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Jen the Michigander


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Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright (The Daily Caller 7/20/10)
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http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/

This is a 3-page article. From what I'm hearing, there will be more in upcoming days. Plus, Fox News has been covering this story. For now, I will just post the first few paragraphs.

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.
The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

And let's not forget the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, and everyone who supported Hillary...

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I was sickened by this report, but glad that some light is being shed on the conspiracy among the far left media. We knew it. We said it. It was a damn coordinated effort to keep Hillary out of office. The participants in this violation are responsible for the mess in this country today. They wanted Obama. They schemed, lied, and said to hell with the rights of Americans when they plotted to squelch important truths about Obama, and they should be held accountable.

BTW, it occurs to me - again - that there is a huge disconnect in the overall cognitive processing of the progs. They want to see themselves as defenders of the poor and oppressed (unless the oppressed are women, in which case they don't give a sh**), as if most of them knew what it was like to be poor and oppressed, while screwing over everyone in the country. They operate on some fantasy level, romanticizing poverty and deprivation. At the end of the day, they relax with a Dewars on the rocks, patting each other on the back for being the only ones in the country who actually "get it". And, if the rest of us don't buy their version of the truth, why, they'll just blow up the damn pentagon.

They operate at the height of self-indulgence and ignorance, IMO.

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I'm bumping this because it needs to stay on the front page. In fact, we may need a whole new category for information that documents, verifies, and/or confirms the facts of 2008 primary. Just recently, several of our chief issues with the way in which 2008 went down have been addressed: The video regarding voter intimidation and election violations "We Will Not Be Silenced"; This documentation of the left wing media conspiracy to squelch negative info on The One; and a couple of other "We told you so" pieces have come to light.

For now, let's keep this issue in the fore. It's shameful that these kinds of violations don't create much of a stir with MSM. What does it take??!! Don't answer that, I know what gets MSM worked up .... Lindsey Lohan's fingernails, Paris Hilton sex tapes, pretty much anything to do with the late Anna Nicole, and other such important stories. Why would we Americans become so overwrought about something as insignificant as a conspiracy by media to control information presented to the public about a candidate for potus?

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freespirit, Great idea. Let's also include primary/caucus issues and voter intimidation in the same. Thanks.

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I'm gonna go ahead a make this a sticky now, and if we create another category for documentation of DNC and MSM dirty dealings, it can be moved.

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Thanks, Freespirit. This does need to be a Sticky, especially since it looks like we'll be hearing more.

Hillary is 44 had an excellent article about Journolist today:

http://www.hillaryis44.org/2010/07/23/the-barack-obama-campaign-started-call-them-racist-journolist-followed-and-a-shocking-hooray-for-tucker-carlson/

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