Wright says his words were twisted:
“I felt it was unfair,” Mr. Wright said, according to excerpts of the interview released Thursday. “I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt for those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious reasons.”
In Mr. Wright’s sermons, he suggested that Americans bore some responsibility for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, saying “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” He also blamed the government for the spread of AIDS among African-Americans, characterized the United States government as corrupt and referred to the “U.S. of K.K.K. A.”
He did not apologize or back away from his remarks in the interview, instead saying that people wanted to paint him as “some sort of fanatic.”“It’s to paint me as something ” ‘Something’s wrong with me. There’s nothing wrong with this country : for its policies. We’re perfect. Our hands are free. Our hands have no blood on them,’” he said. “That’s not a failure to communicate. The message that is being communicated by the sound bites is exactly what those pushing those sound bites want to communicate.”
When asked what the people who aired the clips “wanted to communicate,” Mr. Wright said, “I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint? That’s what they wanted to communicate.”
Mr. Wright, who has acted as Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor and retired in February as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said that he has never heard Mr. Obama repeat any of his controversial statements.
“Absolutely not,” Mr. Wright said. “I don’t talk to him about politics. And so he had a political event, he goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician. I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.”
Mr. Obama publicly denounced Mr. Wright’s remarks, a reaction Mr. Wright said “went down very simply.”
“He’s a politician, I’m a pastor,” he said. “We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they’re two different worlds.”
Got that? You twisted his g’d damn words! What’s that? Oh that’s right:
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama’s presidential announcement.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers…………………
…………….According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
Obama Obama’s people knew that Wright would be a problem for them, and he was, and now is again. How did we twist his words?
I’ll leave you with the words of Jason Maoz
It’s not that we haven’t had a discussion on race in recent years – sometimes it seems like we can’t think or talk of anything else – it’s that the conversation has been so relentlessly one-sided, with liberal, politically correct pieties elevated to received wisdom while blacks (Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas) who refuse to toe the NAACP-approved line are marginalized or worse.
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“Wright on Obama: “he says what he has to say as a politician—
That quote alone, taken prima facia, says that Wright acknoledges Obama is an opportunist and will say and do whatever is opportune politically. Like any other weasel.
No real change there, and certainly none “we can believe in”.
When it comes to Wright, the only thing twisted is his mind.
re Huffington’s book:
Typical Leftist. They don’t have any original thoughts of their own. So they steal what we create, twist it around, try to use it against us, then believe they have really accomplished something.
This is effectively plagiarizing the theme of Michael Savage’s book “Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder”.
Robert,
I was thinking O’Reilly and how he is always saying that the left hijacked the country..In any case, Huffington couldn’t come up with her own theme, she had to steal from the very people that she claims hijacked the country.
Yes. You see this plagiarizing with many of the entertaining yet meaningful and accurate concepts developed by Conservatives to describe and mock the Left.
For example, the “Kool Aid” concept. Used by Conservatives to describe people who repeat Leftist talking points but do not understand and cannot defend them. The Leftists, unable to counter with anything original, simply adopted it and began using it for themselves. They think they are exceedingly clever when they do this, but it only serves to remind everyone of their lack of creativeness.
I heard a good one on the Trinity Church where pastor? Wright preaches. An American Cowboy went to visit the church to see what all the fuss was about. He sat on the back row and all the congregation was up in arms over the clothes he wore. He was dressed like an American Cowboy. How appalling to everyone, so they told pastor? Wright he had better tell this cowboy to pray about what he was to wear to church, that they didn’t dress like cowboys!
So the next Sunday he showed up again wearing cowboy clothes! Pastor? Wright getting his usual angry self, said: Son of a B___ I thought I told you to pray to God ask him what you should wear to my church. The cowboy politely said: I did, and God said! “He didn’t know, he had never been that church!”=))