Who is behind Rev. Wright's book deal?

[woolldog]

Does anyone know?

Who arranged this speaking tour?

I wouldn't be surprised if there are some Republican operatives or forces at work behind this book deal--the timing of his book release, in late Fall, just in time for the election, is especially suspicious.

[Hoof Hearted]

1. Who do you want to be "behind" his book deal?

[woolldog]

4. I said, I think GOP operatives are behind this.

GOP insider has a friend at Random House, for example, and calls in a favor.

[mac2]

11. Probably the same as those books published by Obama.

[Seeker30]

18. Hahaha

Thats funny!

[hiaasenrocks]

2. Probably isn't even true. There's not much of a market there...

[stillcool]

27. You do know that he's written

four other books, right?

[MonkeyFunk]

3. from what I've read here

Hillary's behind it all.

:rofl:

[woolldog]

5. No the timing of his book release would seem to favor the Republican

candidate.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Isn't it possible

and in fact, likely, that Wright is just an egomaniac? Why does somebody have to be behind it?

[mac2]

9. He is a profiteer and has to fill that 10,000 sq.ft. house with

stuff befitting his position in the community.

That church should have had it's tax exempt status removed for politicking. Pushed into the media spot light my foot (not my foot but his).

He announced that Arabic is not a religion but Arabs are many religions and some none. Da...did he teach that at college? Imagine that! Wondrous things to learn. Talk about making news out of nothing.

As I go down the posts there are too many posts about his speeches, books, etc. He is profiteering off this site. His followers are anyway.

The truckers blocked DC today did anyone hear anything about it? Ya...important stuff like that.

[stillcool]

13. Too bad the media had a public..

lynching going on for 3 weeks straight 24/7. How dare that man defend himself. How dare he call out the media for crucifying him! He should just shut the fuck up, and lay down like a dog, and let them keep on kicking him. Do you really think the media would be covering something of importance?

[mac2]

17. He does not belong in the campaign and has brought attention

to himself. Defend is the excuse. The media has him on all over the place hardly speaks of a lynching. He could have left leave the media stage after his first speech.

A religious leader and a candidate for President. Ya...that was just a mistake?

[stillcool]

24. who said he is in the campaign?

and he "brought attention to himself"? Damn. I've heard of 'mis-remembering' but I didn't know it was so short term. I really could give a shit if Obama loses an election over the hatchet job on a black preacher. Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they can change...maybe countries do too.

[cliffordu]

15. LOL - If you are going to slander someone at least

quote them correctly.

sheeit. Makes your arguments as stupid as they really are.


BY the way:

Hillary is STILL a second rate talent.

Strictly "B" list all the way.

NOT electable on her own...Not electable even with a two term President of the United States in her bed.

[mac2]

23. Doesn't bother you to slander Hillary or anyone who you

don't agree with.

Hillary has been a First Lady and Senator. A governor's wife and lawyer...a mother. She's earned her place in history.

I don't think Obama has.

I'm not sure of either of them being great candidates for President since they are both Faith Based Charity cronies and globalist...corporate people. They belong to those secret organizations which are undemocratic. That's not hate or racial it's the truth.

If you dish it out expect to get it back.

[cliffordu]

25. Still don't know what I was talking about, do you??

[Beregond2]

41. And you are a moronic bigot.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. So, is the timing of the book release

the only reason you have not accused the all-powerful Clinton Media Machine of Rev. Wright's book tour? Or are there other reasons?

[dchill]

29. You seem to be all hung up on the idea of Clinton...

being behind this, somehow. Maybe there IS something to it.
:eyes:

[stillcool]

8. Probably the same people

who published his 4 other books?

Born on September 22, 1941, in Philadelphia
Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. is one of the most widely acclaimed black preachers in the United States. Combining social concern, spiritual growth, and political activism, Wright, who preaches in a black traditional style, brings a message of hope, redemption, and renewal. In 1972 he became pastor of a small United Church of Christ congregation in the inner city of Chicago. After over 30 years in the pulpit, his congregation has grown to 10,000 and is the largest United Church of Christ congregation in the United States.
In 1959 Wright enrolled at Virginia Union University, in Richmond, where he remained until 1961. That year he left school to join the military. He served in the Second Marine Division of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1961 to 1963, achieving the rank of private first class. In 1963 he graduated as valedictorian from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, and from 1964 to 1967, he served as a cardio pulmonary technician at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
During 1965 and 1966, he was awarded with three Presidential Commendations from President Lyndon B. Johnson.

