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By rochester_veteran

The news has been breaking about the secretive Journolist, the listserv where liberal journalists tried to shield their favored Presidential candidate, Barack Obama and spiked the Jeremiah Wright story. The Daily Caller broke the story yesterday:

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.”

IMO, Stephanopoulos has treated Obama with kid gloves. So has most of the media. They are complicit in the non-vetting of the former community organizer with little executive experience who never met a radical that he didn’t like.

The story with Journolist gets nastier though:

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.”

To those of us who participate on commenting on the D&C OPINION Page, you’re very familiar of the racist charge. When the liberals are on the losing end of a debate, they revert to personal attacks and calling us (conservatives) racists.

The Tea Party Movement is very familiar with this tactic and the D&C OPINION published a series of editorials by a cabal of journalists led by Eugene Robinson, Clarence Page and Bob Ray Sanders, vilifying us as violent racists. I wrote about it in my article, The Democrat and Chronicle’s Campaign of Lies Malign the Tea Party Movement.

There is definitely a campaign of collusion in the MSM to cover for Obama and the Daily Caller article proves it.

There’s more today from the Daily Caller:

In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

Spitz’s hatred for Limbaugh seems intemperate, even imbalanced. On Journolist, where conservatives are regarded not as opponents but as enemies, it barely raised an eyebrow.

I don’t find it surprising that Spitz hates Rush and hates conservatives in general. Again, I see this attitude on a daily basis on the D&C.

Let’s face it folks, we are in the midst of an ideological war in this country. The exposure of the Journolist and reading the true, unguarded feelings of liberal journalists should be a wake up call to the remainder of us who are still in slumber. They don’t want debate, they want dominance. Instead of honestly reporting on it, they covered for Obama and his virulantly racist pastor, Jeremiah Wright.