Can someone tell me what Wright has said so outrageous these past couple days?

[TeamJordan23]

I just keep hearing the MSM bash him and Obama, but fail to discuss the content of his speech yesterday or the press conference. Can someone tell me what all the fury is about?

[KittyWampus]

1. you mean all the other threads on Wright weren't sufficient?

[Texas Hill Country]

16. no kidding... you mean, you need more explanations?

[LakeSamish706]

2. Doctor Rev. Wright has said nothing that should link him in any way to Obama...

He is free to say and do exactly as he sees fit, but the MSM seems to want to dwell on every word that he speaks and spin it negatively toward Obama... Gee, thats a big surprise, Not.

[sandnsea]

3. Stuff that is only okay for the left to say

You know, like possible government conspiracies. Like Israeli Jews not treating Palestinians fairly. Like people of color being oppressed by the US and US backed governments. Stuff that the majority of Democrats usually agrees with, to some extent, until a black man says it and scares the ruling class.

[cliffordu]

7. OK..... I've had it. Now you're starting to make WAY too much sense..

:applause:

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. If, by the left, you mean the white left

Funny how that works. Imagine if Ayers (or Jerry Rubin) were a black man.

We'd be talking all about them instead (and they wouldn't be wealthy and
successful FOBs.)

[John Q. Citizen]

4. The Wright Brothers said men can fly. Can you believe that?

[Leopolds Ghost]

11. The Wright Brothers need to come down to earth and stop spouting such garbage

Whether or not it happens to be true, it is inflammatory and can do nothing but hurt Obama.

Especially small planes.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. voters are bored with it (like Britney Spears)

[BeyondGeography]

6. The worst thing he did was play into the media's hands, and HIV/AIDS is a prime example

Wright has been a leader in HIV/AIDS testing and education through his church and has an enlightened view of homosexuality and same-sex relationships. But because the media got him to again say today that he doesn't rule out a government role in the spread of HIV in the black community (and, listening to his answer, I can tell he doesn't even believe it deep down), nobody knows about all of the good he has actually done in the area of AIDS.

He didn't build a respected, 6,000-member church by being an uninformed hothead, but the media baited him today and he took the bait and the unfair, cartoon caricature image of Reverend Wright (which makes Obama look bad) has been reinforced, with his help.

[enid602]

8. Wright

I think you're spot on re: the media's intentions with regard to giving so much air time to Wright; they're probably trying to undermine Obama. Still, I think we're witnessing something historic, at least in terms of the last 7+ years. That is, an articulate and studied speaker giving alternative interpretations to compete with talking points. Openly questioning our goals, methods and desired results. I support Clinton, but feel that Wright is a phenomenon totally independent of Obama and his campaign.

[Breeze54]

13. I believe it... those were the rumors when AIDS was discovered.

The rumors were that it was biological sabotage against the gay community by certain individuals with an agenda in the US.

AIDS: A Doctor’s Note on the Man-Made Theory

By ALAN CANTWELL, J.R, M.D.

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/46a.htm

snip-->

Not all scientists believe the official monkey story, although it is rare to find people who express this view publicly. One persistent underground rumor is that AIDS is biological warfare. Proponents of the AIDS conspiracy theory believe that AIDS has nothing to do with green monkeys, homosexuality, drug addiction, genital ulcerations, anal sex or promiscuity, but that it has to do with scientists experimenting on blacks and gays: in short, AIDS is genocide

Wright made a lot of sense today on C-Span. "He took the bait?" I think he welcomed every question.

[Aloha Spirit]

15. The broader idea, which Wright expressed today, I agree with--our country is totally capable of

some seriously messed up stuff. Whether the US succeeded with said alleged virus project, I doubt, but that don't mean they didn't try.

[Breeze54]

17. Read at my link....

It's an eye opener.

[terrell9584]

9. In general

Using the word "Uncle Tom" in a national press conference is never a good idea, because that is a loaded term, everyone knows what it means.

Claiming that there is a right brain and a left brain and that which side you used is determined by race. (No, not culture, because as I alluded to earlier, the two American cultures that are the most similar to each other are southern white culture and black culture, because both grew alongside each other in the south. racial division was just a political ploy used to keep people silent even as more and more of them lost their farms and descended into sharecroppancy.)

Also, his seeming suggestion that Obama wasn't being truthful by making attempts to distance himself from him.

I personally think Wright sees an oppurtunity to boost his national profile and he's taking it. Almost no one knew of him before all of this broke out, now everyone does. He's a national celebrity and that can be parlayed in a lucrative manner. The same way that all those preachers on the right parlayed their outrageous statements into money. (I'm Catholic, so I don't understand charismatic preaching, we're about blessing shrimp boats and taking communion)

He's not helping Obama, suffice to say.

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. God bless shrimp boats? I say, no no no

God DAMN shrimp boats, God DAMN shrimp boats for killing innocent shrimpies.

Alligator soup on the other hand is delicious.

[kid a]

14. nothing..thats what makes the pundits pushing this look so stupid.

[jackson_dem]

18. He, Obama's mentor/pastor for 20 years, basically said Obama would say things just to get elected

This is ironic given the netroots article of faith that Clinton does this. Here we have a man who knows Obama extremely well (unlike the netroots crowd that "knows" Obama) saying Obama is saying things "because he's a politician and he is saying what a politician has to say"...

[JoFerret]

19. He dissed Obama

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