Just do it the MSM way and say “There are those who say that you are on the list. Can you disprove that? … I thought not, so it must be true.”

publish the address of the listserv box… your faithful will tell you exactly who’s on that list

I can’t believe Shuster or MSNBC even would bother to issue a denial. The “network” has been so transparently biased that it almost has crossed the line into in-kind (and illegal) campaign contributions for years. I want to check it out first, but apparently the parent company GE’s poor financial shape has not been forgotten recently, and therer’s your quid. If real enterprise journalism still existed, I imagine we would find the email list serve has existed for much longer than has been exposed.

Great Smack down, however, I sincerely hope you got played! Because if there is even a little smoke to this fire,… then we are faced with spotting the left, and then overcoming, a 15 +/- percentage point deficit come 2010.

doable, but daunting

so he’s already not watched by hardly anyone possessed of a functioning brain anyway.
2. So he’s a lefty, which kind of went with 1.
3. The only people who might, might mind you, believe that he isn’t a lefty, don’t watch MSNBC, so his protests aren’t being seen anyway.
Why bother?

It can’t be that hard to infiltrate and get added, then post a few hundred juicy tidbits publicly. It’s been obvious for at least 4 years that there is a common set of talking points being generated, thanks to the daily use of common terms.

How long till someone decided to go for the big money and sell out? Not like they generically have a strong moral compass to suppress the urge.

So in this case, David Shuster does not need to be featured in this:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.parcoltop11.35513.ImageFile.jpg

Lets see, how do they say it in France? Oh, yea. Touche!

Revenge is a dish best served cold.
–Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Because there are people who are in positions to know inside stuff in the GOP that are on it. Or are directly connected to those that are.

That’s my guess.

Guess # 2:

One other set of names that is on this list: Big name Democrat donors, the kind of people who are getting nice, fat bailouts or plush appointments right now.

This list isn’t limited to journalists and bloggers–there is money behind it . . .

Note the exact wording:

“None the less, I have never participated in any e-mail list serve to collaborate with anybody outside of NBC News to form news stories.”

That’s a very specific “denial” – he’s claiming that he’s never generated a “news” story from the mail list. That doesn’t say anything about editorial content, nor anything about “non-news” stories, nor anything about *choice* of which stories MSNBC would choose to go with.

The word is “form” – IOW, nebulous.

“Furthermore, until I was directed to your blog, I had never even heard that there might even be a list-serve for bloggers, policy guys, and journalists to collaborate on-line.”

Right, because to Shuster, they’re not any of those things, they’re just “like-minded friends and colleagues” who “discuss” things.

He probably doesn’t even think he’s done anything wrong, and probably doesn’t believe that he’s been influenced in anyway. (Lefties are all really good at the kind of self-delusion where they all convince themselves they’re not all followers and herd animals, when they all are.)

Now, if he’d said, “I’ve never, ever been on *any* mailing list”, that would be a lot more definitive.

Nice try, David Shuster.

But, result: FAIL.

Pretty soon, Klein would be telling us it was all a figment of our imaginations – the list never existed or he’s the sole member of the listserv who sends stuff to himself..

What I’m pretty certain of is that there are a lot of “anonymous” members of that listserv, people whose identities only the administrators of the JList know, and I’d strongly bet that some of them are Democratic communications staffers on the hill, White House staffers, news show producers on the networks, supposedly straight news reporters, and their editors.

I would bet anything that Bill Keller is on that list under an assumed name.

In other words, any list of members Ezra Klein would produce or have mysteriously “leaked” is certain to be doctored.

The list exists… it has journos on it.

So it isn’t Shuster or Ober…. it’s their producers, writers and researchers… same result.