Tuesday morning meditation: Mischief and vanity, thy name is Wright
Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Errol Louis and the NYDailyNews wants to know if Jeremiah Wright’s appearance at the National Press Club was a “press trick.” He points out that the NPC member who extended the invitation to Wright, former USA Today columnist Barbara Reynolds, is a Hillary Clinton supporter:
On a blog linked to her Web site- www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: “My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you” to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
The same post criticized Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” theme: “Hope by definition is not based on facts,” wrote Reynolds. It is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time.”
In another blog entry, Reynolds gives an ever-sharper critique of Obama: “It is a sad testimony that to protect his credentials as a unifier above the fray, the senator is fueling the media characterization that Rev. Dr. Wright is some retiring old uncle in the church basement.”
I don’t know if Reynolds’ eagerness to help Wright stage a disastrous news conference with the national media was a way of trying to help Clinton - my queries to Reynolds by phone and e-mail weren’t returned yesterday - but it’s safe to say she didn’t see any conflict between promoting Wright and supporting Clinton.
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the actual news conference was. Wright, steeped in an honorable, fiery tradition of Bible-based social criticism, cheapened his arguments and his movement by mugging for the cameras, rolling his eyes, heaping scorn on his critics and acting as if nobody in the room was learned enough to ask him a question.
Wright has, unquestionably, been caricatured and vilified unfairly. The feeding programs, prison outreach and other social services he has built over more than 30 years are commendable, and his reading of the Judeo-Christian tradition as an epic story of people trying to escape slavery is far more right than wrong - and not something to be caricatured or compressed into a 10-second sound bite.
But Wright should have known - and his friend and ally Reynolds, a media professional, surely knew - that bickering with the press can only harm Wright and, by extension, Obama.
I hope that wasn’t their goal.
I wouldn’t give the press so much conspiratorial credit.
They’re not evil puppet-masters. They’re just idiots. That appearance yesterday wasn’t about intentionally helping or hurting Obama. It was all about aggrandizing Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Jeremiah. And in that task, they succeeded phenomenally.
As for being “caricatured and vilified unfairly,” after yesterday’s command performance, I can’t see how Louis can call it unfair to treat Wright as the strutting, ranting loon we always took him to be.
Lest Wright’s apologists accuse of cherry-picking “10-second sound bites,” here’s the entire transcript of the question-and-answer session and the accompanying vid clips for those who missed it, ignored it, and would rather forget it happened. Mischief and vanity, thy name is Jeremiah Wright.
MODERATOR: We do want to get in our questions. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.
I do want to repeat again, for those of you watching us on C- SPAN, that we do have a number of guests here today. And so the applause and the comments that you hear from the audience are not necessarily those of the working press, who are mostly in the balconies.
You have said that the media have taken you out of context. Can you explain what you meant in a sermon shortly after 9/11 when you said the United States had brought the terrorist attacks on itself? Quote, “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”WRIGHT: Have you heard the whole sermon? Have you heard the whole sermon?
MODERATOR: I heard most of it.
WRIGHT: No, no, the whole sermon, yes or no? No, you haven’t heard the whole sermon? That nullifies that question.
Well, let me try to respond in a non-bombastic way. If you heard the whole sermon, first of all, you heard that I was quoting the ambassador from Iraq. That’s number one.
But, number two, to quote the Bible, “Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever you sow, that you also shall reap.” Jesus said, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic, divisive principles.
(APPLAUSE)
MODERATOR: Some critics have said that your sermons are unpatriotic. How do you feel about America and about being an American?
WRIGHT: I feel that those citizens who say that have never heard my sermons, nor do they know me. They are unfair accusations taken from sound bites and that which is looped over and over again on certain channels.
I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?
(APPLAUSE)
MODERATOR: Please, I ask you to keep your comments and your applause to a minimum so that we can work in as many questions as possible.
Senator Obama has — shh, please. We’re trying to ask as many questions as possible today, so if you can keep your applause to a minimum.
Senator Obama has tried to explain away some of your most contentious comments and has distanced himself from you. It’s clear that many people in his campaign consider you a detriment. In that context, why are you speaking out now?
WRIGHT: On November the 5th and on January 21st, I’ll still be a pastor. As I said, this is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright. It has nothing to do with Senator Obama. It is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition.
And why am I speaking out now? In our community, we have something called playing the dozens. If you think I’m going to let you talk about my mama and her religious tradition, and my daddy and his religious tradition, and my grandma, you’ve got another thing coming.
MODERATOR: What is your relationship with Louis Farrakhan? Do you agree with and respect his views, including his most racially divisive views?
WRIGHT: As I said on the Bill Moyers’ show, one of our news channels keeps playing a news clip from 20 years ago when Louis said 20 years ago that Zionism, not Judaism, was a gutter religion.
And he was talking about the same thing United Nations resolutions say, the same thing now that President Carter is being vilified for, and Bishop Tutu is being vilified for. And everybody wants to paint me as if I’m anti-Semitic because of what Louis Farrakhan said 20 years ago.
I believe that people of all faiths have to work together in this country if we’re going to build a future for our children, whether those people are — just as Michelle and Barack don’t agree on everything, Raymond (ph) and I don’t agree on everything, Louis and I don’t agree on everything, most of you all don’t agree — you get two people in the same room, you’ve got three opinions.
So what I think about him, as I’ve said on Bill Moyers and it got edited out, how many other African-Americans or European-Americans do you know that can get one million people together on the mall? He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century. That’s what I think about him.
I’ve said, as I said on Bill Moyers, when Louis Farrakhan speaks, it’s like E.F. Hutton speaks, all black America listens. Whether they agree with him or not, they listen.
Now, I am not going to put down Louis Farrakhan anymore than Mandela would put down Fidel Castro. Do you remember that Ted Koppel show, where Ted wanted Mandela to put down Castro because Castro was our enemy? And he said, “You don’t tell me who my enemies are. You don’t tell me who my friends are.”
Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains. He did not put me in slavery. And he didn’t make me this color.
MODERATOR: What is your motivation for characterizing Senator Obama’s response to you as, quote, “what a politician had to say”? What do you mean by that?
WRIGHT: What I mean is what several of my white friends and several of my white, Jewish friends have written me and said to me. They’ve said, “You’re a Christian. You understand forgiveness. We both know that, if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.”
Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever’s doing the polls. Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors. They have a different person to whom they’re accountable.
As I said, whether he gets elected or not, I’m still going to have to be answerable to God November 5th and January 21st. That’s what I mean. I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do.
I am not running for office. I am hoping to be vice president.
(LAUGHTER)
MODERATOR: In light of your widely quoted comment damning America, do you think you owe the American people an apology? If not, do you think that America is still damned in the eyes of God?
WRIGHT: The governmental leaders, those — as I said to Barack Obama, my member — I am a pastor, he’s a member. I’m not a spiritual mentor, guru. I’m his pastor.
And I said to Barack Obama, last year, “If you get elected, November the 5th, I’m coming after you, because you’ll be representing a government whose policies grind under people.” All right? It’s about policy, not the American people.
And if you saw the Bill Moyers show, I was talking about — although it got edited out — you know, that’s biblical. God doesn’t bless everything. God condemns something — and d-e-m-n, “demn,” is where we get the word “damn.” God damns some practices.
And there is no excuse for the things that the government, not the American people, have done. That doesn’t make me not like America or unpatriotic.
So in Jesus — when Jesus says, “Not only you brood of vipers” — now, he’s playing the dozens, because he’s talking about their mamas. To say “brood” means your mother is an asp, a-s-p. Should we put Jesus out of the congregation?
When Jesus says, “You’ll be brought down to Hell,” that’s not — that’s bombastic, divisive speech. Maybe we ought to take Jesus out of this Christian faith.
No. What I said about and what I think about and what — again, until I can’t — until racism and slavery are confessed and asked for forgiveness — have we asked the Japanese to forgive us? We have never as a country, the policymakers — in fact, Clinton almost got in trouble because he almost apologized at Gorialan (ph). We have never apologized as a country.
Britain has apologized to Africans, but this country’s leaders have refused to apologize. So until that apology comes, I’m not going to keep stepping on your foot and asking you, “Does this hurt? Do you forgive me for stepping on your foot?” if I’m still stepping on your foot.
Understand that? Capiche?
MODERATOR: Senator Obama has been in your congregation for 20 years, yet you were not invited to his announcement of his presidential candidacy in Illinois. And in the most recent presidential debate in Pennsylvania, he said he had denounced you. Are you disappointed that Senator Obama has chosen to walk away from you?
WRIGHT: Whoever wrote that question doesn’t read or watch the news. He did not denounce me. He distanced himself from some of my remarks, like most of you, never having heard the sermon. All right?
Now, what was the rest of your question? Because I got confused in — the person who wrote it hadn’t –
MODERATOR: Were you disappointed that he distanced himself?
WRIGHT: He didn’t distance himself. He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American. He said I didn’t offer any words of hope. How would he know? He never heard the rest of the sermon. You never heard it.
I offered words of hope. I offered reconciliation. I offered restoration in that sermon, but nobody heard the sermon. They just heard this little sound bite of a sermon.
That was not the whole question. There was something else in the first part of the question that I wanted to address.
Oh, I was not invited because that was a political event. Let me say again: I’m his pastor. As a political event, who started it off? Senator Dick Durbin. I started it off downstairs with him, his wife, and children in prayer. That’s what pastors do.
So I started it off in prayer. When he went out into the public, that wasn’t about prayer. That wasn’t about pastor-member. Pastor- member took place downstairs. What took place upstairs was political.
So that’s how I feel about that. He did, as I’ve said, what politicians do. This is a political event. He wasn’t announcing, “I’m saved, sanctified, and feel the holy ghost.” He was announcing, “I’m running for president of the United States.”
MODERATOR: You just mentioned that Senator Obama hadn’t heard many of your sermons. Does that mean he’s not much of a churchgoer? Or does he doze off in the pews?
WRIGHT: I just wanted to see — that’s your question. That’s your question. He goes to church about as much as you do. What did your pastor preach on last week? You don’t know? OK.
MODERATOR: In your sermon, you said the government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. So I ask you: Do you honestly believe your statement and those words?
WRIGHT: Have you read Horowitz’s book, “Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola,” whoever wrote that question? Have you read “Medical Apartheid”? You’ve read it?
(UNKNOWN): Do you honestly believe that (OFF-MIKE)
WRIGHT: Oh, are you — is that one of the reporters?
MODERATOR: No questions -
(CROSSTALK)
WRIGHT: No questions from the floor. I read different things. As I said to my members, if you haven’t read things, then you can’t — based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything.
In fact, in fact, in fact, one of the — one of the responses to what Saddam Hussein had in terms of biological warfare was a non- question, because all we had to do was check the sales records. We sold him those biological weapons that he was using against his own people.
So any time a government can put together biological warfare to kill people, and then get angry when those people use what we sold them, yes, I believe we are capable.
MODERATOR: You have likened Israeli policies to apartheid and its treatment of Palestinians with Native Americans. Can you explain your views on Israel?
WRIGHT: Where did I liken them to that? Whoever wrote the question, tell me where I likened them.
Jimmy Carter called it apartheid. Jeremiah Wright didn’t liken anything to anything. My position on Israel is that Israel has a right to exist, that Israelis have a right to exist, as I said, reconciled one to another.
Have you read the Link? Do you read the Link, Americans for Middle Eastern Understanding, where Palestinians and Israelis need to sit down and talk to each other and work out a solution where their children can grow in a world together, and not be talking about killing each other, that that is not God’s will?
My position is that the Israel and the people of Israel be the people of God who are worrying about reconciliation and who are trying to do what God wants for God’s people, which is reconciliation.
MODERATOR: In your understanding of Christianity, does God love the white racists in the same way he loves the oppressed black American?
WRIGHT: John 3:16, Jesus said it much better than I could ever say it, “for God so loved the world.” World is white, black, Iraqi, Darfurian, Sudanese, Zulu, Coschia (ph). God loves all of God’s children, because all of God’s children are made in God’s image.
MODERATOR: Can you elaborate on your comparison of the Roman soldiers who killed Jesus to the U.S. Marine Corps? Do you still believe that is an appropriate comparison and why?
WRIGHT: One of the things that will be covered at the symposium over the next two days is biblical history, which many of the working press are unfamiliar with.
