Allah was hesitant at first to take the words for what they seemed to mean, but Wright's fresh statement (video included) leaves no doubt.

Yes, Wright said Obama is dishonestly "distancing" himself from Wright just to get himself elected.

Now, before anyone says "But Wright does not know Obama's mind..."

Yes, well, no one knows anyone's mind perfectly, but given their 20 year partnership and Obama's view of Wright as his "spiritual mentor," I'd say that Wright has a better guess as to what's in Obama's mind than, say, Soledad O'Brien, Chris Matthews, or the rest of the Liberal Media Spirit Squad.

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Check out his reasoning:

Gergen suggested that "itÂ’s time for him [Rev. Wright] to get off the stage, and frankly, for the media, I suggest, to move on." He also twice characterized the whole affair as a "sideshow."

Shortly after a commercial break which came in the middle of the discussion, Gergen, in response to a question from "Newsroom" co-host Tony Harris, said of Rev. Wright, "Every time he appears, he just gives legitimacy and a hunger by those who oppose Barack Obama to re-run those tapes, to keep him at the center of controversy, to let this overhang and define Barack Obama, when it has, you know -- it has very, very little to do -- it's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for."

So what he's saying is that only those who oppose Barack Obama -- currently around 3/4 of the country, when you add together Republicans with Hillary partisans -- want to keep this story going, only that 75% of the country thinks this issue is legitimate and important.

Only that overwhelming majority thinks it such.

But the MSM, knowing better, and of course being largely Obama supporters, knows better. 75% of the country thinks this is newsworthy, legitimate, and important, 25% does not, so of course the media must do as the 25% wishes and bury the story.

Because they know, objectively, that 25% is correct.

Remember, the public doesn't want the media to ask questions; it wants the media to provide answers. The public trusts the media to make decisions.

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Or so it seems, anyway, based on their coordinated messaging.

few days ago, there were two suspiciously coordinated statements emerging from Iraq. Muqtada al-Sadr made open-war threats followed immediately by a similar threat from al-Qaeda.

As they say, there is usually no smoke without fire.

Respected Iraqi writer and lawyer Suleiman Hakim (a prominent writer regularly published on the leading Iraqi politics and culture website Kitabat ) reported on April 11 — more than a week before Sadr and Abu Ayyub made their threats — about serious negotiations taking place between Sadr’s movement and a leader of the Islamic army group.

The meetings, Hakim believes, are taking place in Syria and Lebanon and are sponsored by a special Syrian security apparatus specialized in Iraqi affairs.

Alarmed? Don't be. Barack Obama assures us he will fight Al Qaeda in Iraq if they're there.

Thanks to CJ.

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Congratulations, Reverend Wright. You've joined an elite group of national figures who received Absolute Moral Authority because of their military service:

Lee Harvey Oswald. He was a fellow Marine, and showed the Country what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.

Timothy McVeigh. It's a little known fact that McVeigh was the captain of his company's debate team. His "Oh yeah, well I'll just blow up your effing building! How do you like THEM apples?" strategy is still legendary in all branches of the service (and is currently taught at all the Service Academies).

Benedict Arnold. His love for America caused him to betray it to the British. I guess he thought that an America that refused to elevate him to Commander of the Continental Army would be an imperfect form of government to hand down to their descendants.

Jesse McBeth. McBeth overcame massive obstacles (his colossal douchebaggery, combined with the minor point of his lack of real military service) to become on of the American Left's leading authorities on war crimes and the proper method to skewer little brown babies on bayonets.

If you add Reverend Wright to that list, I'm sure it's only a matter of time until some Lefty proposes carving all of their likenesses into a hunk of granite somewhere. My guess? Either within the City Limits of Greater San Francisco, or maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of Seattle.

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Strange bedfellows.

Actually, not so strange, on second thought. All racists must, at some point, argue for the exceptionalism of the race they deem exceptional.

