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Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright [Journolist]
The Daily Caller ^
| July 20, 2010
| Jonathon Strong
Posted on 07/19/2010 11:32:30 PM PDT by MitchellC
It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obamas political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obamas 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 preachers rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obamas 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 Wrights 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.
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To: Lancey Howard
Imagine our poor military and secret service personnel who have to guard this clown and his “friends” around the secluded parts of all those golf courses. You don’t really think he enjoys golfing that much, do you?
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:11:43 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
To: Gondring; Jim Robinson
Thanks to Jim, this site not only exists to share links to news articles but to then provide further discussion and exposure of facets of these articles.
As to starting up a media outlet. What do you suggest? A news magazine? Local newspaper publishing is too expensive a game to get into (unless you are an advertisment paper with just a little bit of commentary/news).
Local papers are a thing of the past. The monopoly press has seen to that.
Share FR with your conservative friends and encourage them to do the same.
The more the Pravda Media is exposed (e.g. Rathergate) the less influence they will have.
102
posted on
07/20/2010 7:13:52 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: MitchellC
To: hoosiermama; All
Just catching up with the thread but wanted to report that the Friends did a segment on this today as well as the now famous NAACP video.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:17:23 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
To: MitchellC
the MSM like common dung beetles....wander aimlessly, head in the sand....moving backward...while pushing their crap and hoping it sticks to something..... © Vaquero 2010
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:19:09 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Menehune56
Don’t forget that Al Franken’s Senate seat was stolen. 1,000 felon votes plus a judicial decision to manufacture a win.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:19:52 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: MitchellC
They probably colluded also to squash any connection of Obama/Acorn, eligibility issues, use of middle name Hussein and Musilim background
The attack on Sarah Palins clothes seemed viscous and coordinated.
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Okay this maybe a stupid question, but where are the documents and proof. I have always know this to be the case and tell all of my friends that the media operates in this manner but I can only see an article saying that documents state this.
To: MitchellC
Kind of like Obama’s ties to Odinga.
109
posted on
07/20/2010 7:21:36 AM PDT
by
NellieMae
(Here......common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
To: penelopesire
They’re using ALinsky methods...SO it’s time to “back atcha” and expose it all.
People already don’t trust the media, if this is brought out they will have legitimate reasons behind their gut feelings.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:23:39 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: kalee
The point that many are missing is who gave that clip to AB...It had to be someone at the meeting that took the video or had access to it. A former member of NAACP perhaps?
AB is a journalist and does not have to give up his source. Questioning his source however spread doubt and mistrust among the members of the group.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:31:10 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: MitchellC
FTA
"Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians men, women, children, the infirmed on its hands. Youll forgive me if I just cant quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obamas pastor, Hayes wrote."
Obama is now creating an assassination list. Where are these c*cksucker's outrage now?
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:32:30 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(November is just the first step! If we falter after that step, the win will mean nothing.)
To: a fool in paradise
ANd some journalist are just following out dated procedures. (did you hear Hume mention how he used to trust the NYT and rely onit for his stories)
Once they are enlightened they may turn big time on those who have used them....same result as “cracking”
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:34:39 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: Miss Didi
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:36:18 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: a fool in paradise
This article is right in keeping with the “hide the decline” emails in Climate-Gate. This now appears to be a fundamental plank in how the left does business promoting its agendas.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:37:27 AM PDT
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: silentknight
give me a break from the negative nannies who think we can do nothing......
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:41:23 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: hoosiermama
This is why Katie Colonic’s question “where do you get your news” was such a bogus question to begin with.
I may READ from a number of news sources and read the editorials from a number of people, it in no way meant that I trusted them as news sources or credible thought pieces.
Name checking the NY Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Time is worthless because ALL of them have been caught red handed manufacturing bogus news items. Using porn website photos as evidence of GI rape in Iraq, photoshopping images of our troops harassing refugees, creating witnesses and quotes out of thin air, etc.
Who could possibly look to Dan Ratherbiased’s network as a news source?
The media took down Talon News Agency because the questions they posed at White House press conferences made them look bad.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:41:32 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: opentalk
If you read Larry Sinclair's book the attacks against him are very similar to the attacks against Palin....too similar to just be a coincidence.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:41:32 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: a fool in paradise
No one has mentioned the Free Canadian Press article that stated it had email proving that new bureaus and personnel had be threatened to keep them in line.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:45:06 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: Lancey Howard
I wonder how long the scumbag Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms will be able to hide Ubama's homosexuality?
They certainly have done one heck of a job covering up the Kenyan's birthplace. And his school records. And his connection to Frank Davis, and his Bomber buddie (just a neighborhood school teacher).
This entire administration is a CRIME against America.
"Consent of the governed" is a phrase synonymous with a political theory wherein a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and legal when derived from the people or society over which that power is exercised.
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posted on
07/20/2010 7:54:16 AM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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