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Rev. Wright Blames "Them Jews" for Keeping President From Talking to Him
June 11, 2009 11:45 AM
A reporter from the Daily-Press of Newport News, Virginia, caught up with President Obama's former mentor and pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, this week at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference.
Asked if he's spoken to his former parishioner since he become President, Wright told David Squires, "them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office."
Wright said he would tell the president, if he could, to stay true to himself.
“He’s gotta do what politicians do,” Wright said. “Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza, “Ethnic cleansing the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel.”
Rev. Wright also said that “the Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Darfur Review Conference, that’s talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is. “
(It should be noted that since his inauguration, President Obama has visited with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Saudi King Abdullah, Jordanian King Abdullah, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. It’s unclear what Rev. Wright would say to the President about the plight of the Palestinians that these Arab leaders would be unwilling to say.)
In his new book Renegade: The Making of a President, erstwhile Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe writes about a secret meeting then-candidate Obama had with Rev. Wright during that period in which the fiery minister threatened to derail his then-parishioner's path to the Democratic presidential nomination.
"It was time to talk directly to Wright," Wolffe writes. "Obama’s friends at Trinity tried to talk their pastor out of his comeback tour. But by now the church was deeply divided between Obama supporters and Wright supporters, and the conversation was going nowhere. So the candidate decided to go see Wright himself in secret, in Chicago. First came the dance over where to meet: one intermediary suggested a neutral location, but Obama said he was happy to go wherever Wright wanted. They ended up talking at Wright’s home, and Obama tried to adopt the tone of a concerned friend giving advice. He did not want to tell his former pastor what to do, but he did want to nudge him in the right direction by making him aware of what was about to happen. Wright wasn’t heading for vindication; he was heading for vilification.
“'Look, you’re a pastor, you have your own role to play,' Obama said. 'But I can tell you how politics in the cable and blog age works. Here’s what you need to anticipate: that it’s going to be a media circus. But obviously, you need to do what you need to do.'
"Wright felt embattled and wanted to tell his side of the story to the rest of the world. He thanked Obama for his opinion, but looked and sounded like the aggrieved party.
"After Wright’s disastrous appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, and Obama’s swift decision to sever all ties with his former pastor, the campaign’s polling numbers showed a steep decline in Indiana.
"On the night before Indiana’s primary, Obama’s senior aides were convinced they were headed for outright defeat. 'How could someone I knew, someone I trusted, do this to me?' Obama said.
"Obama and his aides were proved wrong. They won North Carolina by fifteen points, lost Indiana by just one point, and beat Reverend Wright once and for all."
- jpt
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He's certainly Wright about Gaza. Though he has a crude way of putting things, he often speaks the truth. Instead of a false teacher, could he be a prophet?
Posted by: TinFoilHat | Jul 5, 2009 8:31:30 AM
Rev Wright is a man of God, he never said hate anybody. He speaks of injustice in the world and is accused of hate? He speaks truth to power as the Lord Jesus did, and that is a sign of a true man of God
Posted by: Don Logan | Jun 12, 2009 12:30:46 PM
this is a hate crime and hate speech. he should be put in jail.
Posted by: paco
right after Rush, Beck, Coulter, Savage,
Posted by: 3333 | Jun 12, 2009 1:07:08 AM
Whether it's Rev. Wright and his rant, or Pat Robertson advocating killing Hugo Chavez, and Hurricane Katrina was gods punishment, or Jerry Falwell saying that America deserved 9/11 .... or the Vatican hiding and covering for the ped priests....
Religious hypocrites are exactly that, they proclaim the 'good word' and spread hate and division. you just have to look at who represents the 'faithful' and see how much cash thy're asking you to fork over to support their luxury life styles
faithful on TV
Posted by: ^-||-^ | Jun 12, 2009 1:03:36 AM
if he should be in jail, so should every republican who are full of hate speech and hate crime. no double standards.
Posted by: dd | Jun 11, 2009 11:32:14 PM
This man is hateful, and a racist. Obama knew exactly what he was all about. We know what he is like & I've only known about him since Obama started running for office and look at all he has said since then. You mean to tell me after 20 years, Obama didn't know what he was like???? BS Obama & Shame on you Wright, I won't even call you a reverend because no reverends that I know talk like you
Posted by: releggneh | Jun 11, 2009 7:12:17 PM
this is a hate crime and hate speech. he should be put in jail.
Posted by: paco | Jun 11, 2009 6:23:34 PM
" Why did Michelle and Barack Obama allow their little girls to be exposed to the hate? "
Which sermons? Which Sundays were the girls in the pews? You must have the attendance records and have watched the ENTIRE videos from the days they were present since you speak with such authority. Let's have those details please.
