Thank you, Bill Moyers

I was very happy that I caught Bill Moyer's PBS Journal last Friday when his guest was Jeremiah Wright. Of course that was just before the dynamic pastor imploded.

Tonight Moyers began his program with an update on the week-long Wright-Obama brouhaha. Among other things, he asked why the press took it so easy on white preachers--going back to Billy Graham (on Jews), Jerry Falwell (on America being punished by God on 9/11), and more recently Pat Robertson (on assassinating Hugo Chavez and praying for the removal of Supreme Court Justices) and John McCain's preacher friend John Hagee (on war-mongering, Catholic bashing and the claim that New Orleans got in Katrina what they deserved for their sins.)

The Moyers piece is excellent. It last only five minutes. You can watch it by copying and pasting this URL into your browser:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05022008/watch.html