Holy Ink Buckets, Holy Terror Is Published!

Comic book legend Frank Miller's reply to 9/11 is finally hitting the newsstands after 10 years of waiting in the wings.

Holy Terror is finally available.

And not being a powerful and influential member of the media, I didn't receive an advance copy to review. So I'll have to go to the comic book store just like everyone else to pick up my copy.

It's not a Batman tale as Miller had first intended it to be. It's someone named 'The Fixer' instead, sort of a wink, wink, nudge, nudge nod towards Batman's direction. Much the same way Die Fledermaus is Ben Edlund's nod in The Tick's universe.

Former Journolist member Spencer Ackerman isn't happy with it.

Not that everyone didn't already know that Spencer Ackerman is a world class douche nozzle but he illustrates it here yet again:

To bring the point home Miller draws 14 stereotypical Muslim faces around the righteous anti-hero. Naturally, the only way to learn more about the next attack is to torture a surviving terrorist — which Miller illustrates pornographically [Emphasis mine]

If this was Daredevil going up against Hydra, the book wouldn't of raised any eyebrows at all. But since it's about Muslim extremists-- something that most everyone alive today has had an experience with-- Spenny feels the need to take Miller to task.

If anyone should know something about writing violent porn, it's Ackerman:

[F]ind a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear.

It's telling to see who the left views as their enemy and who they defend.

In Ackerman's case, you can easily tell what he violently wishes for in a pornographic manner.

Video: Talking News Heads Parroting The Same Talking Point

I don't think this is an example of the Journolist 2.0 (AKA, Cabalist) getting the talking points out for their team as much as it is an example of the mindset the Main Stream Media.

Groupthink at it's finest.

Why The Journolist Matters

For the average person, the Journolist doesn't matter. With bills to pay and kids to feed, who the hell is Ezra Klein and what is a 'Journolist'? That's where Marisa Tomei comes in.

And as much as it may sound like it, it's not a version of the Chewbacca defense.

Marisa had her claim to fame in with her role in My Cousin Vinnie as the girlfriend to the title character. The role where she won an Oscar.

And after that, she kind of dropped off the scene. She had a supporting role here or there but for the most part, she's been in independent films with no major studio behind it. Most notably, Cyrus.

When the rest of the nation watches movies that Hollywood makes, Hollywood watches independent movies. Sort of a farm team for potential movie talent.

Hence, why Marisa is on the cover of Shape Magazine this month. She's done her time with the smaller, independent films has a chance to move on to bigger roles. She was noticed by the movers and shakers and the time is due for another big role. A PR machine behind her is getting in gear with a puffball interview done for the magazine and a photohshopped picture on the cover.

The same with the Journolist.

2. Ben Adler – Newsweek, POLITICO
3. Mike Allen - POLITICO
[. . .]
51. Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
52. Joe Klein - TIME
53. Paul Krugman – The New York Times, Princeton University
54. Lisa Lerer - POLITICO
[. . .]
84. Ben Smith - POLITICO

If you listen to the radio news updates on the hour, many of those stories are based from The Politico.  The New York Times is what the alphabet networks base their nightly newscast on.  Not everyone on the Journolist are daily reads for the of the news industry but a good portion of them are.

Many of the sites and news bureaus that staffed members of the Journolist are what other news bureaus based their daily reads from.

It's a long way to go for just a picture of Marisa Tomei.

A Couple Of Notes About The Journolist

Of the known Journolist members, it's a pretty pasty white crowd. I would have to go to a tea party to see a greater percentage of ethnic diversity than the first 100 members of the Journolist.

Also, it's members have more interrelations between political and advocacy groups than the cast of characters in your average daytime soap opera. It's downright incestuous.

So for an exit question, besides being like minded thinkers-- for lack of a better term-- and pretty much all if not most of them knew most of the Journolist inner circle-- at the very least, had access to it-- what was the real reason behind the Journolist if it wasn't for message coordination?

Besides the need to congratulate themselves while sipping on a juicebox?

Talk About Setting The Bar Low

They weren't so much as heroes as it was their job to do in the first place.

In that case, I'm Spartacus a Hero.

Who Knew That Spencer Ackerman Could Of Had A Career As A Beatnik Poet?

Via Dan Riehl.

If you haven't heard of the JournoList, then this might sound like the ramblings of a crazed psychotic.

And you would be right.



It's a sad fact that this is one of the internet's biggest in-joke, in a manner of speaking. If we had true, interested forth estate, this would have been one of the largest scandals in recent history. As it stands now, it's an indictment against the forth estate.  Something that only a handful of Cassandra's are trying to talk about to an apathetic and uninformed public.  

But the Gatekeepers of information and the self described 'Deciders' will barely mention it. Because most of them are complacent, at best, with the media bias. At worst, well, everone who is interested is seeing the worst right now as more of the emails from the J-List are being made public.

Related: Glenn Beck on the JournoList. It's long but worth the listen.