Things Americans don't like to talk about- April 30, 2008 -- by DaveOne of the oddities of the emerging media meta-narrative about Jeremiah Wright is the way it is now readily assumed by the broad range of talking heads that Wright's recent comments have only proven the charge that he is deeply "anti-American," embodied in the endlessly repeated "God damn America" sound bite. There's no doubt that a lot of Wright's views are indeed deeply critical of America, even pugnaciously (and thus disconcertingly) so, and some -- particularly his apparent...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/04/things-americans-dont-like-to-talk.html Tuesday Bloggage- April 29, 2008 -- by Sara This week's post at Blog For Our Future is about Jeremiah Wright, who (as it turns out) has a long history of being one of liberal Christianity's most stubborn and durable bulwarks against a variety of conservative efforts to corrupt the Christian message. That fact, it turns out, has everything to do with why the Wright story won't die -- and why the right wing will stop at nothing to take him down.I talk about how this battle has been fought on a couple of fronts. There's a lot...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/04/tuesday-bloggage.html Just another viewpoint- April 25, 2008 -- by DaveIn the age of Drudge and "Fair and Balanced" news, we all know that facts and falsehoods are just two sides of the same coin, right So I guess it's inevitable that some Republican somewhere would find it acceptable to speak before neo-Nazis because they're just another interest group, after all.Sure enough. Jason Miller at the New-Dispatch in Michigan City, Indiana, reports that a bright republican attorney named Tony Zirkle, vying for the GOP nomination in his local congressional...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/04/just-another-viewpoint.html |