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Journolist is Back: Attempted Coordination To Downplay Jeremiah Wright Story

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The liberal listserv in the news last month whose leaks forced a resignation from The Washington Post‘s Dave Weigel is back today.

Journolist emails about Rev. Jeremiah Wright from during the 2008 presidential election have been published by The Daily Caller. But do they reveal anything?

“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,” writes The Daily Caller’s Johnathan Strong. “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.”

This is how the story is set up – but the pay off largely isn’t there. What the Daily Caller proves is that many liberal opinion columnists, not necessarily supposedly-unbiased reporters, didn’t like the mainstream media talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright. That’s not surprising. Also, their attempts to ‘plot to fix the damage’ largely failed (a well-orchestrated response quote regarding an ABC debate came and went mostly unnoticed), as the Wright story bubbled up for a significant part of the campaign, across the entire media.

Still, some of the comments in the emails show liberal journalists trying to deflect the story in any way possible. “Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject,” writes Strong. “Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’”

Chris Hayes of The Nation, and now a regular guest anchor on MSNBC’s The Ed Show and for Rachel Maddow, only urged those to defend Wright if they believed he was defensible, but “there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable.”

“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 responded to The Daily Caller that “no one listened to me,” since the story got a lot of attention anyway.

After Ezra Klein shuttered Journolist and Andrew Breitbart‘s $100,000 offer for the full archive came and went, talk of Journolist died down. Now, it will re-enter the news cycle. We’ll see if these revelations, however mild, make it mainstream.

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  • timzank

    Steve asks “But do they reveal anything?”

    Only what we’ve know all along. The MSM is/was/will remain in the tank for Obama.

  • Pablo

    This is how the story is set up – but the pay off largely isn’t there.

    Uh, Steve? It’s right here:

    Katha Pollitt – Hayes’s colleague at the Nation – didn’t disagree on principle, though she did sound weary of the propaganda. “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,” Pollitt said.

    “Part of me doesn’t like this shit either,” agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. “But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.”

    You wouldn’t want Spencer’s responsibility to his readers getting in the way of him getting what he likes, would you? Also, you can’t get “tired of defending the indefensible” unless you’ve been defending the indefensible.

  • Azarkhan

    “Journolist is Back: Attempted Coordination To Downplay Jeremiah Wright Story” Mediaite

    “GOP Candidates Embrace Sarah Palin Strategy, Avoid The Lamestream Press” Mediaite

    Love the juxtaposition.

  • Pablo

    Chris Hayes of The Nation, and now a regular guest anchor on MSNBC’s The Ed Show and for Rachel Maddow, only urged those to defend Wright if they believed he was defensible, but “there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable.”

    Well, there was the fact that he was the longtime mentor of and preacher to the Democrat nominee for President of the United States of America. A man that Obama said of:

    I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

    These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

    And then, this which CBS describes as risky:

    “I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday,” Obama said in a last-minute press conference today. The candidate said that after watching Wright’s appearance from Monday, “what became clear to me was that he was presenting a world view that contradicts what I am and what I stand for.”

    Hitting on most of the major points in specific terms, Obama said “there are no excuses” for such comments. “They offended me. They rightly offend all Americans and they should be denounced.”

    In his much-heralded address on race relations after Wright’s earlier comments began gaining wide circulation last month, Obama pointedly denounced the comments but not the man. That position changed today. Calling Wright’s appearance Monday a “performance,” Obama went further, saying his remarks “were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate.”

    Yeah, I can’t imagine why a professional journalist would sully their platform with such things while Levi Johnston is roaming around out there.

  • MichelleF

    “Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’”

    HAHA, the left REALLY took that advise to heart and decided to extend it to not only wright, but ANY criticism of der leader. I mean we knew that was their plan all along, but to see it actually laid out by a lefty is quite vindicating.

  • Doughboy

    “Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject,” writes Strong. “Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’””

    You’ve gotta be kidding me. You think “the pay off largely isn’t there”? Not only do we have supposedly mainstream journalists conspiring to kill a story because they feared it would negatively impact a Presidential candidate they clearly are enamored with, but they also seem quite comfortable using the race card as a weapon against random individuals despite a complete lack of evidence of any racist behavior or remarks.

