Was Jeremiah Wright's speech set up by a Clinton supporter?

Hmmmmmmmm.........Ya think?

This is the post I promised on the radio show this morning. I found this at the L.A. Times. It's by Andrew Malcom.

Well, here's a most interesting connection we just came across.

Everybody is talking today about how much the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's latest unrepentant militant remarks hurt his most prominent parishoner, Sen. Barack Obama, and his chances to win the Democratic presidential nomination and the general election. So much so that the Obama camp
realized the latent danger overnight and the candidate was forced to speak out publicly a second time today, as The Ticket noted here earlier today.

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But now, it turns out, we should have been paying a little less attention to Wright's speech and the histrionics of his ensuing news conference and taken a peek at................

Wait, now...........Here it comes.....

who was sitting next to him at the head table for the National Press Club event.

Ta-daaaaaa----------

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It was the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, a former editorial board memberof USA Today who teaches at the Howard University School of Divinity. An ordained minister, as New York Daily News writer Errol Louis points out in today's column, she was introduced at the press club event as the person "who organized" it.

Man-o-man could I write some captions about what she's whispering in his ear.

And it gets better.....

But guess what? She's also an ardent longtime booster of Obama's sole remaining competitor for the Democratic nomination, none other than Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York. It won't take very much at all for Obama supporters to see in Wright's carefully arranged Washington event that was so damaging to Obama the strategic, nefarious manipulation of the Clintons.


Their supporter, Reynolds, helps arrange a speech by the outspoken and egocentric Wright which receives blanket national coverage to the disadvantage of Clinton's opponent. As Louis writes: "The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted.

Reynolds has not returned e-mails or phone calls seeking comment, but Louis notes the obvious conflict between her political allegiance and her press club arrangements.

Don't feel alone, Mr Louis, I sent her 3 e-mails from the Blog of Revelation, asking her to comment on this. Surpriiiiiiiiiiise, she didn't answer me either.

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Louis notes himself about the Wright appearance: "It's hard to exaggerate how bad the actual news conference was. Wright, steeped in an honorable, fiery tradition of Bible-based social criticism, cheapened his arguments and his movement by mugging for the cameras, rolling his eyes, heaping scorn on his critics and acting as if nobody in the room was learned enough to ask him a question."

Prof posted the videos of the speech earlier. THIS is the problem I have with the event: In typical Neocon fashion, all the questions that were asked of Wright were vetted and pre-screened before the event. When people do this kind of sh*t, it means only one thing: They've got something to hide.

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