Prepare for the pathetic onslaught accusations of “racism” for pointing out what President Obama actually says…..
Now that The Daily Caller has uncovered and published video of President Barack Obama’s “other race speech,” liberal media figures are once again trying to quell coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story — just like in 2008.
Records obtained by TheDC in mid-2010 showed that “at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate,” after ABC News’ Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos asked then-Sen. Obama about his controversial reverend during an April 2008 debate.
“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,” TheDC’s Jonathan Strong reported.
Among those who were uncovered to be part of the plan to quell Wright coverage were Richard Kim of the Nation, Michael Tomasky of the Guardian, Thomas Schaller of the Baltimore Sun, Holly Yeager of the Columbia Journalism Review, Slate magazine contributor David Greenberg, columnist Joe Conason, Chris Hayes of the Nation, and Spencer Ackerman — then of the Washington Independent.
Strong reported that Ackerman even once “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.’” (article)









His strong supporters want him to be the way he really is. His strong detractors already believe he is a danger. It is the middle folks that need convincing. I’ve heard many left wing leaders and general folk anxiously waiting for his second term because they think he will deliver on “free stuff” once he has more flexibility. Videos like this were all over last time and had no effect. Will it impact enough this time?
If the reports that Wright was offered a bribe to shut up are true, maybe he could be convinced to make an ad telling the truth. I mean Obama did “betray” him in a sense.
Rev. Wright understood why he had to take the fall for the greater good. Here in Chitown it is politics as usual.
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Lots of flak from this video release. If you’re getting flak, that means you’re over the target!
I love seeing the left howling in rage and trying to reclaim its false narrative.
He is acting in both videos.