Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick?

I don't know if Reynolds' eagerness to help Wright stage a disastrous news conference with the national media was a way of trying to help Clinton - my queries to Reynolds by phone and e-mail weren't returned yesterday - but it's safe to say she didn't see any conflict between promoting Wright and supporting Clinton...Wright should have known - and his friend and ally Reynolds, a media professional, surely knew - that bickering with the press can only harm ... Full Story »

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by Beth Wellington - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion column is interesting because it cites quotes from Reynolds website blog which have been picked up and commented on by blogs on both sides of the political spectrum, as well as at websites for newspapers, etc. For whatever reason (and not noted in the story), the website is now blank. And when you go to the actual blog link in other stories (http://reynoldsworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/hope.html) you will find a notice "The blog you were looking for was not found." A look at archive.org yields the message, "We're sorry, access to http://reynoldsworldnews.blogspot.com/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt." A look at archive.org for the website shows it was last crawled in 2006 (so I cannot confirm any content about Obama.) At that time it was called, "Reynolds' News Service: A News and Religious Communications Network." While the reporter of the original opinion piece could not get a response from Reynolds, the WaPo has a video "At the Howard University School of Divinity Tuesday, Barbara Reynolds, head of the National Press Club speaker's committee, responds to allegations that she invited Rev. Jeremiah Wright to speak before the club with an ulterior motive to harm Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. (Hamil Harris / The Washington Post)" http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/29/reynolds_claims_no_ulterior_mo.html

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