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PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
Reverend Wright Struts His Stuff At The National Press Club
If you happened to catch the speech before the National Press
Club of Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, the black separatist
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, you couldn’t help but come away
from it with the overwhelming impression that this is one
smug, cocky, angry, arrogant son of a gun who is in total
enthrallment with himself and his loony black liberation
theology. After a truly embarrassing performance during
which he was childishly rude to the Press Club moderator,
talked jive, made silly faces and threw a mockingly goofy
military salute, Obama threw in the towel and gave his former
spiritual mentor the old heave-ho a mere six weeks after saying
in the grandest speech since the Gettysburg address that “I
could no more disown him than I can disown my white
grandmother.”
So much for not disowning some of the most important people
in his life. What a difference a few weeks and a highly
publicized speech by Reverend Wright makes. If I had to make
a bet right now I would say that Barack Obama and his
inexplicably resentful wife have a slim to no chance of
occupying the White House come January. Which is a great
thing since who wants a first lady who has never been proud of
her own country and is a world-class grievance monger despite
her own great grand fortune in life? And, more importantly,
who wants a president who sat in the pews for 20 years but had
no clue what his own pastor and spiritual mentor was all
about?
Some will say, wait a minute, all that Reverend Wright stuff is a
crock, it’s unfair, it was a bunch of short sound bites that got
blown out of proportion or taken out of context, you have to
hear the entire sermons, Obama wasn’t in the pews on those
days anyway, he only got spiritual advice from his pastor, he
didn’t know about the rough stuff, etc., etc.
Sorry, but after the Press Club speech, none of that will wash.
The good reverend laid it all out for everyone to see and hear
and actually confirmed all the criticism that he and his
defenders had claimed was unfair.
By the way, where did they find that audience? They must have
been bussed in directly from Wright’s parish because he got
more applause and standing o’s than Cher on her last farewell
tour. Before he could even begin his speech, someone in the
audience yelled, “We love you, Reverend Wright!” So much for
the moderator’s admonishment to please withhold applause in
order to have more time at the end for questions.
Anyway, let’s examine some of the highlights of the reverend’s
speech. First off, according to Wright, all the criticism he has
received for “God damn America,” the “U.S. of KKK A.,” and all
the rest is not an attack on “Jeremiah Wright, but an attack on
the black church.” Got that? And it goes without saying that
anybody who attacks “the black church” is racist.
And then there was his defense of black liberation theology,
whose leading theorist is James Cone who has written things
like, “What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is
the source of human misery in the world.” In his speech
Wright said, “I do not in any way disagree with James Cone.
Jim is a personal friend of mine.”
As for his preaching that we’ve all seen clips of from his
greatest hits collection, which combines preposterous racial
nonsense and history rewrites with a screaming bombastic
style, the reverend had this explanation: “Black preaching is
different from European and European-American preaching.
It is not deficient. It is just different. It is not bombastic. It is
not controversial. It’s different.”
When asked about his patriotism, he replied, “I served six
years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many
years did Cheney serve?” That one just about brought the
house down with cheers and applause. Apparently nobody
stopped to think that people like Timothy McVeigh and Lee
Harvey Oswald, two of America’s most infamous murderers,
also served in the military and are nobody’s idea of patriots.
For crying out loud, Oswald defected to the Soviet Union at the
height of the Cold War right after serving in the military. And
then he shot President Kennedy. But at least he (and Reverend
Wright) served, unlike Cheney.
Asked if he honestly believed that the U.S. government invented
HIV as a means of genocide of black people, Wright responded
that “based on the Tuskegee experiment and based on what has
happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government
is capable of doing anything.” So in other words, yeah, sure, it’s
quite possible, though he has no proof.
The funny thing about trying to kill an entire race of people by
infecting them with HIV is that the vast majority of people who
get HIV are homosexual males who have had unprotected anal
sex. So, right from the git-go you have this rather daunting
problem of how to get enough black people to engage in
unprotected homosexual anal sex that they can all be killed
off. And so, if you accept the premise that the U.S. government
actually wants to kill off blacks and then if you look at that goal
logically, you can’t help but wonder why it didn’t invent a
disease that was a bit more easily transmittable than through
the process of unprotected homosexual anal sex. Unless you’re
Reverend Wright or one of his glad-to-be-brainwashed
minions. Then you don’t wonder about such things because if
you did, you wouldn’t be able to believe them any more.
Isn’t it obvious that Reverend Wright derives all his power from
playing the racial victim and convincing his flock that nothing
much has changed in America, racially speaking, since about
1952? And isn’t it obvious that if Barack Obama were to be
elected president, all of Wright’s horse manure about the U.S.
of KKK A. would be instantaneously proven false?
During the question and answer period Wright joked that he
was hoping to be selected vice president. As humor it was a
real side-splitter, but the last thing he wants in reality is for his
wayward parishioner to become president because that would
make the reverend an even bigger joke than he already is.
For those of us who don’t want Obama elected simply because
he is radically left wing, Reverend Wright is the biggest gift we
could have ever hoped for.