After his discharge from the military, Wright continued his education. He enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1967, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a master's degree in 1969. He then entered the University of Chicago Divinity School, receiving a master of arts degree in 1975. He ended his formal education in 1990 when he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree in black sacred music from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.

---------------------------------------------------------------
Wright has authored several books, including Africans Who Shaped Our Faith, Good News! Sermons of Hope for Today's Families, and What Makes You So Strong? Sermons of Joy and Strength from Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. According to Cleophus J. LaRue in The Heart of Black Preaching, in his title sermon of What Makes You So Strong, Wright "demonstrates the power of the mighty sovereign at work in the lives of black people in twentieth century America. This sermon focuses on the root of black strength and survivability. Wright makes it clear throughout the sermon that the source of all strength, and especially black strength, is none other than the Spirit of God." As in his preaching, in his writing Wright focuses on the
dual issues of corporate concern and spiritual sustenance. His latest publication, What Can Happen When We Pray: A Daily Devotional, was published in 2002.
In recognition of his contributions, Wright has been awarded seven honorary doctoral degrees. He has also served on a number of boards and commissions, including serving on the board of trustees for Virginia Union University and Chicago Theological Seminary. He continues to be a highly sought after preacher,
teacher, and lecturer.

http://www.dogonvillage.com/blogs/african_american/archives/140

[cliffordu]

16. That is what the intellectual deadbeats in the MSM and on this board

would have to memorize....

He is a giant among men.

[stillcool]

26. Pathetic.

but I got Obama streaming live in North Carolina...
http://www.newsobserver.com/1181/story/1037876.html
he just came on...got to go!

[bell1945]

47. Previous books

A quick search shows 5 publishers of his previous books and as many as 12 previous books, authored or co-authored. All but one of the previous publishers were religious presses (Judson Press (Baptist), Augsburg Fortress Publishers (sounds Lutheran), Urban Ministries, and Aaron Press). The other publisher was African American Images.

It will be interesting to find out who is publishing his alleged new book. I could not find any hard reference to an existing book deal. Anyone have pointers?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

10. thank you thats a super question

I want to know WHY NOW PASTOR WRIGHT HAS CHOSEN TO BE OBAMA'S CRAZY UNCLE.

WHY NOW. FOR WHAT.

He is too intelligent to miss the fact that he is knee capping Obama.

You asked the question - I have been trying to figure out where the money trail would
be, perhaps its through the publisher.

This is the most likely money trail to look into.

[stillcool]

19. Who dragged "God Damn America"..

into the spotlight? And how dare that man defend himself and his Church! Those bomb threats after the media's pimping selected 'excerpts' 24/7 for 3 weeks straight? Let them bomb that church with it's 10,000 members! He needs to shut the fuck up, and let the media steamroll right over him. White people can't handle the truth!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

28. At this point, Jeremiah Wright is Barack Obama's enemy

he is undermining Obama.

He isn't making his church more popular, he isn't uniting black and white,
he is creating more divisiveness.

His media blitz only brings him more attention, it does nothing to help his church.

Its not his church any more, either, funny how they "retired" him, isn't it?

And bought him a multi million dollar home.

WHy did they do that?

And black and white people can handle this truth. Not everyone has blinkers over their eyes.

Each action is DELIBERATE.

[mac2]

32. The elite plan it to the remark.

[anigbrowl]

40. Not really...a lot of the time we just let it happen and claim credit afterwards

Fact is, people are almost laughably stupid. I mean, the various tricks and 'secrets' of rhetoric (logical fallacies and modes of persuasive speech) have been extensively documented since the time of the ancient Greeks and people still haven't wised up. Many, perhaps most people would rather be told what to think and do than put up with the stress and insecurity of trying to figure it out for themselves, so it's not like it's hard work.

Consider WMDs in Iraq - there's STILL a bunch of people who think Saddam was actually a threat to us despite all evidence to the contrary. President Bush can openly joke about looking behind the furniture in the oval office for WMDs that aren't there and a substantial number of people will not only believe that they were in Iraq, but that he's also a witty and modest individual.

I'm telling you, people will believe absolutely ANYTHING as long as you give them some emotional validation with it. But not you, of course - you're smarter than that.

