Rev. Wright's church responds--this is really funny

[hondo]

This from ABC news.com

Obama's Church Blames Media
March 16, 2008 4:41 PM

This is the full response from Sen. Barack Obama's church, Trinity United Church of Christ, to the media coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's more inflammatory comments.

“AN ATTACK ON OUR SENIOR PASTOR AND THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH”:

Chicago, Ill. (March 15, 2008) — Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.

“Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. This does not include weekday worship services, revivals and preaching engagements across America and around the globe, to ecumenical and interfaith communities. It is an indictment on Dr. Wright’s ministerial legacy to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound bite,” said the Reverend Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ."

Wow ... so a few 15 or 30 second sound bites out of 207,792 minutes reaching in 36 years shouldn't be "an indictment on Dr. Wright's ministerial legacy?"

Tell that to Don Imus
And to Jimmy the Greek
And to Kelly Tilghman
And to Al Campanis
And to anyone else who had to quit their job, got fired or were otherwise disciplined for one remark in their body of work.

Sorry...I'm calling bull**** on Rev. Moss.

 

[ColbertNation]

Gotta say, I don't know that I care for the lede.

 

[hondo]

Gotta say, I don't know that I care for the lede.

Thank you... I forgot to make that point. Don't know if equating the killing of MLK with Rev. Wright getting a little heat for some pretty whacked-out sermons is on the same level. To quote Samuel L. Jackson "It aint even in the same ****ing ballpark."

 

[ColbertNation]

Gotta say, I don't know that I care for the lede.

Thank you... I forgot to make that point. Don't know if equating the killing of MLK with Rev. Wright getting a little heat for some pretty whacked-out sermons is on the same level. To quote Samuel L. Jackson "It aint even in the same ****ing ballpark."

There is no ballpark, and the team has relocated.

 

[BYH]

commemorative anniversary of an assassination??!?!?!

Are there bobblehead dolls too?

Dumbest lede in the history of mankind.

 

[Bubbler]

That lede really is awesomely bad.

 

[jgmacg]

When McCain cuts Hagee loose, be sure to let us know.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Oh, but what we do - telling compelling stories and conveying interesting thoughts using the written word - is just SO ****ing easy. Right? Anyone can do it.

Apparently not.

That letter's beginning (is it a lede?) is horrendous.

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

but whatever. i'm glad we're discussing the REAL issues.


(if america lets the election be dominated by this crap, then we have failed as a nation. end of story.)

 

[hondo]

When McCain cuts Hagee loose, be sure to let us know.

Actually, he needs to, but we weren't talking about that. As they say, nice try. I don't recall anyone from Hagee's church comparing his getting criticism on the same level as the assassination of King and while Hagee doesn't like homosexuals, I don't think he was conjuring up dark government conspiracies.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Plenty of room for many things to be discussed in March of an election year, when we're between primaries and one party is just lying in wait for the other to finish choosing a candidate.

 

[hondo]

but whatever. i'm glad we're discussing the REAL issues.


(if america lets the election be dominated by this crap, then we have failed as a nation. end of story.)

So you don't mind that a presidential candidate's spiritual advisor and close mentor (Obama's words in the past) thinks:

The U.S. government spread the aids virus into the African American community.
We brought 9-11 on ourselves and pretty much deserved it.
Instead of saying God Bless America, we should say God Damn America.

Just checking.

 

[jgmacg]

So you don't mind that McCain's buddy says:


"All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades.

So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing."

or

And the pastor suggested in a book called "Jerusalem Countdown" that, as Sarah Posner puts it, "military confrontation with Iran is foretold in the Bible as a necessary precondition for the Second Coming."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/29/politics/horserace/entry3892932.shtml

Interesting how McCain's "spiritual adviser" gets a free pass from the liberal press. But "we weren't talking about that".

 

[pallister]

Moral relativism: It's the American way.

 

[jgmacg]

So no Catholics on the thread so far? No one minds that Hagee refers to the Catholic church as "the Great *****"? Interesting.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

So you don't mind that McCain's buddy says:


"All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades.

So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing."

or

And the pastor suggested in a book called "Jerusalem Countdown" that, as Sarah Posner puts it, "military confrontation with Iran is foretold in the Bible as a necessary precondition for the Second Coming."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/29/politics/horserace/entry3892932.shtml

Interesting how McCain's "spiritual adviser" gets a free pass from the liberal press. But "we weren't talking about that".

No candidate has a monopoly on their supporters saying stupid things, that's for sure.

McCain's guy deserves just as much ridicule and scrutiny.

 

[pallister]

I'm Catholic. Hagee should be called out for the foof he is. The difference in news value, as I see it, is that Obama is selling himself to the American public as a candidate who transcends race. So it's a little more than interesting, IMO, that his spiritual adviser of two decades is a racist. That's why the connection has more legs than McCain-Hagee.

 

[dog428]

I'm Catholic. Hagee should be called out for the foof he is. The difference in news value, as I see it, is that Obama is selling himself to the American public as a candidate who transcends race. So it's a little more than interesting, IMO, that his spiritual adviser of two decades is a racist. That's why the connection has more legs than McCain-Hagee.

Well, that makes sense. So, as long as you never claim not to be something, it's OK if you surround yourself with people who are ... in this case, a raving lunatic.

 

[RedSmithClone]

So no Catholics on the thread so far? No one minds that Hagee refers to the Catholic church as "the Great *****"? Interesting.

I'm a recovering Catholic . . . does that count?
Unlike Obama, who says now - after being forced to - that he doesn't agree with what his mentor said throughout 20 years of devotion to him and this church, I put 22 years of believing in the Catholic way aside because I didn't agree with the coverup from the Pope on down over the sex-abuse scandal. Granted it was a judgement call for me, and I guess it's a judgement call for him - especially since that's the platform he is running on. I think it shows pretty poor judgement for him to subject his children to this type of craziness. Then again, when you connect the dots, maybe it's his wife - first time being proud of America - that has been dragging his ass to church to cheer on this douchebag of a minister.

And to that I say GOD BLESS AMERICA!

 

[Ruth-Gehrig]

“Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. ..."

Didn't know that Rain Man tallied up his minutes, thought he just counted cards.