US media conspired to give pro-Obama coverage. Still, at least it could never happen here

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So the liberal elite and “lamestream media”, (©Sarah Palin) did fix the US election after all. A scandal is breaking across the pond over a bunch of Obama-supporting journalists in a group called Journolist who, it turns out, discussed deflecting attention away from the Rev Jeremiah Wright scandal in 2008. Their apparently private missives, just leaked, are an eye-opener into how anti-conservative smearing works.

Says the Wall Street Journal:

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.

One Journolist member, Spencer Ackerman, encapsulated the entire strategy of the Left media over the past 40 years:

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.

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