Jodi Kantor is a New York Times reporter who has covered Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright. Kantor interviewed Wright in early 2007 for a profile of Obama's religious views, but first used a snippet of the interview in her March 2007 story covering Obama's disinvitation of Wright from giving the invocation at Obama's announcement of his presidential candidacy. Kantor quoted Wright:

“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.

In April 2007, Kantor returned to the subject of Obama and Wright for the article that had occasioned the interview with Wright. Kantor observed:

Mr. Wright’s assertions of widespread white racism and his scorching remarks about American government have drawn criticism, and prompted the senator to cancel his delivery of the invocation when he formally announced his candidacy in February.

Mr. Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate who says he was only shielding his pastor from the spotlight, said he respected Mr. Wright’s work for the poor and his fight against injustice. But “we don’t agree on everything,” Mr. Obama said. “I’ve never had a thorough conversation with him about all aspects of politics.”

Reverend Wright was disappointed by Kantor's treatment of him in the first of these articles. He unloaded in a long letter to Kantor that has now been posted on Mark Halperin's Time site The Page. In the letter Wright castigates the Times as a right-wing organ that has somehow treated him unfairly. He expresses outrage over Kantor's use of his interview in the first of the two articles, implying that Obama had expressed regret to Wright over the disinvitation:

I do not remember reading in your article that Barack had apologized for listening to that bad information and bad advice. Did I miss it? Or did your editor cut it out? Either way, you do not have to worry about hearing anything else from me for you to edit or “spin” because you are more interested in journalism than in truth.

Speaking of Kantor's editor, Wright implies that Kantor confided to Wright that her editor is not a staightforward newsman:

Your editor is a sensationalist. For you to even mention that makes me doubt your credibility, and I am looking forward to see how you are going to butcher what else I had to say concerning Senator Obama’s “Spiritual Biography.”

Kantor, however, should not feel too bad. Wright's contempt for the Times predates Kantor's interview of him for the 2007 articles. Here Wright rambles:

Forgive me for having a momentary lapse. I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party’s national “blog.” The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame. I do not know why I thought The New York Times had actually repented and was going to exhibit a different kind of behavior.

What led him into this delusion? Wright seems to recall that Kantor is, ah, you know, Jewish:

Maybe it was my faith in the Jewish Holy Day of Roshashana. Maybe it was my being caught up in the euphoria of the Season of Lent; but whatever it is or was, I was sadly mistaken. There is no repentance on the part of The New York Times. There is no integrity when it comes to The Times. You should do well with that paper, Jodi. You looked me straight in my face and told me a lie!

All in all, a remarkable document.