[stillcool]

36. His church doen't need to be any more popular...

they already have 10,000 members. What they need is to stop getting bomb threats because the media resuscitates selected 'excerpts' and plays them 24/7 for 3 weeks straight. You may not care that the man is being used as a pinata to trash and bash, but you aren't him, are you? And about deliberate action? Did you ever hear of 'cause and effect'? You don't have to like what the man has to say, but he has every right to say it. And his multi-million dollar home? That bothers you? Why? You think he didn't 'earn' it? You know he has written 4 books right? You think he doesn't 'deserve' it?

[mac2]

30. We people of every color...object to your remark.

"White people can't handle the truth."? What your "truth" they don't agree with it? There may be yellow, brown, and black people who don't agree with you about Rev. Wright and his church taking up the spotlight in the media for own his self- interest. Have you done a poll to see if all white people can't face the truth? Obnoxious remark.

He doesn't have to defend his church and himself any longer. I don't think he should have said it since god does not punish any country. Just the sinful people. Religious discussions can just go round and round. Stop it and get off the merry-go-round. Getting off the media would be a good start to stop it all. He won't though he's making a bundle with it.

His hero status is back and his wallet fat!!

[stillcool]

34. This has nothing to do...

with religious discussions. And the 'truth' is what so many so easily have side-stepped in the entire speech and the Q&A that Reverend Wright gave today. The truth about our country, our foreign policy, the millions of people our government has killed across the globe over the past 50 years. Why do they dismiss what this man says, and put it down to a Black Preacher stepping out of line for his own greed? It's the same old thing..."Condemnation prior to Investigation". Why is that? Is it the message or the messenger?

Blowback
excerpted from the book
Blowback The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
by Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt, 2000
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blowback_CJohnson/Blowback_BCJ.html

p8
The term "blowback," which officials of the Central Intelligence Agency first invented for their own internal use, is starting to circulate among students of international relations. It refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign acts of "terrorists" or "drug lords" or "rogue states" or "illegal arms merchants" often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.
p9
One man's terrorist is, of course, another man's freedom fighter, and what U.S. officials denounce as unprovoked terrorist attacks on its innocent citizens are often meant as retaliation for previous American imperial actions. Terrorists attack innocent and undefended American targets precisely because American soldiers and sailors firing cruise missiles from ships at sea or sitting in B-52 bombers at extremely high altitudes or supporting brutal and repressive regimes from Washington seem invulnerable. As members of the Defense Science Board wrote in a 1997 report to the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology, "Historical data show a strong correlation between U.S. involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States. In addition, the military asymmetry that denies nation states the ability to engage in overt attacks against the United States drives the use of transnational actors that is, terrorists from one country attacking in another."
The most direct and obvious form of blowback often occurs when the victims fight back after a secret American bombing, or a U.S.-sponsored campaign of state terrorism, or a CIA-engineered overthrow of a foreign political leader. All around the world today, it is possible to see the groundwork being laid for future forms of blowback.
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Terrorism(by definition)strikes at the innocent in order to draw attention to the sins of the invulnerable. The innocent of the twenty-first century are going to harvest unexpected blowback disasters from the imperialist escapades of recent decades. Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individually and collectively-for their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene. Before the damage of heedless triumphalist acts and the triumphalist rhetoric and propaganda that goes with them becomes irreversible, it is important to open a new discussion of our global role during and after the Cold War...
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"Blowback" is shorthand for saying that a nation reaps what it sows, even if it does not fully know or understand what it has sown. Given its wealth and power, the United States will be a prime recipient in the foreseeable future of all of the more expectable forms of blowback, particularly terrorist attacks against Americans in and out of the armed forces anywhere on earth, including within the United States. But it is blowback in its larger aspect-the tangible costs of empire-that truly threatens it. Empires are costly operations, and they become more costly by the year. The hollowing out of American industry, for instance, is a form of blowback-an unintended negative consequence of American policy- even though it is seldom recognized as such. The growth of militarism in a once democratic society is another example of blowback. Empire is the problem. Even though the United States has a strong sense of invulnerability and substantial military and economic tools to make such a feeling credible, the fact of its imperial pretensions means that a crisis is inevitable. More imperialist projects simply generate more blowback. If we do not begin to solve problems in more prudent and modest ways, blowback will only become more intense.

