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  • Reese: I like Wright

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese453.html

    Charlie Reese on the Rev. Wright:

    "I'll tell you exactly why liberals, both black and white, have been shredding, obsessing over and questioning the motives of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Rev. Wright is what people in the Old South used to call an "uppity (N-word)."

    He does not lower his eyes, bow and scrape, eat crow or humble pie, or apologize. If you insult him, he'll insult you back. I like the guy a whole lot. I disagree with him on some points, but I've come to like and admire him. He makes a better speech than most candidates, and certainly a better and more intelligent one than the so-called pundits.

    This was a concocted media trap for Sen. Barack Obama from start to finish. First, some political operative took a couple of snippets from 30 years of sermons completely out of context and put them on that abomination called YouTube. This really riled up the racists and so-called superpatriots who began to bombard the Rev. Wright and his family with hate mail and even death threats. [...]"

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