There are other things going on in the world beyond a discussion about a pastor. For example, Atrios writes:

It appears the Atlantic has hired a pretentious commentless blogging git whose gullible advocacy led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. How he manages to live with himself is a mystery, and why The Atlantic thinks we should live with him is a deeper one.

Surprisingly, Atrios is not discussing Andrew Sullivan. With Obama love, all is forgiven.

This is an Open Thread.

from the "Netroots." This time from Matt Stoller:

Clinton is running as a full-blown conservative.

What a dopey thing to write. While I agree with Stoller's criticism of Clinton on the gas tax holiday, see Krugman, some bloggers seem incapable of stopping at legitimate criticism and must jump the shark to foolish inaccuracies.

Just dumb stuff.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only.

I am with Kos, Fox should NEVER be legitimized.

Obama was wrong to go on Fox and so is Clinton.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

As eriposte predicted, rabid Obama supporters are forwarding the idea that Clinton made Wright do it.

Some people have totally lost it this campaign season.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Rev. Wright today spoke at the National Press Club. He continued his attacks on the media and again asserted Barack Obama speaks with electability in mind. Jake Tapper at ABC News writes:

He clearly was not doing Obama any favors, not only by reappearing before a ravenous media thus distracting from Obama's attempt to relate better to white working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina, but by implying Obama's condemnation of some of his sermons was not sincere.

"Politicians say what they say and do what they do because of electability," Wright said, arguing that Obama had not seen the sermons played in the media that Obama has called "offensive." "He had to distance himself because he's a politician...Whether he gets elected or not, I'm still going to have to be answerable to God."

Wright also defended the comments in his past sermons that have placed him in the media spotlight.

But he didn't distance himself from any of the sentiments underlying the clips shown on television. Indeed, the former pastor embraced the most controversial items he has said.

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright attacks the coporate media today in a speech to the NAACP. The audience of 10,000 gave him a standing ovation.

You can watch the entire speech here.

Update: Comments closing, a new thread on the speech is here.

When I discuss the Left Blogs' reaction to everything Barack Obama, I am past the point of pointing what I perceive as aspects of his political style that I find lacking. I am no longer pointing out Obama's feet of clay. I am pointing to the feet of clay of the Left blogs. Now Matt Stoller writes about Obama on Fox:

I think lost in all this nonsense is just how weakened we [the Left blogs] have become in all this. When we accept lies from our leaders and openly dismissive knocks from them, it destroys our core argument that Democrats need to have integrity and to stand up for themselves. No they don't. We don't stand up for ourselves and we let them lie to us without consequence.

Indeed.

Watching MTP and ABC's This Week, the pundits roundtable demonstrates that Barack Obama's most important constituency, the Beltway Media, remains firmly in his corner.

It should not matter, but it matters a lot. It is why I believe Barack Obama is more electable than Clinton.

This is an Open Thread. Below is my live blog of Obama on Fox. Jerome Armstrong has a nice post on it. Open Thread bonus - Indiana demographics and North Carolina demographics.

On "Face The Nation," when asked about Jim Clyburn's outrageous comments about the Clinton camp, David Axelrod went out of his way to categorically reject Clyburn's conspiracy theory. It seems clear to me that Clyburn was off the reservation there and the Obama camp wants no part of Clyburn's delusions. More . . .

I stopped by Larry Johnson's No Quarter and found his latest post on Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. We've both written about Ayers before, but we have different views of Ayers and his wife.

As I've said many times, I admire the work the Ayers' have done for children and education and in trying to keep them on the right track rather than go down the wrong one. Larry tends to view Ayers as a terrorist. I don't. I also like what I know about Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dorn for how they took in Chesa Boudin and raised him while his parents were in jail for many, many years over their activities.

So Larry and I disagree a bit on which aspect of Ayers' connection to Obama is or is not a problem.

This is an open thread.

Paul Rosenberg, who like me has been a critic of Barack Obama's political style, speculates that Obama will go after Fox tomorrow in his appearance on Fox News Sunday:

Obama could--potentially--go on Fox News, and counterattack the very essence of the Versaille narratives deployed against him, and yet gain a fair amount of Versailles support, because his supporters could act as if he's only attacking Fox News, and not their own identical behavior.

NOTE: It turns out the interview already took place and it was a lovefest. Stoller does not believe Fox. I do. I think it would have been quite shrewd of Obama to do so and I agree with Rosenberg that Obama could have pick up Media Elite support for doing so. But I think Obama is clearly too cautious a politician to even try it. More . . .

I actually think this post has a lot of insightful analysis but I do chuckle that its central point is that a 50 State Presidential strategy this year is a pipe dream:

Even West Virginia, once one of the most Democratic states in the country—it voted for Dukakis and was one of the six states won by Jimmy Carter in 1980—is now moving in to Republican territory for Presidential years. It's not as Republican as Kentucky, but like Kentucky it's unlikely to go Democratic regardless of the Democratic nominee, even if it were Clinton.

More . .

Read Somerby on Olbermann. Scroll down to "The Torch Is Passed."

Countdown has almost surely become the most propagandized show in cable “news” history. Yes, you can still find pure crap in the mainstream press. But pure crap abounds now on Countdown.

Obama's O'Reilly is Olbermann. This is an Open Thread.

Comments now closed. Thread cleaned of some insults. Not finished yet.