Posted on 03/15/2008 6:35:46 AM PDT by indcons
Politicians know a troublesome story has “broken through” the Eastern media echo chamber when Jay Leno is laughing at them.
In the case of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., retiring pastor and outgoing spiritual adviser to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), it took less than 48 hours.
The fracas started Thursday morning, when ABC’s “Good Morning America” ran a Brian Ross expose on Wright that included old video of him saying: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God bless America’? No, no, no. Not God bless America. God [expletive] America.”
On Friday night, there was Leno on NBC’s “Tonight Show” joshing: “McCain was running so fast from President Bush, he ran into Barack Obama, who was running from his minister.”
The story had burst onto the radar screen of average Americans with as much velocity as any other story during the 2008 campaign.
Political reporters and editors were inundated with e-mails from red-state friends and relatives wanting to know why the brouhaha wasn’t getting more instant and constant coverage from every news outlet.
To reporters who had followed the campaign, it was an old, oft-written story. But this time it had video of Wright saying things like “U.S. of K.K.K.A.,” available on YouTube and played endlessly by cable news channels.
A key part of Obama’s case is electability – the notion that he can heal the nation’s red-blue divide by appealing to Republicans, or “Obamacans,” as he gleefully calls these crossover supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
"[...] many news outlets – including Politico — did not initially pile on with rehashes after Brian Ross’s story on “Good Morning America.”"
"Bill O’Reilly said Friday night: “I wouldn’t sit in a church where a pastor said that. Would you? Why does Senator Obama? That’s a simple question.”
O’Reilly went on: “On the press front, the corrupt left-wing media hates this story. The Chicago Sun-Times ignored it completely. The New York Times barely mentioned it. CBS and NBC news didn’t report it last night on their nightly programs.”
By Saturday, The New York Times had a 900-word article, “Obama Denounces His Pastor’s Statements,” on page A13."
LOL ;)....bttt, GD.
PRAVDABCNNBCBS and the Dinosaur Fishwraps from the NY/LA Slimes, Compost, Chi Tribune can no longer spike the dangerous reality of Wright’s impact on Imman Hussein Obama/Samma:
The WSJ has one of Wright’s hate America, racist sermons listed on line:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985856/posts
Wright and Obama: It Only Gets Worse
Confederate Yankee ^ | March 14, 2008 | Staff
Posted on 03/14/2008 3:15:38 PM PDT by jdm
The Wall Street Journal has published yet another damning sermon from Barack Obama’s retiring minister of two decades, Jeremiah Wright.
The displaced anger, bigotry, and hatred displayed is chilling:
“We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he began. “Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Mr. Wright thundered on: “America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
His voice rising, Mr. Wright said, “We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. . . . We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means. . . .”
Concluding, Mr. Wright said: “We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .”
As the story of Wright’s forceful bigotry finally forced it’s way into the mainstream media yesterday at ABC News with the story Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11, the people Barack Obama has chosen to surround himself with has come under sharp focus.
From a self-isolated, self-pitying wife, to a bombastic, bigoted minister, to an unreformed terrorist, Barack Obama has surrounded himself with very questionable ideological company, associations from which he has no defense. He wasn’t forced to chose to spend time with this cadre of believers on the radical fringe, he embraced them willingly.
Predictably, as the media has come to focus on Obama’s two-decade relationship with Wright, Obama supporters have been quick to attempt to minimize the damage. Unable to do it with a forceful denunciation of Wright’s bigotry by Obama (Obama has only uttered the lamest of excuses), they have instead attempted to tar Republican candidate John McCain as being equally bad, for the support he has garnered from controversial evangelists Rod Parsley and John Hagee.
For those of you unfamiliar with these men, Parsley’s most famous controversial statements include calling Islam a “false religion” that must be destroyed, opposition same-sex marriage, partial-birth abortion, hate-crimes legislation, and the separation of church and state. Hagee has been ripped an an anti-Catholic bigot, stated that Hurricane Katrina was an act of God against New Orleans for the city’s “level of sin,” and for claiming that the Qur’an has “a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews.”
There, of course, is a difference between John McCain’s political endorsements by Parsley and Hagee, and Barack Obama’s 20 years of willfully absorbing Wright’s hatred, a toxicity to which he has willfully exposed family.
I addressed this attempt to equivilate Obama and McCain in a comment to the ABC News blog story Obama camp: ‘Deplores divisive statements’, which featured yet another inflammatory speech by Wright.
My comment read:
I see that some are already attempting to trot out a comparative argument, that Wright’s offensive, bigoted, and paranoid rants are somehow lessened by invoking John McCain’s support from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, two prominent evangelists who have also made provocative statements.
But here is the huge gaping difference between these attempts: Barack Obama has spent the better part of the past 20 years of his life listening to, absorbing, and yes, agreeing with Wright’s sermons. If he did not agree with the bulk of those sermons, he would have of course left Trinity for another church—finding a church in Chicago that closely fits your own personal beliefs is not at all difficult, and Obama obviously agrees with Wright far more than he disagrees.