Posted by: Ranger | Jun 11, 2009 5:55:37 PM
The Rev. Wright sounds as hateful as he ALWAYS has. I never liked what he said and I don't like it now. But much of the media MSNBC and others defended him back when he attacked the Clinton's. Only now that he attacks the Obama administration will he be criticized.
Posted by: Tina | Jun 11, 2009 5:27:27 PM
Cranky old man just wants to have his say. 88 yo's have a different vocabulary from back in the day. Everyone was segregated by ethnicity, race, religion. Antisemitic? I don't think so. Cranky and a bit confused by a world in which a Black man can be elected President? He's not alone, look at the wackos in the Republican Party.
Posted by: thebob.bob | Jun 11, 2009 5:22:09 PM
Back in the day, pure at heart, celibate preists would advise kings on the right things to do for their subjects. Back in the day.
Posted by: Jiva Soul | Jun 11, 2009 4:42:07 PM
In the New Testament book Phillipians 3:
St. Paul warns the Christian community about false teachers. St. Paul say beware of these dogs. Sadly, Mr. Wright falls into this category. I've watched the videos of Mr. Wright's controversial sermons, the disturbing part is how many people in the background were cheering his hate speech.
Posted by: Tom | Jun 11, 2009 4:24:12 PM
Rev. Wright is old and probably suffering from early stages of Alzheimer’s. He addressed the Black Baptist Convention and was a guest minister in my hometown for decades and I never heard him say the kinds of things he is saying now. I am shocked as I am sure president Obama is shocked. Remember, the President’s beloved mother and grandparents were WHITE so he would not have sat under a person spewing racist talk. Mr. Emmanuel would not be serving as Chief of Staff under the Obama administration away from his own wife and children for the last six months if he believed the president was anti Semitic in any way. I understand why the press keeps this going but Rev. Wright’s family should have him examined for dementia or other signs of illness because the times I heard him minister are different from what I am hearing now.
Posted by: V. Brame | Jun 11, 2009 3:51:03 PM
It is one thing to ask whether a particular lobby has undue influence or to question the allegiance of people with dual citizenship. You could do this for many lobbies and citizens of many different religions and backgrounds.
However, Wright's language, such as "them Jews," clearly show he is an anti-Semite. And no, I am not Jewish.
Posted by: Alex | Jun 11, 2009 3:49:17 PM
Questions not yet addressed, by either Wright or Obama:
Why did Obama stay at Trinity to be indocrinated for 20 years? Why did Michelle and Barack Obama allow their little girls to be exposed to the hate? "You have to be taught to hate...you have to be carefully taught." Why have the Obamas not found another house of faith to attend , as they said they would?
Don't preach what you can't deliver, Obama. Or does your silence speak for you?
Posted by: Virginia | Jun 11, 2009 3:45:36 PM
If Obama "CREATES OR SAVES" any more jobs we all we be out of work....
Posted by: roofer | Jun 11, 2009 3:19:45 PM
Just like the gunman at the Holocaust Museum; Wright believes that Jews control everything.
He also believes that the USA developed HIV to wipe out people of color.
Rev Wright subscribes to Black Liberation Theology. It's a little like Christianity, except that Jesus is Black, and His 1st concern is 'liberating' Blacks from their evil White 'oppressors'.
It's amazing that the good Rev. and so many of his followers could achieve so much with all the 'oppression' going on. Look at the Obamas, and what they achieved even before politics. Both Barak and Michelle were able to go to the best of schools.
Rev Wright lives like a king in a fabulous, well appointed home. He, too, was somehow able to get an education through all the 'oppression' going on.
I guess there's good money in the business of 'oppression'.
The Rev is just another nut case,and probably should be watched. That's not the worst of it.
The worst of it is that our President sat listening to the hate and insanity
for over 20 years. This nut case is the mentor of Obama. This hate filled man was the trusted Rev who performed the Obama's wedding, and baptized their daughters.
To say that Obama may have missed a sermon or two is a lame excuse. Obama knew this man well enough to call him a
family member, like an uncle. Obama knew what Wright stood for.
Hang on America, you elected hate.
Posted by: MisElaineous | Jun 11, 2009 3:16:23 PM
ABC= All Barack Channel
CBS= Cheering for BARACK Station
NBC= Nothing but Barack Channel
Get it now.
Posted by: homer simps0n | Jun 11, 2009 3:13:25 PM
'Holy Moses!'
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | Jun 11, 2009 3:06:59 PM
Like a comedy show, Wright (no Rev. in my book) continues his racist rant. Just relax Wright...you will get your man back after 2012.
Posted by: ImBehavingDude | Jun 11, 2009 3:06:43 PM
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