There seems to be a pretty strong consensus across the board that the problem wasn't the Moyers interview, the speech to the NAACP, or the first half of Wright's appearance at the National Press Club, which was with prepared remarks.

What seems to be a near universal consensus (at least among the online news outlets, I haven't listened to radio or TV today) forming that the problem was with the Q & A session that followed his prepared remarks this morning.

Carol, the issue I raised here wasn't etymology, it was censorship of political threads in this forum.

I was also aware of the etymology you reference, but the OED is far clearer as to the subject to which Wright was referrring, which is the Christian use of the word 'damn'.

Context is everything.