David Gergen on CNN: The Media Needs to 'Move On' From Rev. Wright Issue

NewsBusters.org ^ | 4/28/2008 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

Later in the segment on CNN’s "Newsroom" between Tony Harris, David Gergen, and Roland Martin after the Reverend Jeremiah Wright speech at the National Press Club (which Mark Finkelstein blogged about earlier), Gergen suggested that "it’s time for him [Rev. Wright] to get off the stage, and frankly, for the media, I suggest, to move on." He also twice characterized the whole affair as a "sideshow" [audio available here].

Shortly after a commercial break which came in the middle of the discussion, Gergen, in response to a question from "Newsroom" co-host Tony Harris, said of Rev. Wright, "Every time he appears, he just gives legitimacy and a hunger by those who oppose Barack Obama to re-run those tapes, to keep him at the center of controversy, to let this overhang and define Barack Obama, when it has, you know -- it has very, very little to do -- it's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for."

Gergen then talked about how the Rev. Wright issue was a distraction, and how the preacher should have handled himself after the controversy broke, all the while heaping praise on him, and at the end, making his "move on" suggestion.

[Pyro7480]

Video available at the link above as well.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

David Rodham Gergen has become the chief apologist for the Obama campaign.

[Uncle Hal]

Gergen is an idiot and is carrying water for the Democrats.

[kjo]

Move on...nothing to see here...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Whenever a Lieberal is trapped by the truth, he tries to change the subject.

[Uncle Miltie]

File under: "You know it's really hurting them when..."

[AppyPappy]

It’s been a whole 6 hours. It’s time to move on.

[Jeff Chandler]

Who cares what David Gurgle says?

[Jeff Head]

Gergen was licking his lips and drooling in anticipation of a smooth over speech by Wright to use to justify the assertion that everyone just took Wright so wrong.

Now that Wright has shown that no one took him out of context and came out with a speech and ansewers that re-affirmed his whole hate-filled, bigoted, anti-American, rase bating theological and ideological swill...Gergen is ready to just, "Move On".

He knows that there is no washing this thing with Wright now.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT


Communist Party Members, Marxists, Communist Leaders, Marxist Leaders, Communist Party USA


Domestic bombers & terrorists, International Islamic Terrorist Organizations & Financiers, Fundamental Islamic Leaders


Black Liberation Preachers and militants, New Black Panther Party, Black Nation of Islam, Socialist Party

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


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


"AIDS was created by the US for black geneocide," "If God is not for us & against whites, then he is a murderer, and we'd best kill him."

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S LACK OF PATRIOTISM TOWARD THE FLAG



THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S IDEOLOGY ON DISPLAY




Che Guevara was a radical, murderous Marxist revolutionary in Argentina, Cuba, and Bolivia. He became Fidel Castro's executioner.
Why, then, is his picture proudly diplayed at Obama election Headquarters? What change does Obama intend. What is his hope?

[roses of sharon]

CNN should be sued for false advertising.

[stockstrader]

Why does the media need to 'move on' (when was the last time THAT term was so popular?...lol)?

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is more important than a Presidential candidate's beliefs, values and judgment.

Obama's unwillingness to disavow a racist like Wright proves he is severely lacking IN ALL THREE!!!

[Always Right]

Just because Barrack surrounds himself by bigots, terrorists, and commies should not be an election issue.

[SPRINK]

this was supposed to be the template to take the Rev. Wright issue off the table....his church does good work...he’s misunderstood...good preacher etc.etc.

until this morning’s fiasco

[gusopol3]

he must have knocked Moyers out with a clean punch to the jaw then.

[Biblebelter]

Gergen just quoting Barry talking points.

[Disco Dave]

Obama is Che Guevera without the charisma...Dave

[FrankR]

"David Gergen on CNN: The Media Needs to 'Move On' From Rev. Wright Issue...

In your dreams, davie boy.

[DGHoodini]

The Wrong Reverend Wright, has his ‘Münchhausen Cindy Moment’ with the MSM.

