JournoList, the top-secret liberals-only Google listserve that the America Prospect's Ezra Klein started in 2007, has made its way into the wide world, courtesy of the irreverant Mickey Kaus. The list has drawn conservative's ire since Politico reported its existence earlier this month. NRO's Mark Hemingway threw a fit and fell in it, asking "if the list isn't "pushing an agenda," why are there no conservatives participating?" Dave Weigel, the Washington Independent's conservative expert (which is kind of like a red panda expert, except that conservatives mate far more frequently) tssked his widget at gloating republicans, and by extension, the leaker! So what the hell happens on the JournoList? Kaus and the poor soul who traded in his harp for a Kaus-brand hurdy gurdy have the answer: The list is where TNR's Jonathan Chait, free spirit Eric Alterman, and the Nation's Chris Hayes go to e-hug their shit out. [Ed note: Gawker and Wonkette beat me to this. FUCK!] Lying lawmakers, abortion, and the death of Culture 11 after the jump.

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Last Friday, Dave Sessions at Patrol reviewed the various conservative websites that began publishing in 2008 and early '09. He references only Culture 11 and Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood, but I got the impression that he was speaking to anti-left media everywhere. His thesis (buried in the second graf just below a stinging mockery of the RNC's tactics for building a youthful online base) is this: "Why are conservatives so clueless when it comes to letting anything flow from their actual love of the medium?"

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