Documents Prove What We All Suspected: Journalists Colluded To Kill Rev. Wright Story

Somehow…. Tucker Carlson at The Daily Caller got his hands on some more Journolist archives, and  these documents are far more consequential and damning than the documents he shared about Dave Weigel’s dopey dissing of conservatives. This time we see what many of us instinctively knew at the time was going on, and what goes on with other stories to this day: MSM journalists conspiring to ignore an important story, and smear critics. What’s their smear of choice? You all know the answer to that question…..

…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.

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.”

Read the whole damning thing.

These people are naked propagandists  who would do Soviet era Pravda writers proud. This is why we declared the MSM dead after the 2008 election. This is  why we’ve come up with different pseudonyms for the MSM: LWM, fishwrap, MFM,  or Palin’s favorite: Lamestream media.

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I vividly remember writing about the  Rev. Wright affair while all this was unfolding  thanks to that primary debate in which George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his affiliation with the Pastor. It was an important story because it revealed a lot about Obama’s radical worldview…

Here’s what I wrote at the time:

You know what? I think it’s over for Obama.

This story is going to mark the turning point of Obama’s fortunes this election year. I’m afraid there is really no escaping the truth. This man is no “uniter”. This man is no “post-racial” “healer”. His campaign is a complete sham.

He may still be able to squeak ahead of Hillary in the primaries, simply because of her low approval ratings, but this is going to be an albatross around his neck for the general.

Little did I know how deep the conspiracy was to kill the story. They did this by ignoring it,  by their constant deployment of the race card, and by their nauseating, fawning praise of Obama’s unsatisfying, unedifying “race speech” which did nothing to answer the question of why he stayed at an anti-Semitic, racist church for 20 years. For some inexplicable reason, after that speech, the story was over. The MSM closed the lid on it.  Those who who tread in those waters were accused of racism…which is almost certainly why John McCain made the Rev. Wright issue out off limits for his campaign.

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Why a bunch of moronic lowlifes should have so much influence on the news is beyond me. As Andrew Breitbart, and Tucker Carlson have proven, these slimeballs can be dealt with. The truth can come out if we’re willing to fight for it.

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That’s why their new campaign to label the tea party as racist needs to be pushed back every single day. These people lie. They plot, they collude, and they have no shame. We should have no compunction what-so-ever in calling these people out.

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See also:

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Breitbart, Big Journalism: JournoList: …Yes, But the Reporters at Pravda Weren’t Such Insufferable Assholes

Hot Air: Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists

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More to come?…

…this first entry in the Journolist exposés — Tucker Carlson promises more to come — shows that far from being a benign place to have chats among colleagues, Journolist also served as a place for journalists to plot against their political opponents and strategize to twist the news and propose smear campaigns.

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Pssst…pass it on:

Ace: (Drew’s idea: Any mention of racism should be answered with “Did Spence Ackerman tell you to make that up?”)

Lol.

MORE:

Doug Ross: A Trip Through The Archives: The Agitprop The Journolist Conspiracy Produced

Sarah Palin: Media Bias? What Media Bias? BOMBSHELL!

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!