If you happened to catch the speech before the National Press
Club of Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, the black separatist
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, you couldn’t help but come away
from it with the overwhelming impression that this is one
smug, cocky, angry, arrogant son of a gun who is in total
enthrallment with himself and his loony black liberation
theology. After a truly embarrassing performance during
which he was childishly rude to the Press Club moderator,
talked jive, made silly faces and threw a mockingly goofy
military salute, Obama threw in the towel and gave his former
spiritual mentor the old heave-ho a mere six weeks after saying
in the grandest speech since the Gettysburg address that “I
could no more disown him than I can disown my white
grandmother.”
So much for not disowning some of the most important people
in his life. What a difference a few weeks and a highly
publicized speech by Reverend Wright makes. If I had to make
a bet right now I would say that Barack Obama and his
inexplicably resentful wife have a slim to no chance of
occupying the White House come January. Which is a great
thing since who wants a first lady who has never been proud of
her own country and is a world-class grievance monger despite
her own great grand fortune in life? And, more importantly,
who wants a president who sat in the pews for 20 years but had
no clue what his own pastor and spiritual mentor was all
about?
Some will say, wait a minute, all that Reverend Wright stuff is a
crock, it’s unfair, it was a bunch of short sound bites that got
blown out of proportion or taken out of context, you have to
hear the entire sermons, Obama wasn’t in the pews on those
days anyway, he only got spiritual advice from his pastor, he
didn’t know about the rough stuff, etc., etc.
Sorry, but after the Press Club speech, none of that will wash.
The good reverend laid it all out for everyone to see and hear
and actually confirmed all the criticism that he and his
defenders had claimed was unfair.
By the way, where did they find that audience? They must have
been bussed in directly from Wright’s parish because he got
more applause and standing o’s than Cher on her last farewell
tour. Before he could even begin his speech, someone in the
audience yelled, “We love you, Reverend Wright!” So much for
the moderator’s admonishment to please withhold applause in
order to have more time at the end for questions.
Anyway, let’s examine some of the highlights of the reverend’s
speech. First off, according to Wright, all the criticism he has
received for “God damn America,” the “U.S. of KKK A.,” and all
the rest is not an attack on “Jeremiah Wright, but an attack on
the black church.” Got that? And it goes without saying that
anybody who attacks “the black church” is racist.
And then there was his defense of black liberation theology,
whose leading theorist is James Cone who has written things
like, “What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is
the source of human misery in the world.” In his speech
Wright said, “I do not in any way disagree with James Cone.
Jim is a personal friend of mine.”
As for his preaching that we’ve all seen clips of from his
greatest hits collection, which combines preposterous racial
nonsense and history rewrites with a screaming bombastic
style, the reverend had this explanation: “Black preaching is
different from European and European-American preaching.
It is not deficient. It is just different. It is not bombastic. It is
not controversial. It’s different.”
When asked about his patriotism, he replied, “I served six
years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many
years did Cheney serve?” That one just about brought the
house down with cheers and applause. Apparently nobody
stopped to think that people like Timothy McVeigh and Lee
Harvey Oswald, two of America’s most infamous murderers,
also served in the military and are nobody’s idea of patriots.
For crying out loud, Oswald defected to the Soviet Union at the
height of the Cold War right after serving in the military. And
then he shot President Kennedy. But at least he (and Reverend
Wright) served, unlike Cheney.
Asked if he honestly believed that the U.S. government invented
HIV as a means of genocide of black people, Wright responded
that “based on the Tuskegee experiment and based on what has
happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government
is capable of doing anything.” So in other words, yeah, sure, it’s
quite possible, though he has no proof.
The funny thing about trying to kill an entire race of people by
infecting them with HIV is that the vast majority of people who
get HIV are homosexual males who have had unprotected anal
sex. So, right from the git-go you have this rather daunting
problem of how to get enough black people to engage in
unprotected homosexual anal sex that they can all be killed
off. And so, if you accept the premise that the U.S. government
actually wants to kill off blacks and then if you look at that goal
logically, you can’t help but wonder why it didn’t invent a
disease that was a bit more easily transmittable than through
the process of unprotected homosexual anal sex. Unless you’re
Reverend Wright or one of his glad-to-be-brainwashed
minions. Then you don’t wonder about such things because if
you did, you wouldn’t be able to believe them any more.
Isn’t it obvious that Reverend Wright derives all his power from
playing the racial victim and convincing his flock that nothing
much has changed in America, racially speaking, since about
1952? And isn’t it obvious that if Barack Obama were to be
elected president, all of Wright’s horse manure about the U.S.
of KKK A. would be instantaneously proven false?
During the question and answer period Wright joked that he
was hoping to be selected vice president. As humor it was a
real side-splitter, but the last thing he wants in reality is for his
wayward parishioner to become president because that would
make the reverend an even bigger joke than he already is.
For those of us who don’t want Obama elected simply because
he is radically left wing, Reverend Wright is the biggest gift we
could have ever hoped for.