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“We’re not in the post-racial period,” said Mr. Paterson, according to an article posted on The Daily News Web site, which cited an interview the governor provided to a radio program hosted by Errol Louis, a Daily News columnist.

“My feeling is it’s being orchestrated, it’s a game, and people who pay attention know that,” he said. “We have a media that doesn’t report the news. We have a media that wants to make the news.”
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"We're not in the post-racial period," Paterson said.

"The reality is the next victim on the list - and you can see it coming - is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than trying to reform a health care system."

Paterson said the campaign against him is being "orchestrated" by reporters who would rather make the news than report it.

But critics said the governor should blame his own blunders.

"He's given the media more than enough to feed on with the incompetence shown in his administration," said state Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn), an African-American.

"To quote Michael Jackson, he should start with the man in the mirror," Parker said.
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Amid reports that Panetta had threatened to quit just seven months after taking over at the spy agency, other insiders tell ABCNews.com that senior White House staff members are already discussing a possible shake-up of top national security officials.

"You can expect a larger than normal turnover in the next year," a senior adviser to Obama on intelligence matters told ABCNews.com.
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After complaining on a Friday radio show that he is the victim of an "orchestrated" campaign to push him out of office, Paterson told a blogger that some people are uncomfortable with too many black people in power.

"Part of what I feel is that one very successful minority is permissible, but when you see too many success stories, then some people get nervous," Paterson told political blogger Gerson Borrero over the weekend.

Paterson's comment is sure to catch the ear of the White House, which already asked him to tone down his rhetoric after he said Friday that President Obama will be the next target of a racist media.

Defensive and at time self pitying, Paterson indicated he's been stewing for some time
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Beck has gone after Jones in the past. On July 28, he called the activist a "self-professed communist" and questioned the role he was playing in the administration. His latest assault on Jones came as Color of Change announced that it has secured commitments from 36 companies who have pledged not to advertise on Beck’s popular program, including Wal-Mart and Sprint. However, some of the companies never had a presence on "Glenn Beck." Representatives of Procter & Gamble and AT&T – listed by Color of Change as companies that had signed onto the boycott – told The Times that their companies did not run spots on Beck’s program to begin with.

While the advertising boycott has generated substantial media coverage, Fox News said it has not impacted the network’s revenues or Beck’s audience. "The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so there has been no revenue lost," a spokeswoman said.
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“We hold up this concept that grass roots needs to be 100 percent spontaneous — 50 people showing up spontaneously at the same place at same time. But there always needs to be some kind of organization — we provide the organizational backbone,” he said.

FreedomWorks was recently criticized by allies for charging $10,000 to conservative groups for the right to speak and access activists at a Sept. 12 Washington rally.

“Their 'organizing' is tending to dominate and over-formalize what would’ve otherwise been a more 'freelance' protest," grumbled a conservative activist.

The group cited the event’s costs, and Brandon, in turn, questioned whether his group’s arch-enemies in the game of town-hall packing — labor and the pro-White House group Health Care for America Now — were really all that authentic.

HCAN is “supposed to be this grass-roots effort and it’s funded by $80 million, and you look at their members and it’s all unions,” said Brandon.

“They have 10 times our yearly budget, and they’re organizing buses with their members — and these guys have the nerve to call us Astroturf?”

A spokeswoman for the health care group, Jacki Schechner, responded that “we actually are totally grass roots,” and that the bulk of their funding came from a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, with unions ponying up a mere $500,000 for membership on its steering committee.
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