No, It's all about nuance...in French accent
Posted on 03/19/2008 10:27:12 AM PDT by Orwells Ghost
CNN fully lived up to its reputation as left of center Tuesday, on a day when Sen. Barack Obama was desperately trying to put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal behind him. In particular, the cable news channel's three programs in prime time seemed to have their guests selected and their scripts written by Sen. Obama's campaign. Fortunately, CNN puts transcripts of its shows online, so interested parties who missed the broadcasts live can still study these endless case histories in liberal bias...
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How true.
I’ve read the Beatitudes and Gospel of Jesus. I find very little in common with the venom spewed by Wright. I am offended that an ostensible member of the clergy (Holness) would pervert the teachings of my Lord and Savior to attempt to square them with the utterances of Wright.
I ask myself, if he were in attendance at Wright’s Church of What’s Happenin’ Now:
What Would Jesus Do?
“But I think it did an enormous amount of good for him [Obama] in suburban communities among better educated.”
If you don’t vote Obama not only are you racist, you are also stupid! Got it Freepers?
As sickening as the comparison to Jesus is, the comparison to King is almost as bad. Compare the “I Have a Dream” Speech to one of Wright’s sermons and the difference is like the difference between the Declaration of independence and the Communist Manifesto: Black and White, if you will.
No, It's all about nuance...in French accent
I saw a CNN piece yesterday analyzing the speech where they pointed out that Obama had now admitted seeing the offensive sermons after denying it and asking if people would interpret this as Obama being a “closet race divider.”
That piece that I saw was pretty well balanced actually because they also talked about what a good speaker he was.
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You know, even to kid around re: something like that...not so good. Conservatives are better than that. Wishing something like that is akin to "Rev" Wright stating that we got what we deserve on 9/11.
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Because, as we know, if Jesus were around today he would be blaming America for creating the AIDS virus.
What Obama said was that deep down he is not for post-racial policies. In fact he is ardently for them. His misdirection which easily fooled a gullible lib media should not fool an honest observer. Obama doesn't want to get past race, he wants to reinforce it.
-MLK Jr. on Vietnam
Sounds rather "damning" to me.
From later in the same sermon:
"The only change came from America as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept, and without popular support and all the while the people read our leaflets and received regular promises of peace and democracy and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps, where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs. So they go, primarily women, and children and the aged. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the towns and see thousands of thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. They see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers. We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the United Buddhist Church. This is a role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolutions impossible but refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overseas investments. I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
No.
Was the "I Have A Dream" speech a model of patriotic but pointed rhetoric?
Yes.
Did Martin Luther King, flawed though he was, put his life on the line in the fight against racism?
Yes.
Was Barack Obama even willing to put his membership in a particular church on the line in order to do the right thing?
Not even close.
Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Seems like MLK was damning Barack as well. As for the second section you quoted, we've got one sermon based on him being misinformed or prejudiced against the military vs. Jeremiah Wright preaching hate for forty years or so. MLK's flaw was that he placed non-violence at the top of the moral hierarchy, where it clearly doesn't belong. To list the things Wright has put on the same pedestal that don't belong there would take more time than we have.
NO SALE.
Not off-topis, and definitely called-for.
topis = topic
I don’t think MLK and Wright are the same at all, in intentions, rhetorical eloquence, or thematic emphasis. I only meant to suggest that they aren’t completely incomparable.
I see your point, but if you distill things to far they lose clarity. Britney Spears and Mother Teresa probably aren’t completely incomparable.
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