jeffrey Toobin – CNN, The New Yorker
  140. Rebecca Traister – Salon
  141. Karen Tumulty – Washington Post, TIME
  142. Tracy Van Slyke – The Media Consortium
  143. Paul Waldman – Author, American Prospect
  144. Dave Weigel – Washington Post, MSNBC, The Washington Independent
  145. Moira Whelan – National Security Network
  146. Scott Winship – Pew Economic Mobility Project
  147. J. Harry Wray – DePaul University
  148. D. Brad Wright – University of NC at Chapel Hill
  149. Kai Wright – The Root
  150. Holly Yeager – Columbia Journalism Review
  151. Rich Yeselson – Change to Win
  152. Matthew Yglesias – Center for American Progress, The Atlantic Monthly
  153. Jonathan Zasloff – UCLA
  154. Julian Zelizer – Princeton University
  155. Avi Zenilman – POLITICO

via American Thinker Blog: JournoList update.

Auto bailouts played it safe

Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek writes letters to newspapers, copying them to the site he and other economists from George Mason U. operate.  His latest, to Wall Street Journal, demurs from WSJ auto-industry writer Paul Ingrassia’s joy in what he says is the successful bailout of GM and Chrysler.

A year and a half is not long enough to draw such a conclusion, says Boudreaux. 

Second – and more importantly – the chief economic case against the bailout was not that huge infusions of taxpayer funds and special exemptions from bankruptcy rules could not make G.M. and Chrysler profitable.  Of course they could.

Yes, throw money at a money-shortage program and you get results.

Instead, the heart of the case against the bailout is that it saps the life-blood of entrepreneurial capitalism.  The bailout reinforces the debilitating precedent of protecting firms deemed ‘too big to fail.’

How so?

Capital and other resources are thus kept glued by politics to familiar lines of production, thus impeding entrepreneurial initiative that would have otherwise redeployed these resources into newer, more-dynamic, and more productive industries. [italics added]

It’s a play-it-safe solution, a conservative one, as opposed to a classical liberal one that respects and encourages ingenuity.  One that Friedrich Hayek would recommend.

In short:

The ‘success’ of the bailout is all too easy to engineer and to see.  The cost of the bailout – the industries, the jobs, and the outputs that are never created – is impossible to see, but nevertheless real.

What can be seen, on the other hand, is continued high pension and benefits for members of the United Auto Workers, a union that loves Dems because they protect their (narrow) interests.

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Protecting assets

Incorporate, advises commenter Benjamin, at Carpe Diem, where the talk is the Americans With Disabilities Act, now 20 years old, as foolish, expensive, and dictatorial, thanks, says Benjamin, to judges and lawyers with “no concept [of] costs, or the costs they are imposing on society”:

[Y]ou can almost always avoid any personal liability by forming a corporation. The corporate shield is a marvelous fiction, and ensconced behind it, you are nearly impervious. Just keep few assets in the corporation, and declare bankruptcy if met with untoward judgments.

A word to the wise, to be sure.

(HT News Alert)

Eighty and out, says Big O.

Get outta here, Charlie!

President Barack Obama has kept mum on the fate of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) for days — but he tells CBS News that it’s time for the embattled 80-year-old former Ways and Means Chairman to end his career “with dignity.”

Why, besides “troubling” allegations?

 [H]e’s somebody who’s at the end of his career. Eighty years old. I’m sure that– what he wants is to be able to– end his career with dignity. And my hope is that– it happens. “

What the hell, what is he a one-man death panel?

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Kenneth Howell back at work

Alliance Defense Fund, one.  Hate speech, nothing.

An adjunct religion instructor barred from teaching by the University of Illinois after defending the Roman Catholic stance on homosexuality has been invited back to teach this fall.

Adjunct associate professor Kenneth Howell was reinstated on Thursday — a day after the deadline when his lawyers said they would sue the university for violating his academic freedom if administrators failed to reinstate him.

Faculty investigators soldier on.

But the reinstatement is temporary. It does not affect an ongoing faculty review, which has been investigating whether Howell’s immediate removal violated his academic freedom or right to due process.

Another faculty committee appointed to examine the circumstances of Howell’s compensation concluded that the university’s relationship with St. John’s Catholic Newman Center, the Catholic ministry on campus, was improper.

Though Howell taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought in university classrooms, he served on the payroll of the Newman Center funded by the Diocese of Peoria — an agreement that remained in place despite scholars’ objections when a religious studies program was established in 1971.

Longstanding objections, therefore?  Reported at the time?  Known by how many even now?  Chi Trib’s Brachear is slipping something in here: It’s what interests her.

Question: Any names to go with the Howell decision to reinstate?  Passive voice irritates: “has been invited . . . was reinstated.”  By whom?  Weak reportage, I fear, all that’s available for now maybe.

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The king of trite

We pick on Obama for his statist policies, but do we pick on him for his regular use of bromides and nostrums?  We should.  Just today on The View, where a gaggle of admirers were joined by their usual conservative Hasselbeck, he came up with these that flash across his TelePrompter mind:

So why did Obama decide to go on the daytime chatfest? “I was trying to find a show that [First Lady] Michelle [Obama] actually watched,” the President said on the show.

Here’s a case of playing to the expected, or expecting.  It’s what the old boy says deprecatingly of the lady of the house, you know, accompanied by boyish grin.  He has the moves, yes.

. . . he talks about the economy, the oil spill and a “whole host of other issues.” He says the economy has started to stabilize and grow again.

Passing over what he says the economy is doing, how about that “whole host” business? 

“Politics is a contact sport,” says Obama. But he says “We shouldn’t be campaigning all the time.”

Passing over the second part, at which coming from him many would gag, “contact sport” is sure telling.

Told (by Hasselbeck) we’re “very divided,” he said,

“My hope is that I try to set a tone” that we can disagree without being disaggreable. He says the media loves conflict, and doesn’t report on agreements.

Can’t say enough for this trifecta of “my hope is” (vs. “I hope”), “disagree without” etc., and media as loving conflict.  At least he didn’t blame it on Bush.

That’s all for now.  more more more to come . . .

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