From Jim Geraghty at National Review Online–I don’t know how many of Joel Osteen’s flock were thinking of voting for Barack Obama, but I’d like to make sure every last one of them hears this comment from Fr. Michael Pfleger, longtime friend of Obama and one of the Democratic candidate’s spiritual mentors: “Hillary and McCain would wish they had a preacher with the integrity of Jeremiah Wright. … They got some old weak preacher…some old Joel Osteen cotton candy preacher.” Let’s just come out and say it — Pfleger is an A-1 jerk [perhaps not the first word that came to mind], and Obama only started objecting to his comments once it started hurting his political ambitions. The question is, do Osteen’s two million weekly viewers and three million book buyers take it personally?

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