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The Latest From Jeremiah Wright

THE LATEST FROM JEREMIAH WRIGHT....Jake Tapper reports on Jeremiah Wright's speech this morning to the National Press Club:

On his contention that the U.S. government had created AIDS as a method of committing genocide against African-Americans, Wright referred to a hotly-disputed 1996 book "Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional?" by Leonard G Horowitz, which contends that AIDS and the Ebola viruses evolved during cancer experiments on monkeys.

....Wright was also asked about his relationship with Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan....Farrakhan, Wright said, is "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century," noting the Million Man March....."Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy," Wright said, since Farrakhan had not enslaved Africans and brought them in chains to the U.S.

Wright sure isn't doing Barack Obama any favors, is he?

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