| JournoList Tried To Kill Wright Story |
| Jul-20-2010 |
Lou's been warning you about the left-wing media's collusion on a number of issues. In this great piece by the Daily Caller, we see how the far-left JournoList tried to kill the Rev. Wright story for Obama.
The JournoList is the now-defunct e-mail listserv made up of hundreds of liberal commentators and journalists practicing their talking points and collaborating on how best to advance the left-wing agenda through the national media. E-mail archives already took down Dave Weigel from his position at the Washington Post, and hopefully more heads will roll after this report.
The Daily Caller writes this about the left's efforts to kill the Rev. Wright story: "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.'
"Thomas Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun as well as a political science professor, upped the ante from there. In a post with the subject header, 'why don't we use the power of this list to do something about the debate?' Schaller proposed coordinating a 'smart statement expressing disgust' at the questions Gibson and Stephanopoulos had posed to Obama.
"'It would create quite a stir, I bet, and be a warning against future behavior of the sort,' Schaller wrote.
"Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to 'particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media' who were members of the list.
"The Wright controversy, Hayes argued, was not about Wright at all.
Instead, 'It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country.'
"Hayes castigated his fellow liberals for criticizing Wright. All this hand wringing about just how awful and odious Rev. Wright remarks are just keeps the hustle going.'
"'Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians - men, women, children, the infirmed - on its hands. You'll forgive me if I just can't quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama's pastor,'
Hayes wrote.
"Hayes urged his colleagues - especially the straight news reporters who were charged with covering the campaign in a neutral way - to bury the Wright scandal."
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL INVESTIGATIVE STORY IN THE DAILY CALLER. |
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