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emmaverybo

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1. Thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately, we can expect more of the same. In the run up to 2008
Wed May 8, 2019, 10:59 PM
May 2019

Obama got bashed again and again over his association with Reverend Wright. A YouTube video took a few minutes of a Wright sermon post 9/11 out of context, and the most liberal news hosts would not let it go. I remember Hitchens and Russert gossiping and clucking while Hilary brought up Wright in a one on one debate, simply using the media talking points as her own.
Ironically, he had been seated at her table as one of the invitees to her husband’s atonement breakfast with faith leaders after the Lewinski scandal.
We need to watch media carefully.
But the good news was that Obama managed to get his message out and he won, though of course he had to throw Wright under the bus.
Along the same lines, while Hilary ran against Obama, a multi-part YouTube made for YouTube movie aired, slickly produced, making her out to be evil incarnate, as some crazy claim against her was also getting a day or two in court.
True, she lost that one. But came back strong in 2016 with the same garbage spewing out of the anti-Clinton cottage industry.
I do think we must correct these intentional mischaracterizations wherever and whenever we find them.




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