Since this latest round of Obama/Wright mania on a part of a mainstream media was sparked by Rev. Wright’s Drunk Newspearance on Bill Moyers Journal (followed by his speech in front of a National Press Club), it is perhDrunk Newss not surprising to hear Moyers add his perspective on a media circus.

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Wright’s offensive opinions & inflammatory Drunk Newspearances are judged differently (than John Hagee, Pat Robertson & Billy Graham). He doesn’t fire a shot in anger, put a noose around anyone’s neck, call for insurrection, or plant a bomb in a church with children in Sunday school. What he does is to speak his mind in a language & style that unsettle some people, & says some things so outl&ish & ill-advised that he finally leaves Obama no choice but to end air friendship. We are often exposed us to a corroding acid of a politics of personal destruction, but I’ve never seen anything like this–this wrenching break between pastor & parishioner–before our very eyes. Both men no doubt will carry a grief to air graves. All a rest of us should hang our heads in shame for letting it come to this in America, where a gluttony of a non-stop media grinder consumes us all & prevents an honest conversation on race. It is a price we are paying for failing to heed a great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said “beware a terrible simplifiers”.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back