ABC's Jonathan Karl -- Right Wing Mole
I remember one day driving around several years ago and had one of those conservative "news talk" stations on the radio.
Lo and behold, one of the right-wing nut shows (I can't remember which one, unfortunately) had a guest host, who was spouting all of the conservative talking points at the time. Guess who the guest host was?
Spoiler Alert -- You probably figured it out from the title.
This was before Jonny Boy made it to the big leagues at ABC. probably when he was still at CNN. But it stuck in my mind that a "mainstream" reporter -- not a commentator -- was shilling for the right wing.
In the wake of his faux pax of leaking doctored e-mails to prove that there really is a scandal related to the Benghazi attacks, I Googled Mr. Karl. And here's what came up from FAIR from July 2011:
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/a-right-wing-mole-at-abc-news/
A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News --
Excerpt:
.... And one of the most famous alums of a conservative media training program is now a major star at a network news outlet: ABC’s senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl.
Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)—such as the Rutgers paper launched by the infamous James O’Keefe (Political Correction, 1/27/10). The network, founded in 1979, is one of several projects of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which seeks to strengthen conservative ideology on college campuses. William F. Buckley was the ISI’s first president, and the current board chair is American Spectator publisher Alfred Regnery. Several leading right-wing pundits came out of Collegiate-affiliated papers, including Ann Coulter, Dinesh D'Souza, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry and Laura Ingraham (Washington Times, 11/28/04).
The Collegiate Network also provides paid internships and fellowships to place its members at corporate media outlets or influential Beltway publications; 2010-11 placements include the Hill, Roll Call, Dallas Morning News and USA Today. The program’s highest-profile alum is Karl, who was a Collegiate fellow at the neoliberal New Republic magazine.
After a stint at the New York Post, Karl soon found his way to CNN, but he was still connected to ideological pursuits; he was a board member at the right-leaning youth-oriented Third Millennium group and at the Madison Center for Educational Affairs—which, like the Collegiate Network, seeks to strengthen young conservative journalism. After moving to ABC in 2003, Karl contributed several pieces to the neo-con Weekly Standard.....
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