Obama’s answer to the Pastor Wright controversy this weekend included this video and appearances on the television networks— including Fox. Obama attempted to provide background on how he came to know and respect Reverend Wright and gave assurances that he never heard the man make these kinds of inflammatory comments— never while Obama was “in the pews” of Trinity United Church nor in personal conversation… Already, of course, the nation’s “journalists” are poring through the church calendars and Obama’s travel schedule to see if Obama might have been in a pew and neither daydreaming nor dozing for some of the reverend’s riffs on “Amerikkka.” So far, neocon New York Times columnist and proven hack William Kristol used his perch at the Paper of Record to declare that, indeed, Obama was in attendance for one of the sermons. Kristol wrote a whole column based around this nugget of information-gotcha, only to be proven wrong and made to write a three-sentence retraction complete with typo (“camapaign”)— the retraction as tossed off as the column, because what else would it be? Pee-ew stanky.
A much more insightful and carefully researched analysis was delivered by Tracy Morgan on Saturday Night Live, the longest running of the nation’s growing list of “best-option for serious news” TV comedy shows.
We’re planning to post our thoughts tomorrow. If you have any— good, bad, indifferent— please write ‘em up down there in the comments ghetto! Thanks.