The real LEFT WING CONSPIRACY – label the enemy racist.

“Our country [America] 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,” [Chris] Hayes [of the Nation] wrote.

This is the sentiment of those who are supposed to be bringing us the news, the facts. And this is not isolated in the world of journalism. We’ve known for over 2 years that the press and media were in Obamas corner but this story from The Daily Caller, puts klieg lights on the culprits.

To channel the darling of the TEA party (not) Jeanine Garafalo: These are America haters, STRAIGHT UP!

Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how these “journalists” would survive in a not so free nation?

This, by Spencer Ackerman (of the Washington Independent), taken right out of the Alinsky playbook:

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.

Ackerman  put forth the “call them all racist” strategy. He suggested that their little group pick out some folks like Karl Rove or Fred Barnes and label them racist for not jumping on the Obama Hope’nChange wave, especially if those on the right are appalled by Jeremiah Wright’s rhetoric.

Kevin Drum, then of Washington Monthly, also disagreed with Ackerman’s strategy. “I think it’s worth keeping in mind that Obama is trying (or says he’s trying) to run a campaign that avoids precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why vote for him if it turns out he’s not going change the way politics works?”

But it was Ackerman who had the last word. “Kevin, I’m not saying OBAMA should do this. I’m saying WE should do this.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/3/#ixzz0uENOt5Oe

Now we all know for certain where some of the  “racism as a strategy” came from.  Call me paranoid but there really is a left wing conspiracy at work in this country.

Willing useful idiots to aid in Obama re-election

Before the 2012 election, we are going to be inundated with hot off the presses, “insider” books about Obama and the bang up job his first term has been for America and all by obvious liberal journalists. Check out the names and the credentials:

Jonathan Alter

The list of authors, first published in Politico and much discussed across the blogosphere, includes such bold-face names as David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine; Bob Woodward, the famed Washington Post reporter and chronicler of presidential administrations; Jonathan Alter of Newsweek magazine; Jodi Kantor of the New York Times, and Chuck Todd, NBC News White House correspondent.

Chuck Todd/NBC

The aim of the Obama administration is to get out positive real time books by – in the words of Tucker Carlson – “throne sniffing”  reporters that paint a picture of a great president who has a great vision for shaping the American future and all right before the next election. Why else are these Obama goons allowing “unprecedented” access to the halls and offices of the West Wing?

But these “journalists” are perverting their own ethics to get the story and make a lot of money:

At least one of the authors on the current list, speaking on background in order to protect his continuing access to officials inside the Obama White House told Fox News he occasionally withholds information from his deadline reporting, to use it instead in his book.

“Withholding information” from the American public in order to enhance their own books and wallets. How do they reconcile their own ethics with this? How do they call themselves journalists under these circumstances?

These are not journalists. They are willing useful idiots to the Obama strategy for re-election.

Every candidate writes a book prior to running for election. Mitt’s book was just published, Obama had 2 (neither written by him, but presented as though they were. This guy didn’t even write when he was editor of the Harvard Law Review or whatever it was he was editor of.) But as a sitting president running for re-election, Obama can’t write another book. He will, however, have close to a dozen glowing books out there by these dopey reporters and editors that will further his career without putting a dime in their pockets.

But it’s a win-win for them and a loss for us. The reporter/authors will make a nice wad of cash and prestige (among their peers, that is) and the president gets re-elected with lots of free positive, albeit slanted, books.  The loss to us is obvious.

Is the MSM paying attention… yet?

If you have 33 minutes, I can promise you it will be the best you spend this week listening to Breitbart’s Tea Party Convention speech.

Christian Science Monitor/Patrik Jonsson

Nashville, Tenn.

Recounting the exploits of two young reporters who went undercover to uncover the ACORN scandal, online publisher Andrew Breitbart on Saturday exhorted a widely held view among those in the tea party movement: Liberals and media organizations “can no longer control the narrative.”

The rise of conservative media outfits like Breitbart’s Big Journalism [bigjournalism.com] and Big Government and Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller [thedailycaller.com] have offered a kind of counter-media that, in Breitbart’s view, tells the stories that the mainstream media won’t tell Americans – including that of the nascent tea party movement, which has grown largely by Twitter, Facebook and via blogs like Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit [instapundit.com].

Technology the great equalizer

“Technology has been a great equalizer,” says Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation website, a sort of tea party Facebook that sponsored this weekend convention. “It reminds me of how the British used old-style tactics and the patriots would be behind the trees, shooting.”

In a fiery speech to the first-ever National Tea Party Convention on Saturday, Breitbart – who runs his counter-media empire from his basement office in Hollywood – painted a vivid picture of a press in lockstep with liberal values, where reporters use words like racist and homophobe as weapons to suppress dissent. (At that point, a woman wearing a t-shirt that said “I resist” stood up and waved.)

Breitbart said reporters put all news involving conservatives into two basic buckets: “racism and Watergate.” He urged the 600 tea party activists gathered at the Opryland resort in Nashville to take inspiration from conservative reporters like James O’Keefe, the videographer behind the undercover ACORN expose.

Andrew Breitbart with James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles

“I’m trying to tell you, wink, you can do it, too. You have cameras! You have ingenuity!” he said. “What we are starting to do is create our own media … that is reporting what the mainstream media refuses to tell you .We are exposing the corruption of the mainstream media.”

Breitbart’s may have a point. Proof to many here is how the mainstream media for weeks missed the story of Scott Brown’s surging candidacy in Massachusetts (one likely reason for all the interest in the Tea Party Convention), or how the New York Times put Mr. O’Keefe on page 1 only after he was arrested for alleged phone-tampering at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans.

Jabs at the mainstream media

But while the roomful of tea partiers stood up at several of Breitbart’s jabs and pointed to the TV cameras at the back of the room, the fact that there were TV cameras there at all partly undermined Breitbart’s point that mainstream reporters are totally out of touch.

Convention organizers realized it, too. After originally banning all but a few mostly conservative outlets, the organizers ultimately opened the convention doors wide, even allowing media into Sarah Palin’s speech tonight.

True, some of the ensuing coverage has been critical and snide. But the willingness of people like California tea party activist Heather Gass to speak her mind to mainstream reporters may do as much, or more, to legitimize the tea party movement as the counter-media’s attention.

“People can now see who we are and they can see that we’re not dangerous,” says Ms. Gass. “We’re their neighbors.”

Not everyone agrees. One caller to C-Span – which aired nearly the entire convention – said the sight of primarily white and older self-described “patriots” frightened her. She said the gathering looked like a lynch mob.

But the fact is that the 200-plus old-school reporters attending the convention is giving the potent but inchoate movement something it craves and, ultimately, needs: respect.

That includes a Swedish radio reporter who sent an earnest piece back to Sveriges Radio on Friday, explaining how a modern-day tax revolt movement that appeared at first to be woefully fringe is looking more and more mainstream.

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