Bob Herbert in today's New York Times is not overjoyed by Jeremiah's tirade:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.Smiling, cracking corny jokes, mugging it up for the big-time news media this reverend is never going away. Hes found himself a national platform, and hes loving it.Its a twofer. Feeling dissed by Senator Obama, Mr. Wright gets revenge on his former follower while bathed in a spotlight brighter than any he could ever have imagined. Hes living a narcissists dream. At long last, his 15 minutes have arrived.

While Alessandra Stanley, the Times TV critic lays bare the real problem here:

Cable news commentators have focused on the damage the spectacle inflicted on the embattled Obama campaign. And while Mr. Wrights behavior may not have been politic for Mr. Obama, it was politics as usual for the television age. In at least one way, Mr. Wrights star turn may have helped defuse his importance in the long run. The pastor who was thrust upon the public consciousness as a caricature of the angry black man emerged after an exhaustive series of performances as a more familiar television persona: a voluble, vain and erudite entertainer, a born televangelist who quotes Ralph Ellison as well as the Bible and mixes highfalutin academic trope with salty street talk.

Mr. Wright, "voluble, vain, erudite ... highfalutin academic trope" is, God help him, a professor!