In biblical history, there’s not one word written in the Bible between Genesis and Revelations that was not written under one of six different kinds of oppression, Egyptian oppression, Assyrian oppression, Persian oppression, Greek oppression, Roman oppression, Babylonian oppression.
The Roman oppression is the period in which Jesus is born. And comparing imperialism that was going on in Luke, imperialism was going on when Caesar Augustus sent out a decree that the whole world should be taxed. They weren’t in charge of the world. It sounds like some other governments I know.
That, yes, I can compare that. We have troops stationed all over the world, just like Rome had troops stationed all over the world, because we run the world. That notion of imperialism is not the message of the gospel of the prince of peace, nor of God, who loves the world.
MODERATOR: Former President Bill Clinton has been widely criticized in this campaign. Many African-Americans think he has said things aimed at defining Senator Obama as the black candidate. What do you think of President Clinton’s comments, particularly those before the South Carolina primary?
WRIGHT: I don’t think anything about them. I came here to talk about prophetic theology of the black church. I’m not talking about candidates or their positions or their feelings or what they have to say to get elected.
MODERATOR: Well, OK, we’ll give you a church question. Please explain how the black church and the white church can reconcile.
WRIGHT: Well, there are many white churches and white persons who are members of churches and clergy and denominations who have already taken great steps in terms of reconciliation.
In the underground railroad, it was the white church that played the largest role in getting Africans out of slavery. In setting up almost all 40 of the HBCUs, it was the white church that sent missionaries into the south.
As I mentioned in my presentation, our denomination all by itself set up over 500 of those schools. You know them today as Howard University, Fisk, LeMoyne-Owen, Tougaloo, Dillard University, Howard University.
So they’ve done — Morehouse, Morehouse. Don’t forget Moorhouse, Spelman — that white Christians have been trying for a long time to reconcile, that for other white Christians to understand that we must be reconciled is to understand the injustice that was done to a people, as we raped the continent, brought those people here, built our country, and then defined them as less than human.
And more Christians, more of us working together, not just white Christians, but whites and blacks of every faith, ecumenically working together.
Father Flagger (ph), by the way, he might be one of the one –
(APPLAUSE)
– models out what it means to be reconciled as brothers and sisters in Christ and brothers and sisters made in the image of God.
MODERATOR: You said there is a lack of understanding by people of other backgrounds of the African-American church. What are some of those misunderstandings? And how would you purport to fix them, particularly when some of your comments are found to be offensive by white churches?
WRIGHT: Carter Godwin Woodson, about 80 years ago, wrote a book entitled “The Miseducation.” I would try to fix it starting at the educational level in the grammar schools, as Dr. Asa Hilliard did in his infusion curriculum, starting at the grammar schools, to tell our children this story and to tell our children the true story.
That’s how I go about fixing it, because until you know the true story, then you’re reacting to my words and not to the truth.
MODERATOR: Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but through me.” Do you believe this? And do you think Islam is a way to salvation?
WRIGHT: Jesus also said, “Other sheep have I who are not of this fold.”
(APPLAUSE)
MODERATOR: Do you think people of other races would feel welcome at your church?
WRIGHT: Yes. We have members of other races in our church. We have Hispanics. We have Caribbean. We have South Americans. We have whites.
The conference minister — please understand the United Church of Christ is a predominantly white demonstration. Again, some of you do not know United Church of Christ, just found out about liberation theology, just found out about United Church of Christ, the conference minister, Dr. Jane Fisler Hoffman, a white woman, and her husband, not only are members of the congregation, but on her last Sunday before taking the assignment as the interim conference minister of California, Southern California Conference of the United Church of Christ, a white woman stood in our pulpit and said, “I am unashamedly African.”
(APPLAUSE)
MODERATOR: You first gained media attention, significant media attention for your sermons several weeks ago. Why did you wait so long before giving the public your side of the sound bite story?
WRIGHT: As I said to Bill Moyers — and he also edited this one out — because of my mother’s advice to me. My mother’s advice was being seen all over the corporate media channels, and it’s a paraphrase of the Book of Proverbs, where it is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The media was making a fool out of itself, because it knew nothing about our tradition. And so I decided to let them make a fool as long as they wanted to and then take the advice of Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Lies, lies, bless the lord. Don’t you know the days are broad?”
Don’t make me come across this room. I had to come across the room, because they start — understand, when you’re talking about my mama, once again, and talking about my faith tradition, once again, how long do you let somebody talk about your faith tradition before you speak up and say something in defense of — this is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright.
Once again, let me say it again. This is an attack on the black church. And I cannot as a minister of the gospel allow the significant part of our history — most African-Americans and most European-Americans, most Hispanic-Americans, half the names I called in my presentation they’ve never heard of, because they don’t know anything at all about our tradition.
And to lift up those — they would have died in vain had I just kept quiet longer and longer and longer and longer. As I said, this is an attack on the black church. It is not about Obama, McCain, Hillary, Bill, Chelsea. This is about the black church.
This is about Barbara Jordan. This is about Fanny Lou Hamer. This is about my grandmamma.
MODERATOR: Do you think it is God’s will that Senator Obama be president?
WRIGHT: I said I would offer myself for candidacy for vice president. I have not offered myself for candidacy of God. I can’t presume to know what God would want.
In my tradition, however, what everybody has been saying to me as it pertains to the candidacy is what God has for you is for you. If God intends for Mr. Obama to the president, then no white racists, no political pundit, no speech, nothing can get in the way, because God will do what God wants to do.
MODERATOR: OK, we are almost out of time. But before asking the last question, we have a couple of matters to take care of.
First of all, let me remind you of our future speakers. This afternoon, we have Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association, who is discussing trading up movies in the global marketplace. On May 2nd, Bobby Jindal, the governor of the state of Louisiana, will discuss bold reform that works. On May 7th, we have Glenn Tilton, CEO, United Airlines, and board member of the American transport association.
Second, I would like to present our guest with the official centennial mug and — it’s brand new.
WRIGHT: Thank you. Thank you.
MODERATOR: You’re welcome. And we’ve got one more question for you.
