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Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:00 AM

Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong

I applaud Bill Moyers for being fair to Obama's pastor, but their PBS hour won't chase questions about his grim view of America. Plus: More Wright tapes emerge.

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Monday, April 28, 2008 09:15 AM

W.E.S.

Students: Children, children,

Future, future.

Milhouse: Are you ready for the...

Students: ...children, whoa whoa whoa!

Lisa: The future is a...

Students: ...coming, hey hey hey!

Children, children,

Future, future

...

Students: Children, children,

Children are the future!

Kids!

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:14 AM

W.E.S.

"That's What SOMEONE Needed To Say To Wright"

You would need to disagree with his insane rantings first...

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:13 AM

rupert

This is how the Obama camp gets the cult tag.......defending someone moron spewing that stuff out to kids, with adults cheering.

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:10 AM

@the Notorious W.E.S.

You haven't spent much time listening to preachers or reading the Bible, have you?

You also have no clue that the government and industry have done some really awful things and that people who know about that stuff have every reason to suspect their intent.

You know they have admitted doing research to target certain racial groups with viri and even came up with the idea to turn the enemy gay with an aerosol concoction. Unless you don't read the news.

Keep in mind that the anthrax was manufactured in a US military facility and was used against not only Americans, but a congressman and a journalist. If the preacher said that, would you be ok with that, as it is true and without a doubt.

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:09 AM

Wha-ah-ha-ha-ha

What a HOOOT!!!

"Thank the dear lord for all of this coming out now while there is still time to stop Obama."

You republicans crack me up. Mr. Obama is being somewhat inconvenienced by all this republican swift-boating and guilt by association shit dredged up by the Bitch Brigade, but it ain't gonna stop him.

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:08 AM

More on Wright being "Wrong"

When I said "you just don't get it" yesterday, I forgot to point out a little fact that is getting no air play. When the Clintons were in the white house they sought counsel from none other than Jeremiah Wright for their marital problems. If he was ok then, why is he NOT ok now???

Wright is telling the truth about our country and we are TOTALLY uninformed because of our mis-education system and YOU the MEDIA who keep pushing MIS-INFORMATION and SPIN in the guise of news. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Only if we face the truth can we right the wrongs that are being done here and around the world.

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:08 AM

That's What SOMEONE Needed To Say To Wright

Obama or anyone----Hey moron, there are a bunch of kids out there listening to your crap.

Monday, April 28, 2008 09:07 AM

Thank God all this stuff is coming out now

Thank the dear lord for all of this coming out now while there is still time to stop Obama. He cannot win a general election with all of this Rev. Wright nonsense. The only way Democrats are going to win the White House this year is if Hillary is the nominee. We might have enough time to get this behind us and then let Obama be VP. Come on Indiana and NC. We are counting on you.

Monday, April 28, 2008 08:55 AM

Let's stop taking the Walsh bait

I don't know if there's a Clinton campaign conflict or not.

I think Walsh has struck upon a very good business plan. She keeps Greenwald employed to inflame readers against journalists who abdicate their responsibility. Then she herself practices most egregiously many of the offenses to which Greenwald ascribes blame for the degradation of the political process as caused by the media. Freshly outraged, Salon readers seek to test Greenwald's theses on the media they consume. Salon readers don't have far to look since she herself, helpfully, offers herself as a prime example of corrupt, myopic, disingenuous punditry.

In outraging her readers she ensures thousands of clicks and turns her critics into free content providers for the web site. Look at how she posts her most knowingly outrageous posts on Friday night and then clocks off for the weekend. She's making money all weekend long by doing nothing except baiting a lot of very talented writers to do the work of which she is not capable.

Like many of you, I read her columns only for the letter writers, which restore some sort of hope, a sliver of sanity.

But I wonder though, how long she would keep it up if we all just stopped taking the bait. She doesn't listen to what we say so it's not really a conversation. She's an anti-intellectual who is not, by any standard I have ever known -- not even by late-twentieth century American standards -- on the left, and she doesn't respect the viewpoints of those of us who are. I like reading you all, but I don't like that Joan is using you to make money.

In any case, what was so shocking about Wright's sermon? It was, as several others have pointed out, Howard Zinn. The United States has done a lot of nasty things in pursuit of power and wealth. A country that doesn't acknowledge this and strive to make ammends is, in the long arc of history, going to be in line for some serious stick. A country that remains involved in an illegal war in Iraq hasn't, obviously, quite come to terms with this yet. And so, more trouble, is likely on the way. I don't know how this is a radical thesis. You can't claim to be of the left and reject this. It sort of defines what being on the left means.

Monday, April 28, 2008 08:54 AM

9/11 Is Indefensible

It is a grey-to-black area when we talk about 9/11. The terrorist attacks were indefensible.

However, I don't think Jeremiah Wright was defending them.

He was making coorelations with others in history who fancied themselves "freedom fighters."

I stand with those who don't like what they thought they were fighting for.

We also need to have a clearer understanding of that they were fighting for. If we did, we never would have been involved in Iraq in the first place.

I do agree with Joan Walsh in that this is just too adult to discuss and someone who thought AIDS was a government plot is probably not the person to point those things out.

Monday, April 28, 2008 08:51 AM

More of James Cone's Greatest Hits

Please note, Jeremiah Wright has himself stated that James cone is an influence...

"For white people, God’s reconciliation in Jesus Christ means that God has made black people a beautiful people; and if they are going to be in relationship with God, they must enter by means of their black brothers, who are a manifestation of God’s presence on earth. The assumption that one can know God without knowing blackness is the basic heresy of the white churches. They want God without blackness, Christ without obedience, love without death. What they fail to realize is that in America, God’s revelation on earth has always been black, red, or some other shocking shade, but never white. Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man’s depravity. God cannot be white even though white churches have portrayed him as white. When we look at what whiteness has done to the minds of men in this country, we can see clearly what the New Testament meant when it spoke of the principalities and powers. To speak of Satan and his powers becomes not just a way of speaking but a fact of reality. When we can see a people who are controlled by an ideology of whiteness, then we know what reconciliation must mean. The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ"

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