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Obama Excused Wright Comments Before Saying He Never Heard of Them.
It's fascinating to watch the cable news talking heads try to digest this one.
After virtually equating Geraldine Ferraro's clumsy points on race with hate crimes, they are now stumbling to excuse Pastor Wright and Obama, terming them innocuous.
The "comments are taken out of context" I heard CNN's Jeffrey Toobin say this afternoon. Exactly what context makes, "The government created the HIV virus to kill blacks," and "America's bombing of Hiroshima" excuses the 9/11 terrorsit attacks, acceptable? And did the CNN talking head mean that his own network took them out of context? If only Toobin were so candid.
I haven't heard such hate-filed, deluded racist diatribes since Lester Maddox. Even Malcolm X came to abandon this style of rhetoric.
The most frightening part of the video (particularly the longer versions on YouTube, v.s. the excerpted ones on ABC and Fox) is to see the GenY types chanting and screaming in affirmation of Wright's hate speech. Don't dismiss this as the harmless rantings of an old eccentric. His pulpit reaches 8,000 parishoners.
As for Obama, he made up excuses for Wright's racist rants, before he said he had never heard about the comments. Backwards, much?
Continuing to believe in Obama now includes believing that he went to that church for about 25 years without ever witnessing or even hearing that Wright was making these comments.
If you buy that, I've got some Bear Stearns stock to sell you.