Wright when Obama thought it was over (The Gift that Keeps on Giving)

DAILY NEWS ^ | 25 Apr 08 | MICHAEL SAUL

[elhombrelibre]

Wright when Obama thought it was over BY MICHAEL SAUL DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Friday, April 25th 2008, 4:00 AM

Holland/AP

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Barack Obama's biggest headache is back.

His lightning-rod former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is poised to reignite one of the most damaging controversies for the presidential candidate by jumping into the spotlight with a PBS interview Friday night and a Washington speech next week.

Wright said the media coverage of his incendiary sermons has been "unfair," "unjust," "untrue" and "devious," according to interview excerpts.

He said Obama responded like a "politician" to the flap.

"I do what I do. He does what politicians do," Wright declared.

"So that's what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bites, he responded as a politician," Wright said.

As the controversy last month threatened to cause severe damage to Obama's campaign, the senator delivered a major address on race relations in hopes of quelling the storm.

Obama said he condemned Wright's comments, but he defended his decision to remain a parishioner in his church.

"As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding and baptized my children," Obama said in the speech.

"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother," Obama added.

Wright drew outrage for blaming America for 9/11 and howling, "God bless America.... No! ... God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human."

In the interview on "Bill Moyers Journal," Wright argued that the widely broadcast snippets of his sermons take his remarks out of context.

Referring to the media, he said, "They wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ.

"They know nothing about the church," he complained. "They know nothing about our prison ministry. They know nothing about our food ministry. They know nothing about our senior citizens home."

Wright admitted he's accustomed to being "at odds with the establishment," but he said the blowup following the media coverage has been "very, very unsettling" because it made him the "target of hatred."

The interview is Wright's first since he gained national attention. He plans to deliver a speech to the National Press Club on Monday.

Obama's campaign declined comment Thursday.

[elhombrelibre]

Talk about the gift that keeps on giving! This is great. I recommend people read the comments at the link too. There are a few really disturbed people out there who want to blame (you guessed it) the Jews for this glitch in Obama's annointment.

[Jeff Head]

POOR, POOR REVEREND WRIGHT, SO UNFARILY TREATED [/sarcasm]


"Not God Bless America, no, no, no, God D*mn America!" "911 is America's chickens coming home to roost"


I AM THE ONE ALL MY FOLKS AND MYSELF HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
...and, I know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[elhombrelibre]

It looks like the “it’s the Jews” comment below the article was pulled.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Wow, Christmas came early this year!

[Always Right]

Why is this still an issue? I heard that Obama gave the Greatest Speech of Al-Time which solved every problem known to mankind. The media was in euphoria after ‘The Speech’ by their messiah. Much of the media is still weak in the knees just thinking about ‘The Speech’. How can this still be an issue?

[2banana]

"They know nothing about the church," he complained. "They know nothing about our prison ministry. They know nothing about our food ministry. They know nothing about our senior citizens home."

They no nothing about my 10,000 sq ft home and $10 million line of credit...

[elhombrelibre]

Talk about “the chickens coming home to roost,” as the Rev Wright says! This guy is bound to do more harm for Obama than he's ever benefited him. And what are Obama’s motives for staying with this church since he's so good at explaining the motives of others and their religious convictions?

[dfwgator]

Wow, Christmas came early this year!

"I'm dreaming of a "Wright" Christmas..."

[Mr. Mojo]

If Wright truly wanted Obama to win he wouldn’t show his face or flap his lips until the election were decided one way or the other.

[ANGGAPO]

Such fun. The Rev.Wright puts his foot in his mouth and now he wants to blame the listeners.

[elhombrelibre]

That home is in an all-white neighborhood too.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Rev Half-White Wright owes White America and America an apology for his racist remarks.

It is apparent Wright’s racist comments “done come home to roost for Ouma and him.”

A classic example of a “bold faced liar” in his excuse, “my words were taken out of context.”

Another Day In The Hood,
NSNR

[spokeshave]

So the $1M dollar house and $10Mill line of credit didn't work.....

Expect Jeremiah the pariah to be taking tea with Polonius shortly....

[Damifino]

I don't have much hope for this interview. PBS will coach him through plausible explanations that will satisfy the MSM and the Kool-Aid drinkers.

[Just A Nobody]

Anyone in the greater DC area who would like to help the DC Chapter FReep this despicable excuse for a ________?

D.C. Chapter Freep of Dr. Jeremiah Wright, 8 a.m. Mon. 4/28/08

[Just A Nobody]

Al-Time

Good one!!!

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I do know an “Urban Terrorist Organization” when I see one.

The BLT movement is not about God or Church, it is about blaming/hating whitey and America for their own dismal failures in life.

My words to half-wright, “You can kiss my ass boy.”

