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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 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.

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To: wardaddy

The public enables and empowers them by watching TV. TV, hollywood, ball games etc have sold americans into serfdom. Idiots care more about college ball then being slaves.

The only thing they fear is the public enmasse pulling the plug. Mort Zukerman’s actions show this is the case. The opnly way he goes is if his elites pull the plug. The masses are so stupid and slaves to the clicker.


141 posted on 07/20/2010 8:32:42 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: Gondring
Marching on DC is good. Fighting the political battles with DC is good. But how many people are actually focusing on the ways we are being defeated...the training grounds of schools, the news media, and the entertainment media?

Gondring, we've passed the point where we can plan and execute a long term solution such as you suggest, as our primary line of resistance to the rot that's killing us.

Our nation is literally on a precipice. We are staring oblivion in the face. We need to move quickly, and with overwhelming force against the destroyers, if we're to save this nation from certain death.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't also commit ourselves to taking back the basic control levers in the culture. We need to do that too, but the primary push has to be massive, and widespread protest. More than anything, force is required right now. People must confront and accept this fact, if they want to win what is a very real war.

142 posted on 07/20/2010 8:33:17 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: RatsDawg

LA Times owned by Sam Zell and there was Palestinians spewing hatred towards Jews. But 78% of American Jews voted for the Islamic and still love him.


143 posted on 07/20/2010 8:35:22 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: Frantzie

Subscription to cable and satellite services feeds the beast. Whether you use Warner Cable or not.

Your bill is divided up among HBO-CNN-WB-CNN Headline-TCM-TBS-TNT-et al, CBS-MTV-VH1-Spike-LOGO-Nick-TVLand-ComedyCenteral-et al, ABC-ESPN-Disney-Family-et al...

Even if you don’t watch these channels or even block them out, you are often paying for them.

Defund the Left. Unplug your pay tv bill.


144 posted on 07/20/2010 8:40:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Frantzie

Who is pulling the strings?

Rahm E, Axelrod, are being pulled by the same strings. THe Jewish community is not dumb, but someone is controlling them.


145 posted on 07/20/2010 8:41:23 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

BTTT


146 posted on 07/20/2010 8:49:10 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: E.G.C.

Eventually, Tucker can make a book on Journolist.

I hope every 3 or so weeks, another leak comes out. Keep these fools occupied defending this crap as the elections grow ever closer.


147 posted on 07/20/2010 9:09:14 AM PDT by goodolemr
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To: MitchellC

Holy crap Batman! Looks like Journolist may be the gift that keeps on giving.

Wonder if they’ll hold the best stuff back right before the 2012 election or even the 2014 election? Or maybe they’ll dribble it out in a slow, toxic drip and let FNC pick up on something new to hammer on each week.

No matter what, this will blow the lid off the leftest media, since it appears there’s now reams of hard evidence that documents an actual conspiracy, rather than simply all the leftest “journalists” reading the NYSlimes/AP and following their lead.


148 posted on 07/20/2010 9:12:40 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the Right Stuff!)
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To: citizenredstater9271

CNN = communist news network

ABC = anti-capitalist broadcasting channel
_____________________________

CBS = Communist Bull**** Ssystem

NBC = Nonstop Bias Channel

MSNBC = Media Socialist Nonstop Bias Channel

PBS = Press Being Socialists

ABC = Always Been Corrupt

CNN = Communist Nitwit Network

HLN = Hail Lenin Network


149 posted on 07/20/2010 9:28:15 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("Every time a Democrat mocks Sarah Palin, an independent gets its wings." - JP)
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To: Syncro

Like the “Climategate” leaked/stolen/whatever emails, I think this is divine intervention. Any clue as to who/how they were leaked, and why? I haven’t heard that part of the story.


