Today's a busy one for me today, what with an early doctor appointment, a mid-afternoon interview, and trying to keep up with my freelance work in between. But this was just too much to let slide.
There's been a lot of controversy in the media for the past several weeks regarding speeches made by Barack Hussein Obama's "spiritual mentor", Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Claims have been made that his bigoted and anti-American comments are being taken out of context. Rev. Wright took time this weekend to offer further "context" in diatribes to the NAACP and the National Press Club (accompanied by bodyguards from the Nation of Islam). In retrospect, he might have been smarter to heed the words of Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
- He attempted to compare himself to both Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ
- He mocked John F. Kennedy's accent in an attempt to legitimize "ebonics"
- He characterized America's reaction to his "God damn America" and “U.S. of KKK-A.” comments as "an attack on the black church"
- He defended his conspiracy theories that the U.S. was responsible for the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and created AIDS to wipe out black people
- Said white people worship on Sunday, then don KKK robes to kill blacks on Monday morning
- He claimed that black people are incapable of learning in the same manner as white people because their brains are different
Right about now, I have to believe that the Obama campaign is secretly screaming "will you please shut up!" But no matter, CNN was only to happy to carry water for Wright and explain it all away.
It would seem that Rev. Wright missed that little part in Rev. King's speech about "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
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Michelle Malkin has clips of the NAACP speech and liveblogged the Nat'l. Press Club speech.
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