Hussein’s Reverend Says His Words Were Twisted
The Caucus:
In his first wide-ranging interview since video clips of his inflammatory sermons were aired, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. defended himself over the controversy, saying that his words were twisted.
Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, gave an interview to Bill Moyers on Wednesday, to air on PBS tomorrow.
“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.”
He added, “I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician.”
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BULLSHIT!-Two different audiences?? He says what he HAS to say as a politician???—BULLSHIT
April 24th, 2008 at 10:17 amHe can “paint” it that way, but the point is he still fucking said those things. I don’t hear him denying that he said those things, only that he was treated unfairly. Once a liar, always a liar.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:24 amLYING PIECE OF SHIT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMnmUk8bog&eurl=https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/shocking-facts-about-hussein-many-people-dont-know/
April 24th, 2008 at 10:35 amI think he’s been treated MORE than fairly, since his fore-fathers would have been lynched for such talk.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:36 amLOL, like is mind?
April 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am*his
April 24th, 2008 at 11:12 amThey can only fool the STUPID WHITE LIBERALS, these are a pair of racist America hating scum.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:20 amKeep talking…the more you run your pie hole the worse it gets for your little butt-buddy hussein. You said what you said and hussein’s Rip Van Winkle explanation isn’t flying.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:20 amKeep digging you flippin raceist.
It’s hard to take “God damn America”, and the US gave the black man HIV out of context. There is an important question that is not being asked of Obama.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:26 amRev. Wright is clear that the philosophy of his church is based to a large extent on black liberation theology and the writings of “black liberation” theologians James Cone and Dwight Hopkins.
Cone maintains either God must do what we want him to do or we must reject him. He writes, “If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. the task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community..Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.” This is a short statement, but believe it is not out of context with the overall philosophy of black liberation thelogy.
This is racism. If a predominate white church had a philosophy like this and changed the words, black to white and white to black in the above comment there would be riots. Al Sharpton and Jessy Jackson would be camped out in front of the church.
The question for Obama?
-You have spent 20 years in The Trinity United Church that teaches “black liberation theology”.
-How much of this philosophy do you support, what parts do you support?
-Is “black liberation theology” racist?
-Do you believe as your church teaches that Jesus was black?
-Since you have been in the church for 20 years, common sense would seem to say you must in some way, shape or form endorse these beliefs in some part or as a whole. If you do not, why have you stayed in and supported this church and this philosophy?
I doubt if any one will ask. It’s scary to think a President of the US would have this kind of moral foundation.
Of course the words were twisted, he did mean “Bless”, really he did…
April 24th, 2008 at 11:27 amTwo different audiences . . . my ass.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:38 amMe thinks this POS might be gettin tired of looking over his shoulder as he walks the streets and sleeping with one eye open
April 24th, 2008 at 11:39 am.
Little nervous there preacher boy.
Why doesn’t the good rev. just come out and blame whitey for twisting his words…I mean he blames whitey for everything else.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:06 pmWow, nice try at spin control, Rev. However, you come off as a black racist. I didn’t hear being asked about that, or denying it.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:44 pmOH, and spewing any of those venomous things in a house of God is the antithesis of any Christian religion. I feel sorry for those two Obama kids if they had to listen to it. It’s a very bad thing for kids to have to hear.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pmIt’s the old BO trick, it’s not what I say, it’s how you interpreted it
April 24th, 2008 at 1:09 pmThe only thing twisted is his mind.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm83delta
Me thinks this POS might be gettin tired of looking over his shoulder as he walks the streets and sleeping with one eye open
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Little nervous there preacher boy.
Naw, he’s safe inside his new gated community.Plenty of places to hide in his new 10,000sqft home. 
April 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pm“I don’t talk to him about politics. “
Naw, you just park your worthless ass behind a dais for 3 hours every Sunday and proselytize, hoping that the ghetto mammas and baby daddies in your congregation lap up your politically-biased bile. Good job, Reverend! It appears to have worked splendidly! Do you have a newsletter that I may subscribe to?
April 24th, 2008 at 7:45 pm