The Sunshine Empire

I was in a redneck karaoke bar on Saturday night and a television across the bar from me had Fox News on.  As drunken versions of Conway Twitty songs were sung by aspiring artists, every glance at the screen had the Reverend Jeremiah Wright featured.  Through every show on the network they where running hard with the story that they said was concerning to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  Now this after Senator Obama stated in no uncertain terms that he disavowed all the statements that Rev. Wright has said that had offended some.  This, much like his assertion that he is not a Muslim, doesn’t seem to be enough for the Fixed Noise crowd.  “Yeah, he may have disavowed it, but he couldn’t mean it, I mean come on, he’s black,” seemed to be the talking heads’ reaction on the Murdoch channel.  I can only deduce that they are scared shitless of him.  This seems like a dead issue, despite my tacit support of his candidacy.  Yet no matter what Obama says, no matter how hard he comes out and denounces the words in question, it’s just not enough for them.  The political juice has been squeezed from this rock and the debate from the vapid commentary class is empty.  If only Obama could have the get out of supporting a bigot free card like Senator McCain and his buddy Reverend “the Catholic Church is the great whore” Hagee.

Many other and better written blogs have already pointed out the fact that the evil liberal media seems to have taken no notice and let pass his support from the anti-Catholic bigot Hagee.  Believe me I am loathe to admit whenever I am on the same page as attention whore Bill Donahue.  But Fox News will continue with it’s wall to wall Wright coverage, even after much of America has moved on.

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