Senator Barack Obama's controversial church and its controversial pastor are mentioned from time to time. Now the Big Media is beginning to take notice, as in this report from ABC News' Brian Ross:
Obama is going to be called upon again and again to explain things like the award bestowed on Louis Farrakhan, "G*d d*mn America!", "the US of KKK-a," and blaming America for 9/11. His weak non-denials, as when he "rejected" Farrakhan's anti-semitic words (but not his support), will not suffice any longer.
UPDATE: Fox News also bought the videos from the church, and found more interesting clips:
It was not the first time Wright appeared to endorse Obama, who was baptized at Trinity United, has been an active member of the church for two decades and receives spiritual mentorship from Wright.The title of Obama's second book, "The Audacity of Hope," was taken from a sermon by Wright.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama's upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright said. "Hillary would never know that.
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person."
In his Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
"Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
Read the rest at the link provided.
Comments (76)
This needs to be explained.... (Below threshold)1. Posted by WildWillie | March 13, 2008 4:02 PM | Score: 7 (9 votes cast)
This needs to be explained. The way I see it is that this racist preacher is the reason Michell O. is not proud of this country as is Barrack. This is shameful.
Imaging if McCain went to Bob Jones University or CBN or Jerry Falwell's school. Imagine the MSM's reaction. The left should demand he explain his beliefs and distance himself from this racist. ww
1. Posted by WildWillie | March 13, 2008 4:02 PM |
Score: 7 (9 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 16:02
2. Posted by Pretzel_Logic | March 13, 2008 4:04 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
This looks like a parody, it's that scary. I heard today that this guy is on BHO's staff now. Let's see if more of the drive-by's will pick it up.
2. Posted by Pretzel_Logic | March 13, 2008 4:04 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 16:04
3. Posted by Pretzel_Logic | March 13, 2008 4:13 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
"The left should demand he explain his beliefs and distance himself from this racist. ww"
A little late for that.
3. Posted by Pretzel_Logic | March 13, 2008 4:13 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 16:13
4. Posted by Clay | March 13, 2008 4:27 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Well, well, well...By ABC no less.
4. Posted by Clay | March 13, 2008 4:27 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 16:27
5. Posted by Peter F. | March 13, 2008 4:30 PM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
I stopped at "God damn America." Only God has the power to "damn" anything.*
*Though I freely admit to using the phrase too often myself, and thus receive the evil eye from the Mrs. F. Then again, I'm not a Man of God, either. A Man of God in this case (cough, cough)should know better.
Gee, I wonder where Obama got his cheap empty-suited and sometimes bombastic rhetoric from? Couldn't be from....
5. Posted by Peter F. | March 13, 2008 4:30 PM |
Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 16:30
6. Posted by Falze | March 13, 2008 4:55 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Don't they know it's racist to bring stuff like this up?
6. Posted by Falze | March 13, 2008 4:55 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 16:55
7. Posted by Swanny | March 13, 2008 5:02 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
God is fall gonna be fun!
7. Posted by Swanny | March 13, 2008 5:02 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 17:02
8. Posted by Jo | March 13, 2008 5:48 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
What's that sound? Oh yes, it's the oven timer buzzing. Obama is done.
8. Posted by Jo | March 13, 2008 5:48 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 17:48
9. Posted by Jo | March 13, 2008 5:49 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
P.S. This stuff is just begging to be used for parody on SNL. Please guys, do it.
9. Posted by Jo | March 13, 2008 5:49 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 17:49
10. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 5:58 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Obama is done.
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Jo, not quite sure. This hate-America, hate-Israel rhetoric resonates with the radical left. Maybe that 's the real reason why liberals support Obama. Unless they are really naive, the liberals know deep down that all the talk about "hope" and "change" is simply propaganda to fool people. The true reason for liberals' support of Obama may be this anti-America and anti-Israel ideology.
10. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 5:58 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 17:58
11. Posted by treewrestler | March 13, 2008 6:01 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Judging by this loser B.H.O. has a lot more to worry about than the presidency, if these are the misguided teachings he has been studying and living by for the past twenty years I dont think people realise the "new direction" he wants to lead us on. Its a shame the government has become so politicaly correct they wont call this A-hole Wright,s political movement what it really is (not a church of God) and at the least pull his tax exempt status, for B.H.O. to sit through this brain washing week after week in apparent agreement,(without distancing himself from this nut) and then seek the White House is unacceptable to any real American (black or white).
11. Posted by treewrestler | March 13, 2008 6:01 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 18:01
12. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 6:36 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Can you suspect who is driving this "vetting"? Does anybody doubt that this type of investigation will be the daily norm from now through the PA primary?
Go Hillary!
12. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 6:36 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 18:36
13. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 13, 2008 6:59 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Sam, does it really matter who vetted this information. Nobody put words in Wrights mouth. He spoke them loud and often. When one listens to Michele Obama speak, do you not hear the voice of Wright? Looks like we will not have to ridicule B. Hussein Obama's ears after all.
13. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 13, 2008 6:59 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 18:59
14. Posted by andrew | March 13, 2008 7:09 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
This guy preaching hatred towards whites is not just Obama's preacher, he is his MENTOR, and has been for 20 YEARS.
Think America.
This hate mongerer mentor is where Obama gets his ideas. Obamas book, the Audacity of Hope, came from the hate preacher.
Perhaps the book should be called, The Audacity of Barack Obama.
14. Posted by andrew | March 13, 2008 7:09 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:09
15. Posted by treewrestler | March 13, 2008 7:18 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Sam, I dont think Hillary would get anywhere near this, maybe Rush and his crew? but you (are) known by the company you keep. The best B.H.O. can do is publicly disassociate himself with this type of radical anti-American propaganda. If any other U.S.A. presidential candidate associated with known, documented, anti-American race baiters, and did not disavow them their loyalties whould be equally questioned "I didnt think it could be that bad untill I saw it for myself"
15. Posted by treewrestler | March 13, 2008 7:18 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:18
16. Posted by 914 | March 13, 2008 7:21 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Baracq Earbama is finished.. nice job preach.
16. Posted by 914 | March 13, 2008 7:21 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:21
17. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 7:34 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
ZR and TW: Don't get me wrong, I am loving the Dem in-fighting going on. I am just trying to understand how, all of a sudden, this thing pops up.
It is one prong of a well-designed strategy of the Hillary campaign. Between now and the PA primary, she is preparing to dismantle Obama piece by piece. First, she used Ferraro to gin up the race issue, with the obvious motivation of driving up her margins among white voters. Second, she is going to tie Obama with his church and his pastor. As Mickey Kaus in Slate points out, she is going for the "Jessie-fication of Obama".
17. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 7:34 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:34
18. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I think Sam has a point. Ferraro baited Obama to condemn her and demand an apology from Hillary. Now what is Obama going to say about his pastor and mentor for 20 years? Why is he willing to subject his wife and kids to this hate-filled preaching for all these years?
18. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:42 PM |
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Posted on March 13, 2008 19:42
19. Posted by cbendersf | March 13, 2008 7:44 PM | Score: -3 (3 votes cast)
Strong words, sure, but he's telling it like it is. America has some shitty things about it, just like any other country. I think this will cost Obama the nomination if he doesn't do something drastic about it and soon, like join a different church. How ironic this came from a christian church and not a "madrassa" or mosque.
19. Posted by cbendersf | March 13, 2008 7:44 PM |
Score: -3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:44
20. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:46 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
America has some shitty things about it, just like any other country.
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Is this another attempt at moral equivalency to equate America to North Korea or the old Soviet Union?
20. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:46 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:46
21. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:47 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I think this will cost Obama the nomination if he doesn't do something drastic about it and soon, like join a different church.
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It is too late and too opportunistic (ie dishonest) at this time.
21. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:47 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:47
22. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:50 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
BTW, how can you talk about healing and unity when you are willing to associate with this hate-filled preaching and division for 20 years? Liberals know deep down that "hope" and "change" are simply propaganda to fool the naive/uninformed. Liberals supported Obama probably because of this anti-American ideology and his extremist liberal agenda.
22. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 7:50 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:50
23. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 13, 2008 7:55 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I agree it is pretty shitty when someone who has literally not managerial experience and very little government experience. Gets a free pass from the media, so far, and has lived on the empty promise of change and hope with no definition of what to change or hope for, gets to run for President. What a rotten country where you can come to, gain freedom most of the world can only dream about, gain wealth or what ever one desires all based on ones own efforts. Sounds pretty shitty to me. I am sure the Soviet Union, Communist China, North Korea, East Germany, Cuba et al, were or are much better places to raise ones children. If it were not for the United States of America, you would be speaking German and saluting a swaztika.
23. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 13, 2008 7:55 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 19:55
24. Posted by Maggie | March 13, 2008 7:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Tsk...tsk...he tried mightily to cya with a
comma
/sarcasm
24. Posted by Maggie | March 13, 2008 7:58 PM |
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Posted on March 13, 2008 19:58
25. Posted by Larkin | March 13, 2008 8:33 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Fortunately Reverend Wright retired last month so I don't think this story will have any legs.
25. Posted by Larkin | March 13, 2008 8:33 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 20:33
26. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 8:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Fortunately Reverend Wright retired last month so I don't think this story will have any legs.
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The Reverend Wright announced his retirement from the church, and it will not become effective until May of 2008. He's not gone yet. He's still there at the church, and he's still on the Obama campaign. He held his last sermon Sunday, February 10th. He will be on sabbatical leave from the church from March until May 'cause that's when he's on the Obama campaign.
And yeah, Obama only drink this hate-filled Kool-Aid until Feb 2008! Another Obama 's supporter, oops, worshipper, cannot accept the truth.
26. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 8:38 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 20:38
27. Posted by regina reynolds | March 13, 2008 8:52 PM | Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
Why don't you all face it. Our country, the country we love, has done some pretty horrendous things and we always downplay these events. What we did to the American Indian was apartide. What we did in Latin American and are doing now in Columbia is terrible. Remeber how we treated the Japanese Americans? I am an American,a white female of immigrant parents, a mother, and I love this country because it is the only country I know. I feel extremely lucky to be born here. We are a wealthy nation. But this preacher is correct, we do all kinds of terrible things and make up history to color them pretty while we critize others. In the mean time we were the last major nation at the time to do away with salary. We are one of the only industrialize countries that still has the death penality. We put leaders in power that later kill their own. We are often driven by wealth and greed. Many of our citizens do not know what their country does and doesn't care to know. Before this election, the majority of people didn't even vote. If I grew up Black, I believe that I would really understand what this preacher was talking about. Face it, we have been unfair to our Black Brothers and Sisters. We have been down right awful. So open your eyes and love this country enough to see its problems ans work to change them, not just hide your head in the sand.
27. Posted by regina reynolds | March 13, 2008 8:52 PM |
Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 20:52
28. Posted by HughS | March 13, 2008 9:00 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Fortunately Reverend Wright retired last month so I don't think this story will have any legs.
Larkin, that is the epitome of magical thinking on this particular issue. But there is a silver lining in this for you. It will be a Democrat that eviscerates your candidate with this, not a Republican.
I warned you a few weeks ago that when Maggie Williams joined the campaign as Chief it was the Obama Meet Your Mama Moment. Well, that time has arrived.
28. Posted by HughS | March 13, 2008 9:00 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:00
29. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 13, 2008 9:03 PM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Regina, for all the faults of this nation, name one in the world that has done as much for others and asked so little in return. We saved Europe, no, the whole world from Fascism. We opposed world communism and the expansion of the Soviet Union. No nation on earth is without fault. Look at the history of Europe if you want to feel good about America. Who was the last American Dictator. Where are the extermination camps. Who attacked whom December 7, 1941? If you do not like it here, go somewhere else. I am sick to death of people who live in the best place on earth to live who do nothing but degrade it. The only land we ask of those nations we have conquered is the space to bury our dead. I don't know who lied to you about Amercan history, but just compare this nation to any other before you damn with faint praise.
29. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | March 13, 2008 9:03 PM |
Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:03
30. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 9:15 PM | Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
Regina,
Is this a joke? Obama and Michelle are in the top 1% in this country? They have led a life that many of us can only dream of! For them to continue to enjoy the freedom and prosperity this country offered to them while willingly drinking this hate-filled rhetoric and division is HYPOCRISY at best.
Do you know that America saved the world from WW 1 & 2? Do you know that America saved the world from communism? Do you know that America ended slavery with its own blood? Do you know that America saved the world from colonialism? Japanese Americans got interned. Do you know what they do to dissidents in communist countries in Latin America and around the world? Show me a better country than America. Many American did charity work around the world with the risk to their own lives. America is giving a lot to charities on their own. For whatever reasons, you don't know these things. America has given blood and treasure to bring freedom and prosperity to the most number of people on earth (in the history of mankind)
We had a long discussion on death penalty already. I can explain to you some other time.
This pastor is promoting racial hate and division. He refused to acknowledge any progress that has been made in America in terms of race and gender. I don't know how one can defend this bigotry.
30. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 9:15 PM |
Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:15
31. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 9:24 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
BTWm here is more info on Obama 's view
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html
Also this is the "change" that Obama "hopes" to bring to Washington. So if you want to support Obama, let 's be honest about the reason (hating Bush, loving his liberal agenda of "killing babies/disabled, not terrorist" big gov ...). Let 's not bring up the craps about "hope", "change", "new politics" etc ... People are informed here.
One of Obama's Earmarks Went to Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama
31. Posted by LoveAmerica, Immigrant | March 13, 2008 9:24 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:24
32. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:28 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
wright killed obama
32. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:28 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:28
33. Posted by HughS | March 13, 2008 9:29 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Regina
In the mean time we were the last major nation at the time to do away with salary (sic?).
Not quite correct, but the liberals are working on it :)
Our country, the country we love, has done some pretty horrendous things and we always downplay these events.
Regina, have you been on a college campus in the past forty years? These horrendous things are the core curriculum.
We put leaders in power that later kill their own.
Hmmm? Some names would help.
We are often driven by wealth and greed.
Yes, Adam Smith would agree to that in some respect, but somehow I think his reasoning would escape you.
Many of our citizens do not know what their country does and doesn't care to know.
Agreed.
Face it, we have been unfair to our Black Brothers and Sisters. We have been down right awful. So open your eyes and love this country enough to see its problems ans work to change them, not just hide your head in the sand.
Agreed, I think. Let's start with the Liberal Plantation that has enslaved blacks long after Lincoln signed the Emancipation. Let's put the Public school program under that microscope in every city and county and find out who is holding these youg people back.
Regina, before you throw our country under the bus, you need to gain some perspective. I suggest you intensively study Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro and other scourges of the 20th Century to understand what THIS country has done for oppressed people everywhere.
33. Posted by HughS | March 13, 2008 9:29 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:29
34. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:35 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
mr. wright is like a black kkk grand dragon that barack obama has been hanging out with in the "so called church" for 20 years. i think birds of a feather flock together...........both racists. so it's hellory now i guess. where is bill richardson when we need him?????
34. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:35 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:35
35. Posted by treewrestler | March 13, 2008 9:40 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I think Regina is right! it is all her fault, her and people with guilt complexes like her she needs to join and start titheing to this nutball church so that under priveledged people (like Obama and Michelle) can afford to eat. P.S: being the strongest nation on earth comes with certain responsibilities like it or not, every other would gladly trade places with the U.S.A.
35. Posted by treewrestler | March 13, 2008 9:40 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:40
36. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:44 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
anyway, wright is as ugly as satans asshole.
36. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:44 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 13, 2008 21:44
37. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:48 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
i didn't mean to be vulgar but this guy is a hate machine from hell.
37. Posted by sam | March 13, 2008 9:48 PM |