That Obama has spent 20 years listening to Wright, thought enough of him to use one of those sermons as the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope,” that he was married by Wright, had both of his children baptized by Wright and brought up in this church, listening to these paranoid and racist rants that differ little in substance from the words of a much more famous racist, Louis Farakkan, means that Obama AGREES with Wright far more often than he disagrees with him.
From that, what are we to make of Obama? Actions, indeed, do speak louder than flaccid conciliatory words that have only just now been uttered.
I say again the obvious: no American would spend 20 years listening to a minister with which he vehemently disagreed.
McCain, by comparison, is guilty of pandering to Haggee and Parsley because of the (unfortunate) influence they have over a powerful voting demographic.
I can find scant evidence that McCain has sat though one sermon from Hagee or Parsley, much less 20 years of them.
Which is worse?
The politician that panders for votes, or the man who has listened to and internalized anti-American, anti-Jewish, and anti-white messages for 20 years before ever once publicly disagreeing with them, and who is raising his children in this same toxic environment?
Not only am I certain Barack Obama is unfit to run this nation, I now question his ability to raise his own children, for the hatred he has willingly exposed them to since their births.
Yes, I went there. Read again Wright’s rant in the WSJ article featured above, or some of his other hate speech (for that is what it is), and try to explain to me that a good parent exposes his children to an environment that exudes such naked anger, resentment, defeatism, and conspiratorial paranoia.
Perhaps some of you are comfortable having your children raised in such an environment, but I am not, and I do not think that someone who willingly exposes himself and his family to internalizing such vitriol for 20 years is the kind of person we need or want to lead this nation.
Nice graphic arts. Now where, did I steal er borrow that?
Check out this statement by Obama’s spiritual mentor who is also a terrorist enabler (he visited Gaddafi in Tripoli in a visit with Farrakan while Libya was a declared terrorist state):
“On Feb. 20, after a fiery guest sermon by Wright in Little Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ran an article that said: ‘On Tuesday, Wright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq and likened the insurgents to the Israelites under Babylonian rule.’”
BTT.
But notice the NY Times ignores “all the (bad) news that’s (unfit) to print (about democrats.)
I watched a CNN/Headline news segment on this studio last night. They played the mildest portions of the video. Had this been my only viewing of the video I would have wondered ‘what’s the big deal?’. They ended by essentially declaring it an over-reaction by Americans.
I stole it from a fellow FReeper’s post....can’t claim originality.
However, I can claim credit for posting on FR about Wright and Obama long ago - much before this story became a national firestorm. ;)
Next, the focus will shift to Obama’s ties to alleged PLO terrorists. The story there is very disturbing.
The government gives them the drugs. If this were the case of government "giving" them drugs, who's buying them?
As far as passing 3 strike rules, you'd think that people should be glad to get rid of repeat offenders.
If he were a true man of God he'd be teaching his people against sin, instead of making excuses for it.
The Bible tells us that in the end times what evil will be seen as good, and whats good will be seen as evil.
This guy and his followers (especially one Barack Obama) are proof of this.
And if Barack is a follower of this evil is good, good is evil, thinking, he is seeking leadership of this country, and the free world. Leading vast numbers of people into this thinking.
Hopefully the next dark side of Imman Hussein ObamaSamma isn’t exposed until this story gets round and round.
Barak Hussein Obama’s pastor, like Osama bin Laden, has called for damnation of the United States. I’m not really surprised about this.
Most of us aren’t surprised.
However, it is probably a big surprise to the moderates the few remaining old style democrats. Without the support of these two groups, Imman Hussein Barack ObamaSamma can’t win the election in 2008.
I had to restrain myself from getting up and walking out of my church when they started talking about amnesty for illegals this past year. I’ve stayed with it because I agree with them on pretty much everything else, but trust me, the whole guilt by association thing rings pretty true for me based on my own experience.
I have to wonder if any of these hate-filled messages are reverberating in the minds of murderers like the two who killed the student body President at UNC. I know that these are the kind of hate-filled messages that reverberated in the minds of the DC snipers. How many American families suffered grievous losses because of despicable hate-mongers like Obama’s pastor?
Go back to the Zebra killings in San Francisco and any white person killed by the Black Panthers for a long history of the vile Black Racist, Wright spews.
He is no different than Calypso Louie in his hatred of America.
What’s the difference between an Islamic Mosque where they preach “kill the dhimmi’s” and Wright’s church where they preach “kill whitey”?
What’s the difference between an Islamic Mosque where they preach “kill the dhimmi’s” and Wright’s church where they preach “kill whitey”?
There is no difference if Wright has said “kill whitey”.
I haven’t seen nor heard that comment by Wright, yet.
How offended is Condi Rice from this garbage?
How many black people are kept DOWN from this hatred and assumption of racism EVERYWHERE.
And why are the only people who can be racist are white?
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