The minister’s controversial history has been written about countless times
throughout the campaign. Wright has ties to the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the black
supremacist leader of the Nation of Islam — a fact that has been noted in more
than 100 news stories just in the past few months, according to the Nexis
database of news coverage. Opponents of Obama have constantly pushed reporters
to write about the minister, which these critics considered a ticking time bomb
for his campaign. On Feb. 20, after a fiery guest sermon by Wright in Little
Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ran an article that said: “On Tuesday,
Wright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq and likened the insurgents to the
Israelites under Babylonian rule.” At 9:20 that morning, Obama opponents were
already trying to get Politico to link to the story. That’s why many news
outlets — including Politico — did not initially pile on with rehashes after
Ross’s story on “Good Morning America.”
One hundred stories which mentioned Obama's pastor in just the past few months! That's almost as much as the 4,351 stories about the woman who sat on the toilet for two years (in one week.) So I perfectly understand the media reaction: "G-d damn America? No news here."
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