to encouraged others to kill stories about obama s pastor jeremiah wright in the 2008 presidential campaign. 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, he wrote. fred barnes, karl rove, who cares, and call them racists. his colleague kevin drumm disagreed saying, turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the obama brand pretty strongly. ackerman struck back saying, i m not saying obama should do this. i m saying we should do this. some of those included the threads are political science and journalism professors. we ll have more on the developing story wednesday on special report. florida governor and u.s. senate candidate charlie crist tells the wall street journal it s a lot more fun being an independent. crist who moderated many of
this online community called journosituation journolist. now it s starting to come out. one about reverend wright in the 2008 campaign season, talk about how to take attention off of that scandal. spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged them to deflect attention from obama s relationship with wright by changing the subject, pick one of his conservative critics, fed barnes, karl rove, who cares and call them racists. another incident we learned about today, rush limbaugh, the conservative commentator, talk show host, public producer with krrw sarah spits said she would haven t helped rush limbaugh if she witnessed him going in cardiac arrest and instead she wrote she would laugh loudly like a maniac as limbaugh s eyes bugged out and writhed in torment.
sean: obama s relationship with reverend wright at one point threatened to derail his campaign. documents reveal the extent to which the extent the mainstream media went to hide the pair s relationship. e-mails exchanged on a liberal list show spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged his colleagues to pick an obama critic and call them racist to deflect attention from the wright story. following debate during which george stephanopoulos questioned obama about his relationship with wright, listen folks in my opinion we have to do what we can to kill abc and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. days later chris hayes asked colleagues who worked no in the mainstream media to ignore the relationship. some of us did report on the story. remember this?
sean: obama s relationship with reverend wright at one point threatened to derail his campaign. documents reveal the extent to which the extent the mainstream media went to hide the pair s relationship. e-mails exchanged on a liberal list show spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged his colleagues to pick an obama critic and call them racist to deflect attention from the wright story. following debate during which george stephanopoulos questioned obama about his relationship with wright, listen folks in my opinion we have to do what we can to kill abc and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. days later chris hayes asked colleagues who worked no in the mainstream media to ignore the relationship. some of us did report on the story. remember this?
to encouraged others to kill stories about obama s pastor jeremiah wright in the 2008 presidential campaign. 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, he wrote. fred barnes, karl rove, who cares, and call them racists. his colleague kevin drumm disagreed saying, turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the obama brand pretty strongly. ackerman struck back saying, i m not saying obama should do this. i m saying we should do this. some of those included the threads are political science and journalism professors. we ll have more on the developing story wednesday on special report. florida governor and u.s. senate candidate charlie crist tells the wall street journal it s a lot more fun being an independent.