Beyond Weigel: While the legacy media sleeps, new-media sleuths get the scoop

The fresh face of the new-media sleuths, left to right: Avatars of blogger/twitterers Cubachi, trscoop and Sister Toldjah.

"@sistertoldjah I am already sick of Weigel. We have a big expose on MSM bias, and it gets little attention" twittered rising blog star Cubachi a few minutes ago. We checked out her story and Sister Toldjah's on-the-scent post, and eureka! Those two new-media woman warriors and a handful of nightowls (see below) were witness in the wee hours to a Weigel-like revelation as unidentified "newsmen" covering Sarah Palin's controversial California State University Stanislaus speech felt free to spew the Palin's-a-Pinhead party line into the ether when they didn't realize the microphone was still on. Here's Sister Toldjah:

Just got done watching the speech Sarah Palin gave at California State University, Stanislaus – the one that generated so much controversy from “concerned” students to the point they were digging in trash dumpsters looking for contract info.

Anyway, she gave a great speech as always (commentary/live Tweets are here) but at times the Fox40 live feed was hard to hear – they were having audio issues. But at the end of the speech is where it got interesting. Here’s what some of the audio/camera guys** were saying:

“The dumbness doesn’t just come from soundbites.”

“I can’t believe she quoted Kennedy – twice."

“How am I going to write about this-there’s nothing there-answer well there’s your story”

It's downright Weigelesque. A few excepts from Cubachi's report reveal the dynamics of this new model of getting the scoop while the world sleeps:

I watched the video of supposedly FOX40 crew, techies behind the scenes on hot mike speak ill of Sarah Palin as if she is a buffoon and all sorts of nonsense the left spews out at effective conservatives (i.e. Ronald Reagan). You can check out the video at The Right Scoop.

All of us on twitter, including Tammy Bruce, Melissa Tweets, Sister Toldjah, Rachelle Friberg, TwittoNande, trscoop, and StephenKruiser all heard what these two men were spewing about Sarah Palin. We all tweeted about it, searched for contact numbers, and contacted FOX40 through twitter and other means. Sister Toldjah has a fantastic rundown of what happened last night. I don’t think all of us suddenly were hallucinating the same thing after we heard those insulting terms at Sarah Palin. It was more evidence of the MSM and their liberal bias… Maybe some conservatives will come to their defense. *ahem*

As we twittered this afternoon once we'd picked up the trail:

@Cubachi: Your Palin-bashing story ties in perfectly with the whole @DaveWeigel / Journolist fiasco. Like the Gulf oil spill it is uncontainable!

Twitter update from Sister Toldjah:

Update to "journo-dudes dis Palin" story: @Fox40 has responded at my blog: http://3.ly/BRtB I believe them. Next Q.: Who said remarks?

Update II: Michelle Malkin "Buzzworthy" link!

Update III: Memeorandum has picked up the scent.

Update IV: Dan links with a rousing call to arms.

Update V: Riehl-lanche via Dan's Instalanche:

IS THERE A "NEW MEDIA WAR?"

Update VI: "Amplify'd" by Melissa Clouthier:

Unguarded Moments: When the Press Gets Their Own Medicine

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[Tom Bowler]

Great post, Sissy. Isn't it funny how hard progressives work to sell hundred-year-old Marxist concepts, even though they fail over and over again. In the end there's only one way to make the sale: Demonize anybody who opposes them, most particularly anybody who is successful and popular, like Sarah.

The media campaign to smear anyone who might threaten lefty objectives has been going on for decades. It's just a lot more obvious nowadays.

[Teresa]

I'm pretty sure, unless someone else has actual footage with the voices, we will never know who said it. I'm guessing they thought the camera and mike were off when the camera guy stepped out of the room. LOL.

Note to self - watch what you say when out in public ;-)

As for the comments themselves - is anyone at all surprised by them? If so where have you been since Sarah Palin was announced as the VP candidate??? It's the continuing "smear Sarah - whenever, wherever, and however you can... doesn't have to be true". *sigh*

[happyfeet]

She's become sort of synonymous with dumb on a popcultural level I think. It's not people's fault if they're inclined to be unimpressed with her... it's up to Sarah to win respect for her intelligence. She should at least try.

I've listened to her vapid babblings on Fox when people have linked and I imagine these guys have had to listen to a lot more of it than me.

What woogle did was to try and shape the news for Team Dirty Socialist... he might would have pressed a meme that Sarah was dumb whether he thought so or not if that's what Journolist decided. This is because woogle is a tool.

These guys were just being honest I think.