After almost three years, it's nice to be acknowledged by the person that made the Jeremiah Wright story a national one. During an interview with Accuracy in Media released Monday, "Negrophilia" author Erik Rush recalls when he and your IR Editor spoke about Rev. Wright and Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Sounds like Rush's book is worth the read, and we're honored he remembered our 2007 conversation in this interview.
If you weren't an IR reader in 2007, here's the columns I wrote after visiting Trinity United Church of Christ in December 2006, the first known on the issue surrounding Obama's home church: Obama's controversial church under a microscope and Obama's controversial pastor.
And here's the AIM interview excerpt:
“It was in January or early February of 2007. I was approached by a Chicago-area journalist named Fran Eaton, who knew about Obama—and everybody knew that he was about to declare. Everyone in Chicago knew that he attended Trinity United Church. Of course, the more conservative people had more of a bead on what the church was about, and she had written a couple of pieces on it, but was somewhat frustrated, because it wasn’t getting any traction...
So she approached me through a third party, and asked if I might be interested in looking into it, maybe writing about it. Which I did. I did my homework, and was duly appalled when I discovered the black liberation theology church, and what its background, essentially, was. So I wrote a column for the New Media Journal on the subject, and that got picked up by Sean Hannity, who was on Hannity & Colmes at the time, and the rest, as they say, was history.
