Olbermann, Markos Discuss The "Vast Left Wing Conspiracy" (VIDEO)

Markos Moulitsas told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday that there is no "left wing conspiracy" consorting on the internet.

Politico reported earlier in the day on an off-the-record online "meeting space" for left-leaning bloggers, political writers and academics called JournoList. While journalists on the list admit that their conversations there are off-the-record, they deny pushing a specific agenda.

Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?

Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. "Basically," he says, "it's just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely."

After the article's publication, RedState's Erick Erickson wrote: "I'm told such luminaries as David Shuster at MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, a host of New York Times magazine writers, Frank Rich, and others all collaborate on this list." (He later retracted the assertion.)

After Olbermann said he had never heard of the list, Markos told the host he is not surprised by such "conspiracy theories." He mentioned that Republicans had been very successful in the past by using a carefully distributed message that started as high as the White House, and called their paranoia about liberals' use of a private space to discuss issues "projection."

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Comments

[JScott]

03:05 PM on 03/18/2009

Why is John Cryer of 2 1/2 men in the pic?


Separated at birth?

[noamjunior]

01:10 PM on 03/18/2009

Typical Con brain : There MUST be a vast left wing conspiracy becasause RUsh limbaugh, Laura Ingram , gordon liddy, Everyone on FOX news, The NY POst, the WAshington times, george Will, Chalres Krouthamme­r, MIke (wiener) savage, the Pittsburgh Herald, the Wall street Journal, Joe Scarboro, Pat and bey Buchanan, CNBC's Santelli, ALL told me so
in fact I hear all the time on the TV Radio and read in newspapers that the media is controlled by liberals
IT MUST BE TRUE

[tokenconservative]

01:09 PM on 03/18/2009

I think you guys are kind of absurd about this. 97% of journalist­s in the last election voted for Obama; even if the good majority of them tried to write 100% unbiasedly (which I fully believe), it's impossible to not let some bias enter, even if its something as subliminal as not mentioning which party a local government­al official is when he gets charged with some petty crime (right-win­ger journalist James Taranto contends quite effectivel­y that they're about 3 times more likely to be called out as Republican­s than Democrats)­.
Or look at something like FOX - unarguably conservati­ve, but everyone knows it. Then look at MSNBC; when's the last time someone lambasted it for being undeniably liberal. It NEVER happens.

[noamjunior]

01:12 PM on 03/18/2009

I heard that 97% of conservati­ves make up statistics to try and prove their point

[Bankenstein]

01:22 PM on 03/18/2009

The republican­s' projection Kos was referring to is heavy in your ridiculous post!!!

[albanianmomforobama]

01:03 PM on 03/18/2009

Markos Moulitsas - you are famous now. The dark side...the­y fear you.......­.

[rmax53]

01:02 PM on 03/18/2009

My calendar for next week:
Monday: Weight Watchers
Tuesday: Homosexual Agenda Tupperware party
Wed: Left Wing Conspiracy Karaoke Night
Thurs: "Survivor" Watch (with Homosexual and Left Wing friends--s­ome crossover)
Friday: neighborho­od community meeting

[SamKnause]

01:14 PM on 03/18/2009

Saturday: Committee meeting on stem cell research and birth control
Sunday: attend church (any church because you don't have to really follow church rules)
volunteer at soup kitchen to help out the loser homeless people.

Your post was great. I hope you like my additions.

[reggieb]

04:56 PM on 03/18/2009

I wish I could make some of those meetings but this week I am in a Secret Muslims Without Birth Certificat­es Celebrity Hot Dog Eating Contest and Quilting Bee.

[crzy]

09:18 PM on 03/19/2009

Hey Reggie, would you let the rest of the group know I won't be there? I'm in the planning stages of Secret Muslims WITH Birth Certificat­es Celebrity TOFU Dog Eating Contest and Quilting Bee. There's not enough time in a day ....

[jnah]

12:41 PM on 03/18/2009

if your a conservati­ve unaffected by fact than the whole world is a left wing conspiracy

[noamjunior]

01:12 PM on 03/18/2009

back in the day it was called "the enlightenm­ent"

[greatlardini]

12:39 PM on 03/18/2009

Is it as "vast" as Rush?

[harriscrl3]

12:37 PM on 03/18/2009

I wish there WAS a vast left conspriacy maybe this country wouldnt be in the mess it is in. No the left unfortunat­ely are not as diabolical as rethugs they dont all communicat­e with each other so they all sound the same with identical talking points. The left are divided because they aer not toy soldiers they think for themselves which may be the reason why they have a hard time ousting the right.

Bill Orielly is an Fo ol but what do you expect

Carol

[Meah]

12:33 PM on 03/18/2009

Republican­s are masters at projection­. They have it down to a fine science. Voter fraud? Republican­s do it and blame Dems for doing it. Republican can be real d ogs! Only a few are worthy of respect. Pretty sad.

[Heady]

12:27 PM on 03/18/2009

The Left Wing Conspiracy­: People meeting in private, posting online.

The Right Wing Conspiracy­: Fear mongering, invading the wrong country, destroying the global economy.

If both exist, then clearly one is better than the other.

[ObjectiveRealist]

12:31 PM on 03/18/2009

Yea, baby! Point & laugh at the stupid Republican­s.

[kellygrrrl]

12:21 PM on 03/18/2009

proud member of the VLWC!!!!

[reggieb]

12:41 PM on 03/18/2009

I'm glad our special secret left wing conspiracy underwear comes in the camouflage­d material. When I wear it, no one can see me typing my radical thoughts.

[SamKnause]

01:09 PM on 03/18/2009

Cute. LOL

[Jonny38103]

12:21 PM on 03/18/2009

There is no liberal media in America unless you really dig for it. For many years we had three network news channels. Not until Nixon et al started wanting us to shoot the messengers vice owning up to their own pathetic behavior did anyone truly consider mainstream media liberal. And only then by people so conservati­ve that the Baptist Church looks liberal. For the most part in this country we have conservati­ve media and moderate media - there is no liberal media.

[BetterDeadthanRedState]

12:17 PM on 03/18/2009

The left is not discipline­d enough to goose step in lockstep like the Republican­s do. Most people now realize that is a good thing.

[MochasMom]

12:04 PM on 03/18/2009

Yer paranoia will destroy ya...

[Yarrr]

12:02 PM on 03/18/2009

The right has a colorful history of projecting­.