Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a [Hillary Clinton] press trick?(On Drudg

NYDailyNews.com ^ | 29 Apr 08 | Errol Louis

[seanmerc]

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted.

Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds.

A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister).

It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club "who organized" the event - is an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter.

On a blog linked to her Web site- www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: "My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you" to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency.

[seanmerc]

Popcorn! Get you popcorn here!

[fightinJAG]

Why is this headline written as an either/or question?

[the invisib1e hand]

He's a colossal disaster for Jeremiah Wright.

[Natchez Hawk]

Exactly. Seems like both propositions equally valid.

[contemplator]

When I first heard the pseudo-conspiracy theory about Hillary engineering the Rev. Wright fiasco I took it for what it is, pure gibberish. Watching Fox last night I was floored when one of the pundits actually argued for that possibility. I could not believe that the media and the pundits were so far in the tank for Obama that they could sit there and espouse this notion with a straight face.

As a measure of how far they’ve fallen in the tank, I’d say they reached the bottom of the barrel.

[kittymyrib]

And so this Hillary operative, knowing that Wright would sink Obama’s ship, arranged for his appearance in front of the national press. Brilliant!
And they say Rove is good....

[Nextrush]

Is this news story just spin from Obama’s campaign or evidence of a typical Clinton dirty trick using Minister Farrakhan um. Reverend Jeremiah Wright?

It stinks either way.

And the raving Marxist Reverend Wright can shove his racial radicalism you know where.

[seanmerc]

Operation Chaos is working!!!

[SMARTY]

Did any money change hands, here?

[johnny7]

IMO... Wright’s speech for the NAACP thugs was just as damaging.

[notbuyingit2]

Ah, yes. The finger-pointing has begun!

[Eurale]

I wonder if this will get DBM traction.

[period end of story]

He’s a colossal idiot doing damage all around.

I wonder what he’ll call his book?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It won’t matter. Hillary’s campaign will buy a million copies for free distribution.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORJsBUqKlCg

parody Obama/Wright/lying

[counterpunch]

I read the blog post you linked, and I have to say that is about the dumbest analysis I've seen of the whole ordeal. Wright coming out on his "speaking tour" is the worst thing possible for Obama, because a) it revives a controversy that had passed, with much help from the press, before it peaked. It would be like saying Bill bringing up Hillary's sniper fire all over again was somehow good for her. But that pales in comparison to the Reverend Wright sequel. And b) because no one can, after watching 20 minutes of Jeremiah Wright, possibly believe now that Barack Obama say for 20 years in his church not knowing what this guy was all about. Wright made it very clear in his speech what his congregation is all about. Blaming whitey, and blaming America is the core of his ministry. That was on full display and was not lost on anyone.

Reverend Wright blew Obama's cover in front on the national press corps, and not only did he do that, but he told everyone that Obama was just a politician, saying whatever he needs to say to get elected. One can assume that if Obama's public distancing of himself from Wright was just words, then it was also just words when he claimed he didn't know what Reverend Wright was all about. It was just worlds when he said he didn't share Reverend Wright's views.
 

[DieHard the Hunter]

> I wonder what he’ll call his book?

“The N- in the Woodpile”?

[popdonnelly]

On the other hand, Bill Moyers’ invitation to Reverend Wright was intended to rehabilitate both Wright and Obama’s candidacy.

[Ronin]

The Audacity of Chutzpah?

[Jeff Head]

Or, perhaps these last few days has been all about Barack...letting Wright go unfettered and unhinged in order to give Obama the opportunity for a clean and definitive, morally outraged break...just before Indiana. Maybe we will see that break, what should have occurred years ago, now.

If it is, then the overall question still begs to be answered. Why did it take so long? Why did it have to go this far?

The answer is clear. Obama went to this church, fed at this trough, drank deeply at this well because it is what he believes. Now he has to seperate himself purely for political expediency...but it does not change the man and still points terribly towards his judgement and character.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[tips up]

Yes, this has the Clintons’ fingerprints on it.

[Always Right]

Operation Chaos is working!!!

Maybe too good.

[Rational Thought]

Gibberish???

Your right...Team Clinton has far too much itegrity to ever stoop this low.

[contemplator]

It’s not a question of integrity, it’s a question of intelligence. Specifically, a lack thereof.

[Rational Thought]

Or....

Clinton/Wright ‘08

[RichBruer]

Both Hillary and Wright know that Obama can't win. Hillary is telling the undecided super delegates that and Wright knew it when he told Obama that the jewish vote would dry up when his trip to Libya was exposed by the media.
Hillary's plan is to damage him so he can't win so she can run in 2012 and Wright is trying to repair his image and keep folks riled up which translates to $$$$$.

[Doc Savage]

A no-brainer! Wright is a race-pimp. He's no different than Jesse Jerkson or Al “Tawana” Sharpy Sharpton. He's a race hustler. The real question is how many more hundreds of years talk radio will have moronic blacks calling in after one of Wright's racist speeches attempting to “spin” his hatred as “misunderstood”, “taken out of context” and “white hatred of the African-American black church in racist America!” What a bunch of DEMONRat plantation slaves these guys are. They love being the victim!

[Biblebelter]

cheapened his arguments and his movement by mugging for the cameras, rolling his eyes, heaping scorn on his critics and acting as if nobody in the room was learned enough to ask him a question.

This description from someone who has previously defended the hate mongering demagogue.

