{"id":4397,"date":"2010-07-20T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2010-07-23T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T16:40:24","slug":"what-we-knew-all-along-journalists-conspire-to-cover-up-not-report-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/07\/20\/what-we-knew-all-along-journalists-conspire-to-cover-up-not-report-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Knew All Along: Journalists Conspire to Cover Up, Not Report, the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Chicago&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ and former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<p>It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama\u2019s 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\u2019s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 nearly a year since Wright\u2019s remarks became public \u2013 to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, \u201cDo you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/07\/20\/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article\/541314\/201007221919\/JournoGate-Continued-Pouncing-On-Palin.aspx\">IBD Found Palin to be Capable, Journolist Members Conspired to Give Another Perception<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Chicago&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ and former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite) It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}