150 posted on 07/20/2010 9:28:20 AM PDT by kevslisababy (It's very hard to earn my trust again)
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To: a fool in paradise

JournoGate

- JP


151 posted on 07/20/2010 9:31:09 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("Every time a Democrat mocks Sarah Palin, an independent gets its wings." - JP)
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To: kevslisababy

Hmmm...

The first leak was directed at bringing down Dave Weigel. That seemed personal. This leak calls into question the mainstream media as a whole.

I wonder if there’s multiple leakers with different agendas.


152 posted on 07/20/2010 9:38:27 AM PDT by goodolemr
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To: imjimbo

“I fear it won’t take long for those fat Americans to become lean and take up arms. I hope and pray the election does the trick.”

Tell me who is going to organize, coordinate, and lead us “fat Americans” in this supposed action. A public leader will be jailed in a Dallas minute. Underground leaders will be detected using the full force of snitches and law enforcement. Elected officials will be afraid to stand up and be counted. BATFBI will be on the prowl for more Waco’s, Ruby Ridge’s, and Fort Davis’s. Ten thousand little Indians running around independently with the equivalent of bows and arrows against fully automatic weapons don’t mean squat. Don’t count on the Pravda group to extol “fat American” virtues. The Kenyan will have no problem using the Guard and armed forces to quell the “rebellion” and use it as a reason to compel turning in of all firearms. Are your “cold dead hands” and that of your family ready?

Roy Rogers, Rambo, Audie Murphy, and white horses don’t exist anymore.

As for the election doing the trick, IF the GOP takes control, the Kenyan will make them the focus of disruption, etc. They won’t be able to pass a thing because they won’t be able to stop a filibuster by the Rats and anything they do get thru with the help of defecting Rats will be vetoed.

Only a “conservative” veto proof majority and a “conservative” President can turn this around. Start praying for your children and grandchildren.


153 posted on 07/20/2010 9:42:37 AM PDT by secondamendmentkid
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To: MitchellC

They killed every story that would have hurt theOne


154 posted on 07/20/2010 10:17:29 AM PDT by PMAS
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To: MitchellC

Well, here’s an early chance for the Obama regime to use that internet “kill switch” they are so hot to use.


155 posted on 07/20/2010 10:25:42 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: secondamendmentkid

my suspicion, if the elections don’t do the trick, is that we will ALL pick up our rifles and start heading to Washington. I don’t think the military or police would fire on us, and by the time we started getting close things would likely come to a head. Somehow, I don’t think a bunch of Leftists would stand up to MILLIONS of armed citizens-!


156 posted on 07/20/2010 10:27:54 AM PDT by imjimbo (The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
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To: Syncro

Cool! The times they are a’changing!


157 posted on 07/20/2010 10:32:17 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Lancey Howard

” I wonder how long the scumbag Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms will be able to hide Ubama’s homosexuality ? “

Can’t remember who the guest was or on which radio show I heard it , but, this fellow
said that “ the worst kept secret in DC is that Barry is gay.”
All you have to do is look at the pictures of the guy and it’s glaringly obvious.
Look at the pictures of Barry with Reggie Love and it’s a no brainer.
I bet the media and for sure the Secret Service has often seen Reggie Love and
Barry “ in flagrante delicto.”
Barry couldn’t bear to be parted from Reggie for even a weekend ,
so he had him flown in to Maine on
a private jet with the dog.
Bo the dog was the beard.
“ Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog,
Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.;
and the president’s personal aide Reggie Love,..”
I also would wager that they have all witnessed and covered up
Barry having extreme emotional meltdowns and exhibiting all manner of bizarre behavior.


158 posted on 07/20/2010 10:33:23 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: goodolemr
Eventually, Tucker can make a book on Journolist. I hope every 3 or so weeks, another leak comes out. Keep these fools occupied defending this crap as the elections grow ever closer.

Culture of corruption. Drain the swamp.


159 posted on 07/20/2010 10:49:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: catnipman

A Vast Left Wing Conspiracy to defraud the American public.


160 posted on 07/20/2010 10:50:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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