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GMA: Raising Rev. Wright 'Close to Hitting Under the Belt'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/02/2008 5:59:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

ABC has made it official: use the Rev. Wright against Obama at your peril. Be prepared to be accused of "raising the race issue" to hit "below the belt."

ABC's David Wright, a certified Obama fan/Hillary critic based on this past performance, issued his edict on today's Good Morning America.

Riffing off Hillary having compared herself to Rocky Balboa running all the way up those steps in the first movie, Wright first fairly pointed the irony of the analogy: Rocky wound up losing the fight. Wright, pushing the boxing metaphor, then landed his haymaker:

DAVID WRIGHT: In its approach to superdelegates, the Clinton campaign may be close to hitting below the belt. Clinton's top delegate hunter Harold Ickes told an interviewer he's raising the race issue with superdelegates, arguing that Obama's controversial former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, makes him unelectable.

View video here.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidwright; haroldickes; hillaryclinton; jeremiahwright
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1 posted on 04/02/2008 5:59:52 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Lay off Rev. Wright ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 04/02/2008 6:00:23 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Be prepared to be accused of "raising the race issue" to hit "below the belt."

So are they equating him to a dick?

3 posted on 04/02/2008 6:01:06 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One more time, liberal dip$hits.

There were HUNDREDS of people in the congregation jumping up and down and yelling their support for the Rev’s racist, anti-American, hate speeches.

It’s NOT JUST Wright. It’s the whole church. Anything you say, Wright says, or BO says is meaningless in the face of such rampant, organize, condoned, and embraced racism and hate.

BO fully subscribe and STILL belongs to a hate organization. Do we need to know ANY MORE? Not those of us with brains.


4 posted on 04/02/2008 6:06:37 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hillary is better portrayed not as the fictional Rocky, but the knee-breaking Tonya Harding.

This one pictures epitimizes Hillary, giving better than she gets. ...daddy would be proud of his little fighter.

5 posted on 04/02/2008 6:07:37 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

David Wrong and GMA can say anything they want. This won’t go away - no matter what.


6 posted on 04/02/2008 6:14:42 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Eurale

Agreed.


7 posted on 04/02/2008 6:16:01 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Leave Obama and the Reverend alone

8 posted on 04/02/2008 6:19:16 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Eurale

I agree. It doesn’t much matter what polls say about the issue. No one is going to want to appear as if they are a racist. Of course they are going to say the issue “doesn’t matter.”


9 posted on 04/02/2008 6:19:44 AM PDT by Neverforget01
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To: Lee'sGhost

Oh, and it gets better!

Within the past couple of days, Emmanuel Cleaver, Congressman from KCMO, and a big Hillary supporter,

stated that Wright’s comments TRULY REFLECT WHAT THE BLACK COMMUNITY THINKS.


10 posted on 04/02/2008 6:21:46 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: xp38

You know I always thought that was a girl until I saw a snippet of it on some tv show.


11 posted on 04/02/2008 6:21:59 AM PDT by petercooper (Sure, Americans don't want Muslims running a couple U.S. ports, but they're fine with a Muslim Prez.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If McCain can take some flack over sucking up to that anti-Catholic preacher in Texas then Obama should take the heat for being loyal to Wright.


12 posted on 04/02/2008 6:23:45 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Clinton’s top delegate hunter Harold Ickes told an interviewer he’s raising the race issue with superdelegates”

Democrats like the Clintons and their paid attack dogs like Ickes always use race when it is to their advantage. They either attack their opponents as racist or try to raise the race issue themselves. The Democrats hypocrisy is sickening.


13 posted on 04/02/2008 6:26:56 AM PDT by detective
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To: petercooper
You know I always thought that was a girl until I saw a snippet of it on some tv show.

Yikes!!

14 posted on 04/02/2008 6:27:07 AM PDT by CedarDave (John, When will you respect conservatives the way you do fellow senators Barack, Hillary and JohnK?)
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To: petercooper

It’s not a girl?


15 posted on 04/02/2008 6:27:29 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: detective

Not sure that it’s hypocrisy so much as it is the standard leftist tactic of “sniping from cover” -

attacking your enemies from behind a shield of “uncriticisability”. 9/11 widows, moms of dead soldiers, any “victim class”, etc.


16 posted on 04/02/2008 6:29:10 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I thought ABC was the first network to talk about Wright. I guess they like a fake “controversy”.

I think Wright is an excellent example of how people can be manipulated by charismatic hucksters.


17 posted on 04/02/2008 6:29:33 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: MrB

Chris Crocker....um....lets just say a somewhat festive individual.


18 posted on 04/02/2008 6:30:07 AM PDT by xp38
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To: petercooper
You know I always thought that was a girl until I saw a snippet of it on some tv show.

If they snippet, it would be a girl.

19 posted on 04/02/2008 6:30:58 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

We think in terms of logic and fairness, libs don’t.

TO THEM, it is only right that the Black community feels as they do because this “nasty” country has given them good reasons, AND CONTINUES to do so.

So much for unity and healing...


20 posted on 04/02/2008 6:30:59 AM PDT by Mrs.Z ("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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