    This a huge story. It’s certainly not shocking since anyone with half a brain(which rules out most Obama supporters) knew this was going on in 2008. What’s surprising is how open members of the media were about it. And it’s hard to look at last week’s endless stories about the Tea Party and alleged racism and not conclude that it’s still going on today. If the so-called mainstream media has any desire to remain alive much less relevant, there’ll be mass firings this week over this.

  • kenm


    Steve said:
    This is how the story is set up – but the pay off largely isn’t there [because] their attempts to ‘plot to fix the damage’ largely failed

    What? It doesn’t matter because they failed? If someone tries to rob a bank and fails, do we let them off the hook because of their failure or do we punish them for the attempt? These journalists are, at the very least, guilty of negligent journalism. If we really want to throw the book at them then they are also guilty of attempted election fixing. And this would be true no matter the party of the candidate or the ideology of the journalists. Why can’t we just get the unvarnished truth from these dolts without their petty biases oozing from the pores of every report/article?

    “But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.” That’s what Ackerman thinks of Republicans but he is perfectly willing to look the other way – and even hide from his viewers – when Democrats behave in the same way. Disgusting. This is why journalism is thought of in such low regard by the general public these days. You’re just a tool of whatever ideology you’ve hitched your star to.

  • kenm

    Azarkhan said:
    “Journolist is Back: Attempted Coordination To Downplay Jeremiah Wright Story” Mediaite

    “GOP Candidates Embrace Sarah Palin Strategy, Avoid The Lamestream Press” Mediaite

    Love the juxtaposition.

    Outstanding point Azarkhan.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    der leader

    Sorry, Michelle, in Utah. It just doesn’t work. “Leader” sounds too much like “lieder,” or song. I understand that you wanted to compare our President to Hitler, yet you wanted not to be too overt about, the typical Teapartier obfuscation, ducking and covering. Since it didn’t really work, you ought to have simply used “Führer” or der Führer. we all know that’s what you meant anyway. Never mind the fact that our President won an impressive victory at the polls and in the Electoral College. He doesn’t dance to your tune, so he’s a Nazi. We all understand your thinking.

    By the way, nouns are always capitalized in German. So, when you use the definite article, you really need to capitalize the words which follows. Otherwise, it’s just silly.

  • MichelleF

    Hey Royal Race-Baiter, remember when the left constantly compared Bush to Hitler:

    A Short Walk Down Memory Hole Lane, Credit to lanquihue

    http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816

    Save your FAUX outrage, race-baiter!

  • RTB

    “Not god bless america, god damn america!”
    If fox plays that clip of him again i swear im busting a cap to my flat screen, i hate this guy, pure ignorance and hypocrisy performed on his part.

  • MichelleF

    and ps royal race-baiter, the DER is what Rush affectionally calls a tweak, and right on cue, you took the bait. Congrats!!

  • The Real Royal King

    If Jeremiah Wright was vetted during the campaign, as evidenced by President Obama’s substantial victory, why is it we are reheating weary hash. It wasn’t proper to revet W’s and Cheney’s lack of military service of W’s DWI or any other issues in 2004, although W never had a substantial victory at the polls in 2000. In fact he lost. It seems what’s good for the goose ought to be good for the gander. I suppose when you haven’t any substantive issues, however, you have to go rag-picking.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    Hey Royal Race-Baiter, remember when the left constantly compared Bush to Hitler:

    A Short Walk Down Memory Hole Lane, Credit to lanquihue

    http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816

    Save your FAUX outrage, race-baiter!

    I did not do so. You, however, just compared our President to Hitler. Deal with what’s relevant, Michelle in Utah.

  • Snipzor

    I’m sorry, there was an attempted coordination to downplay this story? Bullshit, absolute bullshit, if there was any actual attempt then I wouldn’t have heard a million billion stories about the man during the election season. But hey, since we’re talking about presidential pastors, what about Hagee, or Falwell or Bush’s born again pastors? The thing is, I’ve hardly heard the media outlets trash them, if anything they don’t talk about them.

    Call me when this story is any less bullshit, Steve.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    and ps royal race-baiter, the DER is what Rush affectionally calls a tweak, and right on cue, you took the bait. Congrats!!

    I don’t care is Lard Limbaugh calls a pig “Mother,” Michelle in Utah. You just need to deflect that you called our President a Nazi, and I am not going to let you do it. I realize you are very pleased you did so, and that you are exalting in you deplorable misbehavior, but you need to stand as an example to good, God-fearing Americans how not to act and what not to say. I shall be vigilant!

