Obama's ex-pastor confronts media in Washington

Reuters on yahoo ^ | 4/28/08 | Andy Sullivan

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blasted news media he said had sensationalized his remarks in an often confrontational appearance at a reporters' club on Monday.

But the Chicago preacher stood by the fiery sermons that have dogged Obama's Democratic presidential campaign since they gained public attention in March.

"You cannot do terrorism on other people and not expect it to come back to you," Wright said at the National Press Club when asked about a speech in which he asserted the September 11 attacks were retaliation for U.S. foreign policy.

Asked about another sermon in which he suggested the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to kill black people, Wright also did not retreat.

"Based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything," he said.

Obama, who is battling fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for the right to take on Republican John McCain in the November presidential election, joined Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ 20 years ago.

Obama has distanced himself from Wright's remarks and denounced some of his views, which many voters have interpreted as anti-American.

"Those citizens who say that have never heard my sermons," Wright said. "I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?"

Vice President Dick Cheney, an architect of the Iraq war, received student deferments that kept him out of military service during the Vietnam War.

Asked about a remark -- "God Bless America? No, God damn America" -- that has been widely circulated online, Wright said he had been quoting an Iraqi official.

"God damns some practices, and there is no excuse for some of the things the government, not the American people, have done. That doesn't make me not like America, or unpatriotic," he said.

Wright, 66, said the news coverage of his sermons showed a fundamental misunderstanding of the black religious tradition in America, which evolved over hundreds of years of slavery and repression.

"This is an attack on the black church," he said. "If you think I'm going to let you talk about my momma and her religious tradition, and my daddy and his religious tradition, you've got another think coming."

He said his church has a long history of political activism but also feeds, houses and educates thousands of needy people each year.

Wright was cheered enthusiastically by many black churchgoers in the audience, who often groaned in exasperation when the moderator asked questions submitted by journalists.

Wright, too, often challenged his questioners. He asked the moderator when she had last been to church and what her pastor had said there.

Others he dismissed as ignorant.

"You haven't heard the whole sermon? Well, that nullifies that question," he responded at one point.

[NormsRevenge]

The hits just keep on comin'...

We're all terrorists, yaknow.

The Lord truly does work in mysterious ways. ;-)

[kittymyrib]

From what I heard of his speech at the NAALCP (thanks, Rush) last night, Wright is just another Black Marxist. He wants total equality of outcome, not opportunity.
I’d like to live in a 1.5 million dollar house like the one he has, so I wonder how Obama will arrange that for all of us.

[Jeff Head]

Today, Wright gave us all the context for his former hate-filled remarks...by repeating them ad-nausium and trying to defend them.

That dog wont hunt. Obama's mentor and advisor is completely out of the bag now.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT


Communist Party Members, Marxists, Communist Leaders, Marxist Leaders, Communist Party USA


Domestic bombers & terrorists, International Islamic Terrorist Organizations & Financiers, Fundamental Islamic Leaders


Black Liberation Preachers and militants, New Black Panther Party, Black Nation of Islam, Socialist Party

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH


"Not God Bless America, no, no, no, God Damn America!" "911 is America's chickens coming home to roost"


"AIDS was created by the US for black geneocide," "If God is not for us & against whites, then he is a murderer, and we'd best kill him."

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S LACK OF PATRIOTISM TOWARD THE FLAG



THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S IDEOLOGY ON DISPLAY




Che Guevara was a radical, murderous Marxist revolutionary in Argentina, Cuba, and Bolivia. He became Fidel Castro's executioner.
Why, then, is his picture proudly diplayed at Obama election Headquarters? What change does Obama intend. What is his hope?

[Shermy]

“Wright, 66, said the news coverage of his sermons showed a fundamental misunderstanding of the black religious tradition in America, which evolved over hundreds of years of slavery and repression.”

Dang. Now we are going to have to suffer another 2+ weeks of white urban liberal pundits claiming Wright’s Marxish blather are a “black religious tradition” because they hope it so.

It seems verboten for the white liberal news media to ask Black clergy if this is true.

[chs68]

Does anyone happen to know which hotel "Rev." Wright stayed in last night?

I would guess it was likely the Mayflower or the Willard or the Four Seasons or one of the Ritz Carlton hotels.

You know, where the rich folk stay.

Rev. Wright can rant all he wants to about how awful and terrible White America is.

But HE enjoys the benefit -- every single day -- of living in the USA where the opportunities to life one's self up out of a life of poverty are great.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

He is a race baiter, opportunist that loves himself and worldly things, look at the house he is building in a white neighborhood, he is hypocrite and the chickens have come home to roost.

