The problem with your theory is that Wright’s church always sold tapes of his sermons. Wright said in an interview, last March with the International Herald Tribune, that Obama took tapes of Wright’s sermons back to Harvard with him to study his style. Wright also told the reporter that he taught Obama crowd control techniques.
Anyway, I’ve been wondering why O’Reilly has been taking credit for something that Hannity had been talking about for a year and who sent the tapes to ABC. I always suspected the Hillary campaign. But, you’re right, Obama thought that he was using Wright, and Wright knew that he was using Obama, but that is what Wright did at his church, he used the upwardly mobile Blacks, instilling in them a sense of responsibility for the poorer elements of the Black community and spurring them to activism.
Did you know that Wright’s area of concentration in divinity school was Islam?
This is not like the church has a full time store and selling hundreds and hundreds of audio tapes and DVD's a week. I know a little bit of how this type of thing works and there was little if ANY demand for the material from anyone who was not a church member or possibly someone who was a regular customer. The sale was handled by a church employee or volunteer of which would be a very very small number. Jeremiah would crucify anyone selling DVD's to anyone not a church member or a past regular customer. I suspect that Hannity, Fox and other news out lets have been trying to get their hands on the DVD which has the VIDEO for a long time. The audio tapes do not have the value of the video and it would be my guess demand for the DVD"s and probably the price would mean they rarely sell any DVD's and those DVD's might even have to made to order from a digital master, particularly the ones as old as ABC and Fox played. Both outlets got all the DVD's that were available to them.
Obama's campaigin knows the truth here. Obama campaign has put itself up for blackmail by Wright when Obama said that he was never there when anything of the controversial things on the tapes were said. I suspect that Jeremiah could prove or disprove that theory immediately by making copies of all the sermons that they have on videotape available to the MSM. They could raise some revenue to, although there are few in the MSM hungry for the video that would prove Obama lied and provide the smoking gun end to Obama's candidacy. Whether it is video or other records Wright has Obama's future much in his hands.
There is a story to be told of how the DVD's got in Fox's and ABC's hand. It is a story that most in the MSM do not want to pursue. It is a story that Fox and ABC do not want to tell at this time BECAUSE they have a request for as much video as Wright is willing to provide, and this kind of story now, means they would not be getting any more video. And face it they get a lot of mileage from the video of a ranting hating Jeremiah Wright.
To answer your question, I have no idea of Wright's formal theological studies. My intuition is that is not likely because when Wright went to divinity school the concentrated and comparative study of Islam would have been rare.