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Reverend Wright? Right...

"And the hopemonger looked tired, rattled, and on the defensive over his string of big-state losses and the continuing conniptions over his knuckle/chuckleheaded former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright." - Jon Heileman

He's everywhere. He's everywhere.

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April 2008
- Pastor Strife Forces Obama to Get Tough
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 30, 08 6:09 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's angry break with his former pastor marks a dramatic change in tone for the Democratic hopeful—and the party's superdelegates are paying close attention, the New York Times reports. Obama's forceful handling of the furor has impressed many but the revival of thorny racial issues ahead of next week's primaries is causing some to fret. More »
- Snarl Suits Obama; Will Wright Bark Back?
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Apr 29, 08 5:35 PM CDT
  
  In throwing Jeremiah Wright “to the dogs,” Barack Obama today finally showed the anger he’s too long denied his public, Michael Tomasky sighs with relief in the Guardian —but only time can tell how hard Wright will work to sink the Democratic candidate. The even-tempered Obama—“anti-McCain, emotionally”—needed to show voters he can get “angry over important things.” More »
- 'Outraged' Obama Blasts Away Ties to Wright
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Apr 29, 08 1:46 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama fired back at Jeremiah Wright today, calling his former pastor’s media tour a “spectacle,” and saying his “rants” give “comfort to those who prey on hate.” In all but severing ties with Wright, the Boston Globe reports, Obama said the reverend had done “great damage” to their personal relationship—and added “I may not know him as well as I thought.” More »
- 10 Takes on What Obama Should Do
  
  newser | Salon | Apr 29, 08 11:51 AM CDT
  
  Six of 10 pundits Salon asked what Barack Obama should do about the Jeremiah Wright problem say the candidate must get rid of the reverend. Andrew Sullivan calls Wright’s latest remarks “bitter and racist” and “a provocation"; he must be "clearly and irrevocably disowned." Martin Kaplan calls Wright “part of the negative politics that our country needs to transcend.” More »
- Clinton Backer Behind Wright Speech
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Apr 29, 08 8:42 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton can't be sorry to have Jeremiah Wright back in the news. So it’s interesting that the pastor’s defiant speech and press conference yesterday was scheduled and organized by Barbara Reynolds, an ordained minister, ex- USA Today editor, and ardent Clinton supporter. Reynolds wrote on her blog that by voting for Clinton she was “saying thank you” for her husband's administration. More »
- Wright's Reappearance Is Good News for Obama
  
  newser | Slate | Apr 28, 08 7:27 PM CDT
  
  Jeremiah Wright’s return to the limelight looks bad for Barack Obama at first blush, but in fact it may be helping the hopeful: Wright is distancing himself from Obama (and mocking his role as a “spiritual advisor”) as he redirects attention to the black church, Christopher Beam writes on Slate. More »
- Wright Blasts 'Attacks on Black Church'
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 28, 08 9:36 AM CDT
  
  Jeremiah Wright gave an impassioned speech this morning, calling the controversy around his theology and statements "an attack on the black church, not an attack on Jeremiah Wright." He said the press "made a fool out of itself" over black church traditions, which he called "different," not "divisive." The Navy vet dismissed charges he's not patriotic, saying, “I served six years in the military, does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?” More »
- Wright Lashes Out at Media
  
  newser | Detroit News | Apr 28, 08 6:40 AM CDT
  
  The controversial pastor who triggered trouble for Barack Obama delivered a fiery, unapologetic speech to a sold-out NAACP crowd in Detroit yesterday, blasting "corporate media" for painting him as un-American . "I am not running for the Oval Office," said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "I have been running for Jesus, and I'm not tired yet." Just hours earlier Wright reemerged as a campaign issue in comments by both Obama and McCain. More »
- Wright Received Death Threats
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Apr 27, 08 9:39 AM CDT
  
  Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose controversial rants scuttled Barack Obama's "post-racial" campaign, reemerged in the headlines yesterday just ahead of the Dems' primary showdown on May 6. Asked by PBS' Bill Moyers if he’d received death threats, Wright says: “Yes, and bomb threats at the church. People (are) telling us how they are going to wipe us off the face of the Earth in the name of Jesus.” More »
- Rev. Wright Slams 'Devious' Media Coverage
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Apr 24, 08 7:09 PM CDT
  
