Was Jeremiah Wright's speech set up by a Clinton supporter?

Los Angeles Times by Andrew Malcolm | Apr. 30, 2008 (Opinion)

But now, it turns out, we should have been paying a little less attention to Wright's speech and the histrionics of his ensuing news conference and taken a peek at....who was sitting next to him at the head table for the National Press Club event. It was the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds... she was introduced at the press club event as the person "who organized" it.
But guess what? She's also an ardent longtime booster of Obama's sole remaining competitor ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

This should not be an important story because it amplifies attention on mud-slinging guilt by association attacks on Obama, instead of focusing on issues. However, the appearance that the National Press Club event was arranged by a major Clinton supporter may help turn this trivializing attack back onto Hillary. I love Wright, and support 95% of the secular part of his religious message, but political operatives must know that in a sound-bite world fed by right wing media with an agenda, Wright's speeches and defense of his less defendable statements could only have a short term negative impact upon Obama. Religion suspends disbelief, and that paradigm makes one susceptible to believing plausible lies, and my good man Wright is not immune. Good sleuthing here by Andrew Malcolm.

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