Didn't Ya Always Sorta Suspect It?

So punchlined Milo Bloom in a memorable Bloom County strip after eavesdropping on a high level meeting of Bloom Picayune management and overhearing them discussing how their Soviet-directed effort to undermine and destroy the United States of America from within was proceeding according to plan.  It was a yank on the Right, but there were quite a few of us who took the irony as Berke Breathed lampooning our citation of the lefty press bias that's been as obvious as a hairlip almost my entire lifetime.

Tucker Carlson's first installment of Journolist exposes at the Daily Caller don't quite rise to that ultimate level of disclosure, but admit it: Didn't you always sorta suspect THIS to?:

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Senator Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev'rund 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.”...Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

Perhaps, Spencer, because people like you and your "some kind of a god" are maniacally determined to divide the country with inflammatory verbal warfare like what we've been enduring ever since "a black politician" took over the country eighteen months ago?

Folks, there's not a whole lot of "journalism" going on there, but a great deal of political strategizing.  It doubtless was little or no different from the conversations that were taking place "officially" inside Team Messiah at the time.  The difference was, these were supposed to be objective journalists not propagandists, reporters of news rather than partisan manipulators of it.

It's also supremely cynical, as you can tell from Ackerman's rhetoric that he KNOWS these accusations are bogus but are designed as a political combat tactic.

Nor was it limited to the Uncle Jeremiah imbroglio.  This fellow-traveling mindset had an endgame even bigger than getting the country's first Marxist president elected:

Katha Pollitt – Hayes’s colleague at the Nation – didn’t disagree on principle, though she did sound weary of the propaganda. “I hear you. but I am really tired of defending the indefensible. The people who attacked Clinton on Monica were prissy and ridiculous, but let me tell you it was no fun, as a feminist and a woman, waving aside as politically irrelevant and part of the vast rightwing conspiracy Paula, Monica, Kathleen, Juanita,” Pollitt said.

“Part of me doesn’t like this shit either,” agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. “But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.”

Brings to mind the old adage, "all's fair in love and war."  If the Obamidency has communicated anything loud and clear, it's that filthbags like the Journolisters, who have proven (redunantly but spectacularly) everything we on the Right have ever said about the Donk-owned Fourth Estate, are at war with Us, The People, and the country we know and love the way it's been for the past 221 years, thank you very much.

And I'm sure I'm not on an island when I declare that we've had enough of being governed by character-assassins, fascist thugs, and yes, criminals, ourselves.  The difference is, our assessment is grounded in day-glo fact.  And we'll take care of that in three and a half months.

And just think: there's a ton more of this stuff to come.