  • The Real Royal King

    Snipzor said:
    I’m sorry, there was an attempted coordination to downplay this story? Bullshit, absolute bullshit, if there was any actual attempt then I wouldn’t have heard a million billion stories about the man during the election season. But hey, since we’re talking about presidential pastors, what about Hagee, or Falwell or Bush’s born again pastors? The thing is, I’ve hardly heard the media outlets trash them, if anything they don’t talk about them.

    Call me when this story is any less bullshit, Steve.

    Touché!

  • MichelleF

    Snip, If I’m not mistaken Bush didn’t sit in the pugh of Hagee or Falwell for 20 years and had them baptize his children. Nice try though!

  • timzank

    MichelleF said:
    Snip, If I’m not mistaken Bush didn’t sit in the pugh of Hagee or Falwell for 20 years and had them baptize his children. Nice try though!

    You can’t argue with liars. Plain & simple Michelle, all the facts in the world will not matter. It’s sad, but a certain portion of the human race is comprised of liars.

  • Azarkhan

    “revelations, however mild” Steve Krakauer

    Only “mild” if you think Pravda was a fine example of a free, independent press.

    BTW, the “insidious” Journolist had over 400 leftist subscribers, all apparently busy colluding on how to kill stories they deemed unfavorable to the Democratic Party. I imagine today’s revelations are only the beginning.

  • Snipzor

    MichelleF said:
    Snip, If I’m not mistaken Bush didn’t sit in the pugh of Hagee or Falwell for 20 years and had them baptize his children. Nice try though!

    No, he just had them text prayers to his phone during his presidency on a daily basis, and had them dictate social policies. Last time I checked, they didn’t have just two sermons where they say something people didn’t like. I think it was something along the lines of an entire career of bigotry and old social mentality.

    But hey, targeting a man for saying America is evil because of its warmongering is a-okay. But targeting a man for saying America is evil because of teh geyz, well that just won’t do. Can I call double standard? Already did.

  • timzank

    Azarkhan said:
    “revelations, however mild” Steve Krakauer Only “mild” if you think Pravda was a fine example of a free, independent press. BTW, the “insidious” Journolist had over 400 leftist subscribers, all apparently busy colluding on how to kill stories they deemed unfavorable to the Democratic Party. I imagine today’s revelations are only the beginning.

    There will be a lot more to come out, I’m sure. Of course these loons will claim it’s nothing to be concerned about.
    Can you imagine if it were 400 journalists collaborating to advance the GW Bush administration and quash the black guys campaign???????

  • timzank

    Snipzor said:
    No, he just had them text prayers to his phone during his presidency on a daily basis, and had them dictate social policies. Last time I checked, they didn’t have just two sermons where they say something people didn’t like. I think it was something along the lines of an entire career of bigotry and old social mentality. But hey, targeting a man for saying America is evil because of its warmongering is a-okay. But targeting a man for saying America is evil because of teh geyz, well that just won’t do. Can I call double standard? Already did.

    Common sense sort of evades you doesn’t it?

  • Snipzor

    timzank said:
    Common sense sort of evades you doesn’t it?

    Can you actually address what I said? Instead of doing the predictable thing of a single line of non-response.

  • Penguin60

    “Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’”

    Now that’s what I call rag picking weary hash. How could this be a story? NAACP is just following media lead. Those crazy conervatives. Nothing to see here move along…..

  • Pablo

    Snipzor said:
    Can you actually address what I said?

    Yes. You’re lying.

  • Snipzor

    Pablo said:
    Yes. You’re lying.

    Prove it. A phrase and a sentence isn’t much of a response either.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    Snip, If I’m not mistaken Bush didn’t sit in the pugh of Hagee or Falwell for 20 years and had them baptize his children. Nice try though!

    Setting in “pugh” sounds pretty disgusting. Did you mean “pew”?

  • Azarkhan

    “Journolist is Back: Attempted Coordination To Downplay Jeremiah Wright Story”

    No need to wonder anymore why the Left hates Fox News.

  • MichelleF

    Setting in “pugh” sounds pretty disgusting. Did you mean “pew”?