[ken5050]

Did anyone in the MSM comment that Wright was surrounded by “Fruit of Islam” goons, ...er...bodyguards on the STAGE of the National Press Club.

[JPJones]

Operation Chaos is working!!!

It's working too well...scaring me.

[Nathan Zachary]

Told y'all. It won't take long for all the race baiters to start pointing at Hillary and calling her a racist. And for all the conspiracy theorists to crawl out of their basements. (actually they just stay in their basements and churn out letter to the media) It is a simple and believable conspiracy theory too. A loyal Hillary supporter with the power to set up such a meeting, butters up Mr. Wight and gets him to explain himself in front of a national media circus. Brilliant! LoL!

Obama exposed, tarred and feathered, but as Obama goes down in flames exposes the Clinton machine which has destroyed so many before him.

McCain quietly assumes the presidency without saying a word.

[roses of sharon]

Oh good grief, Wright and Hussein are two peas in a pod, and the MSM attempt to make poor, poor, Obama a victim of Wright or Hillary is just plain silly.

[foxfield]

Operation Chaos is working!!!

Actually, the Democrats are doing this to themselves. It would have happened without Operation Chaos. Rush Limbaugh is just piling on, and the more the better.

[chickadee]

I’d be interested to know if the membership of TUCC is up or down since Wright’s rhetoric has been on public display for the nation.

[Nathan Zachary]

I doubt Hillary will run in 2012. This is her shot now. She won’t be able to stretch that skin into a presentable face to make another run in 2012, and even Bill is looking old lately.

She’ll simply be too old for another run. Maybe she’s try to hang on in 2012 if she wins now, but thats about it. Plus people are just tired of the Clinton’s. She can’t generate enough support now, which is why she has to destroy Obama so completely in order to get ahead of him. Her support will be far, far less in 4 more years, especially against a bunch of new faces.

[RDTF]

like Newt said today on GMA, Wright is all about Wright and his own self importance. Now he is going out of his way to hurt Obama.
Keep talkin Wright!

[Nathan Zachary]

Oh-Come_on! Obama is no victim in this! He believes everything Wright does, and is every bit a the Marxist/Islamic fundamentalist Wright is. They both hide their true Islamic identity within that fake “christian” church, which shouldn’t even be a tax free haven according to our laws.

[Ann Archy]

OMG!! I'll bet the Clintons gave Wright THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of DOLLARS to DESTROY OBAMA!!!

This info needs to get out to the right media.

[RDTF]

LOL - I never said he was a victim. But Wright has his own agenda.

[libstripper]

Even if the Clintons set the NPC appearance up and supplied the questions Wright so disastrously answered, the fact remains that the answers were his voluntary answers, just as the stain on Monica's blue dress came from Bill Clinton. Wright and Obama can't get off that hook.

[counterpunch]

Obama had said that he had not heard Wright’s controversial remarks, but to the extent that he did hear them, he disagreed with them. Obama went on to say that he didn’t much notice any political talk from Wright, and he was there to hear about Jesus.

But after hearing Wright’s speech describing just what the Black Liberation Theology of his church was all about, that excuse no longer flies.

That would be like saying “I’ve listened to Rush Limbaugh for 20 years, but I’ve never heard him say anything negative about the Clintons. I’ve never heard him criticize liberals. I just listened to hear about football.”

[Utah Binger]

I get Playboy mag for the articles.

[coffee260]

I heard from a reliable source that a staff member of Bill Moyers,—I don’t remember her name or position—thought Wright’s “speaking tour” would help soften his image. The word is that their intent was to let Wright make public speeches with less incendiary language giving the media more kinder, gentler sound bites to play in place of the ones they’ve been playing over and over. I can’t confirm this but if somebody in the media are interested they should start in the office of Bill Moyers asking questions.

[msnpatriot]

I would say 100% chance dirty trick by Hillary Clinton, 0% chance Obama spin! :-)

***Is this news story just spin from Obama’s campaign or evidence of a typical Clinton dirty trick using Minister Farrakhan um. Reverend Jeremiah Wright?***

[chuckles]

I kinda sorta agree with Newt, but for reasons no one is talking about yet. Wright WANTS a race war. That would make him seem prophetic. If he can get broken windows and fires burning in Denver, maybe he can get it to spread. Race baiting hucksters have no street cred if there is no racial tension. If everything went smooth, his sermons would seem rather schitzo. Jesse Jackson, Sharpton and Wright type hucksters are becoming like tags on America's armpit without trouble in the streets. If America nominated Obama, even if he loses the general, it proves we aren't as bad as what they've been saying for 40 years. If Wright can knock Obama out by himself, then the trouble will start, no matter what the reason.

Obama is just Obama, Clinton doesn't have to try with all this help, and McCain is even hurting himself to dance around the race issue. Wright is screwing Obama for HIS own reasons. The most inflammable result would be the Dems nominating Clinton at the convention. That is the optimum result for Wright's purposes. If the Dems nominate Obama, then he is so damaged, or even more stuff in the future comes out, that McCain wins and the US is still a racist pit of snakes for not allowing Obama to be president even thought he's a commie terrorist sympathizer. Either way, trouble is brewing.

[safetysign]

Reverend Wright is to Barack Obama as Fort Marcy Park was to Vince Foster.

[RichBruer]

You could be right but how she expects to win without the black vote,,, I don’t know.

[GOPJ]

More popcorn please.

[sr4402]

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[Paige]

I don’t like Hillary, but her team does receive an A+ for this one. This has been worth taking the time to watch. LOL