NYT TV critic: "Wright doesn’t hate America, he loves the sound of his own voice."

The TV Watch
Not Speaking for Obama, Pastor Speaks for Himself, at Length
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: April 29, 2008


(Doug Mills/NYT)
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. speaking Monday at the National Press Club in Washington.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has wriggled out from under sound bites and screen-grab loops to put himself into context in that most American of ways: on television.

And he went deep into context — a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics. Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, was cocky, defiant, declamatory, inflammatory and mischievous, but most of all, he was all over the place, performing a television triathlon of interview, lecture and live news conference that pushed Mr. Obama aside and placed himself front and center in the presidential election campaign.

His rehabilitation tour has done no favors to the Obama campaign, which has expressed distress over Mr. Wright’s timing and intemperance. “He does not speak for me; he does not speak for the campaign,” Mr. Obama said Monday.

But Mr. Wright’s monomania over the last three days has helped prove the point Mr. Obama made about his former pastor last month in his speech on race, in which he described Mr. Wright as “imperfect” but having also been “like family to me.” Mr. Wright revealed himself to be the compelling but slightly wacky uncle who unsettles strangers but really just craves attention.

Viewers who had seen the Chicago preacher only in brief cable news clips or campaign attack ads finally saw the unexpurgated version, and it was an illuminating display....Now it turns out that Mr. Wright doesn’t hate America, he loves the sound of his own voice. He is not out of touch with the American culture, he is the avatar of the American celebrity principle: he grabbed his 30-second spots of infamy and turned them into 15 minutes of fame....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/us/politics/29watc.html?ref=todayspaper

"Wright doesn’t hate America, he loves the sound of his own voice."

Maybe there is a silver lining here after all; by clowning his ass off today, Wright might just have become less "scary" to the masses.

I'll sleep on that thought.

Almost all the new sound bites are kinder and gentler, or at least give a better perspective of the Pastor and his popularity.

Anybody who says Wright is hurting Obama is grasping at straws. He has actually undone much of the harm which the fascist slime machine has tried to cause.

Stick THAT up your nose Fox Noise.

The guy is pilloried by the MSM, torn to shreds by the HRC campaign, accused of being a traitor by the traitors on cable news, and when he speaks up on his own behalf, he's accused of "monomania" and "loving the sound of his own voice."

Anyone who writes or gives one second's credence to this thumb-sucking vomit shouldn't be allowed to vote.

He's not defending himself, defending against death threats, defending his prior flock from nosy news-collectors.

He likes the SOUND of his voice.

Maybe next backpedal he might get to think he's BEING HEARD.

And on and on with the RW spin machine.