Obama’s Preening Pastor
What emerges from watching the endless YouTubing of Jeremiah Wright is not the picture of a religious or political fanatic but a world-class attention-seeker. In those operatic video clips, there is a dashiki-dressed performer playing to the crowd, a soulmate, not of Louis Farrakhan, but of Bill Maher, whose imprudent comments on 9/11 cost him his network gig.
Now Obama’s pastor is back on stage, coming out of his recent retirement, with Bill Moyers on PBS tonight and at the National Press Club in Washington next Monday, flamboyantly defending himself to the possible political detriment of his former congregant:
“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?”
If Hillary Clinton’s campaign were paying him, the Rev. Wright couldn’t being doing more for them than to keep Obama’s embarrassment front and center in the days leading up to the final critical primaries.
But we may be underestimating him. By continuing to call attention to himself, Wright may be deviously trying to show that Obama is not under the Svengali-like influence of a dangerous man, just bedeviled by the antics of a showoff.
If so, that would be too subtle for most voters. All that may register with them is Obama’s unfortunate choice in a spiritual adviser.
Cross-posted from my blog.
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6 Responses to “Obama’s Preening Pastor”
I'm still shocked that Maher lost his job as the host of ABC's Politically Incorrect for saying that we “have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”
But anyways… I'm glad Wright is coming out and doing this now, instead of during the general election. Hillary has for all intents and purposes lost the race, so this is a great time to try to blunt the issue of Rev. Wright.
Last night CNN did a whole segment on Wright's appearance on PBS.
Bloggers are busy posting their in-depth analyses. and psychological profiles of the Rev.
But the interview won't be aired until tonight !!!!.
That's just plain amzing.
Once again, we have a whole hullabaloo based on excerpts and preconceptions ..
Tomorrow I expect to read analyses of the Inauguration speech. Why wait for the elections? Someone else might be the first to publish!
While bloggers and pundits are blaming the Rev. for any harm this does to Obama's candidacy, not one of them is asking what part he/she is playing in it.
Again, just plain amazing.!
“Again, just plain amazing”
Is it, really? Consider the nature of so many on-line as well as in the media.
The guy is a liability to Obama, at least to decent, normal people (some scum may support what he says, but they don't merit respect or better people's time). Obama is not seen by us as the same as this guy (a typical dipshit black-Dem-left-wing activist Religious Left mouthpiece, a prototype for the long-discredited “black leadership” PC-Sixties-degeneracy model), but Obama had better distance himself from the alien-and-antithetical-to-USA-and-civilization far-left nonsense this guy represents. I believe this guy won't harm Obama in the long run; we've seen evidence of that already. Most of us realize Obama may be floridly Dem entitlements-galore and have other left-wing-Dem liabilities (same as Clinton), but not as rabidly radical as this guy. At least, no so far.
The real question is why Moyers would give the pastor air time. Moyers is far left; has he become one of the Obama-adopters among such people, or is he stooping so low as to not defend Obama but to let the pastor actually defend his extreme positions? It might be interesting to watch or listen to this, or to see the transcript later.
DLS,
My kind of normal people wait until somerthing happens before passing judgment on it.
It will hinge principally on the content of the interview. Enough said.