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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 Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:32:30 AM 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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Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares and call them racists.”

I’ve always known in my heart that this is the way that the MFM operates, but still...to see it documented in print is breathtaking. If we had a truly free press, this should be a top story. Above nearly all ills that bedevil this country, the Media/Government Complex is probably the largest contributor to the socialist rot which has set in. I have trouble even finding words to describe it; the rot and corruption is so bad.

19 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:57:59 AM by thecabal

Interesting from the Washington Examiner:

Does Andrew Breitbart have Journolist?

By: Mark Hemingway

Commentary Staff Writer

07/19/10 10:37 PM EDT
In the wake of Dave Weigel’s resignation from the Washington Post over leaked emails from Journolist, a list serv for influential liberal journalists, Andrew Breitbart made some headlines by offering $100,000 for the Journolist archives. Well, he just sent out this cryptic tweet:

Whereby I formally rescind my $100k Journolist reward & wish Spencer Ackerman the very best in whatever profession he now chooses to enter.

There is more at the link, plus you might want to look at some of the posts Here

This Journolist thing is intriguing.

6 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:45:30 AM by Syncro (November is hunting season. No bag limit-Ted Nugent)

From Breitbart:

JournoList: …Yes, But the Reporters at Pravda Weren’t Such Insufferable A—holes

So did Breitbart give the Journolist archive to Carlson, or did Carlson get it on his own? Does Carlson have the full archive?

27 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:24:52 AM by TChad

I bet the lights are burning at various MSM headquarters tonight. Tomorrow this story will be the main conservative media story, while the MSM will be in full lockdown mode until they can coordinate their spin.

When Climategate broke, the only thing that the MSM found worthy of reporting was the theory that someone hacked the University of East Anglia servers to steal the emails. So it was just a sad little story about an evil hacker trying to harm the wonderful climate scientists. The inflammatory content of the emails was ignored altogether.

I bet the MSM will now pull something similar. Probably no reporting until next Saturday, then “Republican Operative Tucker Carlson’s Email Theft Threatens Freedom of the Press.”

35 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:58:16 AM by TChad

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!

48 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:58:25 AM by FreedomPoster

“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.”

The mainstream media have become one of the branches of the “Ruling Class”:

Who are these rulers, and by what right do they rule? How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at best, they might have the chance to climb into them? What sets our ruling class apart from the rest of us? ...”

July 19, 2010

The Ruling Class Creates its Own Demise - by Henry Oliner

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution -By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue of the American Spectator

92 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:53:29 AM by Matchett-PI (BP was founder of Cap & Trade Lobby and is linked to John Podesta, The Apollo Alliance and Obama)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2555642/posts?page=92#92

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Beck talking about it now. Saying that the ‘source’ inside the journolist group says this is just the tip of the iceberg but he refuses to release it all because it might hurt the media. ???

It’s time for lawsuits and hearings into our corrupted press.

132 posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:15:23 AM by penelopesire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2555642/posts?page=132#132

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