I'm watching Sean Hannity (of Fox's Hannity and Cones) right now responding to Rev. Wright's appearance on Bill Moyer (which will air this Friday--April 25). It's amazing to see how much vitriol and anger Hannity is expressing at the possibility of Wright countering the negative image that's been constructed by the media. He calls it "a rehab tour" where we have "a very calm image and a very different image" and claims this "looks like an image-making campaign to [him]." Really? So Rev. Wright should not make any attempt to fix his image if he believes he's being unjustly demonized?
BTW, one of the commentators on the show, Mike Allen of Politico.com, describes Wright as dressing in a dignified manner (Wright was wearing a suit in the interview). Dignified, as opposed to what? So the African-inspired clothes he typically wore in church were undignified? As people speak, the fear that Obama is "not one of us" that is at the root of the Wright scandal bubbles to the surface.
As soon as Allen started to say some positive things about Wright's appearance and his descriptions of the church's "lived ministries" and faith-based initiatives, Hannity was sure to cut him off, remind the audience about the GD America comments, and turn to his other guest, Andrei Cherney, to ask for a condemnation of Obama. The other commentator starts to say that he does not think Obama is being dishonest since he has disowned all the controversial comments. Hannity cuts him off, saying should have known Obama at the time that Wright was controversial. Finally Cones, the supposed foil to Hannity, emerges from his slumber to weakly defend Obama. I still don't understand why Fox continues to have Cones on the show. I don't think anyone with half an eye open thinks that Cones is anything more than a prop on the Sean Hannity Show.
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