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Political Punch: Who's scrubbing clean the website of Obama's church?

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Who's Scrubbing the Trinity United Church of Christ Website?

The website for Sen. Barack Obama's church -- Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago -- not long ago described the "Black Value System" in the "About Us" section of its website. And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an award to Louis Farrakhan -- a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah Wright's daughter.
No longer. You can see the old webpage, including both the Black Value System and a link to Trumpet HERE Interestingly, Trumpet used to have a web presence and now it doesn't seem to. Here's the Google cache of the Trumpet Magazine heralding Louis Farrakhan ("When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens," says the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright,likening the Minister's influence to the E. F. Hutton commercials of old. "Everybody may not agree with him, but they listen…Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience.")
Through a web archive search I also found THIS ARTICLE from the September 2005 Trumpet, in which Rev. Wright wrote: "Conservative fanatics line up on the side of al-Qaeda or they line up behind George Bush. Both are terrorists! Both believe that war is the answer. Both believe in murdering innocent people…"

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