    Hey royal race-baiter, if you are going to criticize someones spelling, it’s best to make sure you’ve spelled everything correctly. I think you meant sItting and not sEtting.

  • Snipzor

    MichelleF said:
    Setting in “pugh” sounds pretty disgusting. Did you mean “pew”?

    Hey royal race-baiter, if you are going to criticize someones spelling, it’s best to make sure you’ve spelled everything correctly. I think you meant sItting and not sEtting.

    Hey Michelle, how goes the research into proving I’m wrong?

  • atreyue

    MichelleF said:
    Setting in “pugh” sounds pretty disgusting. Did you mean “pew”?

    Hey royal race-baiter, if you are going to criticize someones spelling, it’s best to make sure you’ve spelled everything correctly. I think you meant sItting and not sEtting.

    It does sound pretty disgusting though, lol

  • atreyue

    Snipzor said:
    Hey Michelle, how goes the research into proving I’m wrong?

    Post an example. It’ll either prove your point, or they’ll be able to prove you wrong. But you don’t get to make an unsubstantiated claim and then require others to give proof refuting your claims.

  • MichelleF

    Oh snip, sorry, I didn’t know you were waiting for me. I didn’t actually read your comment and an not doing any research so you can stop waiting around for me to get back to you.

  • rorschach

    The Real Royal King said:
    Setting in “pugh” sounds pretty disgusting. Did you mean “pew”?

    As Big_F-ing_Deal says , The grammar/ vocabulary nazi , the lowest form of internet life.

    Twice in one thread makes you, I suppose , der Führer.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    Setting in “pugh” sounds pretty disgusting. Did you mean “pew”?

    Hey royal race-baiter, if you are going to criticize someones spelling, it’s best to make sure you’ve spelled everything correctly. I think you meant sItting and not sEtting.

    “Setting” is the act of a person or thing that sets. To set means to position oneself, another person or an object. One might set himself in a pew where he would then be sitting.

    Sorry, I was the grammar, literature, French and German “go to” guy form the scholastic bowl. You’re out of your league here.

  • The Real Royal King

    rorschach said:
    As Big_F-ing_Deal says , The grammar/ vocabulary nazi , the lowest form of internet life.

    Twice in one thread makes you, I suppose , der Führer.

    Vielen Dank.

  • Pablo

    Pablo said:
    Prove it. A phrase and a sentence isn’t much of a response either.

    You pulled this right out of your ass.

    No, he [Bush] just had them text prayers to his phone during his presidency on a daily basis, and had them dictate social policies.

    You’re lying. This really isn’t complicated.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    Oh snip, sorry, I didn’t know you were waiting for me. I didn’t actually read your comment and an not doing any research so you can stop waiting around for me to get back to you.

    In other words, match, set Snipzor. Or should I say match, sit. Congratulations.

  • Snipzor

    atreyue said:
    Post an example. It’ll either prove your point, or they’ll be able to prove you wrong. But you don’t get to make an unsubstantiated claim and then require others to give proof refuting your claims.

    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

  • MichelleF

    Royal Race-Baiter says:

    Sorry, I was the grammar, literature, French and German “go to” guy form the scholastic bowl. You’re out of your league here.

    Man, I wish I’d been keeping a list of all the jobs you’ve had, the people you’ve met and the places you’ve been. It’s simply amazing!! IF you believe a word of it.

  • MichelleF

    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

    Supposedly, according to who, media matter? Daily kos? think progess? which George Soros group claimed that?

  • Snipzor

    MichelleF said:
    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

    Supposedly, according to who, media matter? Daily kos? think progess? which George Soros group claimed that?

    According to author Jeff Sharlet who regularly writes about this and has made a living doing so. But I suppose he’s just part of the vast left-wing conspiracy that immediately discredits anything he does, despite the actual access he has into high ranking evangelical groups and cults.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

    Supposedly, according to who, media matter? Daily kos? think progess? which George Soros group claimed that?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/03/midterms2006.usa

  • atreyue

    Snipzor said:
    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/photoessay/11.html

    This is just pulled really quickly from a google search. It does mention that this was as part of a regular “West Wing conference call with evangelical leaders”. So the comparison is hardly 1 to 1 one, but have at it.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

    Supposedly, according to who, media matter? Daily kos? think progess? which George Soros group claimed that?

