David Corn joins on with Cliff May, Michael Ledeen in New Blog...Sell Out!

[KoKo]

I Put on Pajamas, and Vanity Fair's Wolcott Whips Me
by David Corn


Ouch. Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott, who has previously written rather warmly about me (click here), blog-lashed me last night for joining a new Internet entity called Pajamas Media, which in two weeks will be launching a new portal combining blogs of the left and the right and of no-political-interest with news of the day. My blog--along with those of Marc Cooper and Eric Umansky--will represent the left side of the keyboard. Additional libs and lefties may be signed up, I am informed. My blog will remain the same. I will continue to have total and complete--that is, dictatorial--editorial control, and I intend to make few alterations (except perhaps to spiff things up a little). Comments will still be open to one and all. The only material change will be the ads, which will eventually be sold by Pajamas Media rather than the good people at Blogads (who have been a delight to work with). Leaving Blogads for PJ Media is no reflection upon the former. PJM made me a much better offer, and I have bills to pay.

After agreeing to become part of this blogs-for-all portal--which was indeed put together by right-of-center bloggers--I was asked to join the editorial board for the project. I said yes. Later, I learned that other board members would be Cliff May, Michael Ledeen, Michael Barone and John Podhoretz. I was disheartened to find myself in the same (virtual) room as May and Ledeen, who I do not consider journalists. My disgust with May is well known to regular readers of this blog. (Click here.) Barone and Podhoretz are conservatives whom I have debated on TV, so I can't object to being in the same zip code with them. I do think the PJ honchos made a mistake by recruiting May and Ledeen--partisan policy operatives--for the board, but I figured I would see how this board functions (editorial boards often are more for show than anything) before passing a verdict upon it.

http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2005/11/i_put_on_pajama.php

[acmejack]

1. There is a bit of mercenary in us all it appears.

I am dubious, a venture with any relationship whatsoever with Ledeen, May, Barone or Podhoretz is suspect from the start, IMO.

[pretzel4gore]

2. yer right! when are they being honest, when are they kidding, when lying?

when are they tweaking the truth, when are they insulting our intelligence, when are they be disingenuis? when are they bullshitting?
how can you know they're lying, or telling the truth? when are they just being assholes? how can anyone know the answer, as they, barone and ledeen especially, who are proven liars, are the only ones who know?

[Cocoa]

3. dear God

I guess we'll learn whether David Corn has the ability to admit and correct a mistake, or if he's going to continue to try rationalizing this.

This operation of Straussians who philosophically believe the elites must lie to the plebes clearly has no interest in an honest discussion, and so Corn's involvement will only serve the cause of the neocons.

http://pajamasmedia.com/about.php

Pajamas Media had its beginnings in 2004, when co-founders Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon experienced first-hand two events that marked the growing influence of blogs on society: a blog-driven investigation into the United Nations Oil for Food scandal and another into the falsified military records cited by CBS News in coverage of President George W. Bush.

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[KoKo]

4. Thanks for the link to the background of the site.

"Little Green Footballs" ....sheesh. How a contributor to the Nation could go over and join that scum and figure he won't get tainted..