So why did tis story become so important and why did it arise.

While the press and right wing have ascribed much influence on Obama by Rev. Wright. Yet Obama rarely, if ever, mentioned Wright until the media became obsessed with Obama's religious beliefs. It evolved out of the first attack on Obama to try and discredit him, with the arguemnt presented that Obama was a Muslim.

Obama defended his Christian faith by breifly posting the history of the United Church of Christ briefly on his web site, but there was never a mention of Rev. Wright.

Obama has not even written about Rev Wright in his book "The Audacty of Hope". If you look in the index of this book you will find no reference to the Rev Wright, and only a brief reference to Tinity United Church of Christ in the "Faith" chapter in this book. In fact the only pastor mentioned is the book is a Chaplin in the Senate.

There is no importance at all in the Wright Wright story it is simply an orchestrated attack on by someone with a devious purposes. Obama was forced by the media to discuss his personal religious back ground, which has no place in politics. Has anyone asked or dug up Hilary's and McCain's religious pastors? The media ran with it because the news is based mostly on sensation these days. Hillary ran with it because she was losing. McCain ran with when pressured by the GOP.

BTW, you used to write some good stuff here. What happened? :->

Ouch! Look, man, they can't all be gems.

And, I'm in a scatological frame of mind.

Ba-baba-de-doo-wa ...

We now return you to the serious, earnest and rigorously minded quickstrategy, recently released from his undisclosed location.

between preachers and performers. None really, except that the comedians may be joking.

On the account of James Warren in the Chicago Tribune, who has filed excellent stories down the years in Nixon's tapes, media, in this 1972 Oval Office session between Nixon, Haldeman and Graham, the President raises a topic about which "we can't talk about it publicly," namely Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media.

Nixon cites Paul Keyes, a political conservative who is executive producer of the NBC hit, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," as telling him that "11 of the 12 writers are Jewish." "That right?" says Graham, prompting Nixon to claim that Life magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, are "totally dominated by the Jews." Nixon says network TV anchors Howard K. Smith, David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite "front men who may not be of that persuasion," but that their writers are "95 percent Jewish."

"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," the nation's best-known preacher declares "You believe that?" Nixon says. "Yes, sir," Graham says. "Oh, boy," replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it." "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," Graham replies.

Magnanimously Nixon concedes that this does not mean "that all the Jews are bad" but that most are left-wing radicals who want "peace at any price except where support for Israel is concerned. The best Jews are actually the Israeli Jews." "That's right," agrees Graham, who later concurs with a Nixon assertion that a "powerful bloc" of Jews confronts Nixon in the media. "And they're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff," Graham adds.

Later Graham says that "a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know I am friendly to Israel and so forth. They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country." After Graham's departure Nixon says Haldeman, "You know it was good we got this point about the Jews across." "It's a shocking point," Haldeman replies, "Well," says Nixon, "it's also, the Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards."

Within days of these exchanges becoming public the 83-year old Graham was hauled from his semi-dotage, and impelled to express public contrition. "Experts" on Graham were duly cited as expressing their "shock" at Graham's White House table talk.

http://www.counterpunch.org/alexgraham.html

said the Jewish "stranglehold" of the media was ruining the United States and must be broken

And this was *before* Roseanne Barr.

Amazing!

Bucky's lair?

I think we must be witnessing a true Divine intervention, tearing the scales off the eyes of a gullible electorate, who seemed on the verge of embracing a false messiah. Hallelujah!

You mean Senator McCain is being called across the River Styx and will now reside in the Valhalla of his dreams?

I went to a real, honest to goodness crawdaddy feast in NOLA years ago that was hosted by some gardening buddies. They spread some paper out on a table and tipped a steaming barrel full of crawfish, lemons, potatoes, whole onions etc. out on that table and everyone put their bibs on and went to town. If your face and hands weren't a mess, then you just weren't eating enough!

I don't remember any cabbage (I think that must be an Ohio - or German heritage - thang), and they never convinced me to suck out the heads, but that was one incredible evening. The zydeco was kickin'. One of the best nights of my life.

Since he's a dwarf he thinks that's high comedy. It goes right over his pointy little head.

We knew very little about the man who would be King, and the Wright affair went a long way into fleshing out his judgment (or lack of) and his convictions. Mr. Obama was portrayed as the racially transcendent candidate who would take us over MLK's mountaintop. And he did have the credentials for it; having an African father and a white American mother, and being raised by his white grandparents and marrying to an African American woman. He could have been the one. But his long association with Wright, a divisive and egotistical Afrocentric radical, raises serious doubts whether he was truly racially transcendent (or at least neutral to both sides of the divide). It was Obama who claimed Wright as a spiritual adviser who inspired him to title his book after one of Wright's speeches. Without the Wright fracas, we would be denied a chance to weigh Obama's claims (and find it wanting). Wasn't a lack of information on the idiot child of Bush 41 how George W Bush got shoe-horned into the presidency?