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I say this as gently and as courteously as I can under the circumstances.

I've had it up to here [indicating front of neck under the chin] with the never-ending stream of articles about Rev. Wright (three today already just on TAS, and even more everywhere else in the media).

Please make them all go away. Please. Make the articles go away and someday, perhaps in my lifetime, so will he.

If we are to suffer the unrelieved tedium of Jeremiah Wright, could we call him Mr. Wright? That is, unless he has his doctorate from the First Self-Righteous Church of Reverse Racism & Fancy Raiment.

"Reverend" is an adjective, not a noun, and as such, cannot stand alone. He is the Reverend Mr. Wright or the Reverend Dr. Wright. I think all this Rev'run-as-a-title business started with Rev'run Jesse Jackson, preacher without a pulpit

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