Reverend Jeremiah Wright

Jesse Jackson: Attacks On Jeremiah Wright 'A Source Of Pain'

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.21.2012

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson said that recent attacks on Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of President Obama's Chicago church, have been a personal ...

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Obama’s Pastor Delivers Fired-Up Sermon In Colo.

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 08.13.2011

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ whose controversial rhetoric and relationship to then-can...

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After the Spill and the Speech

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lincoln Mitchell

If Obama is able to achieve the goals outlined in the speech, he will have succeeded on the energy issue, but the speech itself is certainly not enough.

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Can Obama Lead Again?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lincoln Mitchell

Obama's loss of control over the political agenda threatens to make his presidency irrelevant.

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GOP Must Repudiate Limbaugh or Be Defined by Him

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011

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Menachem Rosensaft

By tolerating and encouraging Limbaugh, the Republican leadership is fomenting racial and ethnic hatred that could have disastrous consequences for our country.

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Jeremiah Wright: Obama 'Like Any Other President'

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.25.2011

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SELMA, Ala. — President Barack Obama's longtime minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave an assessment Thursday of his former congregant's short...

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Obama's Reverend Wright Press Conference (VIDEO) UPDATE

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Watch Obama's First Press Conference as President Elect Excerpts From Barack Obama's press conference on Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Scroll ...

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Are We the Change We've Been Searching For?

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Byron Williams

The country does not simply need to change political parties in the White House; it needs a change of direction, which leaves the Democrats as the de facto party of change.

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Who Are You Calling a Tabloid?

Lara Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lara Cohen

At Us Weekly we know that every celebrity breakup has two sides -- yet the news media failed to apply that same basic due diligence to the Wright story.

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Reverend Wright, Grandpa Simpson: Separated at Birth?

Vanity Fair | Posted 05.25.2011

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Flipping between MSNBC and Fox the other night, we swore our remote was busted as footage of Barack Obama's incendiary former pastor, Jeremiah Wright,...

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Why Oprah Left Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Church

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright has become a household name due to his association with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. However, Obama's not...

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Narcissism And Reverend Wright

Mona Ackerman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Q: Let me ask you what you think of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor and one-time religious mentor. We keep hearing and readin...

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Trinity Church Member Sees Jeremiah Wright In A Different Light

Chicago Tribune | William A. Von Hoene Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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During the last two weeks, excerpts from sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., pastor for more than 35 years at Trinity United Church of Christ on ...

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Obama And Trinity Church: Why Did He Join In The First Place?

The New Republic | Michael Crowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The question is worth revisiting now that his ex-pastor is threatening his entire campaign. I've heard two basic theories since the Wright tapes fi...

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Jason Linkins

MSNBC Admits Wright Soundbytes Misrepresents His Message, Then Do It Anyway

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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This morning on MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski of Morning Joe made one of the first good points the media has made in covering Chicago pastor Reverend Jeremia...

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Philadelphia: ABC's Bitter Tabloid Debate

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beverly Davis

This debate was about the moderators. What new information did we learn? Only that the tabloid questions aimed especially at Senator Obama didn't knock him off his mark.

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To Get Elected, Obama Must Cater To White Racists. Really?

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Washington Post's Richard Cohen will not be satisfied until Barack Obama joins the Klan. He's now arguing that the fact that "some whites" won't vote for Obama due to his skin color is Obama's own fault.

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Olbermann on Obama: An Audition For President

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Kurtz's "Listen, dude, do you really want the sex?" segment was so good, someone else had it five days earlier: Dan Abrams and his crew -- including the same clips in the same order from the same reporters.

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Obama Speech: Religious Groups, Universities Respond

NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The speech Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday morning has been viewed more than 1.6 million times on YouTube and is being widely e-mailed. While c...

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Huckabee Defends Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Via Ben Smith: An assist from an unexpected quarter: "[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do...

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Obama Confronts Racial Division

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHILADELPHIA — Barack Obama confronted the nation's racial divide head-on Tuesday, tackling both black grievance and white resentment in a bold ...

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Obama Race Speech Reaction

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Below are reactions to Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech: The New York Times' editorial, entitled "Mr. Obama's Profile In Courage": Inau...

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