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Hit back at CNN: Very short (updated

Sat May 03, 2008 at 11:40:52 AM PDT

This diary will be shorter than is normally required. But here I think is a chance to hit back at CNN. So please consider recommending and taking five minutes to send CNN an e-mail on  This hit piece on Obama and his connection to Reverend Wright.

Updated: Also write to verdict@msnbc.com to complain about Dan Abram's hour long non-story on Wright and Obama.

I wonder what would happen if CNN got hundreds of negative e-mail responses and charges of bias? Well, probably as much as happened with ABC and the last debate but you never know.

My own view is that someone at CNN all of a sudden started sendsing Wright was fading from view as Obama began to rebound. My imagined scene in the CNN Newsrook (a sense of panic is ensuing as reporters frantically bemoan how people are already beginning to forget about the Wright story):

Producers: quick, let's find a picture of Wright looking Kooky, talk about how white people won't vote for Obama and remind them not to vote for Obama.

Reporters: but how can we do another story on Wright?

Producers: we'll do a story about how we made a story, and then how our making the story is a story, and how that's a story...But for heaven's sake "Katie Bar the Door" because we're about to elect a Black man for President for chrissakes...Go here to comment on the story

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