Posted on 06/03/2008 11:26:57 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Say it with me: Boo-freaking-hoo. Via the Chicago Sun-Times’ Cathleen Falsani:
Pfleger has apologized for “the words that I chose” and for “my dramatization.” Pfleger told me he called the Clinton campaign to apologize directly but had not heard back from Clinton or her representatives.
All that is well and good, but how, as a friend and passionate supporter of Obama’s campaign for president, could he do what he did, with cameras rolling?
Pfleger’s short answer? He didn’t think the service and his “conversation” — a more casual address than a classic sermon, he explained — were being broadcast live online, as Trinity often does.
“They told me it was down,” Pfleger said. “Their live streaming had been down all day, and they didn’t know whether it was back up. . . . I regret the dramatization that I was naive enough to believe was just going to be kept among that church.”
Even Falsani couldn’t stomach Pfleger’s self-sorrow:
It’s a rare occasion when Pfleger and I find ourselves at a loss for words.
Pfleger’s about as cowed as I’ve ever seen him. He’s reeling, really, from what he admits is a difficult predicament of his own making. Over the weekend, he said that the days since his Trinity address had been the most difficult of his life, even more painful than when his foster son Jarvis was gunned down near St. Sabina on May 30, 1998.
I’ve spoken to Pfleger many times about Jarvis’ death and couldn’t believe he said this. It sounded like the worst kind of narcissism, and I told him so.
Pull out the victim card in 3, 2, 1…
“This is a dangerous time in America, the freest country in the world,” Pfleger says, “where you have to whisper your thoughts.”
Dang! You caught me. I regret that you caught me. You weren't supposed to know about this.
You’re wrong there, Pfleger. We want you to scream like a chicken and gibber your heart out from the rooftops exactly what kind of divisive racist moron you are.
Huh? Is he referring to conservatives having to couch everything they say in political correctness or suffer the slings and arrows of the liberal media, while liberals can just about do and say anything without worrying about being held accountable by the Lame Stream Media (which, by the way, is responsible for determining what is reported in the news within the main stream press)? He can't seriously be complaining about the treatment he's received as most of the Lame Stream Media has not covered this to any real degree.
I’d love to know what his buddies say about him when he leaves the room.
PFLEGER is disgusting and needs to “resign” his racist church.
Don't worry good Reverend, the police are not coming to throw you in prison or execute you, as a matter of fact life will go on for you as it always has.
Now let's talk about the reaction of your words by the congregation.
Wow, the first time I’ve actually heard someone acknowledge they are only sorry they got caught. Usually you have to read it between the lines.
Yeah, I really like the non-apology he submitted. “If I offended anyone . . . “ No Sh*t, moron, you offended a whole lot of people in this country with your racist and sexist rantings. Only, you now claim you believed that only members of the church, all those who believe the rhetoric you spew forth, were the only ones that would be privy to your rantings. What a POS this man is, along with all the members of this racist and sexist church.
‘Where you have to whisper your thoughts.’ No sirree, buddy, you just have to own them like a man.
Pfleger said that “the days since his Trinity address had been the most difficult of his life, even more painful than when his foster son Jarvis was gunned down.”
What does this tell us about the man?
Translation: You caught me, therefore, I am sorry
...or how about this? BRAVO SEIRRA!
...or maybe this? SCUM SUCKING, ANTI-AMERICAN, BIGOTED, RACE BATING, HYPOCRITE!
I am still free to say those things about you out loud like that. And I am willing to live with the consequences of my words. You, on the other hand...are not willing to take responsibility for your own words.
His Nation of Islam buddies would cut his throat and watch him bleed to death. They believe that all white people are born evil and that they were created by a mad African scientist.
Mr. Pfleger said: “This is a dangerous time in America, the freest country in the world,” ...“where you have to whisper your thoughts.”
You don’t have to whisper your thoughts in this country, sir.
But you need to be ready to accept responsiblity for expressing them. If you stated your true beliefs then there is nothing for which you should apologize.
Don’t expect ME to laud and praise you for demonstrating that you are a hate-filled, self-absorbed, horses ass - but by all means, DO NOT apologize unless you mean it!
Typical radical lib... when you have to face up to being responsible for the things you have said, play the victim and claim you are being censored.
He’s a catholic father.
“This is a dangerous time in America, the freest country in the world,” Pfleger says, “where you have to whisper your thoughts.”
I heard there was chill wind blowing too (except that there isn’t). This fool is a bigger drama queen than all the Hollyweirdo drama queens put together. In actual fact, none of them ever shut up, and we never stop mocking and ridiculing them. Mike will just have to deal with it like the rest of the crybabies.
Yet again, it’s this “the fascists are out to get me ... by playing back, verbatim and IN context, my very own words.”
Gotta love, too, that he implies that he only said these horrible things because he thought “no one was looking.” But Pfather Pfleger should remember that THAT is what character IS: What you do when you think no one is looking.
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