AP Covering for Obama’s Pastor
Charles Johnson
Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 10:01 am PDT • Views: 467
The mainstream media are completely, utterly in the tank for Barack Obama. After ignoring the Rev. Wright scandal for as long as possible, the Associated Press is now filing blatant whitewash pieces like this one, in which they don’t even tell the reader what Barack Obama’s pastor actually said: Obama decries racial rhetoric.
Wright’s sermons were just “inflammatory,” in some oddly unspecific way.
PLAINFIELD, Ind. - Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried “the forces of division” over race that he said are intruding into the Democratic presidential nomination contest.
“We have to come together,” he told a town-hall meeting at a high school.
He cited videos of inflammatory sermons given by his pastor that are now being used as political ammunition against him — remarks that Obama has denounced.
“If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked,” Obama said.
Frank says: