Rev. Wright Speaks To Bill Moyers

April 24, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Interview, Media, Video

Just when you start missing those Youtube clips of Obama’s pastor ranting and raving in front of his congregation, Rev. Wright does something to get himself front and center once again.

No matter how many times I see those clips of pastor Wright I still laugh out loud. It looks like it’s time to cue up those clips again, because the rev. is back and he’s not one bit sorry!

In an interview that will air tomorrow, Rev. Jeremiah Wright sits down with ultra far-left journalist Bill Moyers.

Here’s a snippet of the interview:

“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.”

I don’t think it was “guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint…” at all. I think people have a right to ask someone who wants to be president why they have a racist black militant for a pastor.

I think we have a right to ask why Obama would bring his family to a church that teaches that AIDS was invented by white people to unleash on the black community. It seems strange that a guy with a message of “hope” who likes to “bring people together” would be so closely associated with a raving lunatic like Wright.

-Chris Jones