Holly Berman: A surrogate for the Obama campaign announced today that in light of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s decision to defend himself in the public square, it’s clear that “Mr. Wright doesn’t hate America, he loves the sound of his own voice.” The move was an obvious attempt by the Obama campaign to distance the candidate from the outspoken pastor, described by an Obama spokesman as a sort of retread of “Sanford and Son”: a “compelling but slightly wacky uncle who unsettles strangers but really just craves attention.” Oh, wait — that wasn’t an Obama spokesperson, it was Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times, filing what will surely mark a low point of her journalistic career, a borderline racist assault on Rev. Wright for talking back to the press.