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Wright Says His Words Were Twisted

Again I’m later on posting this article, y’all may have already seen on another blog, but I am beginning to suspect that Rev. Wright is only out to TRY and clean up his image, however while doing so he is really fucking up Obama campaign.
“His words twisted,” is he joking!? If dude really wanted to help Obama he would just shut the fuck up and go underground for awhile.
From what clips I have seen of tomorrow’s interview this will only bring the issue back to the front burner to the detriment of Obama trying to close the deal in the Democratic Party race.

(Story Link) In his first wide-ranging interview since video clips of his inflammatory sermons were aired, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. defended himself over the controversy, saying that his words were twisted.
Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, gave an interview to Bill Moyers on Wednesday, to air on PBS tomorrow.“I felt it was unfair,” Mr. Wright said, according to excerpts of the interview released Thursday. “I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt for those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious reasons.”
In Mr. Wright’s sermons, he suggested that Americans bore some responsibility for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, saying “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” He also blamed the government for the spread of AIDS among African-Americans, characterized the United States government as corrupt and referred to the “U.S. of K.K.K. A.”
He did not apologize or back away from his remarks in the interview, instead saying that people wanted to paint him as “some sort of fanatic.”

“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.”

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2 Responses to “Wright Says His Words Were Twisted”

Mrs. M Says:
April 25th, 2008 at 11:13 am

Oh his words were twisted alright. Sick and twisted. He can claim those sound bites were taken out of context, but only if he were quoting someone else and blasting THEM for saying them. Those were HIS words and HIS opinions of this country that has allowed him the freedom to shoot his mouth off in such an inflammatory fashion.

Go back to your multi-million dollar pimp pad Jeremiah. You and the other race baiters Jesse and Al are the ones keeping racism alive and well so you can profit from it. Without you spewing your vile, Blacks and Whites just might manage to simply see each other as fellow Americans instead of different skin colors, and I guess there’s not much money to be hustled from that.

Mrs. M Says:
April 25th, 2008 at 11:14 am

Oops…that should be bile, not vile.

PIMF.