Michelle Malkin » Jeremiah-gate: Glowbama’s losing his glow Update: Report: Obama nodded in agreement last summer

Jeremiah-gate: Glowbama’s losing his glow Update: Report: Obama nodded in agreement last summer

By Michelle Malkin • March 15, 2008 01:13 AM

Wright laced into America’s establishment, blaming the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the “United States of White America.” Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made.

Maybe Obama will argue that he was nodding off to sleep and didn’t hear.

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I’ve been tied up on a business trip (thank you to See-Dubya for guest-blogging this afternoon and evening!) and just caught the re-run of Major Garrett’s interview with Barack Obama on Hannity and Colmes.

Wow. You could see Glowbama’s halo flickering. He looked and sounded nervous, shifty, and truth-challenged as he tried to have it both ways with Jeremiah Wright (whom he continued to praise as a “Biblical scholar” and “well-regarded” even as he paid lip service to disavowing him and denied eeeever hearing Wright’s vitriol).

In other words, he looked like a typical politician.

As expected, Obama’s defenders have whipped out the moral equivalence card. Sister Toldjah puts the m.e. card through the shredder and adds:

By the way, I’m calling Barack Obama out on the outrageous lie he told today about not being present in Wright’s church when he made the offensive hateful remarks that have been circulating in the news media this week. As I said earlier, this is like Al Gore’s “iced tea” defense – and similar Bill Clinton’s stupid claim that he “didn’t inhale” a joint when he had one in his mouth. There is absolutely no way in you know where that in his 20 year association/mentorship/friendship with Rev. Wright that he never heard any of Wright’s controversial sermons. BO remarked tonight that had he heard any of them, he would have stood up and told Wright that what he was saying was “unacceptable” and went on to say that had he detected a “pattern” with Rev. Wright’s hateful sermons, he would have left the church. GMADB! He knew. He’s pulling the same ol ‘okey doke’ (see definition 3) that he slams “Washington insiders” for doing.

Much more here and here.

Obama’s minimization strategy–implying that Wright’s diatribes were cherry-picked rarities out of hundreds and hundreds of sermons–also failed miserably. “Black liberation theology” (with all its attendant anti-American pathologies) is Jeremiah Wright’s bread and butter. Wright knows it. His congregation knows it. Obama knows it.

And now, for whatever reason this story finally broke into the MSM after buzzing on blogs and talk radio for nearly a year, the rest of America knows it, too.

Hillary Clinton is a happy, happy woman tonight.

(Photoshop credit: Pete at iHillary)

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Reader Ken e-mails:

It struck me how much the song “Losing my Religion” is appropriate for Obama:

That’s me in the spotlight
Losing my religion

Oh no I’ve said too much
I havent said enough

Of every waking hour I’m
Choosing my confessions

The hint of the century

The slip that brought me
To my knees failed

David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy quotes from an article in the Christian Century on Trinity Church:

There is no denying, however, that a strand of radical black political theology influences Trinity. James Cone, the pioneer of black liberation theology, is a much-admired figure at Trinity. Cone told me that when he’s asked where his theology is institutionally embodied, he always mentions Trinity. Cone’s groundbreaking 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power announced: “The time has come for white America to be silent and listen to black people…. All white men are responsible for white oppression…. Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’ … Any advice from whites to blacks on how to deal with white oppression is automatically under suspicion as a clever device to further enslavement.” Contending that the structures of a still-racist society need to be dismantled, Cone is impatient with claims that the race situation in America has improved. In a 2004 essay he wrote, “Black suffering is getting worse, not better…. White supremacy is so clever and evasive that we can hardly name it. It claims not to exist, even though black people are dying daily from its poison” (in Living Stones in the Household of God).

Wright agrees. When I asked him whether white Americans are right to maintain that the racial situation has improved since the days when Africentric Christianity was born, Wright pointed to the racist remarks by radio host Don Imus: “And you say things have improved?”

Echoes of Michelle Obama.

Or vice versa.

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More:

Obama’s statement on HuffPo.

Wright says buh-bye.

Newsbusters exposes how the MSM bungled the story and is reminded of 2004:

Why, this late in the primary season, are we still discovering that they haven’t asked any of the hard questions? We are starting to see the same disturbing pattern we saw with John Kerry in 2004. The media didn’t see its job as vetting John Kerry as he told everyone he was the bravest of war heroes. When the men who fought with him on the swift boats told a different story, the media tried to ignore them.

The media was saying “print the legend,” and suggested that when opponents try to vet the Democrat, when they try to do the job a supine media blatantly failed to do, it was then the media’s job to vet the opponents and question their sincerity, not vet the Democrat.

The news media doesn’t see its job as informing the electorate. They see their job as getting the Democrat past the electorate.

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#267163

On March 16th, 2008 at 7:08 pm, Leatherneck said:

A Church that preaches hate, is not a Christian Church. I now understand where his wife gets her opinion of America.
#267164

On March 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm, slp said:

On March 15th, 2008 at 9:18 pm, slp said:
Did Rev. Wright follow up the fire and brimstone with a altar call?

Corrections:

Trinity is part of the United Church of Christ.

It is a mainstream Protestant denomination, not evangelical.

Many here would probably say that it is a very far left Protestant denomination and Trinity is at the far left end of the UCC spectrum.

It is obvious from the comments here and elsewhere that Rev. Wright nevr has and never will preach reconciliation with white America.