(APPLAUSE)
We’re going to end with a joke. Chris Rock joked, “Of course Reverend Wright’s an angry 75-year-old black man. All 75-year-old black men are angry.” Is that funny? Is that true? Is it unfortunate? What do you think?
WRIGHT: I think it’s just like the media. I’m not 75.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
MODERATOR: I’d like to thank you all for coming today.
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I’m sorry, I didn’t get the memo that it was okay to be a racist as long as you hide behind clergy robes. This “Pastor” is a disgrace to the Christian community and the more he talks, the more ashamed I am that he identifies with the Christian “faith tradition”.
President Carter is anti-semitic, just look at his stupid actions of the past couple of weeks. Louis Farrakhan accused the Jews of taking over BET television and controlling the way Black folks look. JEWS, not “Zionists”.
The UN is Anti-Semitic. One Word = Durban.
Reverend Wright is basically admitting to being Anti-Semitic because guess what? When people say they’re Anti-Zionist, they ain’t talking about the political movement of Zionism. They’re talking about being Anti-Jew.
Racism is the new Birkin bag.
BHO will not become POTUS because America is not yet ready for a right brained President
I really think that somewhere, Barry is sitting with his face in his hands murmuring, God damn you Jeremiah……..
So let me get this straight, by the “Rev’s” logic if I criticize him I’m attacking the “black church” (FYI there is no such thing . . . Christ’s body is one), I shouldn’t trust any Japanese doctors and I can do anything I want and get a free pass because of my years in the Marine Corps.
Hey Rev, Military service does not prevent you from being a collossal jerk.
So if the US officially apologizes for slavery Wright will stop his hate mongering and racial division and go on living like a jolly old leprechaun? Right……
I think pastor Wright needs to go ask his Muslim friends (and bodyguards) to apologize officially for selling black slaves to the West for centuries. And while he is at it he can ask Africans to apologize officially, who along with Muslims, sold their own people.
He is the type of person (in my opinion) that if tomorrow the world became a paradise of no worries and sorrow he would still try and find something to complain about and stand up there and scream and shout.
When B. Hussein Obama does not become the POTUS most members of the traditional liberal print/broadcast media aristocracy will scream that America is RACIST! These vermin share the same value system as Wright. They hate America.
Obama as the great uniter… Puh-leeze.
Between Obama, his wife and his pastor, mentor and friend, I don’t know who is more divisive. They have equally sought out to offend and shun most Americans. If this is the change he is referring to I’d prefer for things to remain the same. I never understood his appeal and I most certainly don’t understand his continued success. All Americans are under attack and what Obama and his clan are doing is an attemtpt to set us back, oh, some fifty or sixty some yrs.
Reverend Wright- the gift that keeps on giving.
Putting Mr Wright ‘ up for public view now, is smart! Let the uproar go,Barracks got the nomination, so it won’t hurt him now. And the issue wll be ‘old’ in Nov. Mr Mcain will be too much a ‘gentlman’ to raise the issue again! smart move on the lefts part
have we asked the Japanese to forgive us?
Well, have the Japanese asked us for forgivness for attacking Pearl Harbor? Or have they asked the Chinese for forgivness for the atrocities committed there? Or the atrocities committed in Korea? Or the Philippines?
Why do liberals only see the bad things the USA does?
Every time the good Rev opens his mouth Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s poll numbers drops a few points.
Well,I’ve been a member of the Church of Christ all my life…not the UCC….the one that doesn’t have any instrumental music in the worship service,remember?…and over the years I’ve had doctrinal discussions with members of pretty much every denominational body that holds itself out as being part of the Body of Christ….and although we have had our differences and disputes such as full immersion baptism versus sprinkling or whether the communion should use wine or grape juice,and things of this sort,I always knew that when all was said and done,we really weren’t all that far apart in basic theological or ecclesiastical comity….but after having heard the heretical garbage that Wright purports to believe and spouts on an ongoing basis, he isn’t even on my radar screen…if he isn’t an apostate fraud,then he is the closest thing to it…the truth is not in him and the ‘gospel’ he purports to subscribe to is inimical to Apostolic evangelism….even the devil can quote scripture when it serves his purpose
I would luv to have someone try to convince me, why someone with a Harvard education, would belong to Jeremiah’s church for 20 years, if he didn’t BELIEVE what Wright says, and share the same philosophy?
denials, notwithstanding
Keep in mind that they are giving all this face time to the rev. and not to the junior senator from illinois.
Wait just a moment, Wright complains of being vilified because of something Louis Farrakhan said 20 years ago, yet he has no problem vilifying ALL white people for slavery that ended well over 100 years ago. What a wanker.
I think JW was quite stung by Obama’s ‘distancing’ himself, note how defensive JW is when he feels he has to clarify that Obama distanced himself from JW’s remarks and not JW. This man has a huge ego and I think that Reynolds either knew or hoped that JW wouldn’t be able to stop himself, once in full bloviation, especially when he could show himself to be so intellectually superior to those peons in the press corps.
I have often thought that one’s “curses” in life tend to be self inflicted.
An alleged reverend that uses scipture to support hatred and scorn, the antithesis of the meaning of scripture. At a very minimum, Wright is indeed mocking God.
Wright apparently believes it is time to play the military card, crowing about his 6 years of service. I would note that Timothy McVeigh was also part of the military for about 6 years. Service in the military can be an indicator of a man’s future character, but it is not determinative. Those who take their solemn oath to heart (to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic) are guided later in life by their promise before God. To others, like Jeremiah Wright and Timothy McVeigh, those are just words that were uttered as a matter of formality.
Obama would not have gotten where he is in the Democratic party if he didn’t have all of these characters behind him, especially Chicago. Now he has to try and convince the country he never bought into their radical ideas and he can bridge the gap and unite us. Lots of luck. Obama is toast.
#6. Exactly, the self loathing is there for all to see in the media. But watch,they set the Rev up as hero, and already this morning they are knocking him down! Oh the audacity of the Wright brain.
Let’s give this evil man as much time in front of the cameras as possible. It can only further damage Obama. Let the chickens come home to roost.
Wright supplied the street cred Obama needed, in exchange, Obama got hosed.
Like any clown, Wright loves the stage. Like little sheep, their jaws dropping in starry-eyed admiration for a lunatic; the fools at the Press Club applauded him. What a sad Country we have become when a vitriolic racist like this, is not ostracized, but celebrated in many quarters. White people just shake their heads.