The American Empire: 1992 to present
from the book
Killing Hope
by William Blum
2004 edition
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/American_Empire_KH2004.html

Following its bombing of Iraq in 1991, the United States wound up with military bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Following its bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the United States wound up with military bases in Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Hungary, Bosnia and Croatia.
Following its bombing of Afghanistan in 2001-2, the United States wound up with military bases in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Yemen and Djibouti.
Following its bombing and invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States wound up with Iraq.
This is not very subtle foreign policy. Certainly not covert. The men who run the American Empire are not easily embarrassed
And that is the way the empire grows-a base in every neighborhood, ready to be mobilized to put down any threat to imperial rule, real or imagined. Fifty-eight years after world War II ended, the United States still has major bases in Germany and Japan; fifty ears after the end of the Korean War, tens of thousands of American armed forces continue to be stationed in South Korea.
"America will have a continuing interest and presence in Central Asia of a kind that we could not have dreamed of before," US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared in February 2002. Later that year, the US Defense Department announced: "The United States Military is currently deployed to more locations then it has been throughout history."

A Brief History of U.S. Interventions: 1945 to the Present
by William Blum
Z magazine , June 1999
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html
The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.

[jwirr]

42. You are correct that Rev. Wright's anger is blowback with cause

but his actions will cause blowback against Obama and I do not believe he is stupid - he knows there will be blowback - what is he after? Does he think he is helping or hurting Obama? What has he gained if Obama loses because of the blowback? We all, no matter what color we are, will lose.

[stillcool]

45. I'm not sure it has anything to do with Obama....

I can not find fault with any human being sticking up for themselves after what the media has done to him, and his church. I don't find fault with him for wanting to set the story straight. I think that anyone who watched the interviews would not be offended. As far as blowback..Reverend Wright was not going away. If just a little bit of his interviews get out there it will reinforce the fact that the media are a bunch of fools.

[jwirr]

46. I agree but I was making the point that those of us on this board are

not the ordinary citizen. We listen to news from various sources, keep up with the party and we think not just believe what we hear.

[WillyT]

12. A Publisher

:wtf:

:shrug:

[mac2]

14. Many politicians now write books and get big payoffs.

It's a way of money laundering for services rendered through publishers. Murdock the most well known.

[WillyT]

21. No... That May Be True Of Conservative Publishing Houses...

where any fucking hack can have their swill imprinted on paper in bulk, and then bought by the boxcar-load to fuck with the NYT Best-Seller List, and then given away in bulk to any numb-nut gullible enough to pay.

But in this case, there are enough people of intelligence that would like to bypass the corrupt MSM and take their own measure of the man. And they are in such numbers, that both the author and publisher should come into some serious money.

But the latter is an example of straight forward book publishing, while the former is that money laundering scheme you seem to speak of.

:shrug:

[mac2]

31. Both parties.

[WillyT]

37. Evidence Please ???

:shrug:

[mac2]

43. Clintons, Albright, etc.

[newmajority]

20. Those Republican operatives can be tricky alright.

Never know where they're gonna turn up next...... unless you pay close attention maybe.....

[wisteria]

22. Funny thing was, Huckabee suggested jokingly of course that the Clinton's

might be behind this. I don't know though. This whole situation is strange. The good Reverend throwing Obama to the wolves and "if" (a huge if}, Obama is brought down,it will be by a Black man who was suppose to be his friend. The Clinton's are off the hook with the Black community if she gains the nomination and no one can blame her. :tinfoilhat: perhaps.

[dailykoff]

44. Interesting.

Sure hope it's not true but Wright was also pals with LBJ and while it might all be innocent it might not be.

[Life Long Dem]

33. Sean Hannity told Wright he could make a million dollars plus,

and he would help him in the fall to sell his book during the October surprise month. Why do you ask? Kidding but the thought crosses my mind.

[KAZ]

35. Hey Wool, I got your back, but the Wright "tour" is a great idea.

Sensed it on Tweety and Gregory tonight. Have a Little Faith.

[Hoof Hearted]

38. Oh yes! YES! Please, oh please oh please oh please let there be a TOUR.

[KAZ]

39. Hate replying to "hoof", but yes, please let it go on!

The dear Reverend is providing the "disconnection" from our presumptive nominee. No hands, no mess.

Get it now?