Axelrod Defends Jeremiah Wright, Says He Was Victim of Selective Editing

Big Government ^ | 011112 | Joel B. Pollak

[Fred]

David Axelrod, chief political strategist for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and former White House political adviser, defended Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday evening in a speech in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Axelrod described the initial news reports in 2008 on Obama’s long-time family pastor and mentor as “ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher.”

The claim that Wright’s sermons were selectively edited by Obama’s political opponents contradicts what is known about Wright’s preaching and the radical, racialist creed of the Trinity United Church of Christ, to which Obama belonged for two decades and to which he contributed a large amount of money.

Axelrod’s claim is also contradicted by Obama himself, who has cited Wright’s enthusiasm for radical politics as the main reason he was attracted to the church.

[carcraft]

Rev Wright’s Church believes in Liberation theology which preachs class and racial antagonism. The poor and the people of “color” are oppressed by “whites” or the wealthy. Christian are to struggle against the oppressor. This type of thinking has been condemned by a lot of theologians because it makes the assumption that “white” or the wealthy can’t be “Christian”

[LibLieSlayer]

Hey axlesnapped... STFU you hitler looking chitown thug... FU and yo momma!

LLS

[fungoking]

Why in the world would Axelrod even bring this up? “Rev Wright? I know no Rev Wright?”

[PLD]

Try this again all the youtube ones won’t work for me..

http://mydd.com/users/zenful6219/posts/video-obamas-pastor-blacks-should-sing-god-damn-america

[Venturer]

Obama and his hate filled wife are just as racist as Jeremiah Wright.

Axelrod is a liar or a fool probably both.

[pallis]

Jeremiah Wright is a typical, racist pig, the kind obama enjoys wallowing with.

[Made In The USA]

Put simply:

Given enough time Leftists will usually reveal their racism.

Given enough time, about 3 seconds, the average human being with an IQ measured in at least two digits will draw a concusion that Axelrod is a sleazebag not to be trusted.

[ridesthemiles]

If you do NOT say the words in the forst place, you cannot be the victim of ‘selective editing’.

[radu]

And the only reason Axelrod can make that argument with a straight face is because the mainstream media will never broadcast two words of anything that Wright has ever said.

Another reason is they pulled all the sermon videos off the church's web site right after those few clips were aired.

I suffered through several of the videos in '08 and Axelrod's argument doesn't hold a drop of water. I hope someone saved some of the videos and will post them online again in the near future. Now would be great since Axelrod has brought the issue up again.