Wright: Controversy over sermons ‘unfair’

[Jon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24296047/

Imagine this, a black racist bitching about something being unfair. How predictable.

"I do what I do. He does what politicians do," Wright said. "What happened in Philadelphia, where he had to respond to the sound bites, he responded as a politician."

Is it just me, or is Wright admitting that Obama is a lying sack of garbage and only said what America wanted to hear just to make himself look good?

 

[midcan5]

Damn, the election troll is back.

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Make-Believe-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1931498571/ref=ed_oe_p[/ame]

Read this book then condemn Wright.

 

[TheGoodShepherd]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24296047/

Imagine this, a black racist bitching about something being unfair. How predictable.



Is it just me, or is Wright admitting that Obama is a lying sack of garbage and only said what America wanted to hear just to make himself look good?

What?

 

[rayboyusmc]

s it just me, or is Wright admitting that Obama is a lying sack of garbage and only said what America wanted to hear just to make himself look good?

It's only you and those who want Obama to lose just because he is Obama. I listened to more than the little bite you had. I am looking for a script now. I believe Wright said that some of the words that he is being attacked for were from a quote form a "white" guy.

This is all bullshit to cloud the picture.

 

[AllieBaba]

You're nuts.

 

[rayboyusmc]

still looking for a full script:

The persons who have heard the entire sermon understand the
communication perfectly.



When something is taken like a sound bite for a political purpose and
put constantly over and over again, looped in the face of the public,
that's not a failure to communicate. Those who are doing that are
communicating exactly what they want to do, which is to paint me as some
sort of fanatic or as the learned journalist from the New York Times
called me, a "wackadoodle."



It's to paint me as something: "Something's wrong with me. There's
nothing wrong with this country...for its policies. We're perfect. Our
hands are free. Our hands have no blood on them." That's not a failure
to communicate. The message that is being communicated by the sound
bites is exactly what those pushing those sound bites want to
communicate.



BILL MOYERS:
What do you think they wanted to communicate?



REVEREND WRIGHT:
I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am
un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at
Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his
church, hint, hint, hint? That's what they wanted to communicate.



They know nothing about the church. They know nothing about our prison
ministry. They know nothing about our food ministry. They know nothing
about our senior citizens home. They know nothing about all we try to
do as a church and have tried to do, and still continue to do as a
church that believes what Martin Marty said, that the two worlds have to
be together. And that the gospel of Jesus Christ has to speak to those
worlds, not only in terms of the preached message on a Sunday morning
but in terms of the lived-out ministry throughout the week.



BILL MOYERS:
What did you think when you began to see those very brief sound bites
circulating as they did?



REVEREND WRIGHT:
I felt it was unfair. I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I
felt for those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious
reasons.






Excerpt 2






BILL MOYERS:
Did you ever imagine that you would come to personify the black anger
that so many whites fear?



REVEREND WRIGHT:
No. I did not. I've been preaching since I was ordained 41 years ago.
I pointed out to some of the persons in Chicago who are in all of this,
new to them that the stance I took in standing against apartheid along
with our denomination back in the '70s, and putting a "Free South
Africa" sign in front of the church put me at odds with the government.
Our denomination's defense of the Wilmington Ten and Ben Chavis put me
at odds with the establishment. So, being at odds with policies is
nothing new to me.



The blowup and the blowing up of sermons preached 15, seven, six years
ago and now becoming a media event, not the full sermon, but the
snippets from the sermon and sound bite having made me the target of
hatred, yes, that is something very new and something very, very
unsettling.






Excerpt 3






BILL MOYERS:
Here is a man who came to see you 20 years ago. Wanted to know about
the neighborhood. Barack Obama was a skeptic when it came to religion.
He sought you out because he knew you knew about the community. You led
him to the faith.



You performed his wedding ceremony. You baptized his two children. You
were, for 20 years, his spiritual counsel. He has said that. And, yet,
he, in that speech at Philadelphia, had to say some hard things about
you. How did those words...how did it go down with you when you heard
Barack Obama say those things?



REVEREND WRIGHT:
It went down very simply. He's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to
two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a
politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two
different worlds.



I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in
Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as
a politician.






Excerpt 4






BILL MOYERS:
In the 20 years that you've been his pastor, have you ever heard him
repeat any of your controversial statements as his opinion?



REVEREND WRIGHT:
No. No. No. Absolutely not.



I don't talk to him about politics. And so he had a political event, he
goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician. I
continue to

 

[rayboyusmc]

http://www.yahoo.com/

Don't know if this will work.

Also, he was a Marine.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Oh, he was a Marine...now that makes him all good...NOT

Rev Wright "feels" this and he "feels" that...big deal. I am not afraid of "black anger"....my response to that nonsense is "grow up".

I'm still wondering why Wright had to "lead" Obama to "the Faith"....this after Obama went to Harvard and all....

wasn't Obama brought up to believe in Christianity?

Oh...and exactly what is "the Faith" that is being referred to? I understand Muslims are as welcome as Christians to his political group....er, church.

 

[Ravi]

Yeah, and Bush used to be a Muslim too, that's why he had to be born again.

 

[AllieBaba]

What a thoughtful contribution.

 

[jreeves]

Damn, the election troll is back.

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Make-Believe-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1931498571/ref=ed_oe_p&tag=ff0d01-20

Read this book then condemn Wright.

Awe...poor little misunderstood Wright.....He said God Damn America...But...But....he meant God bless America....


This is truly funny to watch liberals scramble to the aid of a racist.....

 

[jillian]

Awe...poor little misunderstood Wright.....He said God Damn America...But...But....he meant God bless America....

Wright said it...not Obama...which is why you sound absurd.

And the stupid little laugh at the end.... damn, you must get your butt kicked an awful lot.

 

[Alpha1]

How many of YOUR FRIENDS are hate spewing, anti-American, racial bigots?
How many of YOUR FRIENDS believe the US government spread HIV among black americans on purpose...?
How many of YOUR FRIENDS believe that the US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks....?

IF your answer is even 1, then YOU have a problem with choosing friends....or maybe you are like minded, and think just like your friends....

 

[jreeves]

Wright said it...not Obama...which is why you sound absurd.

And the stupid little laugh at the end.... damn, you must get your butt kicked an awful lot.

Lmao...see you prove my point

 

[jillian]

Lmao...see you prove my point

Did you have a point?

 

[jreeves]

Did you have a point?

My point is that a lot of liberals have been scrambling to the aid of a racist in Rev. Wright. Thats funny to me, sorry.

 

[jillian]

My point is that a lot of liberals have been scrambling to the aid of a racist in Rev. Wright. Thats funny to me, sorry.

It's not Wright anyone's defending... it's that we don't like the rabid right's little tactic of attributing wright's comments to Obama because you're so desperate for a win any way you can get it...

even with a candidate you all hate.

But that's been typical of the jerks for the last ohhhhhhhh...8 years or so.

 

[jreeves]

It's not Wright anyone's defending... it's that we don't like the rabid right's little tactic of attributing wright's comments to Obama because you're so desperate for a win any way you can get it...

even with a candidate you all hate.

But that's been typical of the jerks for the last ohhhhhhhh...8 years or so.

Jillian, this is from Mindcan's post which drew my response.

Read this book then condemn Wright.

Although with that being said, I believe Obama did in fact subscribe to Black Liberation Theology or else he wouldn't have attending Wright's church for 20 years.

 

[Swamp Fox]

It's only you and those who want Obama to lose just because he is Obama. I listened to more than the little bite you had. I am looking for a script now. I believe Wright said that some of the words that he is being attacked for were from a quote form a "white" guy.

This is all bullshit to cloud the picture.

I want Obama or Clinton to lose because I don't want to live in the Socialist States of America. I only wish that McCain was not the alternative.

 

[jillian]

I want Obama or Clinton to lose because I don't want to live in the Socialist States of America. I only wish that McCain was not the alternative.

Because your guys have done such a good job bankrupting the country the past 7 years, I'm sure.