{"id":557,"date":"2008-04-28T13:49:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/wright-ratchets-up-rhetoric.html"},"modified":"2008-04-28T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T13:49:51","slug":"wright-ratchets-up-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/04\/wright-ratchets-up-rhetoric.html","title":{"rendered":"Wright Ratchets Up Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Rev. Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s raucous National Press Club Q&#038;A with reporters from this morning here:<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SM6-K1MicZU&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SM6-K1MicZU&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object>This speech will make more news than Wright&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/why-wont-wright-quit.html\">other public appearances<\/a> over the last few days. Wright stood by his 9\/11 remarks. He stood by Louis Farrakhan. He indignantly pushed back against each hostile question from the media, slapping hands behind the podium as the audience whooped and hollered, creating what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/CBNnews\/365473.aspx\">David Brody<\/a> called a &#8220;circus atmosphere.&#8221; With the Pennsylvania primary raising a surprising number of doubts about Obama&#8217;s electability in the general election&#8211;mostly among white working class voters&#8211;new Republican attack ads brandishing the Wright-Obama connection, and culturally conservative states like North Carolina and Indiana next on the primary calendar, the Reverend&#8217;s timing couldn&#8217;t be worse for the Illinois Senator.<!--more-->8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Rev. Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s raucous National Press Club Q&#038;A with reporters from this morning here:This speech will make more news than Wright&#8217;s other public appearances over the last few days. 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