Posted on 04/28/2008 1:07:45 PM PDT by Captain Pike
The other anti-American fraud, Ward Churchill, also used this infamous quote.
Colonel Sanders?
It’s far older than any of those miserable, illiterate turkeys. My guess — Shakespeare.
The Taliban and Saddam got some chickens roosting too and Mr. Wright is angry at the US over that. How about he show a little rage at his muslim brothers who killed thousands of people in an undeclared act of war?
Chickens came home to roost for Malcom the Tenth too when he betrayed the muslim klan. He got uppity and criticized the leadership. And they got him in the end.
It was Choshifa, a Mesopotamian chicken farmer who was commenting upon the reliability of his flock coming back home when they got hungry or the sun went down.
Wright: “If you heard the whole sermon, first of all, you heard that I was quoting the ambassador from Iraq."
No you weren't you liar. I had never heard anything about Malcolm X saying "chickens coming home to roost" until I heard your sermon last week. I went back and looked it up, and indeed Malcolm X was your source, and if you had listened again to your whole sermon you would have heard the mention.
I first heard the term on the “Amos N’ Andy Show”.
I'm just getting real Teed off that Wright is trying to shift the blame for where he got the term for his "chickens" quote to some Bush administration ambasador, when it was actually Malcolm X, and he said so in his own sermon. And he has the audacity to tell the National Press Club that "if they read the whole sermon, they would no it was this white ambasador". No. If you saw the whole sermon, you would see it really came from Malcolm X. What a bald faced liar. I only wonder if the press will pick up on it.
no = know
Joe Bob Wilkins, preparing the fixin's for a 4th of July bar-b-q back in 1958...........
Yep, just like the MSM picked up on Ol'Slick's lies....
It's a bit confusing, but Wright is saying that Ambasador Peck is giving Fox News fits because of what he said on an interview Sept 15, 2001.
The Wright quote is something to the effect of: "Ambasador Peck confirmed that what Malcolm X said was true, that America's chickens were coming home to roost".
Obviously Wright was "inspired" by the very un-american quotes from Peck. But he wasn't claiming that Peck said "America's Chickens are coming home to roost". But rather claiming that Malcolm X's quote about chickens was true.
Wright is spinning this one, and it gets down to parsing exactly what he said.
Quickly becoming an over-exposed statement, like “The Mother of all...”
True.
I only wonder whether Wright conflated the quote with the white guy Peck during the original 2001 sermon in order to not be seen directly quoting Malcolm X. Or whether it is current 2008 spin for the same purpose.
It all rides on the parsing of the sentence, and it looks like he's pulled off the spin with the whole world watching, and not even the conservative talking heads noticed it.
It all rides on the parsing of the sentence, and it looks like he's pulled off the spin with the whole world watching, and not even the conservative talking heads noticed it.
This reminds me of one of the debates Geo. H.W. Bush had with Clinton. Someone got up and asked Bush what he was going to "do about the national debt, you know, the money we owe on credit cards".
Bush looked at the questioner like they were from Mars, and said something about not understanding the question. Which was entirely right, the "National Debt" doesn't have anything to do with peoples credit cards, but rather the debt the government owes.
The Clinton war room immediatly had their talking point, and by the time the debate was over the talking heads were all wagging about how Bush "didn't get it", because he didn't understand the national debt.
No. The fact was THEY didn't get it, because they didn't know the difference between the "National Debt", and someone's credit card bill. But the Clinton war room successfully spun it without even so much as Rush Limbaugh catching on at the time.
Clinton won because of superior use of spin control, and Hillary! might do it again.
One of the local television stations in South Louisiana
aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans.
The interviewee was asked if the complete devastation
of the churches in the area had affected their lives.
Without hesitation, the woman replied, 'I don't know about
all those other peoples, but we haven't gone to Church's in
years. We gets our chicken from Popeye's.'
The look on the interviewer's face was priceless.
LOL, format messup!
ROTFLOL!
I used to live there.
I can believe this happened. ;o)
I love your chickens coming home to roost!
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