Reverend Jeremiah Wright

Are We the Change We've Been Searching For?

Byron Williams | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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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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My Conversation with Bill Moyers

Charlie Rose | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the "Real" Black Church in America

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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I think Wright speaks somewhat correctly when he observes that white people are generally quite ignorant of what the "black church experience" actually is.

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Now, It's Really Over!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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Obama denied Hillary the "game changer" victory that she needed. Indiana proved that neither Reverend Wright nor Hillary's gas tax "holiday" had any real traction with voters.

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Who Are You Calling a Tabloid?

Lara Cohen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

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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 05.05.2008 | Politics

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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 05.04.2008 | Media

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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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Reverend Chickens-Come-Home-To-Roost

Dave Winer | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

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The only people who really liked Wright's radioactivity were people like Louis Farrakhan and his followers who want to disrupt the US political process.

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Narcissism And Reverend Wright

Mona Ackerman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Life

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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 04.30.2008 | Politics

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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 04.30.2008 | Politics

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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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Obama and Wright - The Real Lesson

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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As Rev. Wright staggers around the country defending himself, posturing and trying to look relevant, he should know that ministers never look so sadly irrelevant as when they are trying to be relevant.

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So, You Want a Theocracy Now?

Jane Smiley | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Obama wouldn't have this Reverend Wright problem if Americans didn't have the idea that their president has to be a man of faith.

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Obama's Reverend Wright Press Conference (VIDEO)

Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Excerpts From Barack Obama's press conference on Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Scroll down for video and read updates from AP here: I'm outraged by the c...

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Barack Obama and the Corporate Media

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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The bad news about our nutrient-starved, 24-hour media environment is that there will be more news cycles dedicated to destroying Obama -- or at least slowing the momentum of his campaign.

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Media Matters

Lucy Carrigan | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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I wish Wright would have stayed away until after the primary season was over. But mostly, I wish we had a media that was capable of covering stories with reasonable analysis and discourse.

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Why Jeremiah Wright Is Willing To Destroy Barack Obama; This Campaign Really Is Generational

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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Jeremiah Wright is like the return of the repressed, a last desperate lunge of the undead 60s toward center stage.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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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 04.17.2008 | Home

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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 04.09.2008 | Home

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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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The Straight Talk

August J. Pollak | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Obama Speech: Religious Groups, Universities Respond

NY Times | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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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 03.19.2008 | Politics

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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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Olbermann on Obama: An Audition For President

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

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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 Race Speech Reaction

Huffington Post | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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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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