Context For Reverend Wright...(READ PORTIONS OF HIS SERMONS)

Townhall.com ^ | 4/25/08 | Hugh Hewitt

[libbylu]

are you on drugs? all he/she did was post an article. Why are you being rude?

[LordBridey]

I saw the Moyers interview with Wright. I thought it very interesting, but was disappointed that even though Moyers mentioned it during the set-up piece, he didn’t ask Wright what’s up with the government inventing AIDS to kill people off? I would have liked to have seen the context of that.

[LordBridey]

I don’t have a problem with the belief that government’s lie. Some of his examples are legitimate. Some are imported from moonbatville. If not for his forays into fiction, he sounds like a conservative.

[Earthdweller]

You can’t sugarcoat this vile stuff with any flowery sermons. You could add a thousand sermons mixed together with the outrageous stuff and all you would have left is a bowl of pudding with a underlying foul oder to it. It’s all indigestible to me at this point.

[prayforpeaceofJerusalem]

Jeremiah Wright is no ways connected to anything that can be called “conservative”.
He’s a stark raving Marxist racist who lives high off the suckers he milks.
He rants and raves against this great nation and makes all kinds of false accusations against it and ‘whiteys”, whom he hates with a purple passion. He rants and raves against the government of the USA, and lies through his teeth about this nation and it’s founders and it’s people; and while ranting against “rich whitey’s” he is raking in the dough and living in a 10,000 plus sq ft homoe built with the proceeds of his lying words which home is in a gated community and which cost over 1.6 million dollars.
He is the epitome of “evil” and he and his kind want to stir up anarchy in this land and destroy it -that is what I hear in his ranting indoctrination messages.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/R-xAvsRIg_I/AAAAAAAAMbU/7UgRoYGPLGU/s400/wright+home.JPG
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicken-comes-home-to-roost-in-16.html
“Rev. Jeremiah Wright is about to roost in a 10,340 square foot $1.6 million dollar home.
It’s in a gated community no less— You’ve got to keep the riffraff out, you know.
FOX News reported:

FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.

quote “Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.

Now what is that famous quote by Jeremiah Wright again?... Oh yeah:”unquote

[LordBridey]

Jeremiah Wright is no ways connected to anything that can be called “conservative”.

A gated community might be considered something of a conservative concept. :o)

Nice to see some passion. I sense you don't like the guy too much.

[woofie]

To paraphrase Dean Martin:

Everybody signs up on FR Sometime....

[LJayne]

That was profound :)

[LJayne]

woofie, you have great common sense.

My two year old grandson asked his mother what common sense means and she told him it was doing the right thing. He said, “I love common sense.” Me too.

[LJayne]

The interview was ok but didn’t go far enough in my opinion. I agree with Hugh Hewitt, if you are going to mount the defense of “out of context,” then provide the context.

I think probably we’re going to be inundated with his full sermons on the internet, then people can make up their own minds.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Ther’s only one thing wrong with that cartoon.

It doesn’t accurately depict who the “reverend” really serves.

(Hint: the cross should be inverted.)

[zip]

ping

[aruanan]

Read, Buddy, read! Don't react to a tiny smidgen of a quoted article, make invalid assumptions, and then act as though the poster were posting based on a motive springing from your invalid assumptions. Hewitt simply said, Okay, Wright, that's a valid complaint that only small portions of your sermons have been played; let's listen to long portions of your sermons and see if there's anything different from the short portions. Hewitt took the end of the stick that Wright held out ("Only small portions of my sermons have been played") and proceeded to beat the crap out of him with it.

When he did, here is how he characterized the responses he got from various media folks, including Democrats:

Jim Geraghty of NationalReview.com's Campaign Spot listened to the new Jeremiah Wright audio posted immediately below (with transcripts being added as Duane can get to them). His reaction:

Permit me to propose a new rule: If your mentor of 20 years has ever declared the United States to be ‘the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!’ you are ineligible for the Presidency.