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06314/737160-192.stm

  • rorschach

    The Real Royal King said:
    Sorry, I was the grammar, literature, French and German “go to” guy form the scholastic bowl.

    That you were the shape of the “go to ” guy is hardly cause for celebration. Perhaps in your school the standards were lower.

  • MichelleF

    Steve, you kind of chopped up Ackerman’s statement (perhaps hoping we wouldn’t actually read the article), but here is the whole of what he said:

    “Part of me doesn’t like this sh*t either,” agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. “But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.”

    Ackerman went on:

    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 [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.

    And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

  • The Real Royal King

    And, now, the Great Silence.

  • Pablo

    Snipzor said:
    For one, Ted Haggard supposedly spoke to Bush’s advisers every monday during his presidency (Not sure how long this actually lasted). There we go, have fun Michelle.

    I have THREE sources! Me, myself and I. Maybe. Not sure, really.

  • Pablo

    Did anyone else notice how Snip just morphed Bush himself into “Bush’s advisers” in an attempt to sneak some truth into his lie? Is that you Spencer?

    The Real Royal King said:
    And, now, the Great Silence.

    No, that’s over here, homey.

  • Pablo

    Oh, and how about Snip morphing John Hagee into Ted Haggard? He’s a slimy one, isn’t he?

  • tjl

    This might be one of my favorite threads, thanks to RRK and Snip. Exposing the “right” as anti-Americans and anti-intellectuals…. fantastic! I just wanted to applaud your fine work.

    Snip posted substance and it followed with three of the wingers writing “you lie” and “not true,” yet providing no substance at all!

    Michelle called the President of my United States “Hitler” and thinks she’s a “patriot.” Ah, I love this country! I’m sure as she is “setting” at her computer, wiping the Cheeto stains off her keyboard, she is proud to be anti-American. El-Rushbo has done a fine job. I hope you didn’t forget to say your pledge of allegiance this morning…. Heil Shelly!

  • Pablo

    That’s a lot of lying to try and float the old “You guys do it too” argument in defense of one of America’s nastier racists.

  • Pablo

    tjl said:
    Michelle called the President of my United States “Hitler”

    Oh look, another liar. Hi, liar!

  • MichelleF

    Pablo, until I clicked on your link, I had no idea the royal race-baiter actually waited breathlessly for my posts. I’m so flattered.

  • MichelleF

    tjl, thanks for pointing out my liberal tweak. You guys make it WAY too easy! Now, how commenting ont the actual topic. For some reason, the libs seem to be avoiding it. Hm, I wonder why.

  • tjl

    MichelleF said:
    “Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’”

    HAHA, the left REALLY took that advise to heart and decided to extend it to not only wright, but ANY criticism of der leader. I mean we knew that was their plan all along, but to see it actually laid out by a lefty is quite vindicating.

    Pablo? I’ll await your apology…. Michelle, please set your right-wing friend straight. Thanks sweetie!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    It’s a vast journalist conspiracy. We’ve known this for a long time, which is why the American people have abandoned their corrupt enterprise and turn to new media outlets like the Internet and Fox News.

  • MichelleF

    Pablo? I’ll await your apology…. Michelle, please set your right-wing friend straight. Thanks sweetie!

    For what exactly? You are the one who made the leap to hitler. Did I mention him at all?

  • Penguin60

    “Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country?”

    Unite? Good call. This DB really got that one right. It’s amusing to watch the left avoid the real story and change the focus to Bush. What a joke, man that dog can only get beat for so long………

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    tjl, thanks for pointing out my liberal tweak. You guys make it WAY too easy! Now, how commenting ont the actual topic. For some reason, the libs seem to be avoiding it. Hm, I wonder why.

    Michelle in Utah, dearest, we were merely responding to your plea for some sourcing. You ought not get so pissy for merely accommodating you.

  • MichelleF

    Oh and don’t call me sweetie, it’s creepy.

    Also for your enjoyment:

    A Short Walk Down Memory Hole Lane, Credit to lanquihue

    http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816

  • tjl

    MichelleF said:
    Pablo? I’ll await your apology…. Michelle, please set your right-wing friend straight. Thanks sweetie!

    For what exactly? You are the one who made the leap to hitler. Did I mention him at all?

    Wow. Dumb and dumber. Cheetos!

  • Pablo

    tjl said:
    Pablo? I’ll await your apology…. Michelle, please set your right-wing friend straight. Thanks sweetie!

