What we all knew, Part 2: The coordinated campaign against Palin

In just about successful political campaign there are two angles which you try to hit simultaneously to present yourself the best option. Namely, drive up negatives/doubts about your opponent while selling yourself positively. In the first "What we all knew" blog, I dealt how much of the MSM actively conspired to ignore/minimize/deflect the Rev. Wright story, which in normal circumstances would have been fatal to a candidate.

Media Plotted to kill Rev. Wright stories.

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect

THE PALINS MEET THE MSM

their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.