Slavery is a both a world-wide historical fact and a modern reality. Every race on the planet has experienced slavery at one time or another. Today’s slave traders come predominantly from Africa and the mid-East, but much of the modern slave trade also involves criminal gangs making money off of sex slaves from Eurasia.
Supreme Court Justice Holmes on free speech
And you can sugar coat it any way you want Jerry, but the fact of the matter is;
And this dork Wright gets away with preaching hate filled messages against Whitey to thousands, including the next Democrat Presidential nominee.
Beautiful!
This notion of “the apology” is an interesting one. So, is the notion of reparations.
If the president apologizes, can we throw the whole affirmative action /racial preferences/diversity regimen out the window? Is that “Mission Accomplished?” Even reparations would be a cheap way out of the quagmire of racial preferences. When you have an insurance claim, you take the money and shut up and go away.
Of course, we have been paying reparations ever since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. We see how that’s worked out.
Didn’t you know this is all part of Rove’s evil plan?
/sarcasm
I learned several things about Rev. Wright yesterday, and…
by extension, about Michelle and Barak Obama.
1. Wright is well-read…
in the deep, dark, twisted literature of racial “science”, anti-Americanism, and racist philosophy.
2. Wright is a soft target. He cannot face questioning by a hostile (even marginally hostile) interrogator without bolstering from his hand-picked syncophants planted in the “audience”.
3. He is sarcastic, mean, and grossly dishonest.
4. He is fully prepared to rend scripture to mean anything he wants it to seem to mean.
5. He is a skilled…even talented…manipulator of stupid, half-educated people
All of which makes him a wonderful candidate for the pantheon of liberal leadership, as he fits in with Palosi, the Clintons, Sharpton, Kennedy, Gore, Kerry, and their cohort.
After finally reading the entire transcript (whew!) I can say this: if this hatred and craziness was spewed from the mouths of my pastor - he would be GONE in a hurry.
This man is not a man of God. I have no idea where he comes up with this stuff because it is not Christianity.
Satan can be very clever - taking a man like Wright, who is full of hate and racism, and putting him in a clergy robe to spew un-Christian ideas to many.
I hope the more he talks, the more people realize how evil he is.
Obama actually listened to this guy for 20 years? This is a good reason to not vote for Obama.
Jeremiah Wright typifies the entire Democrat Party - The Party of Big Mouths & Small Ideas.
If it’s a press trick, then I have but one thing to say - Rove you magnificent bastard! Wright confidently stepped into that punji pit.
Off-topic; did Ed let you know you’re running the radio show today?
Simple questions.
Are race relations improving because of the so called ministers J. Wright, A. Sharpton and J. Jackson?
Does it seem the racial divide gets greater every time they speak?
Do you really believe the U.S. and specifically white people can ever do anything to make Wright change his feelings toward them?
All I see and hear from Wright is hate, arrogance, division, anger and contempt. There is absolutely nothing Christian about Jeremiah Wright or his merry band of perpetual victims.
This country is headed towards a race war and nobody wants to admit it. Until black people start speaking up and admit this is not an effective way to bring a country together it will only get worse.
We all need to wake up and see what’s coming down the road at an alarming rate.
Goodness. Now, to “cite” someone is to take things out of context and thereby to “nullify” (hahahahaha) the criticism.
Enter Orwell, stage left.
In describing Wright, this statement also broadly describes why Democrats win any election. They count on the strupidity of their constituents.
A lack of humility with a single focus passing far into the land of egomania (narcissism) and monomania (black is good, everything else is bad).
Dialog from The Terminator (1984):
Sarah Connor: So Reese is crazy?
Dr. Silberman: In technical terminology: he’s a loon.
Sam, don’t forget Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, etc.
I’m a lot closer to them than I am John McAnal.
Saw Barry this morning and it’s good to see that he’s still reading from that same script. He will never repudiate himself from the Wrightstuff. Both of them are admitting, from their actions, that they both have their separate roles to play, but they will still come together in the end.
#6
Unless Mcainn chooses a Black VP… But it’s sad to think that i’m hoping for a black VP JUST because i don’t want to be called racist.
Wright may have gone to divinity school but he missed the classes on the love of God; forgiveness of others–we white slave owners are forever,amen; not judging others because of their differences (in our case: skin color);honor; dignity in the pulpit; and not interpreting the Word of God for his own agenda–to preach hatred and dissent to his followers.
Wright’s Bible must be a different version than the KJV or the NIV– the versions that I read– for him to spew his hatred from the pulpit.
He is not a reverend in the true definition of the word–from reverence:
“one held in reverence” as he is a racist instigator. He should be known instead as “Instigator Wright.”
Am I wrong or was it discovered that Rev. Wright was a former Muslim turned Christian?
If this is the case, could it be that he never truly converted (hence the lack of a Fatwa against him)and this is a way to destory Christianity from within?
I cannot comprehend Wright’s actions. Every time I see a transcript, hear him speak, it’s like he and I are living two different realities. It was interesting that Obummer said that rural folks cling to guns, religion, and immigrant animus to adjust to bad economic times but I think he’s got it twisted. What if he really meant that he, like Wright and other blacks in this country, are bitter because they’re not getting the opportunies and riches they think they’re owed.
As other posters have said, how can Wright possible think that he’s helping the “racial divide?” I thought he was a man of God, not hate. When I went to church, my pastor never preached like this. How is preaching against your country delivering the word of God? I just don’t understand.
When people listen to Wright’s vitriolic hate speech there are only a few reactions that seem to be in line with how he’s been treated:
1) Turn away from him/reject his message and the ignorant adulation of his congregation who should know better but still want to wrench as much grief out of this nation regarding race relations as possible.
2) Make excuses for Wright. Say he’s been “taken out of context,” that he’s misunderstood.
3) Join Wright’s hit parade (like the MSM) and decry anybody as racist who might have a problem with this guy’s anti-American, anti-white, anti-semitic dialogue.
This guy is the liberals’ savior. He sucks up their guilt and does something “constructive” with it at the same time. Ole!
Why don’t “journalists” just print the truth. Neither Wright nor Obama are black men.
