Obama on the Imus controversy:
GREGORY: So he should be off the air, off MSNBC, and off CBS, off the air completely in your judgment?
OBAMA: Ultimately, you guys are going to have to make that view. He would not be working for me.
RUSH: "He would not be working for me," but Jeremiah Wright would be working for him and was working for him at the time. And, by the way, it wasn't CBS or NBC that got rid of Imus, it was the Reverend Al Sharpton who got rid of Imus, who cowed NBC and CBS into that. So Gregory says, "Okay, final point here. You've been a guest on Imus' show to promote your books. Will you or would you be a guest on his show in the future?"
OBAMA: No, I would not. I was on there once, actually, after Democratic National Convention, spoke about my book briefly, that's been my only experience on the show, and he was fine when I was on that show. But I don't want to be an enabler or be encouraging in any way of the kind of programming that results in the unbelievably offensive statements that were made.
RUSH: Okay, but he will enable and he will promote the statements 'til he gets caught, of course, of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, which are filled with hate, which is why he's got a problem here, folks. It's irrelevant now, but this speech and focusing on race, which he did, has highlighted for people all the hypocrisy now that this brilliant orator, this messianic candidate now brings to the campaign. And this, by the way, is one of the reasons that Mrs. Clinton hung around, even though she has no chance to take over the delegates. She hung around because of Operation Chaos. She also hung around to see if Obama would step in it.
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Obama Denounced Don Imus, But Won't Disown Reverend Wright
A great illustration of Obama's hypocrisy on hate.
The Obama Mask Has Come Off
"Candidate of Race" Speech Brings Obama's Authenticity into Question
People are judged by the company they keep. It is hard for me to believe that Obama would title one of his books based on one of Wrights sermons and yet be unaware of what he preaches. That Obama should protest that he only became aware of Wrights views at the outset of his presidential campaign, and yet retain him as a national leader of his campaigns African-American Religious Leadership Committee, descends to the depths of disingenuousness. Now thats what I call audacity.