‘JournoList’ E-mails Show Media Plotting to Kill Stories about Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Daily Caller
by HollywoodlandJournoList scandal is back and prepare for it to be a driving force in the news for quite some time. The Daily Caller published an article tonight indicating they’ve obtained emails from the JournoList and the initial details are as damning as we expected when the list-serv, founded by the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein in 2007, surfaced with the Dave Weigel kerfuffle last month.
Snippets from the article below, but make sure to read the whole thing at the Daily Caller and return to Big Journalism early and often as we unpack the details that emerge and track the fallout from this seminal event in the history of left-wing media bias. It’s unclear exactly what the Daily Caller has, but there’s certainly no indication from this article they’ve already laid all their cards out on the table.
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.”
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Jeremiah Wright was back in the news after making a series of media appearances. At the National Press Club, Wright claimed Obama had only repudiated his beliefs for “political reasons.” Wright also reiterated his charge that the U.S. federal government had created AIDS as a means of committing genocide against African Americans.
It was another crisis, and members of Journolist again rose to help Obama.
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…
…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.”
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.
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Read the full article at the Daily Caller.
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22 Comments
Beyond awesome. They can't tear down the traditional media fast enough.
Wow!
Well now, today has gotten a whole lot more interesting!
I look forward to seeing how those involved are going to spin this. Plus, it seems there is more yet to be revealed!
PLEASE let this trickle out over several weeks.
This brings to light the fundamentally corrupt nature of the media. This is NOT mere bias! It is CONSPIRACY and COMPLICITY! This is undeniable proof! They have conspired against the future of our Republic by burying important information that has had catastrophic consequences for every American!
Wow. I know I can be a little naive, and I knew that list was going to be bad, but I'm still a little shocked by the absolute hatred and the willingness to do anything it takes to get what they want. How repulsive.
THE vast left-wing conspiracy! Proof in fact!
Yep, who knew gravitas could be so common.
Keep these posts coming! It is great that Ackerman's post has now been shown in the light. Thank God for the Big sites!
Good cartoon with Obama and Wright at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/thin...
Good work by all at the Daily Caller, but I have small hopes that this will go anywhere. This is where we turn the light on, and all the cockroaches flee further back into the shadows. Just because they can't come out into the light doesn't mean we don't still have an infestation.
Somehow I relish the drama surely being enacted in news offices all over the liberal landscape. Angst couldn't happen to a more deserving group of individuals.
Favorite comment so far at Daily Caller:
"I used to be a hard core, Republican hating liberal. I read Herbert Marcuse, Saul Alinsky, Peter Kropotkin and admired all sorts of leftists. I was also a flake. I remember telling my brother that if I ever became a Republican, he should kill me as I would then be part of those evil racists.
Now I laugh at my tunnel vision. I have come to realize that I hated something that did not exist in the way I thought it did.
Of course you wouldn’t want to be a Republican if they were as advertised and slandered by the liberal media. Who would want to be something so evil? But these Republicans are straw-manned by the press; they really don’t exist — at least not in any majority sense — arguing against some fringe as if mainstream is disingenuous. These Journolist adherents are all intellectual lemmings, smart but hypnotized by their own groupthink and “education”. Smarties that are really missing something important: an objective reality check.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-...
Hot damn, let the games begin!
The only thing that shocks me is they were stupid enough to put it in writing.
It's a start.
Yes, you can almost hear the sphincters slamming shut right now….
Normally I cringe at schadenfreude, but today I'm loving it up like a horny toad.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
…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.
This paragraph makes me so angry. She readily admits she turned her back on a serious issue of import to women for her political religion. It makes me sick. They're fanatics for the Democratic party. Thanks to them we have the same thing as a theocracy.
Pretty damning, but not at all surprising.
Doubt you'll find surprise here.Funny thing,tho.These aren't my resources, so even if they had….I'd have missed it.And would their regular followers have cared.THAT would have been a surprise.
Some of these rags are so far left I've never heard of them."Salon"?come on…lol
Always nice when these "gentlemen (and women) of the press" suddenly find themselves out from under the rock and having to defend the indefensible. Just confirms what we already knew – The"main stream media" is nothing but a collection of sanctimonious windbags who wil do anything to push their partisan agendas. The fact that they do it under the smog of "objectivity" makes it both laughable aned sickening.
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