A DOUBLE STANDARD???

The MSM seems to treat Rev. Jeremiah Wright with much more "critical" analysis than they treat major wingnuts like Charles Krauthammer or William Kristol. I've gone through some of the links on Memeorandum and found evidence that others in the MSM are no better than Dana Milbank.

The New Republic (AKA, "Joe Lieberman Weekly") follows Milbank's lead :

Everything Wright has said already but you'd discounted as
the hyped-upped rhetoric of some black churches he repeated, plus
some. Among the exuberant listeners were drug dealer Marion Barry, Malik
Zulu Shabazz (a name as inauthentic as you can fabricate) of the New Black
Panther Party and Cornell West, professor of religion at Princeton which
courted him tirelessly (an index of its entirely undeserved inferiority
complex) from Harvard which is lucky to have had a place that wanted him
so.

From MSNBC:

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
*** You’re so vain, you probably think this campaign is about you: ... Wright has to know he's not helping his friend; his decision to go public and defend his reputation at this point in the campaign is doing nothing to help Obama, if anything, it's leading some to believe he's actually trying to sabotage him. He's hurting him and hurting him very badly. Frankly, it’s as selfish of a move as we've seen in some time. Imagine, for example, if Norman Hsu or Vicki Iseman were doing publicity tours right now.

The NY Times:

Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, was cocky, defiant, declamatory, inflammatory and mischievous ... But Mr. Wright’s monomania over the last three days ... Now it turns out that Mr. Wright doesn’t hate America, he loves the sound of his own voice. He is not out of touch with the American culture, he is the avatar of the American celebrity principle: he grabbed his 30-second spots of infamy and turned them into 15 minutes of fame. ... looking as pleased with his replies as a contestant in a high school spelling bee who has just correctly spelled the final word.

TIME Magazine's Joe Klein:

...I've been to dozens and dozens of African-American church services over the years, including the investiture of one of my friends as an AME minister two years ago, and I have very rarely, if ever, heard the kind of rants that are part of Reverend Wright's canon. ... Wright's purpose now seems quite clear: to aggrandize himself--the guy is going to be a go-to mainstream media source for racial extremist spew, the next iteration of Al Sharpton--and destroy Barack Obama.