Darryl Fears' Washington Post article describes the ways in which Bill Clinton, Tavis Smiley, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright "landed in the black community's doghouse after being viewed as endangering Sen. Barack Obama's chances of being elected president."
For instance, Fears reports, when Smiley expressed his irritation that Obama did not attend Smiley's Covenant With Black America program in New Orleans, the "resulting backlash left Smiley feeling 'hammered' and 'barbequed' by black Americans." "There's all this talk of 'hater,' 'sellout' and 'traitor,'" Smiley said at the time. "They are harassing my mama, harassing my brother." Smiley recently announced that he will be discontinuing his commentaries on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. And one African-American woman's take on Bill and Hillary Clinton: "The more he opened his mouth, the more I was against her."
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