Thursday, March 15, 2012

Poisonous preaching

OPENING SHOT . . .

According to the standard political script, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, having burst into the national consciousness in a manner not particularly flattering to him or the black church, would then quickly repair to a secluded bower somewhere to read the Bible and pray that his church member, Barack Obama, might yet become president.

But this is not a standard election.

Thus we have Wright pouring gasoline on the embers of the controversy. He lashed out at the media, repeated the paranoid fantasy that HIV was invented as a weapon against minorities and reiterated his beliefs that the United States deserved to be attacked on 9/11.

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