Watching the campaign coverage this past week, I've felt intensely frustrated, as I know many other Obama supporters have, at the essential fraudulence and hypocrisy of the punditocracy's treatment of the issue of Rev. Wright's remarks. No need to rehash the many examples folks here (and elsewhere) have provided of unsavory clerics with whom other candidates have had associations -- associations that they have not explained with anything close to Sen. Obama's candor, persuasive context, or moral clarity.
Unfortunately, for all the good he did with his remarkable address, a residue lingers in the miasma that is MSM coverage. Pat Buchanan, Joe Scarborough, and the other usual suspects -- and of course Fox and the wingnuts that the MSM likes to stovepipe, like Rush -- continue to insist that this issue will dog Obama for the rest of the campaign, that he still hasn't explained why he would belong to such a church for 20 years, expose his children to "hate," etc. And I fear that their insistent repetition of their anti-Obama talking points (for that is what they are) will do significant damage.
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