The Jeremiah Wrighting of Robert Jeffress

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 12th at 01:14 PM  | 

Robert Jeffresss does not have a lick of political sense. You do not, in this day and age, to a gaggle of reporters after introducing a Presidential candidate to a crowd, say that the candidate’s opponent belongs to “a cult.” You just don’t. It doesn’t matter what you believe. Robert Jeffress lacks political skills. But he is not a politician. Robert Jeffress is a pastor | Read More »

Members of the Media Plotted To Shut Down Coverage of Jeremiah Wright

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 20th at 05:00 AM  | 

It is as we all suspected. It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign. | Read More »

“No, no, no”

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 8th at 03:12 PM  |