The Democratic National Committee — armed with the help of dismissive
tweets from a variety of journalists — scrambled Tuesday night to
attack The Daily Caller for its videos of President Obama’s
controversial race comments in 2007 before the story was even published.
Using comments from reporters speculating on TheDC’s report, the
Democrats quickly worked to dismiss the story it hadn’t seen yet — which
was teased Tuesday afternoon on Sean Hannity’s radio show and on the
Drudge Report — by calling it “lame.”
At about 7:30 p.m. ET, the DNC Rapid Response team sent an email to
reporters titled “That was Lame,” listing “instant reaction to the
latest lame Drudge/Hannity desperation tactics.”
The email merely included tweets from journalists — before the story
was published — expressing skepticism and disinterest and the mistaken
claim that the video had been published before.
The tweets used by the Democratic National Committee came from
reporters at organizations including Politico, BuzzFeed, The Huffington
Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine and the Atlantic.
The mere prospect that videos of Obama talking about race and his
former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would be published had the
committee quickly working to kill the story.
In an attempt to link the story to Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the DNC also sent out an old story about Romney saying he would not make Wright a campaign issue.
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