Posted on 11/10/2008 1:20:49 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
In case you care…
"For nine months, I kept quiet," Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said today at Mosque Maryam in Chicago, "because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man" -- President-elect Obama -- "at our Saviours' Day convention and the way they were misused. I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others."
"I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart," said the controversial religious leader.
For a limited time Farrakhan's sermon can be viewed HERE.
Last week, Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright emerged to speak at Kingdom Life Christian Church sponsored by the Theological Education Institute of Hartford.
"The world doesn't know about my 41 years of ministry, or my writing of books, because it was all taken down to a 10-second sound bite that the media chose to show about a sermon that was delivered seven years ago," Wright said. "The media didn't care about the whole sermon and what it was about. They just used those 10 seconds and used it as a weapon of mass destruction against [Obama's] campaign."
And on election day, education professor William Ayers, a former member of the violent radical group the Weather Underground, gave an interview to the New Yorker's David Remnick.
Ayers told Remnick that he knew Obama only slightly: “I think my relationship with Obama was probably like that of thousands of others in Chicago and, like millions and millions of others, I wished I knew him better.” He described what happened to him as "Swift-boating."
“It’s all guilt by association,” Ayers said. “They made me into a cartoon character -- they threw me up onstage just to pummel me."
Ron Radosh takes issue with some of the assertions Ayers makes HERE.
Someone moved the rock.
Awwwwww.........those poor racists, terrorists, hatemongers got their wittle feelings hurt.
Geez!
I get this uneasy feeling of inevitability as to the track we are on. Anyone else? A year or 18 months from now, maybe even sooner, it will be clear what a total piece of national suicide this election was. And they carried it off.
Shame on The New Yorker
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Shame on The New Yorker and its editor David Remnick for playing a role in the attempt of Bill Ayers and his publisher to resurrect both Ayers’ book and his reputation. Beacon Press has announced that they are releasing an updated version of Ayers’ 2001 book Fugitive Days on November 12th, a publication date purposely held until after the election. As most everyone knows, the original edition had the misfortune of being published on 9/11/2001, a date that led to cancellation of Ayers’ book tour, and to reams of negative publicity. The last thing the American public wanted to hear about was the glamorization of a 1960’s terrorist.
But in our celebrity driven culture, the attention to Ayers in the election campaign has made him a hot number, and he has decided to make his views known in a new afterword that appears at the end of the book.
And now the current edition of the elite Manhattan weekly has helped Ayers in his new campaign, with a fawning “Talk of the Town” article. That the piece is written by its editor-in-chief David Remnick, a first rate writer and a very smart man, makes it even more inexcusable.
Remnick lets Ayers get away with almost every point about his time in The Weather Underground. Attacks on him were all “guilt by association; ” he was made a “cartoon character.” Ayers expresses sympathy with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who also was, Ayers told Remnick, “treated grotesquely and unfairly.” Evidently listening to, watching and reading Wright’s actual sermons is not enough for one to be allowed to render judgment.
Most egregious is that Remnick also lets Ayers get away with his excuse that he never meant to imply in the 2001 Times article about him that he wished they had engaged in more violence and bombings. When he told them “I wish I had done more,” Ayers claims, “it doesn’t mean I wish we’d bombed more shit.” He never had been responsible for violence against other people, he said. He was only acting politically to end the war in Vietnam. His only sin was to use juvenile rhetoric, and he says that he only engaged in “extreme radicalism against property.”
Ayers and Remnick must think people cannot read for themselves. Ayers actually said: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Asked whether he would advocate bombing again, he answered: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Or as he writes in his memoir: “I can’t imagine entirely dismissing the possibility.”
By repeating Ayers’ false excuses, and without challenging or correcting him, Remnick allows his publication’s readers to conclude that Ayers is, not as his enemies have claimed, an unrepentant advocate of terrorism, but a wise 1960’s activist, who has learned bitter lessons and who is now much wiser. I assume Remnick has not read Ayers two year old interview in Revolution and his speech in Venezuela standing next to Hugo Chavez, two examples which alone would quickly disabuse anyone of Ayers’ having learned anything in the past decades.
http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2008/11/06/shame-on-the-new-yorker/
Funny you’d mention “track”.
I’ve had ‘Locomotive Breath’ stuck in my head since Tuesday.
In the shuffling madess
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping —
Steam breaking on his brow —
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won’t stop going —
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations — one by one.
His woman and his best friend —
In bed and having fun.
Hes crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees —
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won’t stop going —
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling —
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible —
Open at page one —
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won’t stop going —
No way to slow down.
I came across this blog today. I should have seen it before the election but didn’t. Anyway, I’m not sure if it has been posted in the FR so posting it here:
Talk about getting the creeps from this whole BO thingy and all his cronies. This blog covers alot!
Really, Bill; you 'doth protest too much'. . .
Funny you’d quote that song. I’ve had one stuck in my head too:
Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo-choo Charlie was his name we hear
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used Good and Plenty Candy
to make his train run.
(Charlie says)
Love my Good and Plenty!
(Charlie says)
Really rings the bell!
(Charlie says)
Love my Good and Plenty!
Don’t know any other candy that I love so well.
fascinating and disturbing
the enthusiaism for obama among upper middle class people in my community is frightening. I wonder if we will see the day and the same reaction when their children are conscripted for national service at the direction of this megalomaniac
I feel the same. This group’s tactics is too much like those that took over Germany in the late 30’s. But this clown is inviting invasion instead of waging it.
The 'cult of Obama' is not finished. And Obama himself; should be very careful with 'messianic' overlays here. Historically, Messiahs do not usually fare well, over the long haul.
Of course, there are exceptions. . .Kim Jong, L comes to mind. . .
| OBAMAO ... is America ready for a Marxist president? [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] Nope, but we are about to get one, good & hard... ...so chroniclers like Yers Trooly will be documenting every move he makes, every breath he takes... unless, we are silenced by all that "tolerance & inclusiveness" he & his followers are already practicing.... America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
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make that ‘Kim Jong IL’.. .(dropped it!)
being a member of the armed forces I always felt it disrespectful to bash the CINC, however witnessing dem soldiers (JAG,PAO,ect)bash Bush over the years, can turnabout be fair game?
. . .Certainly could be the case here of 'net results'. . .albeit, surely Obama is only asking for a 'chance'. . .and with a promise, that by the time he is finished with America; our enemies will not have to invade.
Meantime, his own 'invasion' of America will begin Nov. 21. The 'revolution' which began with his 'promise for change', will begin in ugly and in earnest.
Dear God, it is sick, isn’t it?
I can just see it now. We will be bombarded even more with all the talk of how wonderful minority cultures are and how destructive ours is. I wouldn’t be surprised if diversity training became mandatory to graduate high school.
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