Rev Jeremiah Wright

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Ministers and their Sermons

Mike Lux | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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Good ministers stir people up, challenge their congregants' assumptions, make people uncomfortable. They should serve, in the language of the church, a prophetic role that speaks truth to power.

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Rev. Wright Launches Own 24-Hr. Channel

Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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By launching WrightTV, the minister said, "It is my sincere hope that I can quench the public's seemingly limitless thirst for hearing me talk."

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Obama Fundraising Off Wright-Race Speech

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama's latest fundraising drive -- own a "piece of history." And by history, the campaign means a DVD copy of his speech on race. ...

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Obama's Pastor Jeremiah Wright Says Criticism Is Attack On Black Church

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — In a defiant appearance before the Washington media, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that criticism surrounding his fiery serm...

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McCain Blames Obama For Rev. Wright Issue

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

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Here's a new angle from McCain, at an avail today, at which he said, more or less, that he didn't plan to attack Obama on Wright, but that Obama -- by...

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Can Hillary Really Win?

Mona Gable | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

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Superdelegates who haven't yet declared for Obama or Hillary are waiting it out under the pretense of letting the remaining voters have their say. That's all very democratic of them, but aren't they ignoring something?

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Why Is It So Quiet After the Moyers-Wright Interview?

Dave Winer | Posted 04.26.2008 | Media

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Those who watched Moyers and really listened to Wright realized that he's not a liability to Obama, he's an asset.

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Reading The Pictures: Taking On Ayers, Etc.

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

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Surprise, featured on Mark Halperin's page today is a double-dose of guilt-by-association.

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The New York Times is Wrong

Doug Schoen | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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Hillary must continue to draw contrasts with Obama, raise questions about the nature and extent of his associations with Rev. Wright and terrorist leader William Ayers, and raise more questions about his values in comparison with hers.

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright: My Words Were Twisted

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor to Barack Obama, said that publicizing sound bites of sermons in which he condemned U.S. poli...

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North Carolina GOP Defies McCain, Runs Ad With Rev. Wright

The Swamp | Andrew Malcolm | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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Well, gee what are you going to do, eh? States are states and so are state parties. And so the North Carolina Republican Party has decided for its ow...

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Jeremiah Wright Used In New Ad By North Carolina GOP: Watch Video

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

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ABC reports: A number of Democratic strategists have said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., would be the best presidential candidate to help down-ballot Dem...

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright To Appear On Bill Moyer

United Church Of Christ | J. Bennett Guess | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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In what will be his first interview since snippets of his preaching became a central issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wri...

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Lanny Davis: Obama's Wright Problem

Wall Street Journal | Lanny Davis | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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I have tried to get over my unease surrounding Barack Obama's response to the sermons and writings of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity Unit...

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Coincidence of Martin Luther King and Imus Anniversaries Brings Surprisingly Bitter Thoughts About Media

Eric Deggans | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

The continuing battle over issues like the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright suggests to me that our soundbite-focused media culture isn't well suited to the serious, complex debate we need to have on race in America.

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Obama's Anger--Redux

John R. Price | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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In an effort to throw Barack Obama's thoughtful statement onto the scrap heap of irrelevant racial rhetoric, Ed Kaitz has made Obama's point more completely than he ever could have.

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The Story I Didn't Tell You

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As I watch the race issue unfold in this election, I wonder how many more grandfathers are out there -- the ones who think voting for a woman is a much better option than voting for a black man.

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Reverend Wright: Raw and Un-Cut

Steven Weber | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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Fox and CNN's co-opting of Rev. Wright's incendiary text is as much a reason to lose faith in the democratic process as tampering with vote tallies in a national election.

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War of the Word

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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I respect Obama's right to repudiate his pastor's comments, as he did, but I respect even more his refusal to throw the man overboard in a practice we witnessed all too often with the Clintons.

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Obama is Nietzschean

Ali Eteraz | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

People who read Obama's books see in them a man who doesn't think of himself as a finished product, but as someone who views himself as a canvas upon which life is constantly drawing new lines.

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Those Hidden Costs

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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Because of the nature of the problems experienced by black Americans, Americans have to pay for issues that they didn't cause and shouldn't have to fix. But nonetheless we are stuck with the tab.

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Hillary Clinton Compares Jeremiah Wright To Don Imus

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media

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Yesterday Hillary Clinton spoke publicly about the controversy surrounding the remarks of Barack Obama's longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, tellin...

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright Cancels Events Due To Security Concerns

Houston Chronicle | SHANNON BUGGS and JENNIFER LEAHY | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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Security concerns have prompted the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to cancel his appearance at Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church for the first time in two...

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Hillary's Diversionary Tactic Is Feeding The GOP Noise Machine

Greg Saunders | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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Hillary is smart enough to realize that dragging the Rev. Wright matter back into the news makes her despicable. But in the end it's probably the best option she has.

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Sen. Clinton's Own Religious Cult Includes Brownback, Santorum

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Obama doesn't have to project what it would be like to run against a Republican, he's running against one from his own party.

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