Wright is a big fat distraction when Obama needs it least

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 6:57 AM PDT

2008/04/28 · 06:57

Whether Wright's speech to the NAACP left you rhapsodic or left you cold, his return to prominence a week before the NC and IN primaries is not helpful to Obama. At all.

The MSM is happy as a pig in shit to exploit and cherry pick and showcase the most controversial of Wright's remarks.

"Africans have a different meter, and Africans have a different tonality," he said. Europeans have seven tones, Africans have five. White people clap differently than black people. "Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style," he said. "They have a different way of learning."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/...

And this quote is going to get big play in the media. How will undecided voters in NC and IN respond to the re-emergence of Wright as a top story? How will they respond to comments like the one about learning or clapping and tonality?

Unfortunately, it's all too easy to predict; white voters, by and large, will not look kindly on the comments Wright made that the MSM has chosen to highlight. And the MSM is determined to bind Wright and Obama so tightly together that not an inch of daylight will seperate them. They are, in short, determined to merge them into a single being and in so doing to frame Obama as the fringe minority candidate. Obama has worked his damndest to prevent that from becoming the narrative, and it's maddening to see the MSM, busy as beavers, constructing a dam to prevent him from being the nominee.

I wish I could believe that Wright's return as a prominent subject in the MSM was inconsequential to Obama's campaign at this critical moment, but I just don't.

And before the flames come my way, let me note that I admire a great deal about Wright and certainly recognize that he has every right to speak out when and where he so desires.

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