Page 65 - Reverend Wright News Today

We had someone on from the daily caller. we would be remiss if we didnt talk about the story that consumed the media world. theres a list serve liberal journal lists and academics going on for years this running conversation where they were almost literally conspiring together to shape stories and shape the news to minimize the reverend wright story for instance. they were wishing for rush limbaughs death and -- shut dering of fox news and the rest. what is the -- shuttering of fox news and the ...

Come of them did do that during the campaign, coverage of jeremiah wright. >> thats guys were trying to suppress the news and one of them, a guy named spencer ackerman, advocating smearing even fellow journalists. >> if the right forces defend wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game that theyve put upon us. instead take one of them, fred barnes, karl rove, who cares, and call them racist and why they have a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the co...

Shes been very, very vocal, very accessible as have been thç farmer who was the person who she helped. so you have all these different pieces. they look great on television. it makes great tv. right now people want to see whats going on. overall, in this quick 24-hour news cycle, the media is doing what it usually does, and thats telling us whats going on just as quickly as they found out about it. >> i want to play a portion of then candidate obamas race speech that he gave during the fallout ...

Distraction, this time over shirley sherrod this week what are the larger imp plic cations for the way this white house has handled racial issues? joining me now ron waters, political analyst, professor emeritus government and politics at the university of maryland. we met a million years ago, first in the jesse jackson campaigns and when you were on the hill as well, so you have been watching this for a long time. what is this awkwardness here in the larger question of the way ms. sherrod was h...

Lets bring in cnn white house correspondent suzanne malveaux. whats the filter process? how is it decided whether the president gets involved in a race issue or not? >> reporter: first of all, in covering the president during the campaign, it is very clear that this president does not want to talk about race. reticent to jump into it. he was really forced during the campaign to talk about it in a way because of his reverend wright controversy. once he did it, however, he tried to do it in a thou...

Sherrod. you can understand why african-americans are feeling less optimistic about race relations in america. i think there was a sense once we elected our first african-american president that some of these issues would disappear. and, of course, they havent disappeared and, you know, there are some folks who believe that barack obama ought to take on race more directly as he did with reverend wright during the campaign and some say, you know what, he is president of the united states. he is p...

Department before she was hired. >> yeah. >> on behalf of her community organization. >> but if she does come back, they are in serious trouble because they cant disown her. they have to embrace her and she said stuff undoubtedly -- >> you say shes in serious trouble. other media is not going to report what we reported. other media wont report what we reported. >> its like he has reverend wright on his staff. >> come on, its not nearly that bad. >> see the stuff that comes out and see what youre...

Department before she was hired. >> yeah. >> on behalf of her community organization. >> but if she does come back, they are in serious trouble because they cant disown her. they have to embrace her and she said stuff undoubtedly -- >> you say shes in serious trouble. other media is not going to report what we reported. other media wont report what we reported. >> its like he has reverend wright on his staff. >> come on, its not nearly that bad. >> see the stuff that comes out and see what youre...

Department before she was hired. >> yeah. >> on behalf of her community organization. >> but if she does come back, they are in serious trouble because they cant disown her. they have to embrace her and she said stuff undoubtedly -- >> you say shes in serious trouble. other media is not going to report what we reported. other media wont report what we reported. >> its like he has reverend wright on his staff. >> come on, its not nearly that bad. >> see the stuff that comes out and see what youre...

Then we had the beer summit and the whole skip gates controversy. they do seem a little bit wrong footed because of their sort of eager so keep it apart. >> the white house always says, well, the president has taken on race in any number of cases, but if you look at the campaign, he took it on one time in that speech about reverend wright. he largely did not run as an african-american candidate running for president. he ran as a candidate for president who was african-american. you know, some po...