In this week's FundamentaList, find out how Republicans courting their own inflammatory preachers have the Jesus Shield -- but that Barack Obama, with his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, does not. Read it to find out how the right-wingers get a pass from the press, while left-wingers are "Other-ized."
At Salon, Glenn Greenwald, who has been addressing the same issue, discusses God's Profits and has posted a podcast interview with me about it. At Open Left last weekend, Paul Rosenberg posed insightful questions to me about God's Profits in a book salon. And Media Matters has documented these rules that seem to govern press coverage of Wright, as compared to its coverage of Rod Parsley and John McCain.
The Council for National Policy, the secretive umbrella conservative group with the biggest, strongest Jesus Shield out there, has posted McCain's speech from a few weeks ago on its web site. The release of a presidential candidate's speech to the group is unprecedented, and you can read it here. The speech is pretty unremarkable, and doesn't cover any ground McCain hasn't covered in other public appearances, which is probably why the group decided that releasing it wasn't about to divulge any well-kept secrets.
--Sarah Posner
