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OMG did you hear what colored people are up to “in their churches”? Well let’s have one more moment of comic/feigned outrage over what those uppity black people are saying, as the Jeremiah Wright “scandal” will be the closest any of you white people ever get to a black church. Also, uh, this is what the fancy New York magazine Vanity Fair does these days: “Mash ups” of copyrighted video from The Simpsons and the entire two minutes of Reverend Wright’s wacky history of sermons, which so far we’ve yet to hear a single person, you know, make any sort of coherent argument against. Anyway, John McCain is Grandpa Simpson, as we will scientifically prove, after the jump. MORE »

SOMEONE HELP PEGGY NOONAN, POST HASTE: Everyone we have a very severe problem facing our country: Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan is “finding it hard to feel truly upset about what [Jeremiah] Wright has said.” Medic? MEDIC? Not even 1,000 words of Noonington’s mellifluous prose could get her to feel upset about Jeremiah Wright. WHY CAN’T PEGGY NOONAN MAKE HERSELF GET UPSET ABOUT THIS? [WSJ]

For those of you that were upset with George Stephanopoulos’ performance in the April 16 Democratic debate, you’ll now get a chance to be upset again! Georgie’s Sunday morning ABC teevee show, This Week, will broadcast live from Indiana with Hillary Clinton in a town hall setting. What questions will George throw in the mix this time? “Do you think that Jeremiah Wright, who is running for president in a big-nosed Barack Obama outfit, has bombed any Americas recently?” [Michael Calderone]

Hillary Clinton’s big interview with that pinhead Bill O’Reilly airs tonight, but the transcript has “leaked” to the Political Internet already. And guess guess GUESS which terrorist religious guy they talk about? Hint: it’s not Donald Duck! MORE »

Finally, Barry is holding a Big Time press conference about Reverend Wright, and it’s on all the teevee channels! He is SO ANGRY that he even said “I am angry.” He’s just starting to take questions now, so let’s liveblog this annoying spectacle. (UPDATE: Video of Obama’s angry opening statement at the end). MORE »

Hillary has a new “Clinton” on the campaign trail who is incapable of making terrible racist remarks, because it is a dead “balloon doll” that cannot say anything at all. Bill Clinton has been locked in some lunatic’s basement in Austria until Hillary somehow manages to take the nomination from Jeremiah Wright. [AP Photo]

Jeremiah Wright’s press conference before the National Press Club this morning got the blogosphere in a bundle today, because someone decided it has to matter. Here’s the current View Of Wright: Obviously he’s very upset that the Main Stream Media has been SMEARING him, who wouldn’t, and he’s defending his statements pretty strongly (”It is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright — it’s an attack on the black church,” he says.) And he reiterated what he told Bill Moyers in their teevee interview about Barack Obama: “He had to distance himself because he’s a politician,” Wright said. He’s blowing open the racial politics that Obama wants to close and claiming that Obama is insincere when he rejects Wright’s “extreme sermons”; he’s trying to balance a deserved self-defense with the collateral damage that that brings on Obama. He has an ego. Most importantly, he’s just some old preacher and not Obama’s surrogate father. He can say whatever he wants and Barry will just have to deal with it. Individual people have a right to defend themselves, and politicians have a right to disown them. That’s all, goodnight. [AP]

Here is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, famous controversial figure, way back in December of 1966, when he was a U.S. Navy medic and installed a black man’s heart inside Lyndon B. Johnson, which is how we got Civil Rights. Thanks to commenter RSSDude DaveBowman for posting the pic. [P. Cash Perspective]

Since Barack Obama couldn’t answer the important question “Is Jeremiah Wright as patriotic as you are?” with any shred of decency in last week’s ABC debate, Wright is now explaining his obvious black hatred of all things white on his own terms. His First Televised Interview will appear on PBS tomorrow night, but we have excerpts, and they’re predictable, etc. etc., why is he such a Christian Muslim? MORE »

Say what you will about John McCain — for example, that he’s mentally deranged old lobbyist whore with a Robert Jordan complex — but he actually means it when he talks about certain quaint old-fashioned notions like “honor.” So when the North Carolina Republicans announced they were going to run this stupid race-baiting “Did you know Obama is black, and angry?” ad, John McCain fired off a furious email to the state party chairwoman lamenting the degradation of Our Civics and defending the honor of the Process. Read his honorable fulminations after the jump! MORE »