Department of Offense

2008 – The year journalism really died
By Myra Adams | Published: 9:54 AM 07/21/2010 | Updated: 10:55 AM 07/21/2010

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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?

For the now-defunct Journolist, a once powerful listserv, its members’ greatest fear was if Obama’s pastor story ran unchecked by them, re-plays of Reverend Wright’s sermons would be aired continuously during the primary battles, thus hurting the chances of The Chosen One, (chosen by us, of course.) Then, if Obama cleared the Hillary hurdle, voters would be hearing those sermons up until Election Day. This they knew would ultimately hurt the potential electability of the first African American president, who happened to be sitting in the pews for 20 years listening to these unspeakable sermons.

But no worry, candidate Obama never actually heard any of those sermons. So let’s just drop it, OK? Meanwhile let’s call all those nasty Republicans “racists” for wanting to explore this story. That will stop them! So now you know Journolist group think, circa 2008.

Now thanks to The Daily Caller, truth has come from darkness. Which makes me realize this is the best time to be Sean Hannity, for he has been supremely vindicated and here’s why.

During the 2008 campaign I was a frequent listener to his radio show. So I remember when Hannity first reported about Obama’s radical pastor back in mid – 2007, when no one was paying any attention to a freshman senator who had no chance of ever defeating Queen Hillary.

Then in 2008, Obama rose in stature, and unrelated to Hannity, the Reverend Wright story “broke.” Did it ever —- and then it just went away, except on the Sean Hannity Show.

After Obama won the nomination, Hannity would rant and rave about how Barack Obama was a leftist, socialist, radical with a questionable history of friendships and associations.

He did not let up day after day. As a result Hannity’s ratings went through the roof. I believe this was because most listeners believed what he said was true, and they were not getting much truth almost anywhere else in a media landscape completely smitten by Barack Obama. And yes, Hannity was not afraid to play “the best of” Reverend Wright’s sermons on a regular basis.

I was struck by how Hannity would always say 2008 was the year journalism died.

He was always talking about how the main stream media were NOT doing their job investigating this man who came from nowhere, who we did not know, and now was about to be elected President of Hannity’s America.

So fast forward to The Daily Caller’s revelations about the Journolist’s media manipulations and now we can declare with great certainty, that 2008 was in fact The Year Journalism Died.

It’s not just for Sean Hannity listeners anymore.

Most important, this tawdry tale must serve as a wake up call for our nation, and these questions must be raised: Is our free press really free if it’s able to be manipulated by powerful journalists, whose names we do not know, who have pre-determined who should hold the highest office in the land? If presidential campaign coverage can be manipulated, can you imagine how easy other issues can be manipulated by the media? Is our nation really ruled by a small group of media liberals who know what is best for us? God help us if that is true and God Bless Sean Hannity for staying true to truth.

Myra Adams is a media producer, writer and political observer. Her media clients have included national associations, political interest groups and corporations. She was on the creative team with Mark McKinnon that created the now infamous John Kerry “Windsurfing” ad for the Bush 2004 presidential campaign and served on the McCain Ad Council during the 2008 McCain campaign. Myra’s web site TheJesusStore.com contributes all profits to Christian charity.

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Not to disrespect the dead but while we are hearing what a great man Ted Kennedy was…here is the “other” side…

              The  Last of The Kennedy Dynasty

              As soon as his cancer was detected, we noticed the immediate
attempt at the “canonization” of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media.
They are saying what a “great American” he is.  Better say, let’s get a
couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history.

              1.    He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it.
He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a
classmate to cheat for him.

              2.    While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but
mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two.  Oops!  The man can’t
count to four!  His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to
England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada  during
prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened
to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a
war was raging.  No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that
President Bush received).

              3.    Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the

rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.  Imagine a
person of his “education” NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

               4.    While attending law school at the University of
Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when
he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with
his headlights off after dark.  Yet his Virginia driver’s license was never
revoked.  Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959.  Amazing!

              5.    In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and
hospitalized for several months.  Test results done by the hospital at the
time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated.  The results of
those tests remained a “state secret” until in the 1980’s when the report
was unsealed.  Didn’t hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

              6.    On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on
Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts .  At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his
chauffeur’s keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride
home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker.  Leaving the island via an
unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge,
flipped, and into Poucha Pond.

              7.    He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing
several houses and a fire station.  Two friends then returned with him to
the scene of the accident.  According to their later testimony, they told
him what he already knew – that he was required by law to immediately report
the accident to the authorities.  Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel,
called his lawyer, and went to sleep.  Kennedy called the police the next
morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered.  Before dying,
Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the
upside-down car.

              The Kennedy family began “calling in favors”, ensuring that
any inquiry would be contained.  Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her
family, before an autopsy could be conducted.  Further details are
uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the
water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn’t call police because he was in
a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off
calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight.
Since the accident, Kennedy’s “political enemies” have referred to him as
the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick.  He pled guilty to leaving
the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS.
Kopechne’s family received a small payout from the Kennedy’s insurance
policy, and never sued.  There was  later an effort to have her body exhumed
and autopsied,  but her family  successfully fought against this in court,
and  Kennedy’s family  paid their attorney’s bills… a “token of
friendship”?
              8.    Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty
years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant.  He
authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights,
increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for
the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is
widely held as the “standard-bearer for liberalism”. In his very first
Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S.
immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from
third world countries.

              9.    Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and
author of every expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including
the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.  Not to mention the
pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the
standard bearer for the nation in matters of “what’s right”.  What a pompous
ass!

              10.    He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud,
boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies.  JERK is a better description
than “great American”.  “A blonde in every pond” is his motto.

              Let’s not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero — how
quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is.  Let’s keep
this going for truth, justice and the American way!
 

You’re a 19-year-old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam .  Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 – 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.

I actually did some research on headlines from 4 years ago and this is correct 1/22/2009
 
This is why I dont read the news. Why would I PAY to let someone give me information that is slanted to their own liking? I am not saying that what happens on a national scale isnt important to me, it certainly is. I am only saying that reading the news papers is not a good way to get the information that I need to make a well informed decision. I try everyday to take back my own thoughts and stop letting others, like the news papers, TELL me what to think… We ALL need to start making our own decisions based on what we KNOW, not what someone like the news papers tell us.

Incredible; stuff like this makes me nuts.  I guess our media assumes everyone believes the crap they shovel at us…….as though none of us are capable of individual thought.  Jeez……………
And the beat goes on and the nay-sayers persist in their intractable denial. 
 
 Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago: 
 
 ”Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees” 
 
 ”Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times” 
 
 ”Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft” 
 
 

Headlines Today: 
 
 ”Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million” 
 
 ”Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party” 
 
 ”Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate” 
 
 ”Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration” 
 

 Nothing like fair & unbiased coverage of the news, eh!!!!!