Posted on 03/18/2008 9:13:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is a major scandal that threatens to derail Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, but the mainstream media is treating it as a minor political scuffle, says Fox's Bill O'Reilly.
In his talking points memo Monday night, O'Reilly played tapes of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright's (Obama's former pastor's) rants against the United States and then said that all clear-thinking Americans including Sen. Obama are appalled by what he called "those hateful words."
Noting that Obama said that the picture being painted of Wright is not accurate, O'Reilly wanted to know what about it was inaccurate and added, "Americans also don't know very much about Barack Obama. And so he has some explaining to do and not with soft-ball interviewers either."
"How," O'Reilly asked "can you have a close association with an American hater for 20 years? Surely Senator Obama knew how Wright felt even though he might not have heard the exact words. Also, what kind of judgment allows a sitting senator to attend a church that radical?"
O'Reilly noted that the latest Rasmussen poll shows Obama losing support across the country his favorability rating is down five points in three days, and the Wright controversy is the force driving them.
"The folks don't want leadership that is associated with that kind of hatred," O'Reilly said. "At this point, the story tells us more about the media than Senator Obama. And remember the very liberal New York Times attacked John McCain for associating with a lobbyist nobody ever heard of."
"The Times," he recalled, "put the story on page one and the liberal media ran with it. The McCain story was about association and judgment and what's the Obama story about? Association and judgment. But The New York Times buried the pastor story the paper must think its readers are stupid.
"Likewise, the nightly network news programs have downplayed the situation. On Friday, ABC News ignored it and NBC News gave it 20 seconds."
Had his "O'Reilly Factor" not broken the story wide last Thursday night, he said, "it would have likely died which is exactly what the leftist media wants.
"Finally Barack Obama says he deplored the racial aspect of the story, but who is really pushing race?" O'Reilly asked, adding, "I believe that would be [Obama's] former pastor and far-left zealots like Media Matters and Jesse Jackson. They are the chief race baiters in America."
"The Wright story," O'Reilly said, "is here to stay. Voters aren't going to forget it. Senator Obama should realize that and confront the issues on programs like this one where millions would see him, and he would get a fair hearing. If he does not fully explain his association with Pastor Wright he will not be elected president."
Same here, my FRiend.
The same O'Reilly who is not fooled a micron on the Obama/Jeremiah Wright America-hating connection still crows about how he thinks the the Swift Boat Vets engineered a bogus hit job (when in fact, they took some risks to out the truth about Mister Kerry's cowardice and remorseless, fraudulent self-aggrandizement.)
Although I appreciate O'Reilly's tough stance on many issues (and I don't expect to always agree with him), I do not forgive B.O. for his disgraceful treatment of the brave Swifties.
But BOR is wrong about two things: (1) Obambi cannot “fully explain” his relationship to Wright, b/c he is the disciple of a deranged spiteful America-hating POS. Obama chose this guy from all other possible mentors, and now he can only try to obfuscate and cloud the issue. (2) Obambi does NOT truly reject anything Wright said — that is who both of them are. Obama merely has to try to pull off a tactical movement to distance himself and pretend again to be the post-racial healer, but in fact Obama’s adult life is steeped in the virulent racism and anti-American Afrocentric b.s. of Wrights pastoral mission.
People are just beginning to realize that they have been conned by Obama and his media henchmen. People don’t like being conned.
Most of us would be delighted to vote for a black candidate, provided he had the right ideas.
Obama is a socialist, and he's married to a Black Panther wife and a Black Panther pastor.
No thanks.
Just as I’d have no problem voting for a Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir, I won’t vote for a Hillary Clinton or Geraldine Ferraro.
**”The Wright story,” O’Reilly said, “is here to stay. Voters aren’t going to forget it.**
We will not forget!
I’m surprised that BOR didn’t notice, additionally, that B. Hussein didn’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence, which he purported to be quoting, and the Constitution, which he actually did quote/paraphrase. When one is asking to be elected the leader of the United States of America, shouldn’t one be at least reasonably well acquainted with her two most intrinsic and foundational documents? If I were BHO, I would be equally as embarassed by my ignorance of my country’s history as by my nefarious relationships.
That's an easy one...
Read her words - they could be Rev. Bullfrog's.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC04Aa01.html
The Left’s problem CAN’T be buried...
That stinking corpse of a black Albatross WINNING CANDIDATE is still hanging around their neck - and before cameras and microphones EVERY DAY...
The more he denies the obvious racism of “Black Liberation Theology” and the bizarre claims and charges against White American — the deeper the phony #$^%$#^% slips into the toilet from whence he came..
Now — if we had only driven a stake into Hillary’s heart when she was down — the DNC would have no option but to declare Obama their winning Presidential Candidate....
And LOSE the White House....
Michelle Obama was just so sure she would be in the White House, but she was seen crying after the Obama speech.
Wonder why?
I think Lorraine X also advises Michelle.
So, on the one hand, Obama implies that he has basically cut all ties to Wright but the fact is he has most certainly not.
If I'm not mistaken, Obama kicked Wright off that committee as of last Friday. He threw him waaaay under the bus.
Huh? Whaaa? The media trying to bury a negative story about a liberal Democrat?!? The hell you say.
I’ll be filing this story under “No s**t Sherlock”.
NO good can come from pinhead oreilly—bury HIM (it)!!!!!
+ Tawana Brawley = Ms. hell Obama
Obama implies that he has basically cut all ties to Wright but the fact is he has most certainly not...the proof was BHO’s own words in his little “Come to Jesus” manifesto that he so arrogantly broadcast to evryone in the world yesterday. The Red Beast & Enemy Within is seen closeup, the SOP is divide and conquer. Will it work this time?
Obama: Who are you going to believe? Me or your own eyes, ears, and common sense? [Sadly, for most of the MSM, its him.]
There’s another story they haven’t addressed. The messiah candidate has not even attempted to discuss the biggest racial problem in contemporary America - the crime situation in their own community and the related rates of illegitimacy. They need to get that under control before delivering lectures to anyone else.
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