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clipped from townhall.com Oh, and -- surprise! -- it turns out that the "O" in Journolist stands for "Obama." In 2008, participants shared talking points about how to shape coverage to help Obama. They tried to paint any negative coverage of Obama's racist and hateful pastor, Jeremiah Wright, as out of bounds. Journalists at such "objective" news organizations as Newsweek, Bloomberg, Time and The Economist joined conversations with open partisans about the best way to criticize Sarah Palin. In other words, Journolist is a symptom, not the disease. And the disease is not a secret conspiracy but something more like the "Open Conspiracy" H.G. Wells fantasized about, where the smartest, best people at every institution make their progressive vision for the world their top priority. "This isn't about ideology. ... We just call them like we see them. ... We don't have an agenda." The open conspiracy that perpetuates that lie is far more pernicious than any chat room.