Jim is reacting in the same way as Fred Barnes, Morton Kondracke and many of my callers did yesterday when I played both of the sermons over the air. Now will MSM allow the public to hear the "context" Pastor Wright has complained he has been denied? It isn't like the cable channels are stuffed with can't miss material. One of them should play the audio.

[Arrowhead1952]

Wow, was watching that full sermon ever enlightening! The hatred, the ugliness, the derision, dare I say the bitterness, just drips off Rev. Wright's tongue. He calls Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “Uncle Clarence”, George Bush “a dumb Dixiecrat” and Condaleeza Rice “Conda Skeeza Rice”. After hearing so many Wright apologists say he was taken out of context, it turns out the context is even worse than the sound bytes.

Laura Ingraham read parts of one of these sermons on her show the other day. rev wrong said he is being "taken out of context" and some "sound bites are looped" to make everyone think he is anti American. After hearing her read the transcript, there were NO unanswered questions for me. This preacher is a lunatic.

[DugwayDuke]

“Laura Ingraham read parts of one of these sermons on her show the other day. rev wrong said he is being “taken out of context” and some “sound bites are looped” to make everyone think he is anti American.”

Well, that simply won’t work. This ‘out of context’ gambit is an old Black Muslim - Louis Farrakan trick. I’ve seen his minnons in TV interviews. When questioned about comments, they’re response is always ‘taken out of context’. When pressed for context, they’re response is that one must listen to the whole speech (hours long) before one can have the ‘context’ to criticize.

About a year ago, Sean Hannity interveiwed Wright. When question about his teachings, Wright gave Hannity a list of five books. Unless you had read all five books, you were unqualified and Wright would not discuss his teachings with unqualified individuals.

So, you see, Ingram didn’t read all of the sermon and you haven’t read Wright’s five books so you don’t have the ‘context’ or the qualifications to discuss this. (According to the Black Muslims and Rev. Wright.)

[tanknetter]

My point is that most people can understand English and we know what the Reverend Wright said. (caver)

Yes, but what's the likelihood that Wright's own congregants can understand English, and therefore know what he said? ;-)

So, you see, Ingram didn’t read all of the sermon and you haven’t read Wright’s five books so you don’t have the ‘context’ or the qualifications to discuss this. (DugwayDuke)

What's the likehood that Wright's congregants can read five books (or, rather, read ... period) and therefore can understand the context. ;-)

Ok, seriously now ... Wright is a problem-profiteering (per the Booker T. Washington definition, ref: his nice big new McMansion) demagague. My guess is that Wright's own congregation doesn't bother to listen to a fraction of what he spews. They just get caught up in/seduced by all the animated oratory, theatrics, etc associated with his sermons. Sort of like how many Germans responded to Hitler's speeches back in the 30ths, without having read Mein Kampf (note: I am in no way drawing any sort of moral or scope comparison between true evil like Hitler and the Nazis and two-bit carnival barkers like Wright - just using the well-known example of the Nurnberg rallies to illustrate my point)

One neat thing that Hannity or someone could do is one of those "man on the street" interview series where they stand outside of Wright's church and try to see if the congregants could answer questions about the content of what they just heard.

[LordBridey]

The interview was ok but didn’t go far enough in my opinion.

I agree that it didn't go far enough. I really would like to know on what basis they link the AIDS virus to a government plot to commit genocide. That said, it was enlightening to hear more of the sermons, rather than just the incriminating phrases, and it was useful to hear the context of the psalms under discussion, and the context of Christian morality in the context of the black experience.

But in the end, that is a whole lot of context to weed through and it still doesn't explain the more unreasonable statements. Oh.....and watching him deliver his sermons I think the notion of him "getting carried away" is not true. He was refering to his notes throughout, so he seemed to know exactly what he was saying. Those were not spontaneous remarks. Somewhere along the way, he has been sipping the water in Moonbatville.

[LJayne]

I agree. When he was reading his notes that was something he had thought about before and so he wrote down what he wanted to say. It definitely was not a spontaneous moment.

[LJayne]

That’s a great idea. They would say, I don’t know but whatever it was it was good! When people get cranked up emotionally they do or say almost anything. It’s more like crowd hypnotism.