Got My Hawk,
NSNR

[Non-Sequitur]

In the clips I’ve seen, Wright is obviously trying to come off as calm, reasoned, and the injured party which is probably why they did it in the first place. Time will tell if it actually works.

[SMARTY]

The Wright interview on PBS will certainly require some fancy origami expert of film editing.

If I would watch it at all (and that's highly unlikely) I would only do so out of morbid curiosity to measure how adroit PBS has become in their propaganda manipulation of interviewees and selective representation of media resources. If Wright doesn't come away smelling like a rose and looking like Mother Theresa, I would be shocked. It goes without saying, that PBS will NOT air video of the 'reverend's' "sermons".

[Jeff Head]

They can't help themsleves. He and Obama want to put as good a face on this as possible because they feel their hate-filled, marxist Black Liberation Theology is taking a hit.

...and it is, and well it should. They are pblivious to the fact, or are just too proud to see it, that the more they spread Wright's face around, the more people who find out the truth.

I AM THE ONE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
...and, I know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[olivia3boys]

Jim Jones also had a prison ministry, a food ministry, and dozens of senior citizen’s homes.

Doesn’t mean Peoples Temple wasn’t a cult, and it doesn’t mean Jim Jones wasn’t an anti-American communist.

[Army Air Corps]

"They know nothing about the church," he complained.

We know about his church. many of us here have been reading the nutbag rants of Wright on the "church" website. We have seen the videos that the "church" posted on its own website.

[Always Right]

In the clips I’ve seen, Wright is obviously trying to come off as calm, reasoned, and the injured party which is probably why they did it in the first place. Time will tell if it actually works.

PMS-NBC was not buying it, and that doesn't bode well for it working.

[TeleStraightShooter]

"I do what I do. He does what politicians do,"

Odd, Minister Louis Farrakhan said much the same when the BBC inquired about BHO disavowing him in an earlier debate.

[Jeff Head]

They are proud of their hate-filled, racist, marxist ideology/theology and they can't let it go. it will not be lost on most American people. The more they draw attention to it and try to spin it, the more people will look for themselves and see the glaring hypocracy and lies.

Me and the Reverend know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

[N. Theknow]

the senator delivered a major address on race relations

Watch closely you bitter, typical white people as the Great and Powerful ZERObama throws his white grandmother under the bus!

[naturalized]

Wright drew outrage for blaming America for 9/11 and howling, "God bless America.... No! ... God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human."

You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. Exodus 20:7

They know nothing about the church," he complained. "They know nothing about our prison ministry. They know nothing about our food ministry. They know nothing about our senior citizens home."

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' Matthew 7:21 - 23

[SampleMan]

Wright said the media coverage of his incendiary sermons has been "unfair," "unjust," "untrue" and "devious

As a "public service", PBS should air all of the respective sermons in their entirety, so that we can all fairly judge his words in their full context.

Someone such as Glen Beck needs to publicly challenge PBS to do this NOW, so that these wrongs against the good minister Wright can be exposed.

[elhombrelibre]

It's great, too, that he's sitting down with that well-known religious maven, Moyers.

[elhombrelibre]

Farrakhan and Wright are on the same wave length.

[Perseverando]

Does anyone know what time/which PBS progrgam Wright will be on?

[Perseverando]

Never mind. I missed it in the article - “Bill Moyers Journal,”

[shineon]

They are going to call it... “The Audacity of Wright”

[shineon]

The new Wright Brothers have more hair than we do.

[shineon]

Maybe they should call it... "The Mendacity of Audacity"

[maggief]

Wright admitted he’s accustomed to being “at odds with the establishment,” but he said the blowup following the media coverage has been “very, very unsettling” because it made him the “target of hatred.”

V-I-C-T-I-M!

“The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy for the late scholar Asa Hilliard. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

[Mr. Dough]

You are exactly right on target here. PBS will make him shine, look for the subtle halo superimposed over his head... Although I suppose Bill Moyers couldn't be biased, could he?
By the way, I love your tag line.

[elhombrelibre]

I've no idea what time this crank is on the Moyer’s show, but rest assured that since it's PBS you're paying for it. Moyers has been getting his bread and butter from the benighted (in his mind) taxpayer for a long time.

[TexanToTheCore]

With friends like this you truly do not need enemies.

[elhombrelibre]

I agree> In a similar vein. I'd like to know what is the context that makes sense for a minister to call upon Our Lord to damn America? Hmmm?

[bt_dooftlook]

Um, not anymore...

[bt_dooftlook]

We also have madrassas in this country - we call them “prisons”

[elhombrelibre]

“not anymore” means?

[bt_dooftlook]

(won’t be all-white after he moves in...;)