It matters little that JournoList founder, Ezra Klein, a prominent writer for the Washington Post, has recently shut the e-mail listserv down. Their intent was uncovered proving conclusively that our establishment media cannot be trusted.

Some background info:

Just in case you’ve been living in a cave, or if you only get your news from MSNBC, here’s the story. A young blogger, Ezra Klein, formerly of the avowedly left-wing American Prospect and now with the avowedly mainstream Washington Post, founded the e-mail listserv “Journolist” for like-minded liberals to hash out and develop ideas. Some 400 people joined the by-invitation-only group. Most, it seems, were in the media, but many hailed from academia, think tanks and the world of forthright liberal activism generally. They spoke freely about their political and personal biases, including their hatred of Fox and Rush Limbaugh, and their utter loyalty to the progressive cause and Democratic success.

Back when Obama’s presidential bid was in trouble over videos of his anti-white, anti-Semitic, and anti-American pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, JournoList contributors lead by Spencer Ackerman of The Washington Independent (independent, eh?) proposed the following:

“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them-Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares-and call them racists. . . . This makes them ’sputter’ with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”

And it didn’t stop there. The American Spectator describes:

• their push to deliberately smear innocent conservative journalists and politicos as “racists” and “bigots”;
• their twisted passion to see Rush Limbaugh killed off and dead;
• their intolerant desire to have the government censor and shut down Fox News; and
• their baldly partisan effort to coordinate liberal talking points that would discredit Sarah Palin and John McCain, while helping to elect Barack Obama president.

… The Journolisters are professionally employed journalists who work at some of America’s most prestigious and influential newsrooms: the Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, New Republic, Time, Newsweek, et al. Thus, they wield tremendous cultural clout and influence.

Progressives in the media and academia are in many ways indistinguishable from totalitarians in their political tactics, and indeed some of their goals (e.g. state-run media, one-Party rule, eugenics, etc.). They may differ in degree from communists or Nazis, but they do not differ in kind.

While media bias is nothing new and well-documented, what is fairly new is catching these folks openly plotting to misinform our nation. The only thing that matters to progressives is driving a far-left agenda, not facts or truth. JournoList may be shut down, but the radical agenda of its participants unfortunately lives on.