Jeremiah Wright: The gift that keeps on giving, but…

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 24, 2008 11:22 AM

I noted earlier this week that Bill Moyers announced he would be interviewing Jeremiah Wright for a Blame America echo chamber session set to air tomorrow. Now comes words, via the Chicago Sun Times, that Wright will be speaking at the National Press Club on Monday.

The controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor — is speaking Monday at the National Press Club as part of a divinity conference of black church leaders. Wright’s decision to headline an event at the Press Club — open to all media — risks giving Obama’s critics more fodder, as if they don’t have enough already.

…The backfire potential of Wright having any sort of a public profile at this point seems obvious.

I asked the church about the prospects of Wright further wounding Obama’s candidacy, and I was e-mailed material about the divinity conference.

When the uproar over Wright started, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod asked his friends at Jasculca Terman — a public affairs firm — to advise Trinity on how to handle the crush of media coverage, and they did, pro bono. Jim Terman, the president of the firm, said, “We were not asked to provide our advice about the reported speech of Rev. Wright in Washington” and did not know about it until it was scheduled.

Based on his last, self-aggrandizing diatribe-tastic performance at a funeral a few weeks ago, Wright is sure to give the Obama camp more indigestion.

Problem is, the official Republican elite position is that it is “not appropriate and unhelpful” to point out exactly how much of a radical, hate-filled loon Obama’s longtime spiritual mentor is.

Wright is the gift that keeps on giving, but the McCain camp high and mightily doesn’t want to receive.

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  1. #299839
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:42 pm, Blind_Mule said:

    franksalterego said:
    Are you wishing that on me?

    Are you telling on yourself, again?

    I’ve been told, I have an uncanny way of reading people.

    Frank, frank I have read alot of Johns posts and I don’t recall him ever being vindictive to any one on this site, I also have an uncanny ability to read people but that is face to face, body language speech etc. I think it is a little hard to read people by the written word until you have read a very large number of their posts and then that is ify sometimes, IMO I believe you have misread both of us. :wink:

  2. #299858
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, John Ansell said:

    Thanks BLind Mule. Remind me to never play you in poker! :)

  3. #299917
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pm, Bob in Myrtle Beach said:

    Can the Republicans get Rev. Wright to speak at the convention? I guarantee he’d make TV ratings go up, just on the shock value alone.

  4. #299922
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pm, BOB said:

    I don’t care how much the fence cost, if it’s done right I see it as a great investment that will most likely always be needed. I like the old saying:

    Good fences make good neighbors

    and I think Mexico would be a far better neighbor with a really tall, strong and effective fence between us and them. If necessary let’s build another Great Wall of China. I’m tired of hearing a fence won’t work, and the attemps by the open-borders crowd to prevent if from being built validate the effectiveness of a fence.

  5. #300011
    On April 24th, 2008 at 11:38 pm, Texasdave said:

    Interesting how the conversation wandered from the GOP ad in NC to the subject of Mexico. The only way to solve Mexico is for the US of A to take the place over. Remember, the Mexicans and the Spanish had the Texas and what would become the US Southwest for HUNDREDS of years and never could do much more than scratch out a few miserable missions. It took a bunch of greedy folks from Tennessee less than 100 years (1836 til about 1900) to tame the country and make it productive and wealthy beyond even the greediest Mexican patron’s wildest dreams.

    Fixing modern Mexico by taking it over would be a challenge that makes Iraq look simple. However, I have no doubt that, were the Mexican’s willing to let us come in and make them a part of the US with our laws and philosophies, we make the combined US/Mexico a real economic power house.

    Of course, the first thing we’d have to do is send all the libs to Cuba to keep them from mucking things up.

  6. #300012
    On April 24th, 2008 at 11:44 pm, Texasdave said:

    Damn I hate when my typing doesn’t match what I’m thinking.

    Remember, the Mexicans and the Spanish had the Texas and what would become the US Southwest for HUNDREDS of years and never could do much more than scratch out a few miserable missions.

    Remember, the Mexicans and the Spanish had the controlled Texas and what would become the US Southwest for HUNDREDS of years and never could do much more with it than scratch out a few miserable missions.

  7. #300880
    On April 25th, 2008 at 4:21 pm, secondsight said:

    Of course, the first thing we’d have to do is send all the libs to Cuba to keep them from mucking things up.

    I prefer Venezuela, they’d fit right in with Chavismo.

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