Posted on 04/28/2008 1:30:56 PM PDT by 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.
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Well then tell Rev. Wright to stop trotting all over the country shooting his mouth off.
Is he related to another Rodham???
I don’t care whether the media moves on from Wright, the truth has been served.
I had no idea that black people hated us so much.
My friend just returned from 18 months in Iraq where she served as a translator. Born in Palestine, she lived here for her adult life and her daughter served in the US Navy. She told me that she absolutely loved the US servicemen and women, who were so kind to the Iraqis, so honest, so upstanding, so straightforward— they were the best people she’d ever met in her life. Except the black soldiers, who had a sort of “black panther” thing going. She couldn’t trust them at all. Thing is, before she went to Iraq she was very left wing. Now, she’s more conservative than Rush.
Wright makes it a big issue when he says that criticism of him is criticism of the black church. That collectivist attitude will also apply to Obama should he get the nomination. Any criticism of him will be spun as criticism of the black race.
This issue is larger than the focus on one man. It’s about a whole segment of the population, black and white, who harbor anti-American sentiments and seek to call attention to themselves and profit from those sentiments.
Twenty years, you moron. If a man eats roast duck once or twice in his life, roast duck is a very marginal piece of who he is. If he sits in a pew most sundays for twenty years listening to an idiot spew racist hate, and despite the fact that Jesus Christ says we are all brothers and to love your neighbor, and to love your enemies, sits like a silent little schoolboy saying nothing that is far from being "a very marginal piece of who Obama is."
Twit.
The media need to “move on” from David Gergen. He’s a classic talking head: empty, tilted Leftward and omnipresent. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” as Shakespeare wrote.
Not likely to happen. It's been reported that Wright has a book coming out in 3 months. He's going to cash $$$ in.
If there are any Dr. Who fans in here, Obama is the black John Saxon. (Ever seen a Muslim Dalek?)
Our very own Mugabe in embryo.
The title of Obama's book is based on a Wright sermon. Obama spelled out in his book what an influence this pastor had on him. He was in his congregation for 20 years, has given him $22,000, said he could no more disown him than he could disown his white grandmother. What possible rational basis, other than out and out desire to spread propaganda for the Obama campaign, does Gergen have to say that Wright is not important, if not central, to who Barack Obama is and what he really stands for beyond the meaningless platitudes he normally serves up.
They are the main attraction. They represent the trough he has drunk so deeply out of for the last 20+ years.
What the hell does he stand for? Hope and change and hoping for change? When you talk in generalities you will be defined this way. Obama hasn't got a long enough record in the national eye to give people an idea of where his center is. Most people don't have enough of a sense of who he is to feel confident about what decisions he would make in tough circumstances. The fact that he started his political career raising money in the living room of an admitted domestic terrorist, and that he has had a close long-term relationship with a guy who preaches that white America invented AIDS to kill blacks says a lot avbout his thought process. It is absolutely relevant and may keep this socialist from becoming President.
Gergen is the poster child for irrational white guilt.
David Rodham Gergen using reverse psychology. ;)
Obama, his campaign, and the whackjob preacher has done some irreparable damage to a multi-billion dollar industry:
The race extortion industry.
1. VERY, VERY few white people attend churches where there is a black god and a white god, and that if there is a white god, then it should be murdered.
2. The leading candidate for President of the United States not only attends one of these churches, but counts the pastor as his mentor, and would rather slander his own white mother than disown this man.
3. After this election, it will be an extremely difficult thing to compare a CEO of a major corporation to Rev. Wright and have a jury come back with a finding that the CEO was a racist. Wright has set the new high bar for what a racist actually looks like, and he isn’t white.
He is having a wet dream, believes people listen to him, Hussein is toast any way you look at it. This will be series and hugh.
We may need to start calling him David Hussein Gergen. He epitomizes the worst kind of Republican, which is the kind who wakes up every morning wondering how he can prove his “open mindedness” to liberals.
David Gergen should move on
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