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was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political
career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of
Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites,
the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his
closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was
threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.
The crisis reached a howling pitch 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.”
Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz0uGjCn3Lg
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