How the Press Tried to Smear Conservatives as Racist, and Hide the Jeremiah Wright Issue
by Maggie @ Maggie’s Notebook
New information has surfaced confirming what all conservatives knew back in 2008 but could not prove. Today we know a large group of so-called ”journalists,” elitist academia and activists conspired to buffer the blow-back from Jeremiah Wright’s vile and outrageous statements. The mission was to protect Obama, a member of Wright’s church for over 20 years. The plan was to charge anyone on the right, and especially high profile persons like Karl Rove, with charges of racism.
These freakin liberals were communicating back and forth about how to keep Wright respectable, no matter what he said by attacking conservatives. The conversation ranged form burying the story to an all-out defense. See a video below.
From The Daily Caller, more at The Lonely Conservative.
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.”
Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”
“Richard Kim got this right above: ‘a horrible glimpse of general election press strategy.’ He’s dead on,” Tomasky continued. “We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease.”
Katha Politt at the Nation believed burying the story was not the right thing to do but is quoted saying:
I hear you, but I am really tired of defending the indefensible. The people who attacked Clinton on Monica were prissy and ridiculous, but let me tell you it was no fun, as a feminist and a woman, waving aside as politically irrelevant and part of the vast rightwing conspiracy Paula, Monica, Kathleen, Juanita…”
The controversy raged within this group which released a statement on April 18th 2008 saying the attacks against Wright and Obama was:
“a revolting descent into tabloid journalism and a gross disservice to Americans concerned about the great issues facing the nation and the world.”
We knew the media was hiding, and maliciously and falsely debunking the story about Obama and Jeremiah Wright, but we couldn’t prove it. Today, for posterity – assuming this report is true, the cover-up is documented. Now we know how they shutdown the Obama-Bill Ayers -Weatherman relationship.
Jeremiah Wrights Controversial Statements (video)
Jeremiah Wright Background:
Jeremiah Wright’s Peaceful Ministry
Jeremiah Wright on Martin Luther King’s call for Non-Violence – Not Wright’s Cup of Tea
Jeremiah Wright Accepts ONLY a God of White Destruction
Jeremiah Wright Publishes CAIR Founder’s Manifesto
Transcription of “Hamas’ stand” on Jeremiah Wright’s “Pastor’s Page”
Jeremiah Wright Connects with the Hamas Charter
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Posted by Maggie Thornton on July 20, 2010 4:08 pm
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Democrats, Elections, Journalistic Malpractice, Journalistic Prostitution, Journalistic incompetence, Liberal Media/Bias, Liberal World, MSM Censorship, News, Propaganda, Racism, Video, Voter/Election Fraud, elitism, feminism, government media, liberalism, progressivism, race baiting
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Good coverage of this Wright-awful cover-up, your post and also TMH’s earlier today. Great resource here in particular of links to make you feel really awful about your country – at least, of some racial elements therein.
Not to forget, of course, the MSM’s dastardly deeds. As Rush was saying today: There is no media in America anymore (if there ever was).
I am a white, and I have had to do field work in Competon, Watts and other areas of South Central Los Angeles. I do not know how many times that I have been confronted by the police. “What are you doing here, looking for drugs?”. If Rush Limpball ever comes to southern California, I will gladly drive through San Marino, La Canada, and other white establishement areas. We will not get stopped. Then we can do the same route, with my Afro-American friends. We will have a wager upon how many times we get stopped on the second trip. Racism is still a reality in the United States.