1.0 link 91767 <![CDATA[Obama's Church Accuses Media Of Character Assassination]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/16/obamas-church-accuses-med_n_91767.html The Chicago church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) issued a statement Sunday contending that coverage of his pastor's inflammatory statements amounted to character assassination and "an attack on ... the history of the African American church."

Obama condemned inflammatory statements by the church's retiring pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., after they circulated on YouTube last week and were played repeatedly by cable news channels.

Wright, condemning society as racists, said, "God [expletive] America" and referred to the "U.S. of...

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