Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright [Journolist]

The Daily Caller ^ | July 20, 2010 | Jonathon Strong

[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.

[Gondring]

[...] wish Spencer Ackerman the very best in whatever profession he now chooses to enter.

I wonder if he found some great stuff in there, enough to make Attackerman lose his new gig with Wired...?

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

they are not only “not journalists”

they are communist pigs

[Fresh Wind]

“George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

That should read "Hillary's disgusting little rat snake".

[SueRae]

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[SF_Redux]

Really? A showdown? From who? The lazy Americans who can’t even get off their butt long enough to carry a protest sign? Let alone start a revolution.

HA - give me a break. It is over. Turn the lights out. If you can get a few freepers to post their anger on a blog site made for the hard right then you are doing more than 90% of America will ever do.

Give it up - there is not going to be a so called showdown - there is not going to be any revolution. Fat, lazy Americans could care less.

The gimme gimme gimme generation is here to stay. Our America that we once knew and were once so proud of - gone. Gone.

Prove me wrong - I have said it before - prove me wrong. Nothing is going to change.

Welcome to your new America

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I am beginning to believe that myself

[imjimbo]

I understand your scepticism, and I share it. November 2, 2010 is our LAST CHANCE to restore our Liberty without firing a shot. IF this election DOESN’T turn things around, 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.

[grame]

It comes to mind when this type of discussion comes up that these liberals can't see that they wouldn't have the positions, lifestyles, adulation, power....all the things they enjoy if they were living somewhere other than this great nation that began with the unprecedented foundations that this nation did.

Biblical principles, morals, ethics, sacrifice, individual freedom, first amendment rights, and more are the basis for the lives we enjoy(or enjoyed) before they began taking all of those things away saying they are bad for us.

A Christian nation formed to escape the Church of England, which also happened to be the gov’t. Now which one of the liberals who are telling us how bad all these things are that are the basis of our foundation can point to one Muslim nation where people, liberal or conservative, have the same freedoms we do?

Why do they stay here if it is so oppressive? We all know, but I wonder if they really do know or want to acknowledge it.

Which one of the liberals, in a political position or in media, are going to self-sacrificially stand up and say the truth. Not! Self-sacrifice is for another class of human, not the elites of our nation. All for one, and all for me.

[FreedomPoster]

If he has a couple years worth of the contents of that listserv, he has material that will be incredibly damaging to the mainstream media. And based on that, I’m thinking he does.

I’m rubbing my hands in anticipation. Go Andrew Breitbart!

[Timocrat]

Ah! The source of the vast right left wing conspiracy.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The media have long ago lost any claim to credibility and responsibility. They exist to promote leftist causes. They do not exist to present the news. They are not your friends. You can not trust the media.

[Carley]

Stephie got after Obama on the health care mandate is a tax too.

That said, he is now back on the reservation. I guess his job or his life has been threatened.

[Carley]

You insult the hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans who went to D.C. for the health care rally.

There are people out in the streets and attending town hall meetings all across America.

You owe an apology! Big time!!!

[Carley]

And that damnable chrissytingles dared to compare Vice President Cheney to Hitler’s propaganda minister.

[comps4spice]

I do think Breitbart got the Journolist. Time for the popcorn. This is gonna get really interesting.

[ILS21R]

We will soon find out if you're right. If this midterm does not give control of the House and Senate to (R), then I truly will feel ashamed of my country.

[Quickgun]

That day prolly ought to be this weekend, or sumthin'like that☺

[xsmommy]

This is proof positive, in black and white, of what we intuitively knew.

[Renderofveils]

Uh...I hate to ask...but what’s that and is it specifically tied to Obama? I’ve heard things from HillBuzz about Reggie Love...

That would be the alleged gay bathhouse in Chicago that both Bam and Rahm were allegedly members, until the alleged Secret Service allegedly wiped the computer files on their alleged lifetime memberships.

[6SJ7]

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.

A Confederacy of Dunces.

[vetvetdoug]

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