One of the common defenses given for the hateful sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright is that these are exceptions and not the rule. We are told that on most occasions, a sermon by Wright was much like that given by any other pastor. Defenders claim the media is showing us an uncharacterisric portrayal of this man as a raving bigot by cherry-picking a few of the more outrageous sermons from the thousands he has given which were not innappropriate or offensive.

Why then, was Jim Davis of Newsmax.com able to visit the church on one day, July 22, 2007, and it just happened to be the day of such a sermon? What are the odds that he happened to show up on one of the few days out of the thousands that Reverend Wright was spewing hatred? Did Jim Davis win the Jeremiah Wright lottery or something?

More likely, we can only conclude that these sermons were the rule, not the exception.