Study: Media Covered Up Rev. Wright's Extremism »
Posted By FSU92grad 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsThe three major network news outlets censored and manipulated Barack Obama's longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright's sound bites to cover up his extremism, a new study by the Media Research Center charges.
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In a report scheduled for release Wednesday, the MRC states: “Rev. Wright’s noxious recorded sermons suggesting that America deserved 9/11 and that the federal government created AIDS as a tool of black genocide were widely viewed on YouTube and discussed on talk radio and cable TV. But what about the network news shows, the programs most watched by the least politically involved viewers?...
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Among the key findings of the study:
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A Fox News Channel report on March 1, 2007, delved into the “black value system” of Rev. Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. But the name of Rev. Wright did not surface on the Big Three networks until a year later, on CBS on Feb. 28, 2008.
The first story with excerpts from a Wright sermon did not air until two weeks later, on ABC on March 13. By that time, 42 states had already voted in the primaries.
Snippets of Wright’s sermons drew only 72 seconds of evening news coverage in all of March, an average of 24 seconds per network.
None of the Big Three aired any of Wright’s 2003 sermon accusing the federal government of hiding the truth about their “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” and all three “mostly ignored” his remarks calling the 9/11 attacks “America’s chickens coming home to roost.”
On March 18, the evening news shows carried nearly six minutes of highlights from Obama’s “race speech” that day, in which he discussed race in America and defended his relationship with Wright, saying: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother.” That was about five times the air time they devoted to Wright sound bites in the entire month of March.
Wright’s April 28 comments at the National Press Club reiterating his claims about an AIDS conspiracy and America deserving 9/11 went virtually unreported, with the AIDS comments receiving no air time and the 9/11 charge just 23 seconds. The same Big Three aired nearly six minutes of clips of Wright’s “softball interview” with Bill Moyers on PBS, the MRC disclosed. -
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FSU92grad1 year, 4 months ago
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“But voters who sampled only a light menu of news from Big Three network TV could easily have missed the depths of Reverend Wright’s outrageous remarks. No one could find in these stories a scouring scrutiny of Obama’s decades of membership in his controversial church.”
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FSU92grad1 year, 4 months ago
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Again, liberals....Please try to deny the fact again that the media is not left-leaning....They all have their head's so far up Osama's butt, he can barely breathe...
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The media since day one has not scrutinized Osama's relationship to Rev. Wright's and his association to that church...If McCain had gone to a church where the preacher started to go off on blacks and promoted "black-hate", EVERY LIBERAL DEMOCRAP WOULD BE ALL OVER MCCAIN DENOUNCING HIM AND ASKING HIM TO STEP DOWN......
I mean, look what you dorks did to Imus? The man had to step down because of the uproar from the lefties....Obama is involved with the same radical-type of thinking or associated with a church who preached hateful anti-white/anti-American messages for over 20 years and now he's all of a sudden a presidential candidate ? Are you kidding me ?
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icono11 year, 4 months ago
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When a person is running on 'appearance' then the media has a tendency to look the other way because the 'popularity of the image' is what drives the bottom line.
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As for OBama's documented associations with so called radical elements in society I am most certain that he and his followers can give it a pass by saying 'It was just a misunderstanding.' because he has 'changed' and now 'feels differently'; please note there is no proof of real change just a promise of change about such past associations. Also to note, that throwing certain individuals under the bus for political expediency in no way means that the publically discarded individuals are 'discarded' at the personal level.
The Imus situation was flat out ugly from both sides of the media spectrum. It really became obvious that a certain segment of the media population would be held accountable for degrading language while another segment of the media population could say anything degrading about anyone and be protected by the PC media.
All of this smoke around OBama serves the function of detracting from his paper thin record and the fact that he is an elitist that is running on the emotion of the crowd and not paying attention to the world around him. -
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