HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 28, 2008 09:56 AM
R.T. Eby | Posted April 28, 2008 | Off The Bus
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to endlessly repeat it.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and by extension its satellites; state committees, 527s and fat cat related interest groups which serve as tentacles for a multi-pronged strike; are doing a fine job at laying out multiple...
Steve Young | Posted April 28, 2008 | Politics
Last month, replicating what's been tossed incessantly across the media, MSNBC political analyst Steve Adubato wrote about Jeremiah Wright's comments and Barack Obama's reaction to them.
"...it's not simply about race, but about judgment and the courage to stand up and confront a longtime friend and supporter who is...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted April 27, 2008 | Politics
While the media and Sen. Hillary Clinton continue to trash Rev. Jeremiah Wright, John McCain's consorting with a flock of Jesus Thieves -- the people I describe in detail in my new book, Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America -- receives scant attention.
On Friday...
Jeffrey Robbins | Posted April 27, 2008 | Politics
With the Bill Moyers interview, Jeremiah Wright is back in the news. And with the exit polling showing that Barack Obama's race was a factor for one out of six voters in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, there is no doubt that Obama's association with Wright is a significant political liability....
Dave Winer | Posted April 27, 2008 | Politics
At best the mainstream media got the Wright story wrong, at best it was a mistake.
But if it were a mistake, there would have been some mea culpas today, after seeing the Wright interview, someone would have said they got it wrong, maybe even apologized for contributing to...
Politico | Ben Smith | April 27, 2008 05:56 PM
Erica Jong | Posted April 27, 2008 | Politics
Sometimes our degraded press prefers the prediction to the event itself. I'm talking about Jeremiah Wright's interview with Bill Moyers. It aired last Friday night and to my mind was one of Bill's best interviews. Rev. Wright was talking to someone in his own metier. Moyers is also ordained,...
Tom Baer | Posted April 26, 2008 | Politics
Bill Moyers' Friday interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. was an enlightening hour that demonstrated both the noncontextual nature of at least one of the condemned video clips and that Rev. Wright does not understand the nature of the terrorist threat posed by al Qaeda.
A disquisition of a Wright...
Dave Winer | Posted April 26, 2008 | Media
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted April 26, 2008 | Politics
The much discussed, much defended, and much reviled pastor Jeremiah Wright can't be blamed for his gross naiveté on politics. After all, he's a preacher, and as he told Bill Moyers in an interview on PBS that he only talks "about the things of God." That's the way it should...
Linda Hansen | Posted April 25, 2008 | Off The Bus
Who's struggling to weather a raging religious rhetorical storm and who's not?
Barack Obama takes a public beating because his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, preaches hateful messages from the pulpit. Wright dares to criticize his country in angry terms and drags God into it. Obama, pols and pundits hollered, should...
John Ridley | Posted April 25, 2008 | Politics
Bill Moyers is broadcasting a siddown with Barack Obama's "controversial" pastor Jeremiah Wright this Friday evening, April 25th. By Saturday expect every utterance Pastor Wright makes to be as picked over as an episode of Lost at the San Diego Comicon.
Now, I'm not going to even try to...
Roberto Lovato | Posted April 25, 2008 | Politics
Today's acquittal of the 3 police officers accused of killing Sean Bell in November of 2006 will complicate Barack Obama's efforts to win the presidency in November 2008. His candidacy already mired in the racial machinations of his opponents, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Obama will find himself having...
Dylan Loewe | Posted April 25, 2008 | Politics
Despite having all but secured the Democratic nomination, the last few weeks have not been particularly good for Barack Obama. As Hillary Clinton's desperation peaks, and as her message morphs into something akin to a Karl Rove Talent Show, Obama has found himself taking heavy fire. And while polls have...
Michael Shaw | Posted April 24, 2008 | Media
Since it's been a little while, I thought I'd check in again with TIME political analyst and visual connoisseur, Mark Halperin. And surprise, featured on Mark's home page today is a double-dose of guilt-by-association.
In the first instance, we...
Doug Schoen | Posted April 24, 2008 | Politics
Yesterday morning, the New York Times wrote an editorial widely decrying tactics used in the recently completed Pennsylvania primary. The article specifically focused on Hillary Clinton and her use of negative campaign tactics to undermine Senator Barack Obama in the waning days of that state's contest. The Times criticized...
AP | RACHEL ZOLL | April 24, 2008
The Swamp | Andrew Malcolm | April 24, 2008 09:12 AM
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The Huffington Post | April 28, 2008 09:58 AM