For the past few days, a great deal of news reporting has focused on Pastor Jeremiah Wright for his comments and the speech that presidential candidate Barack Obama gave in response. News programs, writers, and media pundits alike have all been talking about this for several days now. Even Vice President Dick Cheney stated, "it was an important speech" referring to the response by Obama. Even though there has been little analysis of Obama's reaction to the comments of Reverend Wright, it is important to note that when Pastor John Hagee endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain the majority of news media didn't seem to find that as "controversial."

The Center for Media and Democracy has pointed out that the US news media has not paid the same kind of attention to the controversial statements made by Pastor John Hagee as they have with Reverend Wright. Hagee has said that, "Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment against New Orleans for hosting a homosexual parade." Hagee has been most of the most vocal supporters of the state of Israel and founded Christians United for Israel in 2005. According to the recent book Allies for Armageddon, "Hagee endorsed the Israeli bombing of Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and advocates that the US or Israel should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran." So why hasn't the news media made such a big deal about these kinds of comments? Is it because there is a partisan bias in news reporting or does it have more to do with the fact that Reverend Wright's comments were critical of US foreign policy and Pastor Hagee's were more in line with US policy? These are important questions to consider during this presidential race--questions that the mainstream media seem unwilling to address.