political hacks, consultant on behalf of barack obama. unpaid but working for barack obama. that's dishonest by the nature and wrong. >> reporter: journolist founded by ezra klein and later disbanded when the post writer lost his job making disparaging comments on journolist about matt drudge, rush limbaugh and congressman ron paul. they defended the journalists saying -- >> reporter: even so, there is a line that's been crossed according to former abc correspondent bob zelnick. >> you talk about diverting public attention from news story because it feel it will have bad impact on the campaign of the candidate