>Bo)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I guess this means David Rodham Gergen has dropped his middle name.

[Mr. K]

I thnk the “reverend” Wright’s speach from this past weekend was so bad he may have just taken himself off the map as an issue

The stupidity was so astounding you could almost believe Obama felt sorry for him. We had a priest when I was growing up that was famous for the idiocy of his comments but we still went to church each sunday.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Well then tell Rev. Wright to stop trotting all over the country shooting his mouth off.

[Jacquerie]

Great post. Obama’s friends, associates and their ideologies are not sideshows.

[CondorFlight]

Is he related to another Rodham???

[Veto!]

I don’t care whether the media moves on from Wright, the truth has been served.

I had no idea that black people hated us so much.

My friend just returned from 18 months in Iraq where she served as a translator. Born in Palestine, she lived here for her adult life and her daughter served in the US Navy. She told me that she absolutely loved the US servicemen and women, who were so kind to the Iraqis, so honest, so upstanding, so straightforward— they were the best people she’d ever met in her life. Except the black soldiers, who had a sort of “black panther” thing going. She couldn’t trust them at all. Thing is, before she went to Iraq she was very left wing. Now, she’s more conservative than Rush.

[randita]

Wright makes it a big issue when he says that criticism of him is criticism of the black church. That collectivist attitude will also apply to Obama should he get the nomination. Any criticism of him will be spun as criticism of the black race.

This issue is larger than the focus on one man. It’s about a whole segment of the population, black and white, who harbor anti-American sentiments and seek to call attention to themselves and profit from those sentiments.

[50sDad]

"...it's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for."

Twenty years, you moron. If a man eats roast duck once or twice in his life, roast duck is a very marginal piece of who he is. If he sits in a pew most sundays for twenty years listening to an idiot spew racist hate, and despite the fact that Jesus Christ says we are all brothers and to love your neighbor, and to love your enemies, sits like a silent little schoolboy saying nothing that is far from being "a very marginal piece of who Obama is."

Twit.

[Bernard Marx]

The media need to “move on” from David Gergen. He’s a classic talking head: empty, tilted Leftward and omnipresent. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” as Shakespeare wrote.

[Red Steel]

Well then tell Rev. Wright to stop trotting all over the country shooting his mouth off.

Not likely to happen. It's been reported that Wright has a book coming out in 3 months. He's going to cash $$$ in.

[50sDad]

Obama is Che Guevera without the charisma...Dave

If there are any Dr. Who fans in here, Obama is the black John Saxon. (Ever seen a Muslim Dalek?)

[Jeff Head]

Our very own Mugabe in embryo.

[Unam Sanctam]

it has very, very little to do -- it's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for

The title of Obama's book is based on a Wright sermon. Obama spelled out in his book what an influence this pastor had on him. He was in his congregation for 20 years, has given him $22,000, said he could no more disown him than he could disown his white grandmother. What possible rational basis, other than out and out desire to spread propaganda for the Obama campaign, does Gergen have to say that Wright is not important, if not central, to who Barack Obama is and what he really stands for beyond the meaningless platitudes he normally serves up.

[Jeff Head]

They are the main attraction. They represent the trough he has drunk so deeply out of for the last 20+ years.

[free_for_now]

to let this overhang and define Barack Obama, when it has, you know -- it has very, very little to do -- it's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for."

What the hell does he stand for? Hope and change and hoping for change? When you talk in generalities you will be defined this way. Obama hasn't got a long enough record in the national eye to give people an idea of where his center is. Most people don't have enough of a sense of who he is to feel confident about what decisions he would make in tough circumstances. The fact that he started his political career raising money in the living room of an admitted domestic terrorist, and that he has had a close long-term relationship with a guy who preaches that white America invented AIDS to kill blacks says a lot avbout his thought process. It is absolutely relevant and may keep this socialist from becoming President.

[lormand]

When this first came out, Gergen made excuses for Wright and the racism that comes out of churches like his.

