“Jeremiah Wright” on The Daily Caller

The shocking mass murder visited upon Tucson a week ago Saturday by a lunatic loner provided the nasty Left with another opportunity to show that they haven’t a shred of decency. The Associated Press led the yellow hoard with minute-by-minute accusations before the victims of this horrific tragedy were even evacuated to the hospital. The so-called mainstream media coverage went something like this: “Most people believe there is a Tea Party and Sarah Palin connection to all of this.” That was before the name of the shooter was even known. (more)

Barack Obama is a ball-busted man. To anyone who has seen how he acts whenever Michelle Obama is around — or even at the mere mention of her name — this is beyond dispute. The man lives in terror of his wife, who, unlike her husband, is actually from the streets of South Chicago. (more)

As this year’s Election Day approaches, let’s take a look back at the last election and evaluate the media’s influence. (more)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim of catering to political enemies during a fiery speech Sunday in Arkansas. (more)

Radio and TV host Glenn Beck said Sunday he doesn’t want to retract his controversial charge last year that President Obama is racist, but does want to amend it since reading more about “liberation theology.” (more)

The so-called “mainstream media” has spent the past week trying to determine how anywhere from one-fifth to one-quarter of the American people could conclude that President Obama is a Muslim.  The commentary has almost universally condemned Americans as “ignorant,” “ill-informed,” “racist,” or “bigoted,” asserting disdainfully that it’s “obvious” that Obama is a Christian. (more)

According to the website CNN.com, some of the criticism of first lady Michelle Obama is driven by partisan politics. However, “others say the attacks are rooted in white resentment of the ‘uppity Negro.’”  Two things quickly come to mind.  The first is that no one other than Harry Reid uses the word “Negro” anymore.  Second, that it is the 21st century and yet there are those who continue to talk about race as if it were 1955. (more)

Maureen Dowd’s recent article – prompted by the First Lady’s recent trip overseas – wondered aloud why First Lady Michelle Obama has been missing in action at times during President Obama’s toughest days this year. Over the course of his presidency, Mr. Obama has had a lot to answer for to the media and, most forcefully, his Republican critics. His stimulus plan hasn’t worked to the point that there are now discussions brewing about a second stimulus package. The White House’s response to the oil crisis has dogged by all sides due to slow response times and off-and-on drilling moratoriums. Even the legendary suaveness of “No Drama Obama” from the 2008 campaign days hit a snag during episodes such as the Henry Louis Gates “Beer Summit” situation from last year and the heightened partisan sparring going on nationally.  (more)

Black Americans have rallied around the president as perhaps no constituency has ever supported an American politician. As of this week, fully 88 percent of black voters approved of Barack Obama. Many predicted Obama’s election would herald a new era of African-American leadership. And yet, curiously, something different has happened. In the last year and a half, Obama has failed to support, run away from or pressured to resign at least ten significant African American political figures – a count does not include his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. (more)

Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said last week on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that it is not impossible to imagine a primary challenge to President Obama in 2012 from an anti-war progressive who opposes the administration’s policy in Afghanistan. A spokesman for Rendell clarified the governor’s remarks to The Daily Caller saying that such a challenge would only come from a candidate from the “left fringe” of the Democratic Party. (more)

Speaking in Turkey on Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron slammed Israel and called Gaza a “prison camp.” (Apparently Gaza is the first prison camp with luxury shopping malls.) The British Foreign Office has been taking the blame for this betrayal of Israel, but they’re claiming they were as surprised as anyone. Now, a high-placed and knowledgeable source has informed me that it was Obama’s people who put the slamming of Israel into Cameron’s speech. (more)

Prior to the 2008 election, the Obama Presidential campaign’s narrative, echoed by the media, told voters that any reporting on then presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama’s, dubious associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers was nothing more than a desperate distraction. (more)

Left-wing bias in the media is nothing new. Regardless, journalists and the free press have been regarded as the peaceful guardians of America’s liberal democratic republic. In 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote: (more)

In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded Journolist, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources. (more)

The emergence of the Journolist listserv at The Daily Caller has created quite a stir on the Internet, but among mainstream media journalists, the silence is deafening. The listserv creates the impression that the entire profession of journalism protected presidential candidate Barack Obama in the spring of 2008, when controversy over his attendance at the church of Jeremiah Wright reached its zenith, and ever since. (more)

Is anyone honestly surprised by the revelations that members of the liberal left media plotted to kill stories about Reverend Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 presidential campaign? (more)

Prominent conservatives responded Tuesday to new reports of a 2008 discussion topic on Journolist, the now-defunct listserv of centrist and liberal journalists, that called for a smear campaign to paint Republicans as racists. (more)

A textbook tactic of statist radicals in America is the systematic character assassination of their enemies as racists. Loathe to engage their intellectual opponents in a real discussion of the issues, lest the radicals should be perceived for what they are and lose the fight to bring America under their heel, they prefer instead to slander their opponents, to intimidate and shout them down, and to destroy their credibility with whatever lies or twisted propaganda they can muster in a never-ending witch-hunt. (more)

Progressive ‘journalists’ coordinated smear against critics of Rev. Wright — Reporters harangue a sweaty Robert Gibbs after Obama mischaracterizes fight over unemployment benefits — Dueling Tea Party leaders channel Hamilton and Burr (sort of!) — Congressman points out that signs heralding stimulus are not a good use of the stimulus — How is Obamacare helping FLOTUS? Oh right, it’s not — Cops don’t want to be filmed doing anything ever again (more)

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. (more)