By now everyone has heard of the controversy surrounding Barack Obama's pastor Mr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., I won't call him reverend because he is not to be revered. It seems that the man under whose preaching Mr. Obama has sat for the past twenty years, the minister who officiated at Mr. Obama's wedding and baptised his children, is a venomous anti-white and antisemitic racist and an inveterate hater of the United States of America. Here are some excerpts from Friday's Wall St. Journal article about Mr. Wright:
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama's longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.
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"We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he began. "Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body."
Mr. Wright thundered on: "America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God."
His voice rising, Mr. Wright said, "We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. . . . We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means. . . ."
Concluding, Mr. Wright said: "We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . ."
The Journal goes on to point out that Mr. Wright's church gave a lifetime achievement award to well known black racist Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Wright said of Farrakhan, "His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening. . .".
Louis Farrakhan analysis of the nation's "racial ills" includes referring to white people as "devils" and to Judaism as "a gutter religion".
Mr. Obama moved to distance himself from his pastor describing him as being like "an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with." When the controversy did not die down Mr. Obama, who is unused to anything but adoring coverage from the mainstream media, sharpened his denunciations of his pastor's remarks and announced that Mr. Wright had left his position on the Obama campaign's African American Religious Leadership Committee.
Here is a YouTube video of Mr. Wright's preaching:
The media has been focused on how this all affects Mr. Obama's presidential campaign. Some have even speculated that this will wreck his candidacy. People have wondered how it is possible that a man as intelligent as Mr. Obama obviously is and who has the excellent political instincts that Mr. Obama obviously has, could have made such a terrible blunder by remaining in the congregation of, and donating tens of thousands of dollars to, such a purveyor of hate.
Others have wondered how the mainstream media has managed to ignore this story for as long as they have. After all the information about Mr. Wright's hateful sermons has been out there for months. Even now the attitude of most MSM commentators is that they wish this story would go away so that they could get back to what they consider the "real issues".
Conservatives in the blogosphere and on talk radio have been working themselves into a state of high dudgeon over Wright's remarks, Obama's tepid response and the media's reluctant coverage. After all if John McCain were to have been shown to have been a member of a church preaching Christian Identity and to have called the pastor of that church his friend, mentor and sounding board, and to have made a place for said minister on one of his campaign committees, it would have been the lead item on every news show, broadcast and cable, from the time the story first broke to the present minute. And the calls for McCain to withdraw from the race would have already started coming in from everyone from Dean at the DNC to Pelosi and Reid in Congress to the Democrat candidates to Republican political leaders to media pundits to the ADL to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Clearly Obama is befitting from a double standard. The reason for that double standard is the elephant in the room which very few people in the media are willing to discuss.
There is a reason why Barack Obama did not think to leave Mr. Wright's church before embarking on a political career and there is a reason why the MSM has been reluctant to report on Mr. Wright's remarks.
Mr. Obama did not think to separate himself from such a controversial preacher because it did not really occur to him that Wright's sermons were controversial. You see what Jeremiah Wright Jr. says in his pulpit, we should say what Mr. Wright has said since he recently retired, is little different from what gets said in multitudes of black churches all across the US every Sunday morning.
Of black Americans who still remember the name Tawana Brawley the majority believe that she was kidnapped by white policemen, gang raped, beaten, defecated upon and inscribed with racial epithets, placed in a garbage bag and dumped by the side of the road.
More than half the black population of the US believes with absolute sincerity that HIV/AIDS was created in a CIA lab to exterminate the black population not only of the US but of the entire planet.
Most blacks believe that the US government is behind the importation and production of illegal drugs as a means of destroying black youth.
Most blacks believe that the Second Amendment is a nefarious plot to arm street gangs so that they can kill each other off as well as shoot down innocent black bystanders.
Most blacks believe that if the voting rights act were allowed to lapse that it would become illegal for them to vote.
The reason that Obama did not think of Wright as a controversial figure was simply because if you are black and go to a black church, especially in a large city like Chicago, Wright's sermons are just how church is done.
As for the mainstream media they have been reluctant to report on Mr. Wright's statements because the only thing setting the pastor's remarks apart from many of the commonly accepted opinions of the political left in this country are the excessively passionate way in which they are expressed.
For example it is a common belief on the left that the use of atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII was a war crime.
Most people on the political left believe that the charge that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction was fabricated by the Bush administration as a pretext for war.
It is the consensus view of the left that America is the victim of terrorism from Islamic radicals at least in part because of our foreign policy.
Most political liberals believe that the Palestinian people are mistreated by Israel.
The media do not wish to draw attention to Mr. Wright's opinions not because they are so radical and extreme but because they are so mainstream. Was not Michael Moore, who famously said that his only problem with the attack on 9/11 was that the target was New York City, which votes overwhelmingly for Democrats, invited to sit with former president Jimmy Carter (a Democrat party hero) at the 2004 Democrat convention? Do we not hear constantly from the Democrat candidates for president that they are going to "repair the damage" which the Bush administration has allegedly caused in our international relations?
From the political left's point of view, and the MSM is firmly embedded in he left, Mr. Wright's comments are not troublesome because of their content but only because of the wide publicity they are receiving. The whole affair opens a window into the heart and soul of the "progressive" movement which Democrats who wish to win elections need to remain closed.
Something similar is at work in the coverage of Obama's visit to the home of former leaders of the Weather Underground William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn when he began his candidacy for the Illinois state legislature.
For those of you too young to remember the Weather Underground, whose members were called Weathermen (from a line in a Bob Dylan song) they were a violent domestic terrorist organization which bombed several US government targets, including the Pentagon. Paying a visit to Ayers and Dohrn is simply what one does if one wishes to be accepted in the ultra-liberal circles of Chicago Democrat party politics.
Again we have a window opening into the inner workings of the Democrat party which party leaders would prefer remain closed. When Bernadine Dohrn was being interviewed for a leadership position in the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), the parent organization of the Weathermen, she was asked if she considered herself a radical socialist. Her answer was "no, I consider myself a revolutionary communist". That response won her the job.
Democrats who wish to see blue collar voters in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio vote for their party would prefer that those voters not know that Democrat elite circles contain people like Dohrn and her husband Ayers whose only regret about his campaign of bombing was that he "couldn't do more".
To put this into perspective imagine what would happen to not only the McCain campaign but the Republican party as a whole if it were to become known that the only way that Mr. McCain could have received the Republican party's nomination for his first Senate run was to have sought and received the blessing of the head of Arizona's Ku Klux Klan.
No wonder the MSM, which is covering the story of Mr. Obama's difficulties only because conservative talk radio and the blogs are shaming them into it, is acting as if they have had to suck an entire orchard full of lemons.
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