My letter to The Corner:

So, when Obama denounces the racist words of his pastor, but refuses to forcefully and angrily denounce the man and reject their long relationship, etc., your collective reaction is basically: well, he’s clearly lying, since he still went to that church; and therefore he must be lying now; and he’s a liar, and a socialist and a racist and a liar, and probably a liar, too.

When he mentions the racist things his white grandmother said, and refuses to reject her and his long relationship with her, your collective reaction is: OMG! Obama throws his White Grandmother under the bus! Racist!

In the first case, he fails because he didn’t throw Wright under the bus. In the second case he fails because you insist he threw his grandmother under the bus. But he used the same language for both; he rejected the racism in both; and he refused to sever his relationship with either. But you chose to react in completely opposite ways to the two.

Is there even a shred of intellectual honesty over there?