    You can just imagine it happened, like you did with Michelle’s mention of Hitler.

  • MichelleF

    While I’m flattered by the utter obsession you lefties have with me, I’d really like your take on the actual topic. Why are you avoiding it?

  • tjl

    Pablo said:
    You can just imagine it happened, like you did with Michelle’s mention of Hitler.

    Right, I forgot. Reading is not your forte. My bad.

  • tjl

    MichelleF said:
    liberal opinion columnists

    It’s a non-issue. Read this: “liberal opinion columnists.” If that part doesn’t register with you give me a call, we can talk about it and then fall asleep together with the phone resting on our shoulders….

  • MichelleF

    tjl, right, I get they are opinion journalists, but I’m interested in your take on the fact the left planned to use the racism charge from the get-to. I mean, the right has been saying this forever, but to see the left actually admit it is telling, don’t you think.

  • BowenIsland

    The Real Royal King said:
    Sorry, I was the grammar, literature, French and German “go to” guy form the scholastic bowl.

    rorschach said:
    That you were the shape of the “go to ” guy is hardly cause for celebration. Perhaps in your school the standards were lower.

    Thats good ,LOL.

  • Penguin60

    “but I’m interested in your take on the fact the left planned to use the racism charge from the get-to.”

    Come on Michelle, the answer is obvious, it’s Bush’s fault.

  • errxn

    Steve, I’m going to ask you the same question that I asked Tommy when he tried to downplay this story the first time around: ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH? All it takes is a quick trip to the Daily Caller’s article to find multiple smoking guns, for instance, this gem from Spencer Ackerman:

    What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [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.

    Do we even need to speculate on the amount of uproar that would ensue if anyone outside of the Journolist cabal had said something similar to this? Even if it they only meant it “rhetorically,” as Ackerman claims to? But somehow, you can’t seem to find a “payoff” How is this not a HUGE deal, unless you’re willingly sticking your head in the sand? Again, ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH?

  • Penguin60

    But the TEA Party are the ones that are violent. What a load of BS.

  • writer

    Royal King, I noticed you talking about Bush in one of your posts. How were you able to do that? Was Bush present when you commented on him? After all, you can’t comment on Louie Farrakhan if he isn’t ‘present’, so how were you able to comment on Bush? Oh wait, that’s right. For you, racism doesn’t count if it comes from a black person.

  • rorschach

    The Real Royal King said:
    And, now, the Great Silence.

    Die Große Stille, n’est-ce pas ?

  • MichelleF

    Before an interview with Wright on CNN:

    CNN’s John Roberts:

    I want to just stipulate at the beginning of this interview, we are declaring a Reverend Wright-free zone today. So, no questions about Reverend Wright. Our viewers want us to move on, so this morning we’re going to move on.

    Looks like John got the memo!

  • The Real Royal King

    rorschach said:
    Die Große Stille, n’est-ce pas ?

    Mais, oui.

  • Pablo

    errxn said:
    Do we even need to speculate on the amount of uproar that would ensue if anyone outside of the Journolist cabal had said something similar to this?

    Yeah. attribute a quote like that to Jonah Goldberg or Byron York and watch the screaming wheels come flying off.

  • writer

    The King always does his Marcel Marceau impression when the subject is black racism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    So Ackerman encouraging his colleagues in the media to pick a Republican any Republican and label them racist is nothing? Talk about cynical.

  • PureFreedom

    Hillary should have won the Democrat vote because of her experience but the Media threw her under the Bus . If the Wright story came out earlier Hillery would have won for sure.

    Wake up People… Obama and his wife do not love America.
    Actions speak louder then his speeches.
    Just look at everything he is doing….Look at who he hangs around Bill Aries, Jeremiah Wright etc, He believes this is a country of fault.

  • The Real Royal King

    PureFreedom said:
    He believes this is a country of fault.

    You mean like the San Andreas, I presume?

  • TfT

    Steve:

    I don’t know how you can call these revelations mild.

    The message went out to call those who speak out against Obama racist — that happened, it’s happening, and it will happen again.

    Look at MSNBC, look at CNN. Look at John “sloppy seconds” Roberts claiming on air, “This is a Rev Wright free zone”. Don’t tell me it was mild, it is proof positive that most in the media endorsed the journolist forced message.