Rev. Wright preaches hate whitey. Hate the white corporate oppressors. Black liberation theology. Liberal, Socialist liberation theology.

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And Obama was not listening.

Give me a break.

No wonder Obama is rated the most liberal member of the Senate.

Obama is smoothiest talking politician today.

And MSM is going to let him skate, give him a pass, and ignore the story.

Another “Keep moving. There is nothing to see here.”
#267166

On March 16th, 2008 at 7:32 pm, slp said:

One further correction:

On March 15th, 2008 at 9:18 pm, slp said:
Did Rev. Wright follow up the fire and brimstone with an altar call?

On March 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm, slp said:
It is a mainstream Protestant denomination, not evangelical.

It is unlikely that there are altar calls.
#267168

On March 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm, Ombre Rose said:

Did any of you guys catch Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace?

Juan ripped Obama a new one for trying to pass this off as something he didn’t even know about, after 20 years of attendance there. He said Obama was trying to have it BOTH WAYS, and Juan pulled no punches.

I don’t know how Fox handles deciding what they give transcripts on, but this was a really good example of what I am looking for in a journalist – it showed a lot of integrity, and didn’t try to sideskirt anything about it.
#267172

On March 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm, Chief RZ said:

Jim M #120. More Truth to be spread. Especially the Marxist communist parts. The racism is bad enough.
Yes, you would thoroughly enjoy Flyboys. I couldn’t put it down and finished it in less than three days.
#267173

On March 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pm, BOB said:

Ombre Rose, I saw Juan Williams on Fox talking about Obama. Often I completely disagree with Juan, but he was right on this time….and when I do disagree with him he still seems like someone I could discuss the issue in a rational manner with. Maybe I’ve just missed the worst of Juan?
#267179

On March 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, Jim M. said:

ChiefRZ-

Just picked up a copy of Flyboys on eBay. Can’t wait to read it.
#267186

On March 16th, 2008 at 9:05 pm, Dimsdale said:

On March 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am, pressto said (#149):

Sen. Obama has gotten a lot of flack for stating he will refuse to wear an American Flag pin and he does not bother to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Based on what this church teaches I can understand now where this is coming from. He has stated he denounces some statements by Rev. Wright, but not his church because he believes in the overall message it teaches his followers and based on that I don’t think he is a good choice for President now.

That is an interesting observation: it took Obama 20 minutes to drop any thoughts of American patriotism, but after 20 years, Hussein has to be dragged kicking and screaming from a church that is so proud of its hate spewing pastor, it sells DVDs of his vitriol (amazing that the press was able to dig this up, huh?). The not so subdued vitriol that pops out of his wife’s mouth is testament that they were into this church and its teachings up to their necks ($22K donations, anyone?).
#267226

On March 16th, 2008 at 11:11 pm, Andy said:

On Geraldo of all things, Juan continues to rip Obambi a new one on the notion that TUCC is being unfairly attacked as racists. For a liberal, I like Juan.
#267246

On March 17th, 2008 at 12:47 am, Poison said:

When confronted with black racism, liberals always respond with the usual “blacks can’t be racist because they don’t have the power” line, or some variation of it. Now, it appears, that response is even less appropriate than ever. If Obama gets elected President, wouldn’t that GIVE them the power?
#267248

On March 17th, 2008 at 1:15 am, puhiawa said:

On March 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm, Ombre Rose said:

Did any of you guys catch Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace?

I did . As a long time watcher of Juan Williams, I know he is a black apologist that will sometimes bend the truth, and interject rumor as fact in political or race discussions. But he is not a racist, and I think this racist church and Obama deeply disturb him. Juan Williams is the type that makes a good neighbor even though you may vote for the other guy. And a good author, also.
#267265

On March 17th, 2008 at 3:15 am, Bhishma said:

On March 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm, Marshall Russ said:
Some of us feel the same way about “our candidate”. Tom would have been an excellent candidate but, we are here I am sure you would agree that Hill/Bill or Obama would be a disaster.

Marshall Russ # 173
That is exactly my point. That Hill/Obama/McCain are bad news for USA. But further, what did Americans expect after rejecting a patriot like Tom Tancredo? With Tom, Americans could not have gone wrong. Tom is strong on all that and more. Yet Americans rejected Tom and now have to suffer the consequences with traitors like Hill, Bill and McCain. Make no mistake, none of the three will think twice selling out Americans. All three and Bush have a proven record of trechery and treason and others, except Tom Tancredo, are no different.
#267279

On March 17th, 2008 at 6:58 am, zorro said:

Michelle, Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you, your family and all your readers and commenters!
#267283

On March 17th, 2008 at 7:23 am, jungatheart said:

Sharpton was just on Fox news and said that he didn’t think what Rev. Wright said was anti white. I’m so sick of being lied to.
#267293

On March 17th, 2008 at 8:37 am, gunslingerpatriot said:

Sharpton and his ilk wouldn’t be able to spot racism if it bit them in their backside…If wrights comments aren’t considered racist, then what imus comments are considered polite civil discourse.

GSP
#267490

On March 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm, Chard402003 said:

I bet I know what’s in Michelle’s thesis and why its not been released.
#267645

On March 17th, 2008 at 4:50 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

I am willing to chip in some cabbage ($$$) to get a copy of her thesis. Can we say freemarket anyone? Somebody out there must be willing to sell Michelle Obamarama out on this! :p

GSP
#267842

On March 17th, 2008 at 11:17 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

check this out from the politico.com
Have fun reading MO’s thesis guys!

GSP