The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

In the wake of a voter intimidation scandal regarding Barack Obama’s 2008 primary election against then Senator Hillary Clinton, the Daily Caller has uncovered documents showing left wing media groups conspired to bury stories about Barack Obama’s close association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The plot involves members of Journolist , an annotated list of journalist resources, and includes several hundred journalists for mainstream news organizations; including employees of Time, Politico, The Huffington Post, and The New Republic. In one post Wired.com’s Spencer Ackerman, formerly of The Washington Independent wrote:

If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — 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.

While that kind of rhetoric isn’t surprising, it certainly is telling. That many in the mainstream media were firmly in the tank for Camp Obama, is already well documented. The sheer volume of sycophantic coverage lavished upon him in the 2008 presidential race has lead people to write entire books on the subject. But that the left would pick a conservative, any conservative and attempt to manufacture racist allegations goes far beyond the much used race card and deep into the tactics of Saul Alinsky.

It points to this being part of the much larger conspiracy that is the Obama Presidency.