On May 4, National Journal/XM’s Linda Douglass said during an appearance on Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources, “I hate to keep being in the position of defending Barack Obama…”

Apparently she didn’t hate it that much, or else she wouldn’t have gone to work for the guy.

As the guys at Newsbusters note:

…she pronounced media attention on Wright to have “been too much” and contended: “To make your judgments about how to cast a vote for President based upon the statements of this pastor seems to be a bridge too far.”
After host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Bill Moyers complaining that “white preachers are given leeway in politics that others aren’t,” Douglass agreed: “That is actually a point that we should be discussing,” as she contended “Republican candidates have routinely associated themselves with white pastors who have made similarly incendiary statements.” As to attention to how Obama does not (at that time) wear a flag pin, a flustered Douglass countered:
I hate to keep being in the position of defending Barack Obama, but on this question, John McCain does not wear a flag pin. Hillary Clinton does not wear a flag pin. And yet questions about his patriotism come up all the time…

You know the great thing about Douglass going to work for Obama is that when she speaks on behalf of the candidate, she won’t have to change… well, anything.