Jeremiah Wright: The Gift that Keeps On Giving

A gift to Obama's critics, that is. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, mentor to one Barack Obama if I remember correctly, is famous for declaring, flamboyantly, that the U.S. Government invented the AIDS virus to kill people of color (oh, and our government also sells drugs to Black folks for the same purpose). He also thinks, if I remember correctly, that the U.S. Government is responsible for the war against Japan.

When Wright was in the crosshairs, during the recent Presidential campaign, Bill Moyers staged a hagiography of Wright, casting the colorful pastor as a new Martin Luther King.

Well, Wright thrust himself back into the public eye recently, and I think that his recent comment has some relevance to his sainthood. From the Daily Press.com:

In an exclusive interview at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference, Wright told the Daily Press that he has not spoken to his former church member since Obama became president, and he implied that the White House won't allow Obama to talk to him.

"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me," Wright said. "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 also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not for fear of offending Jews and Israel. He specifically cited the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group.

Take just a moment to let "them Jews" sink in.

Exactly what Jews does he mean? He immediately corrected himself:

Wright now says that he misspoke, and that he meant to say the word Zionists instead of Jews. That's a term used to describe those who strongly support the nation of Israel.

Of course "Zionists" is what anti-Semites say when they don't want to admit they are anti-Semites. Reverend Wright just did what he is known for: saying what he really thinks. He thinks there is a conspiracy of Jews infecting the Obama Administration. This is the age old slander against the Jews. They are the infection that has taken hold of our banks and our governments.

Jeremiah Wright is a twenty-four karat, full-tilt Jew-hater. He is a man with darkness in his soul. And, he tells us, he trying to pass that darkness on to his baby daughter. There is no defense, no excuse for this. It is just as bad as any other kind of racism. It is beyond the powers of any Bill Moyers to absolve.

Comments

[Miranda]

Hooray! A new post!

The value of this gift depends a lot on what bragging rights for being right is worth. I would happily be wrong about...well... just about everything regarding this administration. It would be nice if Wright just had a bad temper and really loved everyone. It would also be nice if Obama could fix the economy. It would be especially nice if he had a high regard for the lives of the unborn. But I guess if we can't have any of those gifts, we'll settle for being right.

[KB]

"Gift" was obviously written with some irony, but Wright is a buffoon. He is no serious threat to the body politic at large, and does some service by bring pernicious and absurd opinions to light. If Obama agrees with any of this nonsense, that would be serious.

Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy the show. The Constitution has weathered worse than this.

[Miranda]

I did get the irony and I do agree, although I am not as optimistic.
The constitution will probably last - but what sort of schools will my little ones go to? Will it matter that their mother has Jewish blood? When French DJs have their faces pulled off with forks because of that, seeing similar sentiment in someone once close to the president makes a person nervous.