Are you saying that he should ask Obama for an apology for both the African and muslum sides?
Most racists, especially whites, usually make an attempt at keeping their ignorant views hidden and to themselves - but not our dear Mr. Wright. He proudly displays his, like a second grader who has just received an award for penmanship, and is more than willing to share his perverted views with anyone who has microphone and is willing to listen!
Touché
Although as to not confuse the libs who would misconstrue this, I would have ended your sentence to say “apology for both African and Muslim segments of his family“
GodblessedtheUSA
Actually I have been pushing for someone like Michael Steele for a long time … another excellent choice I have suggested would be J.C. Watts … but not sure if either of them is interested at this time …
Both are well respected and solid conservatives …
who is he mad at for that? whittie, god, or both.
I have always been critical of the race hustlers like Sharpton, Jesse, and a host of others. But what is interesting is the light that Wright has shined on the so called “black church”. In Mosques across the world and in our Country, anti-americanism, racism, and other propaganda is being drilled into the brains of young minds. Apparently that is what has been happening in many a black church for decades.
They are all poisonous. Do not harken to their words–they are doing their father’s (Satan the devil) work. Any man who twists scripture, mixes it w/idolatrous ideas and hatred, or questions the lawkeepers (Israel), is not a christian.
this is what happens when you allow the left to make up academic disciplines unchallenged. “black liberation theology” is basically lefty speak for black church goer ignorance. that’s how it will forever be associated.
Wright basically confirmed that we had the context correct all along. it seems that “context” is yet another lefty translation of “you didn’t hear enough to agree with me”…and to that end, we’ll always be out of context. but Obama has a bigger problem than context at this point.
Obama’s quick to point out that this man is his “former” pastor…great. but he’s his “current” mentor. and i have to question anyone who’d claim this fool as a mentor. Wright is stark raving mad. and it befuddles me how one could sit in his church for anymore than 20 minutes, let alone 20 years and get to know him well enough to bestow the title of “mentor” and “spiritual adviser” onto him.
in my AfroAm class, duplicity is something we were taught as a survival mechanism blacks used. of course everyone uses duplicity, but it was a trait that emphasized in AfroAm. thinking of the totality of Obama’s ‘neighbors’, ‘friends’, ‘mentors’, etc., it seems that Obama’s living a pretty obvious double life. on one hand, he’s head nodding at the ludicrous statements of Wright, and on the other, cozying up with the same people Wright condemns - seemingly daily.
the only way to explain this seamless transition Obama does is to admit and come to terms with the fact that he’s dishonest to the core. if he had a principled bone in his body, there’s little chance he could travel in both circles while maintaining integrity.
sorry it’s so long…and i have more to sa!
Why don’t you just come out and admit, you’re a lot closer to Ron Paul, than you are to Thomas Sowell.
It’s refreshing to hear someone speak his mind at least. One gets so weary of the mealy-mouthed politicians and politically correct news anchors who are so cautious in their speech that they avoid even the appearance of truth.
I still think there is more to this story and why Wright is talking without Obama vigorously answering back, then the Obama camp is letting on.
I think they feel the more Americans hear Wright talking in full rant mode, the less serious his words become.
Perhaps then, they hope, voters will be more open to excusing Obama for attending Wright’s services for twenty years, and attribute it to Obama’s need for Christian fellowship rather than for Christian guidance.
But for whatever reason Wright is still talking - and vociferously so - I can’t help but think there is some degree of coordination going on between Obama’s camp and Wright’s than is known, or will be known unless reporters like MM stay on top of this mesmerizing tale.
“But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”–Matthew 6:7
Wright’s reward is right now. He has no treasure waiting for him elsewhere.
He needs to move to Africa Or Middle East… And take all his followers with him. That’s how you get the USA to be a better country. Because they are THE problem! So, if they leave, we’ll have THE CHANGE we need! Yes we can!
Obama is right! He can change this country for better… lead a big migration movement taking all the crazy leftists with him to the other side of the world!FOREVER!
Anti-american people, Pinkos, ACLU, JJ, AS and JW Puff puff be gone!
What a dream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JW and others who demand apologies for slavery, etc. display their profound ignorance by assuming that such an apology is even possible. “Whites” or “decendants of slave owners” are platonic groups. Group entities have no ability to think, speak, apologize, etc. Only individuals can think, speak, apologize, etc. Therefore, the only apologies that are meaningful are those that come from indviduals…their hearts and minds. An individual, even a president, who might claim to speak for a group entity, really has no idea what the individuals he or she claim to represent really think. These idiots (e.g., rev. wright) don’t understand that groups (platonic, categorical, abstract constructs of the mind) are incapable of apologizing, or doing anything else for that matter. The apology for slavery from the British Goverment is as meaningless as a pig’s scream in a slaughter house.
Michelle, you are spot on - the way the press applauded and stood up for him was disgusting; not surprising, yet still disgusting. The arrogance and yes, idiocy of the ‘media’ has no limits.
And, to find that Wright is even more pompous and arrogant than even his sermons portray him as was a delicious surprise. He makes Sharpton and Farrakan look tame.
I don’t know how Obama sat in Wright’s church for 20 years. I can barely listen to him for five minutes without wanting to throw something at the TV.
The drive-by media’s mantra of the day today is, “If Rev. Wright is so concerned about the advancement of black people, why is he doing everything in his power to keep the first black man with a real chance from becoming President?”
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 6 MONTHS ABOUT BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON. WHY HASN’T THE DRIVE-BY MEDIA SAID THIS ABOUT HILLARY?
If she is such a champion for African-American advancement, why is she trying to chop off at the knees the first black man with a real chance to become President?
WHY HASN’T THE LIBERAL MEDIA HAD THE BALLS TO SAY THAT ABOUT HER?
IT IS PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT HILLARY’S OWN PERSONAL POWER IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HER THAN THOSE PESKY BLACKS.
Anyone who has ever read Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories should notice the similarities between Obama and Wright and Brer Rabbit and the tar baby….the harder Obama tries to shake him off, the more Wright gets stuck to him
The more I see of this guy especially now I think this whole epsiode has been designed to give Obama cover and make Obama look like a victim of Wright…and that is how the MSM and Fox NEWS is covering it now..oh and by the way McCain’s over-the-weekend debacle in Nevada hasn’t even been mentioned…very interesting
Before Micheal Vick I was actually foolish enough to think there was some limit line on the despicable meter which Black apologists would not cross.
