That’s the quote that jumps out at me from Journogeddon Day 3: Get Sarah. Not that there’s any question that most of the media had knives out for Palin from the moment she stepped on the national stage, but it’s eye-opening to see it stated so bluntly. Here’s the full quote from today’s Jonathan Strong piece:
Daniel Levy of the Century Foundation noted that Obama’s “non-official campaign” would need to work hard to discredit Palin. “This seems to me like an occasion when the non-official campaign has a big role to play in defining Palin, shaping the terms of the conversation and saying things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn’t say – very hard-hitting stuff, including some of the things that people have been noting here – scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing christia wing-nut a heartbeat away …… bang away at McCain’s age making this unusually significant …”
Which, oddly enough, is precisely what ended up happening. And then the people who noticed the pattern, and wondered if there was some sort of collusion behind the scenes, were called paranoid.
More White House coordination with media:
What he didn't expect, was what had him thinking: Stay or walk out?
The White House Press Corps had been tipped off that there would be something in the President's speech dealing with Hoekstra. Hoekstra got wind of it but had no idea would it would be. He was pretty sure Obama would not endorse him for governor.
...After the speech, everyone grabbed a shovel for the ground breaker and just after the first blade of dirt was tossed, the national and state media swarmed all over Hoekstra.And from Henry Payne at The Michigan View:
The Washington Post's White House reporter Anne Kornblut was there and added this detail on the White House set up:
"Obama welcomed Hoekstra during his opening remarks. At the same moment, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sent a note to reporters pointing out Hoekstra as a 'great quote opportunity!' in the audience."It was a coordinated ambush by a classless regime.
People who were(are?) Journolist members who work for Obama.
And a very coordinated attack on a guy who dared to ask questions about a protected organization:
Reading the report, I realized Ackerman and his friends used this same strategy against me, attacked me as a racist, and attempted to put me through the plate-glass window because of my exposés on the supposedly “pro-Israel” lobbying organization J Street.
All of a sudden, at the end of October 2009, a pack of howling bloggers started nipping at my heels, accusing me of racism. I had written for Pajamas Media a fact-filled exposé about J Street’s founders, and about some of the contributors to the J Street PAC who were well-known pro-Saudi, Palestinian, Arab-American, and pro-Iranian activists. I added a few State Department Arabists for good measure. How could this group call itself “pro-Israel?” I asked.
Immediately, a torrent of condemnations hit from some of Israel’s strongest critics and from J Street advocates (I prefer “J Street-Walkers”): Spencer Ackerman, Andrew Sullivan, Daniel Luban, MJ Rosenberg, and Max Fisher. Lara Friedman from Americans for Peace Now also weighed in.
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After reading the Ackerman strategy to attack those who sought to expose the Obama-Wright connection, it’s very clear the same tactic was deployed to protect J Street. Serious Washington reporters who can smell J Street’s type of fraud from a mile away have avoided investigating the outfit, originally called “the Soros project” in its early life. Several reporters have material on a Turkish donor to J Street’s PAC who was thrown off of the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 when they learned he was involved in the production of the anti-American, anti-Semitic film Valley of the Wolves.
Just too much to deal with right now. Personally, I'd rather hit the range than keep reading about this crap. Which, unfortunately, they'd like: I'm not a big name, but the more people who keep talking about this and passing word, the worse it is for them.
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