Letters to the Editor
-
Some deeper truth for DeeperTruth
You write: "Someone on an editorial board asked her if she would have stayed with a pastor who made such comments, and she answered."
I have to ask: are you being deliberately obtuse, or do you really not know which "editorial board" and who the "someones" are she sat down with? As many of us have noted with no small amount of astonishment, it was the editorial board of that vile right-wing rag, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by a certain "someone" by the name of Richard Mellon Scaife. Yes, the very same Scaife who is the personification of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, the founder of the Arkansas Project and primary backer of The American Spectator's attempts to destroy the first Clinton presidency.
Timothy Noah provides some deeper truth about this man today:
http://www.slate.com/id/2187473/
"What the hell is Clinton doing meeting with reporters and editors of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review? The Tribune-Review is a money-losing fringe publication published by Richard Mellon Scaife, a bilious and wealthy crank who spent the 1990s manufacturing vile innuendo about the Clintons. If the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" on which first lady Hillary Clinton famously blamed her troubles can be said to exist, its chairman and chief executive officer was Scaife. Scaife gave the American Spectator $2.3 million to dig up dirt on Bill Clinton, and he used the Tribune-Review to spread, among other things, the reprehensible allegation that Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster, a clinically depressed deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in 1993. Scaife was quoted more than once calling Foster's death "the Rosetta stone to the Clinton administration," adding in an interview with George magazine, "Once you solve that one mystery, you'll know everything that's going on or went on—I think there's been a massive coverup. … Listen, [Bill Clinton] can order people done away with at his will. He's got the entire federal government behind him. … God, there must be 60 people who have died mysteriously."
Yes, *that* Richard Mellon Scaife, who was seated right next to Hillary at her sitdown with his editorial board (you may have seen the photo).
However, as I've said before, I believe this issue is fair game for Hillary and something that Obama must continue to address. And I don't doubt the veracity of Hillary's anti-Wright vehemence. It is exactly what one would expect from a member of the right-wing, secretive religious group, The Family (aka The Fellowship).
But Hillary doesn't promote her membership there. When she discusses "her church", she refers to the solidly mainstream Foundry United Methodist Church. You might be interested to know that her pastor at Foundry supports Rev. Wright and Trinity Church:
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/deborahwilliams/CpVd
A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia which still tarnish the American dream.
To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and violence.
Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize.
This is a critical time in America's history as we seek to repent of our racism. No matter which candidates prevail, let us use this time to listen again to one another and not to distort one another's truth.
Dean J. Snyder, Senior Minister
Foundry United Methodist Church
March 19, 2008
Just a little bit of deeper truth for you.