Now with the excusing and enabling of incredible, shameless, hate rhetoric of Rev. Wright in a public circus, I am now convinced there is no limit to victimist false moral authority or their enablers, the molten core of the earth is not too low.
I now believe that a Black person could actually detonate a nuclear device in a large city and the next day Al Sharpton would (for the appropriate price) be on scene in a radiation suit crying out (with full media participation) for excusatory justice while the ambulances wailed around him and so would a multitude of blame for gain charlatans.
Who sets the limit on shocking, ugly, carpetbagger behavior?
Obama made the classic Faustian bargain. He sold his soul to Wright for “street cred” as a community organizer and now the devil demands his due.
Jeremiah Wright would love to hear the above. That’s right in his wheel house and what he wants all to believe but I respectfully disagree with the above assertion. Wright’s 15 minutes of fame is not base on his being a good what ever and there are no mitigating works that exempt Wright’s treatment. And who, what, when, has he been vilified other than by his own words and action. Oh, look at me, I have forgotten his is black. The great social exoneration for all things vile and detestable.
Paulbot Alert!
The Rev. Billy Graham served as spiritual advisor for several Presidents, but you never heard him expressing anything but pure, even, Bible-based, spiritual advice. On the other hand…
You know how to tell a Paulbot comment?
Simple,
Just look for a “Stain McCain” comment in any thread, having nothing to do with “McCain”
And Jesse “Marblemouth” Jackson was Slick Willie’s “spiritual advisor” during Monica-gate….while Jackson’s baby mama was brewing up his bastard child in her pathetic womb.
Note to self: Never have a black spiritual advisor.
Everyone says Obummer sat in the pew and merely “listened” to this charlatain….
When my family and I attend church, we have our Sword (Bible), pens, highlighter, and notepads. Our Pastor teaches, we learn together. This college drop-out (me) takes notes in church. Anyone who cares to learn, takes notes. Tell me that Obummer, a college grad, never took notes, researched, and studied, what wright preached. THAT is very, very, scary.
obummer said wright was his mentor. obummer did not sit in church, he took instruction.
Typical of most democraps.
hu·bris
Pronunciation[hyoo-bris, hoo-]
–noun excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
Al Sharpton’s jag was towed Al Sharpton owes 900.00 in tickets, Al Sharpton has priorities and he has a some words for Obama too..can’t a brother eat his waffle?
Imus annual Radiothon for Children’s charities coming up
This is something Al Sharpton didn’t seem to care about last year when he insisted Imus be fired in the middle of his annual radiothon for Children’s charities. I guess CBS and MSNBC didn’t realize either his many fans were watching what appeared to be pretty callous and heartless, they couldn’t let him have one more day to finish his radiothon and say good bye to his fans?
http://imustimes.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/imus-radiothon-auction/
Now Obama stated that Imus should have been fired last year he wouldn’t work for me is what Obama stated, no they did not take into account the soundbyte that saturated the newscycle in context of failed satire, they are not all gems and Imus apologized…unlike Obama’s Pastor who is complaing now that the Black Church not himself is under attack…because his rants were taken out of context. I listened to him yesterday putting them in context uh huh well Obama stated, I wouldn’t or couldn’t disown Rev Jeremiah Wright and compared him to his aging white Grandmother, you know a typical white person. Barbara Walters asked Obama about his apparently two different standards on the View one standard for Don Imus who apologized an on air personality and the other his Pastor of 20 some years, Trinity was selling the DVDs of his incindiary remarks. Obama dodged the question he still hasn’t explained to this day.
Where did Marty get this graphic this is the best one I have seen so far.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/04/jeremiah-shaft.html
Keep on talkin’ “typical black preacher”.
The photo accompanying the lead story, captioned:
“Jerry Wright demonstrates a Seagull, about to take a dump.”
first impression
What an arrogant, disgraceful, hypocritical, self-promoting pompous fool. Utterly lacking in humility, and a worthless example of Christianity to the world.
This man is little more than a whitewashed sepulchre, a false teacher blinded by anger, pride and personal ambition.
A few verses for you, Mr. Wright:
Proverbs 15:33
Humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Psalms 12:3
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things
Pride goes before destruction, Mr. Wright… and your time is coming. Oh yes, it is. Proverbs 16:18
Wright: “What I said about and what I think about and what — again, until I can’t — until racism and slavery are confessed and asked for forgiveness — have we asked the Japanese to forgive us? We have never as a country, the policymakers — in fact, Clinton almost got in trouble because he almost apologized at Gorialan (ph). We have never apologized as a country.”
The Bible: “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.”
(Ezekiel 18:20 NAS95S)
I am not responsible for slavery which happened more than 100 years ago, therefore, I cannot apologize for it. Only the guilty can apologize for anything. I can agree that slavery is evil. I can be saddened by the fact that it is part of our history. But it is simply impossible for me to apologize for something I have not done.
That is, of course, unless “Reverend” Wright wants to violate the Bible’s teachings and continue to proclaim the current generation guilty for the sins of our great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.
#75 EWTHeckman
Very well stated.
I’m not going to apologize, either.
Did you have just have an epighany my friend?
hugs,
rooster
Sorry, epiphany, not a piga me or whatever it is I tried to write in my amazement to nyk’s honest assesment of what is going on with this race crap all the time.
rooster: That was Myk
Don’t know if it qualifies for “conspiracy” consideration, but people like Wright are integral to the Cycle of Nihilism swirling between the Democrat party and the self-identified black “oppressed” class.
To maintain their 90+% lock on the black vote, Democrats must rely on blacks to remain in ignorance, and to stay focused on negativity and blaming others. The last thing the Dems need or desire is for blacks to find a way off the Victim Plantation. That’s why they work so hard to condition blacks - particularly those in the larger cities - to stay stuck where they are.
Part of the conditioning uses the teachers’ unions to keep blacks in inferior schools, thereby denying them the chance to get off the plantation through a good education.
Another part comes through real “race traitors” - who help keep blacks in thrall to the idea that some all-powerful external oppressor not only keeps them down, but also makes it pointless to even try to get up.
