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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Francis Scalzi
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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

Is this columnist kidding? Hasn't he yet decided on the reason the National Press Club invited Reverend Wright to speak under the pretext that those oh so innocent newspeople simply wanted to hear the reverend "explain himself" ? If our writer hasn't yet got the message, I have some ocean front property in Nebraska in which he might consider investing. Still, this is the very first indication that someone in the media has so far raised even the tiniest doubt whether the National Press Club's motives were entirely sincere. NO, this was not a mere trick. It is part of an electoral meddling campaign being waged by the MSM to damage, diminish, and constantly alert the voters to "questions" and "doubts" about Obama and his campaign. You will notice, however, that the MSM NEVER, NEVER, NEVER raise any "questions" are even SEEM to pay any attention to the constant pandering, flip-flopping, money game playing, misstating, bad tempered, controversial religious fundamentalist fanatic associations (Hagee and Parsely) of the McCain campaign. Suspicious, isn't it ? The MSM is not kidding anyone who is paying attention to their perfidy, but we are waiting to see if any honest pundits wake up.

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