[ErnBatavia]

The way I'm seeing it now is that Hill's gonna have a whole lot easier time convincing those superdelegates.

My money's on her getting the nomination.....the 'Rat party will breathe a collective (maybe some in a dark room) sigh of relief and unify, along with their media allies, and pummel McCain.

[Jeff Head]

I do not believe they will pummel McCain in the least.

Hillary still has higher negatives...and, if she somehow wrestels the nomination from Obama, then a large part of their much required coalition (specifically blacks, far-left moonbats, and young liberals) will not vote for her...probably will not vote at all.

This has been one of the hopes from the beginning and it is coming to fruition.

It's just about to the point where it will work the same either way with a lot of Hillary supporters doing the same if Obama wins.

[Always Right]

LOL, very funny. Everything is supposedly out of context, but when asked to clarify the context he only confirms it.

[Fido969]

"You cannot do terrorism on other people and not expect it to come back to you,"

Hey, Reverend Wright, how about The Finger?

[prophetic]

Asked about a remark -- "God Bless America? No, God damn America" -- that has been widely circulated online, Wright said he had been quoting an Iraqi official.

Well imho IR-Reverent Wright is a G@D Damm LIAR!!

[Nachum]

"You cannot do terrorism on other people and not expect it to come back to you,"

"God damns some practices, and there is no excuse for some of the things the government, not the American people, have done. That doesn't make me not like America, or unpatriotic," he said.

"This is an attack on the black church," he said. "If you think I'm going to let you talk about my momma and her religious tradition, and my daddy and his religious tradition, you've got another think coming."

There is no cure for stupid.

[DGHoodini]

LOL! The Wrong Reverend Wright, has his ‘Münchhausen Cindy Moment’ with the MSM.

>Bo)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Was this article out of context?

[Kenny Bunk]

The Wright Stuff: Echoes of The Bell Curve?
by Ed Morrissey

One of the stranger aspects of Jeremiah Wright’s speech(to the NAACP):
“Africans have a different meter, and Africans have a different tonality,” he said. Europeans have seven tones, Africans have five. White people clap differently than black people. “Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style,” he said. “They have a different way of learning.” And so on.

This sounds oddly similar to claims made in

"The Bell Curve"
by Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein,
a book that created a firestorm of controversy with claims that race made a difference in IQ scores, among other claims. The two authors got reviled as racist enablers and their work became denigrated among a wide swath of researchers for seriously overreaching the science on which they relied for their conclusions. Bob Herbert wrote in the New York Times that The Bell Curve was “a scabrous piece of racial pornography masquerading as serious scholarship,” and that the book was “just a genteel way of calling somebody a n****r.” The American Psychological Association dismissed the racial differences hypothesized as “unsupported”.

Interestingly, one other point got made about the book, and specifically about its co-author Murray. Murray had no experience as a psychometrist, but instead received his PhD in political science. One critic tied Murray and his efforts to establish physiological differences in brains through genetics and race to one of the foundations that purportedly help fund the research for the book: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

.......... the book was widely seen as a piece of profoundly racist and classist pseudo-science, and was denounced by the American Psychological Association.

Who was the critic? Julian Bond — of the NAACP. This comes in a footnote to his 2005 speech to the NAACP at their 96th annual convention. Apparently, they didn’t like the notion of physiological differences in brain structure three years ago, but had no problem with cheering Jeremiah Wright when he used their stage for his own “pseudo-science”.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/28/the-wright-stuff-echoes-of-the-bell-curve/

[gunservative]

Asked about another sermon in which he suggested the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to kill black people, Wright also did not retreat.

"Based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything," he said.

Dear God in heaven, please keep this preacher talking!

[rogue yam]

Jeremiah takes questions at the National Press Club.

Part 1:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kcdUgRSftOc

[twigs]

So far, I think that Obama will receive the nomination. But I think the presence of Wright is one reason Clinton stays in. I would, too, if I were in her shoes. (Thankfully, I’m not.}

[The Klingon]

So how does Obama overcome today? I agree he likely has the nomination, but I can’t imagine how he captures any state that Kerry didn’t. Today’s activity alone puts a couple in play

[Argus]

Wright said. "I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?"

This is exactly what Johnson meant when he said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Wright served in the military which proves he's a patriot and therefore cannot be questioned about his anti-American philosophy. The drive-by smear of Cheney makes it a twofer.