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On Sunday morning, April 13, 2008, Howard Kurtz of CNN interviewed the woman correspondent for the Huffington Post who attended that San Francisco fundraiser for Obama and recorded the "bitter-clinging" speech. Her name is Mayhill Fowler and she was straightforward and credible. She explained how she captured Obama's remarks on her cell-phone and returned to her quarters and listened — and did not write about those remarks at all!
To her credit and my delight, Mayhill Fowler freely admitted, in fact, freely proclaimed to Howard Kurtz, that she didn't want to report on Obama's remarks because — get this, please — she didn't want to hurt the Obama campaign! A simple exclamation point is insufficient to highlight the power of that remark, but it's, alas, the strongest our system of writing affords.
By dawn's early light, however, she changed her mind; realizing that her responsibility as a journalist easily trumped her feelings in favor of Obama.
Get the story.
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