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To -- encouraged others to kill stories about obamas pastor jeremiah wright in the 2008 presidential campaign. "in one instance, spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from obamas relationship with wright by changing the subject. pick one of obamas conservative critics," he wrote. "fred barnes, karl rove, who cares, and call them racists." his colleague kevin drumm disagreed saying, "turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the obama ...

And talk a little bit more after the break. i do think he and vice president biden have been somewhat calming on racial issues at least publicly. >> they have but eric holder sure hasnt. >> we got to go. dick morris, stick around, as i said for this. a cover-up in the mainstream media? new documents show journalists plotted to kill stories about reverend wright while barack obama was running for president and mixed messages on the proposed mosque at ground zero. the controversial plan sells itse...

Doing your job and this is the way they react on the basis of a partial story on a website that is out there, a conservative website? it speaks very, very badly of the administrations courage, of the administrations ability and will to stand by its friends until it gets the whole truth. >> and, mike barnicle, lets face it. i believe maureen dowd has written about this before. its been known to throw people under the bus whether its expedient. whether reverend wright. the church he went to. we re...

Somebody who is winning an argument with a liberal. but i think that the -- that really, one of the other interesting things about the reverend wright controversy, the most interesting thing, is why didnt hillary clinton use that issue in the race? the election, she could -- she would have -- could have known about that in december had she used it before iowa, there never would have been a barack obama. and how ironic that this woman who is from the clinton household that has specialized hiring ...

All i could do because i didnt like his attitude or didnt like his color or whatever it is. thats the kind of thing that scares people. the president has surrounded himself with people out of the mainstream, van jones, jeremiah wright. william ayers so the citizens are going out there saying im concerned what was going on. i dont think the president had a choice. the president had to say shes out of here. the naacp, you know, made the statement. they kind of created this mess by passing a stupid...

Whose left wing opinions were very well known in the context of that, lets pull up the first quote that deals with karl rove. the context was the question about reverend wright. they are saying we need to get in discussion about reverend wright often table and protect then candidate obama. and the suggestion was made by one ackerman who says fred barnes, karl rove, who cares call them rays because he wants to change the conversation and start pointing fingers in your direction specifically. what...

>> sean: obamas relationship with reverend wright at one point threatened to derail his campaign. documents reveal the extent to which the extent the mainstream media went to hide the pairs relationship. e-mails exchanged on a liberal list show spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged his colleagues to pick an obama critic and call them racist to deflect attention from the wright story. following debate during which george stephanopoulos questioned obama about his relationship with w...

Attention from fellow journalists. >> i thought if she turned out the ongoing phone service, it would be a while before they noticed. if the intercoms still work. >> dick, it was amazing, too, when the president -- one of his first correspondent dinner speeches, he said its good to be in front of you and in front of my base. everybody laughed. efforts ta everybody is talking about it. now we realize it was true. it talks about how they collaborated to squelch reverend wright. heres spencer acker...

We have pictures. by the way hes a pilot. >> an air force pilot. >> sean: a jetblue pilot. look at horses. >> got married on a ranch in north virginia where im from, incredible day. >> sean: it is sick how the both of you look. >> thank you im a very lucky woman. >> sean: what do we make of this woman and the obama administration? >> during the reverend wright controversy what we were told was dont judge reverend wright by sound bites. obviously there was plenty of evidence to indict reverend wr...

Lack of interest in the story. >> they were interested. they were profoundly interested. because the supporters of obama within the press, that was most journalists, understood this was his achilles heel if any issue was going to crush his candidacy, was reverend wright. he was a smooth talker, he did everything right but in one story had the capacity to kill his candidacy dead and thats why they decided to lie about it. >> sean: that interview in march of 2007 was the last interview he did thro...