In this regard, pseudo-spiritual Quislings like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Thomas Cone and Jeremiah Wright play their assigned role by encouraging their followers to see everything through a prism of anti-white, anti-semitic and anti-American bigotry, anger, jealousy, resentment and hatred.
And it works.
The Christian Church has supplanted pagan superstitions all over the world; now, however, we see the black church itself become a conduit of ignorance, superstition and falsehood. And Jeremiah Wright is among those leading this charge into darkness.
I’ve got to hand it to the Democrats: the penultimate psychological manipulation isn’t just to mentally vanquish others, but to get them to do it to themselves - and to think that it’s their idea.
Karl Rove in his most devious caricaturization from a fevered liberal fantasy couldn’t hold a candle to what the Democrats and their puppet black “leaders” have done to black culture in America.
I’d congratulate them, if what they’d managed was a positive accomplishment; as that’s not the case, however, I simply stand in awe.
I deplore Ron Paul.
If the troll author of that comment could read…
he could find various times I have made my opinion of Mr. Paul very public here.
Paul is NOT a conservative, but…
he is a liar. He, as much as McAnal, has been sailing under false colors.
What Paul is is a libertarian with very strong populist leanings.
He is a known quantity here in my part of Texas, and SHOULD be voted out of office in his district, IF he were to be truthful about who he is.
He could never win national office, which is a VERY good thing. He never should.
How many six-packs of Rolaids has Obama downed by now since yesterday?
“We cannot see that what we (America) are doing is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag.”
Yet, Jerry Wright is subverting Christianity, the same way al-Qaeda is subverting Islam.
irony
Well said my brother from another mother.
Read it with my glasses this time, figured that an angry “typical black woman” would have a hard time admitting to the black racism taking over the black communities.
Yes,
I freely, honestly, and proudly admit, I’m a Republican Troll.
Live with it
Not so. It can be demonstrated that Al Qaeda is sticking closer to the teachings of the Koran than most Muslims.
It can also be demonstrated—and has been demonstrated by myself and others by simply quoting the Bible—that Rev(isionist) Wright is actually teaching the opposite of what the Bible actually teaches.
I can if you can…
But to me, a troll is a troll, is an ass-troll…
and I know any number of Republicans I find despicable.
Jus’ sayin…
Rags,
Republicans supporting John McCain: Despicable.
Self Described “Conservatives” supporting clinton: ?
yeh…whatever you say
Like other stains on human history, Wright cleverly uses the cover of religion to legitimize a racial/political movement. Based on what I’ve seen and read so far, he seems to be doing it for personal profit and power.
I’m a Christian, and have studied and attended various denominations. I’ve attended Catholic mass and studied in the halls at the Vatican. I spent last June in Malawi, Africa, and attended both urban and rural Christian churches each Sunday. I’ve attended Nazarene, Baptist, Reformed and Christian Reformed, Charismatic, and am a member of a 2000 member non-denominational.
After reading transcripts and viewing sermons of this man, the obvious conclusion is that Wright is a fraud of a pastor. He’s the “false prophet” in the recent movie There Will Be Blood. He does not see Christians as brothers and sisters in Christ. He sees black and he sees white. He sees political social justice, not a just God. He sees “the black church” and the rest. He claims a belief in “different, but not deficient”, yet then struts on stage and treats his educated questioners as deficient in intelligence.
He does nothing more than put on a good show. All song and dance, with a clever twisting of history and political and religious half-truths. He’s a talented showman to be sure, but nothing more.
What is important here, regarding Obama, is why would he be so attracted to such a man. Obama, young and just out of college, bought into the political and racial song and dance portrayed as a form of religion. It was a comfortable and recognizable continuation of the message of his liberal college experience. He swooned over the social justice message in a church atmosphere in the same way that know-it-all college students swoon over the social justice messages of charismatic college professors. And 20 years later, Obama either didn’t grow up, or didn’t have the judgement to admit the foolishness of his youthful attraction to this man and message and move on. The evidence (prior to the political decision to distance himself) suggests that he had not grown up…that he was so far in the bubble of Ivy League politics and then South Side Chicago politics that he did not even realize how deeply these institutions had informed his worldview, and how far out of touch with mainstream America he was in ideology. The press, who so often share this ideology to some extent, gave him the benefit of the doubt for a LONG time. And Obama the politician hid the truth of his history and ideology in the basement, from which Wright admits he prayed and counciled, and Weathermen lurked, and voting records sat in dusty boxes. But as the truth slowly shines out through the crack under that basement door, and the press finally begins to creep down the stairs to see what’s down there, the man is exposed for what he is. Hopefully, the truth about both candidates will be in full display by November, and America can make a decision on the man, not the legend.
salterego;
If you can’t debate what I say…
instead of setting up a straw man by speaking your own BS…
then answering it…
you are the moral coward and ignoramus most of us here have you down as being.
Or am I being too obvious?
Ok, so last night I was watching the news with my liberal roomate (I accept your sympathy and prayers…) and she was screeching at the TV during their coverage on Wright, “Who is inviting him to speak? Why are they letting him be heard?? He is going to ruin everything!!??”
I calmly explained to her that he spoke at a press function, so of course it would be shown. This upset her further, and then when I explained that he also spoke at the NAACP conference and that he received thunderous applause and standing ovations from conference goers, she shut up.
I couldn’t have said it better myself:
He’s going to ruin everything!!
I was speaking of radical/extremist/fanatical points of view.
Much the same as radical/extremist/fanatical “conservatives” who fall in the same category.
“Rags” could sh!t in the pants of a radical/extremist, without moving.
libertybelle:
we will leave it to you to educate your liberal roomate. Good luck!
I thought it was funny. As in laughable. Bill Moyers went to great lengths to make Wright look like a misunderstood, calm and reasonable fellow, then he goes to the NPC and shows his true colors.
Yes AlohaGuy Bill Moyers comes off looking like the bigger idiot(of the 2) now.
Your obviousness peeks out, when you draw McCain into a thread that has nothing to do with McCain.
salterego…
thank you, once again, for your participation in this demonstration of just who and what your are…
always most effective with your willing…if unwitting…help…!!!