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In the just-published issue of National Review, Stanley Kurtz provides a detailed look at Rev. Wright’s black liberation theolgy. He concludes th

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Isn’t anybody going to ask Oprah why she didn’t sound a warning about Wright’s racist and hate-filled views?  What was she hoping?  That nobody would notice?  That it was a non-issue?  Or did she think it didn’t matter in the larger scheme of things?

It would’ve been easy enough for her to do and would have fit right in with the confessional nature of her TV show.  “Did the United States government develop AIDS to destroy the black community?  Watch Oprah at 4:00 to find out!”

Kurtz went back to Obama’s book, “Dreams from My Father” and discovered mention of his relationship with Jeremiah Wright beginning in 1988, after Obama heard Wright’s “Audacity to Hope” speech.  Kurtz describes Wright’s speeches --

“… the book version of the famous “Audacity” sermon, like the other sermons reprinted in What Makes You So Strong? provides a fascinating window into Reverend Wright’s political and social worldview. Out of this collection come passages equating Zionism with racism, offering criticism of the Catholic practice of Holy Communion, defending Louis Farrakhan, and attacking American military interventions in Panama, Grenada, and the first Gulf War.”