If you thought the behind-the-scenes ramblings at lefty mainstream media listserv “Journolist” couldn’t get worse after yesterday, think again. The Daily Caller posts the latest series of emails exposing mainstream media figures for what they truly are.

Here’s an example. NPR producer Sarah Spitz is responding to news of Rush Limbaugh’s heart scare from back in December. It seems that she doesn’t wish the best for a speedy recovery:

In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

Then we come to the anti-Obamacare, pro-limited government protests of summer 2009. Americans of all walks of life attended town hall meetings to express their views on pending legislation. Journolist members thought they were Nazis.

“You know, at the risk of violating Godwin’s law, is anyone starting to see parallels here between the teabaggers and their tactics and the rise of the Brownshirts?” asked Bloomberg’s Ryan Donmoyer. “Esp. Now that it’s getting violent? Reminds me of the Beer Hall fracases of the 1920s.”

You can find a series of Ryan Donmoyer’s articles for Bloomberg here.

Now hang in here for a bunch of mainstream journalists and academics admitting that they would like the government to shut down news organizations that dissent from the Democratic Party line.

Jonathan Zasloff, a UCLA law professor:

One important development would be for the administration to pick up its anti-Fox position, which sort of petered out. For the 2012 Democratic convention, the DNC should simply refuse to give Fox News a skybox, like the rest of the networks. If Sean Hannity wants to report on the convention, then he should go sit with the bloggers. I, for one, would pay a chunk of change to hears his conversation with Markos.

The point would be to create a sort of echo chamber that the Reps use.

I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?

John Judis, The New Republic and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

Pre-Fox, I’d say Scherer’s question made sense as a question of principle. (Ed note: Scherer asked if we really want the WH determining which news operations are legitimate.)

Now it’s only tactical. Fox, like the business/GOP thinktanks that began in the 70′s, are taking advantage of an older Progressive era concept of disinterestedness and objectivity to peddle partisan coverage. It may be that it’s counter-productive for the White House to out them, but it would not be unprincipled for the O adm to give precedence to other networks, and to newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post that try to adhere to, rather than exploit, the older standard.

Speaking of the Washington Post, here’s Dave Weigel — now of MSNBC:

I think Scherer is asking a question that Raines didn’t. But it’s a silly question anyway — sure, I think the republic will survive if I become editor of the Larouche World Bodily Fluid News and the WH refuses to grant me access for something. That Lester Kinsolving (ed note: of WorldNetDaily and WCBM) gets to sit in the WH briefing room demonstrates nothing so much as how useless that briefing room is.

The problem Raines diagnoses is less Fox News and more the biases that have been with the “MSM” for a while now — this need to give equal/extra time to “real American” views, no matter how fucking moronic, which just so happen to be the views of the conglomerates that run the media and/or buy up…

Bottom line: Mainstream media journalists hung out with far-left partisans on Journolist, exposing their happiness that prominent conservative media figures could die; calling Americans who express their limited government views Nazis and fascists; and expressing their support for the government shutting down FOX News or at least leaving it outside the room in which MSNBC and the Huffington Post are accepted.

None of this is surprising, of course, but it’s helpful to have the evidence next time mainstream outlets insist it’s only in the minds of conservatives that mainstream journalists are biased.