THE Reverend Wright

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 3 07:23:51 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I did a double take when I saw the first mention of "the Reverend
> Wright" in an Ed Klein hit piece at FoxNews.com. I thought, oh, it's
> just bad editing, a type sneaked through... But then I saw the second
> one... I guess, he really means it:
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>> an attack on Romney’s religious beliefs might encourage the
>> Republicans to reciprocate by reopening the whole tangled issue of
>> Obama and the Reverend Wright.
>> During an interview I conducted with the Reverend Wright for my book
>> "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House," I asked the pastor if
>> he had converted Obama from Islam to Christianity. “That’s hard to
>> say,” Wright replied.
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> I suspect, Klein was thinking of the Reverend Wrong when he wrote the piece.
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> VS-)
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> THE Reverend Wright

What do you consider to be problematic about this?
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