The Religious Wright

By Eric Pfeiffer | April 29, 2008 11:53 AM | | Comments (0)

Yesterday, the conservative and liberal corners of the blogosphere weighed in on Rev. Jeremiah Wright's speeches before the Detroit NAACP, and later, the National Press Club. Today, the mainstream columnists and pundits weigh in with their takes on how damaging the Wright fallout will be to Barack Obama both in the primary and, presumably, general election. And now, bloggers are giving their takes to the media interpretations of Wright's remarks.

Eugene Robinson says he's "had it" with Wright:

The problem is that Wright insists on being seen as something he's not: an archetypal representative of the African American church. In fact, he represents one twig of one branch of a very large tree.

National Review's Greg Pollowitz says Robinson and other "pundits on the left" defended Wright a few weeks ago and have enabled the same speeches they are now decrying:

In a way, it's actually the fault of pundits/columnists like Eugene Robinson, Rachael Maddow and Keith Olbermann that Wright is still anissue. They tried to spin the Wright problem as a distraction rather than face the reality that his ranting would be a factor for voters.

The New York Daily News' Errol Lewis discovers that the woman responsible for organizing Wright's Press Club talk, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, is actually a Hillary Clinton supporters. He found several comments on her personal blog praising Clinton and criticizing elements of Obama's campaign:

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.

Tags: Barack Obama, Blogger Theories, Jeremiah Wright

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