Journolist and the loneliness of the long-distance conservative blogger
Shirley Sherrod was not only an initiator of the Pigford Farms case,
she received a chunk of change for her company, New Communities, Inc.
To be accurate, she received the largest chunk of change for New
Communities — $13 million. New Communities was a bankrupt commune-type
land trust held by Sherrod and her husband. She and her husband
personally received $150,000 each to compensate them for “pain and
suffering.”
By Sissy Willis of sisu
"'Throwing up as many shorter posts as we can' has got to be the best double entendre ever was," we just wrote in the comments to Little Miss Attila's take on Journolist and the difference between liberal and conservative bloggers, the wolf pack vs the solitary grizzly
of our previous post. Delicious food for thought, and it sticks to the
ribs. A few nibbles, and then some thoughts of our own on the loneliness
of the long-distance conservative/libertarian blogger. Over to you, Little Miss:
Bloggers do send each
other links. We send them one-on-one, and as group emails to our own
customized link-pimp mailing lists (almost all of us small-time bloggers
act as our own publicists, and send out emails every day, or week, or
month — demanding that Glenn Reynolds, Rush Limbaugh and whomever else look at what we’re writing). And Elizabeth Scalia, Jim Hoft, Ed Morrissey, Allahpundit and Ace all get mail from me, to which they occasionally respond when time permits. But these writers are all too big to have to send out “look at me” emails.
And although there are sub-groups of Southern Californians,
chick-bloggers, warmongers, Jesus freaks, libertarians, and energy
bloggers that I consult with and link to from time to time, most of us
really are too busy to coordinate actual “media strategies,” because we generally also have day jobs and/or home obligations, along with the writing of at least one essay a day and throwing up as many shorter posts as we can.
Her anecdotal analysis nicely reinforces our own wolf pack vs. grizzly comparison of wordsmiths of the left and right. As we twittered:
We've
known about the loose cabal of like-minded proselytizers of the left
who pass for a truth-seeking Fourth Estate for at least 20 years,
witness our "Soylent Green revisited."
NEWS FLASH: This just in from our dauntless Faux Journolista of the right Matt Lewis, "Five Minutes With Andrew Breitbart," an absolute must read from start to finish:
Believe it or not, one of my primary motives on this planet is to stop
this racism, and to stop the Democratic Party's use of race that divides
us intentionally. Google me and Clarence Thomas. I went from left to
right because I watched this tactic happen to him and I aligned myself
with black conservatives. Free thinkers recognize the Democratic Party
will do or say anything to instill fear into black Democratic
voters … Shirley Sherrod in that video said those who disagree with
Obamacare are coming from a racist point of view. That is a troubling
racist sentiment.
Crossposted at sisu and Liberty Pundits.
Dan,
“Congressman Steve King points to the Pigford settlement [of a discrimination suit against the Department of Agriculture], and Shirley Sherrod’s involvement in it. There are major allegations of monumental fraud there. The last thing the administration wants is an investigation into Pigford.”
Isn’t that what I said a couple of days ago when I posted the American Spectator article about the Pigford case? The WH panicked. It wasn’t about her comments at the NAACP event. It was about her being in the news at all.
And I love your characterization of Matt Lewis as a “faux journalista of the right”. He’s not a journalist. He’s a Republican operative. I said as much when I used to blog at Townhall.com (RINO Central) where he used to ply his “trade”.
Pasadena Phil: I remember your comment of the other day about the focus on Sherrod’s comments being a misdirection away from the bigger story Obama wants to keep hidden. Good on ya for picking up on that. I just stumbled onto it again in the course of my reading yesterday.
This is guestblogger Sissy, by the way, not Big Dan. The “faux journolista of the right” was a play on the idea of political opinionators’ colluding to promulgate a preferred narrative.
(Just noticed I mispelled journolista. Correction made.)
I am not a blogger, but I have been honored to be a source for a lead article once in James Taranto’s Best of the Web on the Wall Street Journal website. Yes, a small success indeed, but realize that the WSJ website published something I, a complete nonentity, thought was interesting about Joe Biden (long before he became VP but well after his 10,000th verbal gaffe).
If I can do it, anyone can.
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