Hooked on Wright
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The liberal group, Media Matters for America, reports today that since the end of February, The Washington Post published 53 articles mentioning the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama, and 40 editorials and op-ed pieces.
The New York Times published 46 articles and 22 editorials and op-eds, according to the group.
Media Matters argued that the media should have been paying equal attention to John McCain and his endorsement by John Hagee, a pastor criticized for his statements about the Catholic church and gays. I disagree. However hateful Hagee’s comments, Hagee was not McCain’s minister for 20 years.
Still, that’s a lot of attention on Obama and his minister as controversial as Wright has become.
As for Fox News, which has been consumed by the story, Wednesday night on Hannity and Colmes Karl Rove said Obama appeared to have political motives in condemning Wright’s comments.
Rove: “Well, it comes off as political. He still — this problem is going to remain. He probably did some good in diminishing it but it still remains.”
Will he raise the bar no matter what Obama does now?
Earlier Rove had written: “It would have been better to say from the start that Wright’s words were wrong and offensive and you should have spoken out earlier. The applause would have been deafening.”
PHOTO: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. laughs with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, at the Detroit NAACP’s 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit Sunday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Byline:
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Much as I dislike Rev. Wright, he is right about one thing—that Obama’s current condemnations of him are politically expedient.
Obama is being disingenuous when he says that he never heard Wright make crazy comments in the 20 years he attended that church, and acts as if all this is a big surprise to him.
New politics indeed. It’s just more of the same old lies we expect from our politicians.
The truth is that Obama either has agreed with much of what Wright has said, or he was simply using the church as a path to power in the community. Neither is really a good answer.
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