We don't have to travel the back roads of Pennsylvania for resentful ranting now, do we?:

So when it comes to words and actions, I'm going to remember and blame you Joan Walsh, for what you've done. When people ask me how the media managed to destroy a great country, I'm pointing them here first.

-- libertyson

The media didn't create Reverend Wright...he put on his own show of absurdity for all to see in the open...even your hero, Obama, saw through his facade...way too late. 20 years too late. Even Oprah knew better 10 years ago.

But this means nothing when Obama is knee deep in something far more serious than this: the corruption that runs rampant across party lines in Illinois, his toxic ties to Rezco and many other nefarious and shady types in his home state...it seems Obama has very poor judgement, and this speaks volumes about his capabilities of being anything except a terrible President, who will court favors for political gain, something he has claimed he won't do, but his record shows otherwise. Blaming Joan for being more than charitable to Obama is ridiculous...you will sing a different tune once the indictments Patrick Fitzgerald hands up could possibly have Obama sadly in the middle of all the sordid details. It's coming, mark my words...the Chicago press have been reporting it daily, ignored by mainstream media and liberal pro-Obama blogs...but this won't be happening too much longer.

Hillary or McCain don't need to trash him, as Obamabots claim they do...he is doing it all on his own...

I too, was glad to see Obama throw Rev Wright under the bus...it was about time...Wright's horrendously embarrassing minstel show at the Press Club should be a blue print for what not to do if you want to burnish a damamged image. Obama had no choice but to cut him out of his life...I just wish he had done it ages ago, for his campaign is hemorrhaging as a result...what I find more ominous is the ongoing Rezco trial which has been covered extensively by Chicago papers and ignored by mainstream press and pro-Obama blogs. Obama is up to his neck in the corrupt nature of Illnois politics, and either the national media better get on board about this soon, or it is all going to come tumbling out when it is too late...opening up an opportunity for the Repubs to hammer him day in and day out.

I like her pop songs though. Cherish and Get into the groove are fantastic.

-- LauraBB

Anyone who hates pop would hate Madonna...as you say, those two pop hits, along with a few others, like "Holiday" or "Express Yourself" (dance remix, thank you), show that she got what pop was all about. When she sometimes dabbled in wayward genres, she faltered, but sticking to the tried and true AM catchy tunes that made her a star is what she will be remembered for.

...can say Madonna may be past her prime, but I give her cred for still getting out there...she needs now to concentrate on what she has always done best: marketing...leave the music and certainly the movie making behind a focus on her mogul status...

Bob Herbert's column in The Times is a great summation of why Wright is toxic for Obama...a clean break from him in no uncertain terms is in order. Wright certainly makes it clear he wants to rub Obama's face in the shit he has spread over the whole campaign...:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/opinion/29herbert.html?ref=opinion

Brilliant analysis by a commenter at Politico:

Wright and Sharpton and the rest of the black preacher con artists can do what they want, plenty of white redneck preachers do the same thing. But they will bury Obama for good if he does not fully break with Wright and change his religious affiliations. Americans will not put up with black incendiary paranoia.

Unfortunately, this is what did Jesse Jackson in, a man I always respect and voted for over Bill Clinton in the 1992 NY primary...it is also what sunk Al Sharpton, a man who I also believe has his finer points, yet mired himself in the disastrous Tawana Brawley debacle.

...that Wright's message deserves any degree of cred, check this out:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9912.html

Then be mindful of the errors of your ways.

I read some of the comments here...especially "Dr. Soft's" somewhat soft in the head rantings about Mr. Wright and others here equating Salon to do the bidding of two-bit racists...

Any half-wit could see that Jeremiah Wright is not in the business of caring what happens with Obama as he pursues the White House, or for that matter, with the black community at large...his sorry, pathetic display of minstrelry is a deep insult to so many preachers who minister day in and day out in the black community without resorting to making themselves the center of the show. His dismissal of Obama as a "politician" says alot about Wright also. Wright's degree of righteous indignation is an antique from a time that America can no longer afford to have any truck with. Obama was trying to look beyond the hostile world of black victimization that has crippled so many for so long. Wright wallows in it; delights in it. For that reason alone, he deserves to be roundly dismissed as a hopeless relic. Time has thankfully passed him by.