    Is it any wonder the people think the MSM suck?

  • notsofast

    “Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’”

    Bingo! Our racists libs at work.

  • notsofast

    tjl said:
    Right, I forgot. Reading is not your forte. My bad.

    STFU, you lib shill.

  • juan

    Could the “treasonous” Journolist participants and Slobbering Statist Obama Media be charged with throwing an election?

  • notsofast

    BHO exposed himself, his wife and his children to the racist hate of this man for years. BHO condemned the Cambridge Police Department because they dare respond to a call about a potential break-in and when Obama finds the his old racist friend at Harvard, Skip Gates, is involved, he lashes out at the entire police department , saying they acted “stupidly.”

    BHO brings into his administration Van Jones, a self- avowed Communist, and a racist who claims white people were “steering poison into the communities of people of color.”

    And of course the DOJ looks the other way when the NBPP carries billy clubs at a polling station.

    Maybe, the Daily Caller is wrong; BHO’s racism was always there for all to see. Maybe Barry was Rev. Wright’s teacher.

  • Sue

    Geez guys, this is soooooo old news. Let’s move along to something important.

  • TfT

    Palin has her say about journolist….”let the light shine”! HA

    http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/media-bias-what-media-bias-bombshell/410455148434

  • felixw

    What a surprise! Mainstream media journalists colluded in attempts to intimidate critics of Obama by playing the race card.

    It’s worthwhile having confirmation straight from the mouths of the “journalists” who did this. But anyone who wasn’t asleep at the wheel — or in denial like the leftwing ideologues who post here with their own tired race card rants — knew this long ago.

  • Des

    “Also, their attempts to ‘plot to fix the damage’ largely failed (a well-orchestrated response quote regarding an ABC debate came and went mostly unnoticed), as the Wright story bubbled up for a significant part of the campaign, across the entire media.”

    Now I know that Steve Krakauer is too stupid/uninformed/biased to be taken seriously as a writer. Anyone who thinks that the Wright controversy was covered “significantly” by the MSM is on crack (or is too busy with his tongue buried in Obama’s crack to notice). The MSM talked about the Ayers non-story a little, the Wright story for about a week (long after it broke), never the Rezko story (not about the house, his dirty political deals, or his funding chicanery), and never any of his comments about “white greed” or his “typical white grandmother” that were made in his short time in the public eye.

    All of us out here (Liberal, Independent and Conservative) knew why, but about 1/2 the country pretended they didn’t until after the election (when the press’ approval ratings plummeted), but now we have a small amount of proof. More is out there, but I’m sure that sycophants like Steve will continue to claim that there’s nothing to see. It’s all a Fox conspiracy.

    What an idiot.

  • Latin2

    The MSM didn’t cover that Barack and Michelle Obama’s church gave self avowed anti-semite, homophobe, and racist Louis Farrakhan an award;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn-ipVJcq1U

    Now imagine if any politician on the right’s church gave an award to a large racist skin head organization…it would be major news.

    So why has the MSM never covered this?

  • Latin2

    felixw said:
    What a surprise! Mainstream media journalists colluded in attempts to intimidate critics of Obama by playing the race card.

    Just like the MSM has been doing with the false charges of racism towards to the Tea Party. So when is the MSM going to do exposes about the false charges of racism leveled at the Tea Party by the left…oh wait you have to TRUST the MSM first to report it..and apparently they won’t

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trever-Bierschbach-Xamot/1415797581 Trever Bierschbach Xamot

    tjl said:
    It’s a non-issue. Read this: “liberal opinion columnists.” If that part doesn’t register with you give me a call, we can talk about it and then fall asleep together with the phone resting on our shoulders….

    This is just precious. Isn’t it great how the Left will attack Beck, or any other opinion commentator, spit and rant about how bad they are for the country. How they are all liars, and such. Beck is mentioned by the left multiple times a day, and we say hey, he is an opinion commentator. If you don’t like his opinion you don’t have to watch. It’s no big deal.

    Now that the tables are turned see how they react.

    Let you in on a little fact tij, so far the ones we know of on this listserv are liberal commentators. There are reportedly 400+ members, so let’s reserve our judgment of the makeup of this group until we know a few more names. You call it a non-issue, but I think CNN (it was CNN right?) declaring a Write-free zone shows that they had some effect.

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