Honest, no-tongue-in-cheek. Can’t make this up.
NY Daily News: says we’s been had. The last couple of days we’ve been served up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright by an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter as head chef:
Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick?
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn’t have done more damage to Barack Obama’s campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that’s just what one friend of Wright wanted.
Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds.
A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister).It also turns out that Reynolds – introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club “who organized” the event – is an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter.
On a blog linked to her Web site- www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: “My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you” to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
The same post criticized Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” theme: “Hope by definition is not based on facts,” wrote Reynolds. It is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time.”
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I don’t know if Reynolds’ eagerness to help Wright stage a disastrous news conference with the national media was a way of trying to help Clinton – my queries to Reynolds by phone and e-mail weren’t returned yesterday – but it’s safe to say she didn’t see any conflict between promoting Wright and supporting Clinton.
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But Wright should have known – and his friend and ally Reynolds, a media professional, surely knew – that bickering with the press can only harm Wright and, by extension, Obama.
I hope that wasn’t their goal.
No surprise then when we read that the Clinton camp when asked to comment on Wright’s new speeches said “It’s time to move on”– figuring they’d never be exposed.
Betcha a pint of Vermont’s finest maple syrup – 2008 production – that the Clinton camp was not left in the dark on Barbara Reynolds’ stagings.
