Obama said that he did not know the extent of Wright’s controversial comments until recently. He confirmed that he was not in the church when Wright made the comments that were reported this week.
"I wasn’t in church during the time that these statement were made," Obama said. "I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally. Either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew, he always preached the social gospel."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... -comments/
However, a year earlier, Obama disinvited Rev. Wright from participating in the announcement of his candidacy for the presidency.
Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us/po ... nted=print
I guess Rev. Wright got rough in sermons Obama both heard and did not hear. Oprah attended Wright’s church.
Winfrey was a member of Trinity United from 1984 to 1986, and she continued to attend off and on into the early to the mid-1990s. But then she stopped. A major reason—but by no means the only reason—was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
According to two sources, Winfrey was never comfortable with the tone of Wright's more incendiary sermons, which she knew had the power to damage her standing as America's favorite daytime talk-show host.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2 ... right.html
So Oprah, who attended Trinity United for far less than the 20 years Obama was there, heard Rev. Wright give incendiary sermons but Obama didn’t. Anyone who believes this also believes in the tooth fairy.