  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says the media made him out as "some sort of fanatic" by repeating snippets from sermons out of context—part of a "devious" agenda to denigrate the campaign of Barack Obama, the Chicago Tribune reports. In an interview with Bill Moyers to air on PBS tomorrow, Wright says those who heard his sermons in full understood their message. More »
- McCain Wants GOP to Pull Wright-Referencing Ad in NC
  
  newser | Politico | Apr 23, 08 4:15 PM CDT
  
  John McCain has demanded North Carolina Republicans drop an ad attacking two Democratic candidates for governor—by tarnishing them with connections to Barack Obama and his controversial pastor. Wrote McCain, “In the strongest terms, I implore you to not run this advertisement.” The spot airs Wright’s “God damn America” sermon, and then says Obama & Co. are “too extreme” for North Carolina. More »
- Obama Doesn't Shy From Hard Truths: Sister
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Apr 7, 08 9:58 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's diverse family has remained silent since the flare-up over his former pastor's sermons. But in her first public comments since Obama's speech on race in America, half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng told the Telegraph their "typical white" grandmother, whose opinions on blacks sometimes made the candidate "cringe," was "entirely supportive" of Obama and his descriptions. More »
- Wright Takes Cross Over Racial Divide
  
  newser | New Yorker | Apr 6, 08 8:39 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright built his Chicago church on black liberation theology, which directs Christianity at African Americans, Kelefa Sanneh writes in the New Yorker . The movement’s founder aimed to “emancipate the gospel from its ‘whiteness,’” but also from Frederick Douglass’ belief that antebellum America had profoundly perverted Christianity. More »
- Obama Holds 5-Point Lead Over Hillary
  
  newser | Gallup | Apr 5, 08 5:56 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama held a 5-point lead over Hillary Clinton in the latest Gallup poll and grabbed a rare 45%-45% tie with John McCain. McCain usually polls higher than either Democrat, and currently edges Clinton 47% to 45%. The numbers are a sign that Obama has overcome his January/February swoon, largely attributed to the Jeremiah Wright scandal, the Swamp blog reports. More »
- Not an Icon, a Man
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
  
  On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Washington Post looks past the legend at the multidimensional figure scholars and King's associates consider his true legacy. ”His challenge was much bigger than being nice," says historian Taylor Branch. "It was even bigger than race. It was whether we take our national purpose seriously, which is the full promise of equal citizenship." More »
- Obama, Wright Echo Early, Late MLK
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 4, 08 2:08 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama can easily be compared to the early Martin Luther King and his hopeful message of change prior to 1965, writes Michael Eric Dyson in the Los Angeles Times . But it's Jeremiah Wright who most resembles King after that—when his message grew "angrier" and increasingly skeptical of white America and its capacity for change. More »
- Obama Girl's Town Is Hot for Hillary
  
  newser | McClatchy Newspapers | Apr 2, 08 1:28 PM CDT
  
  Turns out that Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, hails from Hazleton, Pa., which is right in the heart of Clinton country. To get a sense of how her candidate’s message is getting through, McClatchy visited Ettinger’s family and neighbors in this former coal town near Scranton, Hillary’s family home. Turns out the town definitely does not share her crush on Obama. More »
- I See Sex, Not Racism
  
  newser | Slate | Apr 2, 08 10:40 AM CDT
  
  Last week's Vogue cover had "a lot of people, smart and dumb, losing their minds," writes Wesley Morris in Slate. Sure, Annie Leibovitz's shot may pander to the "ugliest racist tropes: black male as ape," with LeBron James as King Kong and Gisele Bundchen as the silky-gowned Fay Wray. (She even has her very own "dashing white adventurer," boyfriend Tom Brady.) But that subtext is a stretch. More »
March 2008
- Obama Nails 10-Point National Lead in Gallup Poll
  
  newser | Gallup | Mar 31, 08 4:43 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama jumped to his largest national lead of the year in a new Gallup poll, pulling ahead of Hillary Clinton 52% to 42%. The figure marks the Illinois senator’s third consecutive lead, and the first double-digit lead since Hillary chalked up a 11% lead over Barack in early February. More »
- Obama Takes Image Rehab to The View
  
  newser | CNN | Mar 28, 08 1:02 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama "wouldn't have felt comfortable staying there at the church" had Jeremiah Wright not retired this year, he said today on The View. Obama reiterated his denunciation of his ex-pastor’s sermons, saying Wright had “deeply offended people,” CNN reports. He also told Barbara Walters & Co. that he’d spoken with Wright since the scandal erupted, and the preacher is “saddened by what’s happened.” More »

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Fire-and-brimstone sermons damning America as racist from former Obama pastor the Rev Jeremiah Wright have been aired on TV and may embarrass his campaign. (KRT Photos)

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Then-President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Reverend Jeremiah Wright in this Sept. 11, 1998, photo, which appeared on an anonymous blog and again in the New York Times yesterday.

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