David Gergen on CNN: The Media Needs to 'Move On' From Rev. Wright Issue

NewsBusters.org ^ | 4/28/2008 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

Later in the segment on CNN’s "Newsroom" between Tony Harris, David Gergen, and Roland Martin after the Reverend Jeremiah Wright speech at the National Press Club (which Mark Finkelstein blogged about earlier), Gergen suggested that "it’s time for him [Rev. Wright] to get off the stage, and frankly, for the media, I suggest, to move on." He also twice characterized the whole affair as a "sideshow" [audio available here].

Shortly after a commercial break which came in the middle of the discussion, Gergen, in response to a question from "Newsroom" co-host Tony Harris, said of Rev. Wright, "Every time he appears, he just gives legitimacy and a hunger by those who oppose Barack Obama to re-run those tapes, to keep him at the center of controversy, to let this overhang and define Barack Obama, when it has, you know -- it has very, very little to do -- it's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for."

Gergen then talked about how the Rev. Wright issue was a distraction, and how the preacher should have handled himself after the controversy broke, all the while heaping praise on him, and at the end, making his "move on" suggestion.

[Pyro7480]

Video available at the link above as well.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

David Rodham Gergen has become the chief apologist for the Obama campaign.

[Uncle Hal]

Gergen is an idiot and is carrying water for the Democrats.

[kjo]

Move on...nothing to see here...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Whenever a Lieberal is trapped by the truth, he tries to change the subject.

[Uncle Miltie]

File under: "You know it's really hurting them when..."

[AppyPappy]

It’s been a whole 6 hours. It’s time to move on.

[Jeff Chandler]

Who cares what David Gurgle says?

[Jeff Head]

Gergen was licking his lips and drooling in anticipation of a smooth over speech by Wright to use to justify the assertion that everyone just took Wright so wrong.

Now that Wright has shown that no one took him out of context and came out with a speech and ansewers that re-affirmed his whole hate-filled, bigoted, anti-American, rase bating theological and ideological swill...Gergen is ready to just, "Move On".

He knows that there is no washing this thing with Wright now.

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."

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

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?

[roses of sharon]

CNN should be sued for false advertising.

[stockstrader]

Why does the media need to 'move on' (when was the last time THAT term was so popular?...lol)?

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is more important than a Presidential candidate's beliefs, values and judgment.

Obama's unwillingness to disavow a racist like Wright proves he is severely lacking IN ALL THREE!!!

[Always Right]

Just because Barrack surrounds himself by bigots, terrorists, and commies should not be an election issue.

[SPRINK]

this was supposed to be the template to take the Rev. Wright issue off the table....his church does good work...he’s misunderstood...good preacher etc.etc.

until this morning’s fiasco

[gusopol3]

he must have knocked Moyers out with a clean punch to the jaw then.

[Biblebelter]

Gergen just quoting Barry talking points.

[FrankR]

"David Gergen on CNN: The Media Needs to 'Move On' From Rev. Wright Issue...

In your dreams, davie boy.

[DGHoodini]

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

>Bo)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I guess this means David Rodham Gergen has dropped his middle name.

[Mr. K]

I thnk the “reverend” Wright’s speach from this past weekend was so bad he may have just taken himself off the map as an issue

The stupidity was so astounding you could almost believe Obama felt sorry for him. We had a priest when I was growing up that was famous for the idiocy of his comments but we still went to church each sunday.