Sunday TeeVeeTalking Pundit Head Roundup

Rangel: It’s disgraceful that he has to make any explanation for anything. The intrusion of the media and Republicans into the sacred relationship that worshipers have with their spiritual leaders I think is going to come back to haunt us. To think that we have to go into the lives and the beliefs of Rabbis and Priests and ministers and Imams is absolutely ridiculous. We’ve got a war on. We’ve got an economy that’s splintered. I think the media should be more responsible and start dealing with those issues. I don’t think many people care what reverend Wright thinks and I don’t see why any candidate should have to explain what ..

Dean! Dean! He's our man, if he can't do it nobody can!  Howard Dean blast Chris"Faux News" Wallace and calls them out for race baiting. I love Howard Dean.  He is not afraid to tell it like it IS!

Wallace: Governor, are you suggesting that bringing up Jeremiah Wright is “race-baiting” and hate and divisive?

Dean:  Yeah, I am suggesting that kind of stuff.  I think when you start bringing up candidates that have nothing to do with the issues…uh when you start bringing up things that have nothing to do with the candidate, nothing to do with the issues, that’s race-baiting. And that’s exactly what it is.  Just like Willie Horton was race-baiting so many years ago.   I think we’re going to take…we’re going to turn the page on this stuff.  I’ll tell you, there’s a lot of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on issues, but the biggest issue of all is we don’t use this kind of stuff.  We never have used this kind of stuff and we’re not going to start now.  America is more important than the Republican party and that’s the lesson the voters are about to teach the Republicans.

*Snicker

Chris "Tweety" Matthews says who cares what the American people think, we, I mean the GOP are going to make Wright an issue. I guess the media is making Wright an issue so McSame and the GOP won't have to, you know, like fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them over here.

Matthews:  Can a brilliant politician – Barack included, perhaps, perhaps – turn this around? Can he show that he’s different?  So different from the Rev. Wright that he should be elected President?

*Guilt by association?

Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation is finally seeing the light, sort of:

But the $64,000 question that Schieffer refuses to address is how much responsibility should the establishment media take upon itself for unconditionally and unquestioningly putting out White House talking points with no context or independent fact finding. Where is the onus on the Fourth Estate?

*Where indeed?

Despite what the "Liberal" media would have folks people, Reverend Wright has support and supporters.

Like the so-called liberal ministers in Alabama who chastised Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he sat imprisoned in a Birmingham Jail, these news pundits charge Rev. Wright, and by extension the black church, with "mixing politics with religion" and misleading "ignorant black people" into an adversarial relationship with "their government." And like those so-called "liberal" white preachers in Alabama who attacked Dr. King, several have even quoted various biblical texts as evidence that Rev. Wright, and Trinity United Church of Christ are not following Christian biblical principles.

*It's the media.