“Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You’ll forgive me if I just can’t quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama’s pastor,”

– Chris Hayes of The Nation, on April 29, 2008, in communicating with other members of JournoList, a left-wing association of reporters and pundits found to have conspired to drive favorable media coverage of the Obama campaign.