Gergen is the poster child for irrational white guilt.

[Miss Didi]

David Rodham Gergen using reverse psychology. ;)

[RinaseaofDs]

Obama, his campaign, and the whackjob preacher has done some irreparable damage to a multi-billion dollar industry:

The race extortion industry.

1. VERY, VERY few white people attend churches where there is a black god and a white god, and that if there is a white god, then it should be murdered.
2. The leading candidate for President of the United States not only attends one of these churches, but counts the pastor as his mentor, and would rather slander his own white mother than disown this man.
3. After this election, it will be an extremely difficult thing to compare a CEO of a major corporation to Rev. Wright and have a jury come back with a finding that the CEO was a racist. Wright has set the new high bar for what a racist actually looks like, and he isn’t white.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Rush christened him David Rodham Gergen during the '90s because he had his nose so far up Clinton, Inc.'s you-know-what.

[boomop1]

He is having a wet dream, believes people listen to him, Hussein is toast any way you look at it. This will be series and hugh.

[puroresu]

We may need to start calling him David Hussein Gergen. He epitomizes the worst kind of Republican, which is the kind who wakes up every morning wondering how he can prove his “open mindedness” to liberals.

[george76]

David Gergen should move on

[skr]

It sounds as if those particular soldiers have a gang mentality, which is not good for the their fellow soldiers.

It’s too bad that the MSM doesn’t treat Mr. Wright and his ilk as they do David Dukes and his.

[Disco Dave]

"Dr. WHO?!"...must be one of them there British things...Dave

[italianquaker]

Just like the media “moved on” about foley

[stockpirate]

David Gergen, Newt soon to be birds of a feather.

[Candor7]

Obama was toastythe minute Freepers disovewred his neo colonial, fascist, black power campaign work in August of 2006 for the Kenyan Orange Party's attempted Muslim based take over of Kenya. It failed, and the people Obama supported , Odinga his cousin, rioted and committed genocide.

The minute freepers like Beckwith, Fred Nerks, George 76 discovered that, we began to work unceasingly to get the news out about WHO Obama really is.

Obama is a creature far worse than the one revealed by Rev. Wright. The reason that Obama lets Wright spout on is that Wright provides a smoke screen for far more terrible things about Obama's philosophy and racist back room conduct.

Obama is a closet Huey Newton. He needs to be politically dismantled and sent back to Chicago to learn humility and loyalty to America.

[Rudder]

The media and FReepers both need to move on from this issue. Hell's bells, if you haven't figured out Obama by now you never will. He's a socialist, communist and a racist for those who are intellectually challenged.

It's time to put your efforts toward stopping Clinton.

[Rudder]

Jeff, you must have more talent than that one-trick pony you keep posting. Put your efforts toward stopping Hillary. Your post tells us what we already know: Obama is a socialist, communist and a racist. What good is that besides wasting your time that could be spent bringing down Hillary?

[Gritty]

C-c-c-can’t we just talk about the issues most Americans care about - like universal and affordable health care, cleaning up the environment, a failing Bush economy, and getting out of Iraq? /s/

[Jeff Head]

There are litterally thousands of lurkers who come to FR each day. They visit one ot two threads and then move on. Many are visiting our Obama threads, so I try and put it on as many of those as I can.

I kow it is monotonous for those reading all the threads and I apologize for that, but I am not doing it for long time, or regular freepers. I know they already know the score.

I am doing it to get good info out to others, and I am getting many, many emails, fremails, and posts from lurkers thanking me for the information.

So, I will continue to get that info out there for those folks who otherwise may not see it.

I will also, when the time is right, begin a campaign targeting Hillary. But right now, the negatives on Hillary are still higher and I honestly believe she is likely to lose in this thing to Obama. Her staying in and tearing away at Obama is good towards both ends now.

[roses of sharon]

Thanks for the info Jeff, the Dims have chosen their nominee and are going to have a hard time whitewashing Hussein!