Berkowitz--For GOP, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the gift that keeps on giving

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Republicans resurrecting Jeremiah Wright as campaign issue

Conservative philanthropy funded Media Research Center astonishingly claims
news networks held collective tongues on the Wright affair

Bill Berkowitz, August 20, 2008, Media Transparency

http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=245

In 1962, two years after losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy, Richard
M. Nixon ran and lost the governor's race in California. At a post-election
press conference, Nixon famously told reporters that they wouldn't "have
Richard Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press
conference." It wasn't. He won the presidency in 1968, escalated the Vietnam
War, was re-elected in 1972, and two years later he was forced to resign in
disgrace over the Watergate Affair.

These days, one can easily imagine that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright might wish
-- in his heart of hearts -- that the press, the cable news networks,
conservative pundits, the headline writers and Republican Party operatives didn't
have Jeremiah Wright "to kick around any more."

Thanks to conservative philanthropy and the Republican echo machine, the
story about the relationship between the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Senator Barack
Obama will be with us through Election Day and beyond. Whether Obama wins or
loses, there will be much post-election analysis about how much the Wright
Affair hurt the campaign.

http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=245

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