Mr. Wright… interprets the Bible as the story of the struggles of black people….

Umhmmm. David Koresh thought it was all about him and his crew, too.

I told you what a dreamer he was. I told you how idealistic he was. We
talked about how refreshing it would be for someone who knew about Islam
to be in the Oval Office.

But McCain knows about Islam…
The more I hear about Obama, the more it freaks me out that he just might be our next President.

But at the same time, given the paper’s white liberal guilt mindset, had Obama been taken as seriously last year as he is today, the Times wouldn’t have focused on the story more, they would have focused on it less, except for the few odd people still in positions of influence at the paper in Hillary’s corner, like Krugman or Gail Collins. The Obama story was done last year as a one-shot curiosity, not out of any desire to do a continuing series. Now, knowing that any story at all would damage the candidate, the Times has no intention on taking the lead in any further investigations of Wright.

They stand by their story from 2007, but probably wish in hindsight that they had never done the story in the first place.

Is that like the national intelligence centers failing to ‘connect the dots’ prior to 9/11?

(via Hot Air) Politico exposes Barack Obama in another whopper. Is the media really ready to take the shine off their golden Messiah?
During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting…

more to the point, did the Times pull its punches because Wright complained about their early coverage?

It’s obvious the MSM has not only been pulling its punches, but slobbering all over its PC self to promote the “post racial” messiah.

My guess is that Obama’s people have pushed too hard, taking exception to anything even vaguely uncomplementary of their candidate as a form of racism.

What we’re seeing now — wasn’t ABC the first network to air the Wright video clips? — is a sort of buyers’ remorse, and perhaps the belated realization that they are being forced into a situation where even the vaunted grey lady of socialism doesn’t want to go: total self-censorship in the name of “racial healing.”

Of course, it will only last until Obama gets the nomination, because even this most unqualified, devisive, cynically conniving and potentially disastrous candidate will get their support, as long as he’s running as a Democrat.

Putting aside the question of why a letter that is more than a year old is suddenly getting new circulation, it is worth noting that at no time has Mr. Wright challenged the accuracy of either story

When the truth hurts.

Still, Mr. Obama was entranced by Mr. Wright

Is it possible that candidate Obama was and may still be, seduced by a sexy conspiracy theory?

He’s susceptibility to conspiracy is hardly a resume builder for a candidate.

Did the Times deliberately pull its punches, even after getting slapped by Wright over Kantor’s early reporting?

Hmmm, NYT…Black liberation theologist, I’m going with pulled punches.

NYT ….. “We decided to do what a newspaper does: to present that news to our readers, accurately, fairly and as quickly as possible.”

Sorry Ed, but I couldn’t read any further after that double whopper with cheese.

Most of the big houses are on the golf course – his isn’t.

RACISM!!!!

We decided to do what a newspaper does: to present that news to our readers, accurately, fairly and as quickly as possible

That made me laugh. The only thing about that statement that is correct, when applied to the NYT, is the part about as quickly as possible. Which is evidenced in the lack of research on the part of Ms. Kantor to reveal what Rev. Wright was really all about.

benrand on March 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM

True, but it’s not what it seems. He is building in a gated community with a club and a public golf course, called Odyssey. Most of the big houses are on the golf course – his isn’t.

I don’t know the demographics of the housing inside the wire there, but it’s significantly more African-American than Tinley Park proper, which is more like 99% white. And Odyssey sits across Ridgeland Avenue from Creekside in Matteson, which is something like 95% African-American, and is otherwise surrounded by a huge outdoor concert venue (formerly the World Theatre, now the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre), a tract of Cook County Forest Preserve (I run my dogs there), farmland, and the developing commercial sprawl west of Harlem Avenue.

So they have a little island at Odyssey. There aren’t more than 20 houses in the corner of the development where he is building. I don’t know how the tax thing works, but is the Township getting screwed out of the $20,000/year that his house should be assessed, just because the church owns it?

In a contest pitting the New York Times against Jeremiah Wright, it’s difficult to decide who to cheer. It’s like watching Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini go to war. The best outcome is to have both of them lose credibility in equal measure.

Come on Ed, that’s really unnecessary. While the NYT is a biased, partisan publication, not above obscuring facts and distorting coverage, Wright is a vicious, Anti-American racist. Let’s not make the Obama error of trying to excuse Wright by morale equivalence to lesser evils.

JiangxiDad on March 31, 2008 at 10:08 AM

Missed it in the sense of who had this story a year ago, when it should have been a huge landmine waiting to get stepped on. And Hannity is not a member of the “national press”, in this context. I think he means the MSM.

IMO, the fact that Kantor and the Times had this story so long ago only confirms that they tried to soft-sell it to cover their bases later. Now they are in the unenviable position of having to go toe-to-toe with this knucklehead.

racism of everything from daily life in Chicago

LOL, yeah ok, then why did Dr. Rev. move to Tinley Park, 93% white…make that, 93% RICH WHIIIITE PEOOOOPPPLEEEE!!!

Wright is a scumbag.