THE EYES AND EARS OF THEMSELVES – AT 8:48 P.M. ET:  Journalists like to call themselves the eyes and ears of the public.  In fact, they're the eyes and ears of themselves, and no one else.  A major journalistic scandal was revealed yesterday by Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller.  Naturally, the response of the big media guys is silence.  But the documented report is stunning:

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.

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.”

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.”

COMMENT:  Ah yes, call them racists.  It's the way the leftist game is played, and we're seeing it right now in the outlandish attacks on tea partiers.  Just call them racists.

Of course, if you dare criticize these "journalists" you may expect to be accused of 1) McCarthyism, 2) destroying their freedom of speech, 3) being under the thumb of the Israel lobby, and 4) fascism.

To me, this report, well documented, is a smoking gun.  It reveals, using actual documents, a major scandal in journalism.  But will anything be done about it?  Are you serious?

To many on the left, they have a right to lie, a right to deceive.  They are "victims," after all, and they must deceive to survive.  Why, Joe McCarthy is coming from the grave to get them. 

I've seen this all my adult life.  I saw it in the leftist groups in college.  I saw it in the film and television industries.  "The truth," a leftist leader of the sixties said, "is what supports progressive causes."  And the left believes that.

July 20, 2010