The paper also reveals that the Fox news staffer who wrote the sycophantic email we told you about yesterday, saying he found the “media frenzy” around the story “absolutely ridiculous” was Griff Jenkins.

I’m sure Jay will enlighten us any day now about the cornucopia of stories that Josh Marshall has just fabricated, or something.

I’ve noticed that you have a tendency to put other people’s usernames in quotation marks (e.g.: Thanks for the tip, “Randy Brown”.) I think it’s fairly obvious to everyone that most commenters here — surely you and I — are using pseudonyms, so I’m wondering why you feel it’s necessary to “point that out” with “quotation marks” around the “names” they choose to “use”. It’s a bit “distracting”, and — to me at least — comes across as rather “condescending”.

I’ve also noticed your tendency to preface names with adjectives (e.g.: militant right wing extremist Michelle “Concentration Camp Advocate” Malkin or right winger “Jay”.) I won’t argue your characterization of either Malkin or Jay (look, Ma, no quotes!), but I do question the necessity of the relentlessness of the characterization. Sometimes it gets ridiculous, as when you make references like “Republican Nixon” — like somehow we might have forgotten his party affiliation. Again, the impact of this kind of writing is distracting at best, condescending at worst.

Perhaps you’ve got a top-notch rationale for these idiosyncrasies that I haven’t considered. You’re welcome to enlighten me, and of course you’re free to disregard me entirely. Just on the off chance that you’re not aware of how you come across, however, I thought I’d offer this modest critique.

According to Museum.TV, Republican Nixon’s media strategist Roger Ailes produced Rush Limbaugh’s TV program.

I’d also forgotten that Roger Ailes was President of NBC’s cable channel CNBC.

http://museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/ailesroger/ailesroger.htm

Conservative media everywhere….

Thanks for the tip, “Randy Brown”.

You forgot that Ailes was also Limbaugh’s radio produced.

Or am I misunderstanding the wingnut dictionary, that “shoddy reporting” means any factually correct stories that make conservatives look bad?

Bill O’Reilly did, however, encourage a terrorist attack on an American city.

Murdoch’s terrorist network is no different than Hezbollah TV.

Why do you support terrorists, “Jay”?

Even if everything they wrote is true (which is highly suspect), who cares? How do those few examples lend any credibility to Oliver’s claim that the “Right Wing Media Covered For Mark Sanford”?

Answer: It doesn’t.

And News Reference, take your meds.

In an email to Sanford press secretary Joel Sawyer, Brendan Miniter, an editor of the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com, called out his own paper’s first-day coverage (sub. req.) of the story, writing: “Someone at WSJ should be fired for today’s story. Ridiculous.”

(and keep in mind, all the TPM is doing is re-reporting what the South Carolina newspaper The State has dug up through good journalism.

“Jay”, the fan of militant right wing extremist Michelle “Concentration Camp Advocate” Malkin, is getting spoon fed his “news” by Nixon’s media strategist.

Remember Republican’s coronation of Messiah Moon as their leader?

If I recall correctly the Republicans coronation of Messiah Moon was actually in the Capital of the United States.

If I remember correctly it was with long Kingly robes and there was even a Kingly Crown put on his head.

Is “Jay” a double secret ‘Moonie’?

“TPM’s piss poor track record”? Considering the Michelle Malkin fanclub site HotAir bragged just yesterday about their awesomeness being matched only by TPM (not to mention the journalism awards garnered by TPM to date — how many has HotAir won again?), seems to me they must be doing something right!

And an editor from the Wall Street Journal’s website calling his OWN paper’s NEWS reporting (the only good thing in the otherwise fishwrap worthy WSJ) on the subject “Ridiculous”?

Obviously Jay is trying to run interference for one more item in the copious list of evidence of right-wing news bias, so he seems to have deliberately neglected this comment in the TPM story…

But we hear that The State plans to publish more of the emails it has obtained later today or tomorrow, which may shed further light on the issue. So we’ll keep you posted.

If I may use small words so that Jay will get it: TPM is reporting on the FOIA obtained emails from The State, which will be coming out in more detail. We already have names of specific people from WSJ and WashTimes, some of whom have apparently already responded with some CYA. But TPM is “making up” the Fox News guy. I’m sure when more detailed info is published Jay will explain that the guy must surely be some Daily Kos mole at Fox or something.

In any case, tell me more about that “liberal media”…

Wow.