I Need Some Help

What exactly is the difference between the comments made by Reverend Wright and those made by Pats Robertson and Buchanan? I'm really having a hard time understanding why Reverend Wright's comments don't seem to go away, yet the same man who wrote A Brief for Whitey and the following comments seem to have faded into the sunset?

-"Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." –Pat Robertson, on the dangers of judicial activism

-"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson

-"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson

-"Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson, on blowing up the State Department.

So Pat Robertson can say that evangelical Christians are the most discriminated group of people in America, that feminism turns women into witch lesbians, that the erosion of judicial activism is worse than the events of 9/11 AND co-sign on Jerry Falwell:

- "Well, I totally concur." –Pat Robertson to Jerry Falwell following the Sept. 11 attacks, after Falwell said, "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say: "You helped this happen."

Why is it that all of this hatefulness can be spewed, and McCain suffers little to no criticism for aligning himself with the likes of Pat Buchanan, yet I'm still hearing about Rev. Wright's same comments 6 weeks later? Do people expect for him to go into hiding and never show his face publicly again?

In terms of the 9/11 comments, Robertson, Wright and Falwell should be ashamed of themselves. They're ALL wrong on that, and yet two of the three aren't receiving the intense media scrutiny of Wright. In terms of Wright's race comments, quite frankly, I think they make white people a little bit more uncomfortable because the comments are directed towards them than when Buchanan and Robertson make the same equally offensive comments towards nonwhites. I really don't think that Wright's comments are anything new, anything that mainstream America hasn't heard before from a prominent person in the black community. But I also think it's wrong to continually ask Obama about his pastor and use it as a reason to knock Obama when McCain/Buchanan aren't getting the same treatment. Or maybe it's just clear to everybody that Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson are off their rockers and paying them any attention is like feeding the gremlins after midnight.

So if someone could delineate the difference for me, I'd appreciate it.