Wrong Wright

I'm quite sure Joe Klein's already getting an Obamavalanche in his email box over this post at Swampland. But he has to be getting used to that by now, I suppose.

……for Wright to say the attacks on him are an attack on the black church is to offer a straitened and solipsistic view of that grand institution. Black liberation theology is not the black church.

And worse, Wright's purpose now seems quite clear: to aggrandize himself–the guy is going to be a go-to mainstream media source for racial extremist spew, the next iteration of Al Sharpton–and destroy Barack Obama.

I happened to catch part of NPR's coverage of Jeremiah Wright today (including some fawning from Democratic members of Congress that should get NPR in trouble with the FEC for running campaign commercials gratis, but I digress). Wright sounded exactly as if this is all about him. What a great guy he is and how he's being wronged because people dare to report his spew of hatred.

So, it really is all about him – even if it costs Obama support he desperately needs right now. That, I think, says more about Wright than even his hate-filled diatribes do.