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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 18, 2012, 09:55:08 AM
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mfcorey1 (2,555 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Rev Wright is not the vilian he has portrayed to be by the rethugs
during the 2008 election. He has not said things in his pulpit, where he no longer is, as negative as Billy Graham, Pat Roberts, and the list continues. If one took the time to actually study his life, he has more notables than MItt Rmoney who will say anything to be President. One day, this man needs to be absolved of the hatred that clearly destroyed his life.
dionysus (20,882 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. i never thought he was, even f he said things some find controversial...
Solomon (8,680 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. That is correct. I made a point of watching Hannity last night to see what all the hubbub
concerning the new taped interview of Wright and book on Obama by this Klein guy was all about and it rendered me speechless. Everything Wright said made perfect sense, I saw nothing wrong in Obama calling him and what they talked about. Yet the right wing is spewing it like some law was broken, or some conspiracy thing. They even tried to characterize a proffered payment to shut him up as a bribe.
As usual, each time they got what they thought was something juicy out of Wright, the follow up question would explain things. For example, they were trying to make hay out of the fact that an Obama supporter offered to give Wright $150,000 to not speak at the NAACP event. When they dug further trying to get more juicy details of this Wright explained that it wasn't just the NAACP event, they wanted him to stop speaking publicly period. No speaking engagements at all. Wright said he asked them how was he to be able to provide for his family, daughter in college and what not, if he couldn't speak since that's how he made his money. In that context, it appears to me entirely appropriate to compensate him for lost wages if that's what they wanted to do. But Fox,
even after hearing that, went immediately to calling it a "bribe." They were sorely disappointed that Wright wouldn't say that Obama knew about the proffer, so they went on to declare how he HAD to know because the supporter who made the proffer was in Obama's "inner circle", blah blah blah. I've had to compensate people for missing out on their work if I needed to call them away from it. I have never had anyone refer to that as a "bribe." I've represented people in automobile accidents where, because they lost time from work, they were compensated for lost wages, but it's never been referred to as a "bribe."
You are definitely correct. A very bad injustice has been done to Reverend Wright and its a shame, but even Wright knows and understands why that is and that there is nothing that can be done about it.
What I found particularly maddening about their attempted use of Wright is how they paint him as toxic, but then when he says something they think they like, all of a sudden he is a credible witness beyond reproach.
cali (71,022 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. no, but he's a piece of work. Why the **** did he spend 3 hours being
"interviewed" by Ed Klein?
Wright struck be as vindictive and petty 4 years ago and he still strikes me as being petty and vindictive.
mfcorey1 (2,555 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. The interview took place because he was brought intothe limlight from the intrusion into his life.
Is he the only person you could label as petty and vindictive? Mmmmmm. That sounds a lot like Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, a couple of journalist I watch each day and the list goes on. Rev. Wright did not deserve the hatred he received.
noiretextatique (20,660 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. he is an outspoken black man = uppity n
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just like professor derrick bell. these attempts to morph obama into a black radical because he knows wright and bell are just laughable. but instructive because race is always a tool the rw uses to manipulate a WILLING audience. anyone who claims this is "post-racial" america is a god damn fool.
So you guys will be dusting off those youtube videos and showing America there's nothing there.
Right?
Please show the videos on how America had 9/11 coming and AIDS was engineered to kill blacks.
While you're at it have Cass Sustein saying how she wants the UN to occupy Israel.
Van jones can explain how 9/11 was an inside job.
And then there's Bill Ayers.
Do it, you pussies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002700567
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They better be careful, he may come back to bite 0bama's candidacy in the ass.
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I'm struck at the inherent danger of cocooning oneself in an echo chamber. They take a mindset, parrot it back to each other, and they all feel good because it gives them the impression that the whole world feels the way they do.
Then all of a sudden, they get a sinking feeling with such things as Wisconsin. They never see shit coming.
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I so hope Wright is uppity and sticks it to Obama. wouldn't that be just fricking AWESOMENESS? :fuelfire:
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I so hope Wright is uppity and sticks it to Obama. wouldn't that be just fricking AWESOMENESS? :fuelfire:
being reading The Amature. Wright doesn't do Barry and favors.
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I wish my cordless drills would endlessly spin like that.
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They better be careful, he may come back to bite 0bama's candidacy in the ass.
I think that this is Rev. Wright's intention. I have to say that I wish him luck in his endeavor. :yahoo:
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That is some major bull-kaka there. Wow.
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Last election Wright was offered $150k to stay quiet. He held out, maybe this election will pay off BIG.
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Last election Wright was offered $150k to stay quiet. He held out, maybe this election will pay off BIG.
They don't need him this election. Obama is toast whether Wrights speaks or not.
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cali (71,022 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. no, but he's a piece of work. Why the **** did he spend 3 hours being
"interviewed" by Ed Klein?
Wright struck be as vindictive and petty 4 years ago and he still strikes me as being petty and vindictive.
Sucks that the interview is actually on tape huh? you can't dismiss it then as made up "Repiglipuke" propaganda! and isn't it interesting that Wright knows Obama better then anyone and look what he had to say about him!
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Wright in his own word in his own voice.
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After reading part way through Solomon's post, I'm speechless. What a moron.
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I so hope Wright is uppity and sticks it to Obama. wouldn't that be just fricking AWESOMENESS? :fuelfire:
That would be great wouldn't it?
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I'm struck at the inherent danger of cocooning oneself in an echo chamber. They take a mindset, parrot it back to each other, and they all feel good because it gives them the impression that the whole world feels the way they do.
Then all of a sudden, they get a sinking feeling with such things as Wisconsin. They never see shit coming.
I belieeeeeeeve!!!! Someone needs to post the picture of the woman in Ohio crying and holding the sign that says "count all 88".
Cindie
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"He has not said things in his pulpit, where he no longer is, as negative as Billy Graham, Pat Roberts, and the list continues."
Billy Graham? Excuse me, because maybe I missed something; Remind me of any occasions Billy Graham has said anything even remotely negative/ controversial, let alone as blatantly racist, vicious, and hate- filled as half of Wright's sermons.
I've only ever known Graham to be a simple, gentle evangelist who's sought to positively influence others for the Kingdom, and done a good job of it..
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"He has not said things in his pulpit, where he no longer is, as negative as Billy Graham, Pat Roberts, and the list continues."
Billy Graham? Excuse me, because maybe I missed something; Remind me of any occasions Billy Graham has said anything even remotely negative/ controversial, let alone as blatantly racist, vicious, and hate- filled as half of Wright's sermons.
I've only ever known Graham to be a simple, gentle evangelist who's sought to positively influence others for the Kingdom, and done a good job of it..
You have to understand the DUmmie mind, MB.
BECAUSE Graham IS a man of God, he IS racist, vicious, hate-filled, homophobic, narrow-minded, anti-abortion, a fundamentalist who thinks ALL women should be chained to a stove, barefoot and pregnant, servants of man.
Even the ones that CLAIM to have any knowledge of the Bible have never read past Genesis 1:1
"In the beginning..." is as much as they could stand, before their hands started blistering and their eyes burned. :lmao:
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Even the ones that CLAIM to have any knowledge of the Bible have never read past Genesis 1:1
Isn't this the truth. ^5
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Who is Pat Roberts?
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Who is Pat Roberts?
He is a senator from Kansas (He is a republican) - From reading his bio, he seems like a cool dude. As for the rest, I think he meant Pat Robertson, the host of the 700 club.