Obama, Wright -- and Oprah?

I was right about Andrew Sullivan flogging the Jeremiah Wright flap for all it's worth. He's making the attempt at least to exonerate Obama for Wright's words (and even trying to exonerate Wright for that matter -- he at least tries to provide some context and even posts the full sermon. But somehow the exoneration rings a little hollow:

The exposure of Jeremiah Wright's worst moments of racial ugliness is, to my mind, overdue in the MSM. It's not something new to anyone who has closely followed the Obama candidacy or Obama's history. If you've read his books, it's very old news.

He does go on in a more positive note, but look at the way he's structuring his argument:

The relevant - the only relevant - question is: are Obama's beliefs represented by the handful of video clips of the most incendiary of Wright's sermons? Or to unpack it a little further: Does Obama believe that black people should damn America? Does he believe that racial separatism is a viable option? Is he a black liberation theologian?

Seriously, I can find absolutely no evidence that he is, and if anyone can, I will gladly eagerly air it.

Get this: Are Obama's beliefs represented by incendiary sermons from someone else? Be sure to keep that mantra out front. And if anyone can find any evidence, it will be plastered all over the Daily Dish.

Sullivan is right on one point: Obama has been quite clear that Wright's sentiments as expressed in a couple of YouTube clips are not his and in fact, Obama has come out repeatedly with statements maintaining the opposite of Wright's comments. End of story.

I go back to my earlier analysis: this is another non-story being flogged by the right-wing noise machine and the MSM because Obama represents a danger to their interests. Sullivan is part of that conglomerate. If you doubt my take on this, check out the headline on a related post: "Does Oprah Hate America Too?" She's attends the same church. And how relevant is that to anything?

Note: From the EA Forums discussion, in which our resident right-wing talking point is sure (read "hoping beyond hope") that this whole thing will destroy Obama's presidential bid, at least in "middle America": two members, one pretty much in the center, the other slightly right-of-center, responded, in sum: I could care less.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, Sullivan's coverage of the McCain-Hagee-Parsley nexus -- well, there are a number of brief posts on Hagee, mostly without much in the way of comment, and the one post that mentions Parsley is from a reader and doesn't mention McCain. So, how do we construe the microscopic examination of the relationship between Barack Obama and Jeremeiah Wright, and the almost complete lack of analysis of the relationship between John McCain, John Hagee, and Rob Parsley? (Remember that McCain actively courted Hagee's support as well as Parsley's, and hasn't rejected their bigotry in terms anywhere near as strong as Obama has used about Wright's comments.)