Posted on 03/17/2008 1:46:20 PM PDT by bahblahbah
I had a really good post all ready to go. There was a video posted by the Trinity United Church of Christ, which I found on their YouTube page, of Louis Farrakhan being honored with the Jeremiah A. Wright Trumpeter award. It's gone from YouTube. And there was a video of disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick receiving a similar award. It's gone from YouTube, too.
But the one I'm really mad about is the one of the church's new pastor, Otis Moss III, talking about gangster rap and crack cocaine. They pulled that one, as well. Maybe it had something to do with his blaming gangster rap on suburban white kids and big corporate media. I didn't really follow his logic, but somehow Ronald Reagan and AOL were involved and there's a hint that the same people who created gangster rap also created crack cocaine.
Although the video is gone, this blogger has a partial transcript:
Moss, continuing on his historical review of hip-hop: "But then something happened in 1984 at the same time that Time Warner/AOL and SONY and MCA realized they could make money off of this music, guess what, we will give you a contract and distribute your song if you put in the N-word, if you put in the H-word, if you put in the B-word...so when we talk about gangsta rap, we are not talking about something that came from the street, we are talking about what came from the corporate boardrooms...
"And the same time that gangsta rap rises, we also have crack hitting the streets...I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's mightily strange that gangsta rap and crack hit the same time in our community."
I guess I'm just cherry-picking, right?
I’m noticing some disappearances as well— but I’m also noticing that there are still a lot of videos that feature the rev’s words left up on the site. If you look for them.
Well they are owned by Google, so that explains it.
...as if they can take back everything that screwball of a ‘pastor’ has said! Sorry, Trinity church, the cat is out of the bag and Obama has been shown for what he is. You don’t associate for twenty years with someone unless you feel a bond with that person. As I’ve said before on this, birds of a feather flock together. Obama and Wright are obviously two peas in a pod.
If you’ve got something to hide, then you hide.
And if this is what we’re seeing now, just imagine the censorship of an BHO presidency - or a Hillary! one too, for that matter...
This is on our to do list for FR.
Not to worry, if Barry is able to get the nomination from the witch, I am sure there are some “Swift boat” types that can find a way to put them back in front of the public.
It's called THE MEMORY HOLE.
use http://keepvid.com/ to save youtube vids on your hard drive.
Then repost em to other sites if they get deleted.
So I just checked and Pastor Manning’s anti Obama rants are still up. This guy is as much of a racist as Rev. Wright, but not affiliated with Obama, (he doesn’t like Obama because he has a “white mama”)...but IMHO he’s really ranting against Obama because Manning is a Clinton supporter. Point being, Manning’s videos are as offensive as Wright’s yet they’re still on youtube.
Well back up the videos yourselves and repost them as you wish.
From The Corner
Durbin’s New Defense of Obama on the Wright Issue [Byron York]
The Obama campaign has just wrapped up a conference call with reporters. On the call, top Obama supporter Sen. Dick Durbin claimed that “many” of the controversial statements made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright were made before Barack Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ. “Many of the quotes that have been disclosed publicly were made by Reverend Wright at a time before Barack Obama became part of his congregation and in places where Barack Obama was not even present,” Durbin said. Later, asked about fallout from the Wright affair among Democrats, Durbin said, “Let me just say that the people I have spoken to understand, as I hope we all do, that to hold Sen. Obama accountable for speeches and sermons that were given before he joined the church is fundamentally unfair.”
To my knowledge, Wright’s statements “God damn America,” “America’s-chickens-are-coming-home-to-roost,” and “U.S. of KKK A” were made while Obama was part of the Trinity congregation, although the senator says he was not present in church for any of them. I don’t believe Obama has claimed that they were made before he joined the church, and I’m not sure why Durbin is using that argument now.
The Obama campaign quickly ended the call after the second Wright question.
03/17 04:16 PM
Can’t get Paul Shanklin’s parody played on Rush today, “Jeremiah Was My Pastor” sung to “Joy to the World” (Jeremiah was a Bullfrog version). There are
probably Rush copyright issues, but did anyone capture the
lyrics? It was hilarious. Chorus: “Reverend Wright was Wrong”
great concept.
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