Has anybody actually taken the time to watch Rev. Wright's much maligned sermon in its entirety? The one that the MSM's diced and sliced and handed out like amphetamine-laced communion to its maddeningly impressionable flock? It's there, right on that cyber-commons otherwise known as YouTube.
Yeah, there's all manner of dross there too, banal sub-porno and pubescent moronics woven in alongside clips of Sid Caesar and W.C. Fields (that make anything referring to itself as comedy these days as pallid and lifeless as...well...a really pallid and lifeless thing); pimply teens wrestling and gawking and guffawing can be found and viewed, if that's your idea of a good time. It's a glimpse into our own misapplied youth and it's freakin' embarrassing. It's the Crap Drawer in our kitchen we have to wade through to find the one working flashlight when the fuses pop.
But the sermon's there, the latest in a series of unholy grails, and it's in a context that turns the media-manufactured controversy on its ear.
The Fourth Estate is as troubled as real estate, both suffering from an onslaught of unreliable vendors and lenders, both victimizing their customers through empty half-truths and brazen fraud. Fox and CNN's co-opting of Rev. Wright's incendiary text in order to convert their respective congregations into holy rolling glossolaliacs (that means, like, speaking in tongues, you know?) is as much a reason to lose faith in the democratic process as tampering with vote tallies in a national election. And it's edited with as much heart-stopping pizzazz as an action sequence in a '70s chop saki flick.
In spite of the Rev. Wright's arguably righteous anger spewed from his pulpit, and Obama's eloquent disengagement, the MSM knows fuel when it smells it, knows how to stoke the coals when they begin to cool. They take a moment of rage and imply a lifetime of hate. They depend on -- as much as any preacher does -- the crowd's susceptibility to rapture and the likelihood of its being swept up in the fervor of a moment or in the inspiration of a movement. And if they so choose they can take the upward trajectory of a people's hope and nudge it just enough to crash it into a ditch.
It's how information is disseminated these days; the responsibility to sift through the news, advice, guidance, whatever, has been all but abdicated by the individual and entrusted to those that might not be worthy of such a trust. Blessed are they that put their trust in Him. But even then, you might not be getting the whole picture.
This is the key for me: the more people know about Hillary, the less they like her. The more they know about Barack, the more they like him. Time is on his side.
Sincerely, a disenchanted journalist.
http://www.debone.com/boycottFoxNewsSponsors.html
The entire sermons were recorded right after 9/11 when white evangelical preachers were blaming promiscuity and gay people for the tragedy.
The AIDS crisis is most certainly not a genocidal plot against black people, but the other remarks about the bombing and the killing by Americans throughout history are undisputed.
He was asking America to hold a mirror up to themselves and ask themselves if they really deserve God's blessing. It's a fair question.
Sure, his sermons are fiery and arm-wavingly loud. But, he is not lying, or racist. He is just not accepting America, right or wrong. Must you?
Why not move on?
Why all the need to convince people what they saw was not what they saw?
Me thinks the Obama does protest too much.
His comments on 9/11 are essentialy in sync with those of the Pentagon's Defense Science Board : "Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as [US supported] tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states." The U.S. Senate 9/11 Commission concurs: Its report declares Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the "mastermind of the 9/11 attacks" and concludes that his "animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favouring Israel."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/26/politics/main596021.shtml
Obama knows the power of words. He knew of the sentiments and world view of his pastor. Somehow none of this bothers him since he allows his daughters to go to that church and to be indoctrinated there.
His unwillingness to publicly confront his pastor shows that he is unfit to run for president.
Cut the MSM manufactured BS. Did you even read the editorial above?
Wright is no more a demagogue than any other preacher in America. Nothing he said in any of his sermons is untrue. It's just material that is too difficult for the average self-satisfied white person to face (I'm white by-the-way). Like Weber writes above "They take a moment of rage and imply a lifetime of hate." You've obviously bought the snake oil.
But MSNBC is just shameful....Olbermann is JOKE. Here is an example of Olbermann spin....
Olbermann says...."superdelegates are Hillary's ONLY HOPE of winning this thing"
FACT "superdelegaes are also OBAMA's only hope of wining this thing"
The superdelegates are necessary for anybody to win. It is an unfortunate reality that we even have superdelegates. The very idea is a slap in the face to voters and to the concept of democracy for which so many have fought and died since our country was founded.
The man is a former marine for heaven sake,
even if he said it and temporarily meant it, he has earned that moment to vent....unlike so many of us who are just spouting hot air and never did anything but go to work in this country, and that includes many of these politicians who think they are owed something!
============
He earned a moment to vent????
Vent about how blacks should NEVER vote for Hillary because she is an uppity white bword, and dont be fooled thinking Bill Clinton was good to "them". Are you as outraged about this BLATANT RACE BAITING as you are about Bill uttering that horrible smear "jesse jackson"
no, you are not. :(
Furthermore, why is it that no one is outraged that esteemed people, like an Ambassador Peak, make "incendiary" statements about our country, but they're outraged when a black minister does? Wright himself said in the same sermon that the point of saying all of that was to look at ourselves and do a "self-examination" to keep our principles fair and honest. Maybe we can go a little of course from doing what's right when we forget our principles. He actually makes a lot of sense.
It was a brilliant speech full of ideas and solutions. In depth, detailed solutions that make complete sense. Shrillary's speech was aimed at the semi-retarded
Because I had simply pushed the record button when the speech began and then forgot about it, I ended up recording 4 hours of MSNBC. We watched the speech and started fast forwarding to see if I had also recorded Shrillary's speech.
My God! Watching 4 hours of cable news, speeded up five x, was a stunning experience.
Here's how it went...... Baraks speech.... cut off before the end... no analysis..right to the pastor... pastor video, talk about pastor,graphs and guests talking about the pastor, a blip on how clinton voters won't vote for Obama..pastor...pastor...traincrash...pastor....Bush's speech... little analysis..back to the pastor..clips of the ranting pastor...different guests discussing the pastor... a car crash... more on the pastor.. Shrillary's speech... no analysis..back to the pastor...graphs..pastor clip, guests discuss pastor... quick snip of McCain's stupid speech.. really quick pastor shot (raised arm)... train wreck...PASTOR..
You get the point.
It was deeply disturbing and incredibly racist. 4 hours of condensed,dangerous stupidity.
Meanwhile. Shrillary hasn't released her tax forms and the MSM is sitting tight on HER scary religious cabal with Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback.