DebateGate
General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Religious Dick on July 20, 2010, 02:25:30 PM
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It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama?s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama?s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher?s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama?s campaign.
The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long ? nearly a year since Wright?s remarks became public ? to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, ?Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do??
Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. ?George [Stephanopoulos],? fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is ?being a disgusting little rat snake.?
Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama?s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama?s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ?Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares ? and call them racists.?
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz0uFAMmSrr (http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz0uFAMmSrr)
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Jeremiah Wright is about as pertinent to the news today as Sista Souljah.
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I'll be the judge of that.
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So does this prove that President Obama can sleep through a sermon most Sundays?
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So does this prove that President Obama can sleep through a sermon most Sundays?
nope but I'm suspecting he lied about going to church and went golfing instead.
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So does this prove that President Obama can sleep through a sermon most Sundays?
nope but I'm suspecting he lied about going to church and went golfing instead.
Could be.
What is fantastic about it is that Obama did need to reverse. Was he unaware of how JW spoke or unaware of how most of America would react to the speech?
Either way strange for him to be so unaware.
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So does this prove that President Obama can sleep through a sermon most Sundays?
nope but I'm suspecting he lied about going to church and went golfing instead.
Could be.
What is fantastic about it is that Obama did need to reverse. Was he unaware of how JW spoke or unaware of how most of America would react to the speech?
Either way strange for him to be so unaware.
So he's stupid for not being aware and therefore unqualified to be president if he can't pick up on something to easy to see, or he's a hateful racist bigot that went to church time after time listening and liking the preaching and had the children baptized by Wright, the man he considered a father figure -- yup he never knew a thing. Kinda like none of us knew Robert Byrd was in the KKK. GW Bush was the devil and Obama is an angel.