Here we go again. The last time they got caught coordinating their “news reporting” it was very entertaining. Tucker Carlson really enjoyed tormenting them with their own e-mails. While there’s nothing wrong with members of the same club buzzing together on-line, these are the folks constantly tisk-tisking about ethics in journalism and all that nonsense. It looks like some of them did not learn their lesson.

A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.

Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.

The group’s existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.

There’s something deeply weird about people in a competitive racket like the media going in for something like this. The reason these liberal personalities blend together on the screen is all of them say the same things. Talk radio guys love doing montages of them using the exact same phrasing. It’s good radio. If your career depends on being a draw on TV or on-line, blending in with the blob seems odd.

But, I’m not a member of a cult.

Related is a very weird post on Wonkette.

Pity the poor wingnuts. They worked so hard to bust ACORN into a million pieces and salt the earth so no part of it would ever grow back. Little did they know that the Progressive Menace was just using ACORN as a distraction while it rebuilt the most fearsome of all anti-American organizations dedicated to spreading leftist propaganda like the Ebola virus: JournoList, which has been reconstituted as a closed Google Group called Gamechanger Salon. And the conservative website Mediatrackers.org is ON IT.

First, a disclaimer: Despite our impeccable leftist credentials, yr Wonkette is not now, nor has it ever been, a member of the Communist Party secretive anti-American group Gamechanger Salon. Nor would we join a group with such a stupid name. Seriously, you guys couldn’t come up with something better? The wingnuts are going to find it scary no matter what, so go all out. Call it Mao’s House of Propaganda or All Hail Pol Pot or HITLER! (The all caps with exclamation point is so they know you’re serious.)

Another coo-coo for cocoa-puffs site I used to like trolling was FireDongLake. All of these lefty sites popped up in the middle of the Bush years and most were founded by women or homosexuals. In other words, people with hormonal imbalances seem to be drawn to this form paranoid stuff.