There is a rather lengthy piece in the Daily Caller. You should read it. I'll summarize it here briefly for you.
It is the waning days of the last presidential campain. The raving moonbat Rev. Jeremiah Wright is all over the news denouncing America in the most vulgar of terms. Then candidate Barack Obama is trying to brush aside the issue by saying that he never heard that sermon.
Enter George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson in the ABC Presidential debate. They actually did their job and questioned Obama about his pastor of 20 years--the man who married him and baptised his children.
From The Daily Caller:
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
"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.”
And later in the article, This from Ackerman:
"I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s face [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically of course."
It is the waning days of the last presidential campain. The raving moonbat Rev. Jeremiah Wright is all over the news denouncing America in the most vulgar of terms. Then candidate Barack Obama is trying to brush aside the issue by saying that he never heard that sermon.
Enter George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson in the ABC Presidential debate. They actually did their job and questioned Obama about his pastor of 20 years--the man who married him and baptised his children.
From The Daily Caller:
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
"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.”
And later in the article, This from Ackerman:
"I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s face [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically of course."
Oh yes! rhetorically! Of course!
I don't have a problem with a right or left slant in the editorial staff of media outlets, particularly the blogs. I have a huge problem with them manipulating the hard news to benefit one candidate over another.
A free and open press is the final firewall between liberty and tyranny. Our republic is in grave peril if news outlets continue to abrogate their duty to shine the light of truth on those who would represent us.
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