And of course they then have to get around to mentioning that Jews are vile schemers plotting to retard and undermine the Master Race.

Done and done, says Jeremiah Wright.

More on Jeremiah Wright, expert on Differential Racial Cognitive Processes, from Hot Air. And still more at NR.

Basically Jeremiah Wright is making a warmed-over "Sun People" (blacks) vs. "Ice People" (whites) argument, as first seen, in the nineties, from "professor" Leonard Jeffries:

Leonard Jeffries (born January 19, 1937) is an American professor in the Black Studies department at the City College in Harlem who achieved national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his antisemitic views. He was quoted in the New York Times saying that "rich Jews who financed the development of Europe also financed the slave trade." The New York Post quoted him lecturing that Jews controlled the slave trade, and that they use their control of Hollywood to promote the subservience of blacks in the modern day.

After a lengthy legal battle that was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, Jeffries lost his chairmanship of the Black Studies department. He remains a professor at CCNY, and continues to promote his views on the alleged perfidious nature of Jews.

He also stirred controversy with his analysis of whites as "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.[1] He further claims that blacks are superior to whites because of their higher melanin levels[2]. In an interview in Rutherford Magazine May 1995 Jeffries further expanded on his racial views when asked what kind of world he world want to leave to his children, he answered: "A world in which there arenÂ’t any white people"[3].

Jeffries also caused controversy in 1991 when he said that the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster was "the best thing to happen to America in a long time," as it would stop white people from "spreading their filth through the universe."[1]

He also referred to one of his critics as a "debonair Texas Jew," once again drawing from the same poisonous well that Wright (and his disciple Obama) drinks from.

This is not just "stupid and wicked," as Christopher Hitchens bluntly and aptly termed Wright's various dementias, it's incredibly dangerous to the interests of black people: If it is true that there are genuine cognitive differences between the coldly logical and analytical "Ice People" and the warm, compassionate, musical/oral "Sun People," that means that in fact there is a good, legitimate, rational and scientific basis for favoring whites for certain jobs over blacks.

And blacks over whites for other jobs, but I can assure these crackpot racists that far more jobs demand "Ice People" brains than "Sun People" brains.

So, what? Whites will get all the accounting jobs, all the financial analysis jobs, all the corporate business jobs, all the computer programming and website construction and data management jobs, all the technical jobs from phone line repair to plumbing, all the math and science and engineering jobs, and blacks will in turn get... um, the rapper jobs and "Spoken Word Poetry Jam" slots?

Now, if I were myself a white racist, I would say I accept your deal in principle; let's just divvy up the borderline cases and be done with it.

I'll gladly sell out Eminem. I never got on that bandwagon anyhow. Put him into trade school and give him an honest Ice People job like Heat & Air Conditioning installation and maintenance.

He'll make far less money, and will not be nearly as happy as he is now as famous rap-star, but at least he'll have the deep satisfaction of being true to his racial/genetic tribe.

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Good Lord, Leslie Stahl is a fucking nitwit.

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FoxNews offers a full sermon on its website.

CNN actually played the full sermon on its air last night, but they were not content to let the "context" of the speech, which supposedly redeemed it into the realm of the non-objectionable and non-lunatic, speak for itself.

How could they? The speech "in context" is worse than the single sound bite "God Damn America," because while one remark can be explained away as an ill-considered statement, it's harder to do that with eight paragraphs of pre-written damnations.

So they carry Wright's speech to the NAACP and have Soledad O'Brien and Roland Martin (himself a friend of Wright's, though CNN doesn't bother telling you that) with the two chirping about how you, as a Typical White Person, ought to interpret the speech. (Full of wisdom and love and insight and multi-culti uplift, it turns out.)

Soldedad O'Brien's big offer of "context" is thus: The line after "God Damn America" is "Because America thinks it is God," which, she assures us, gives the damnation a whole new meaning, and one that should not trouble anyone at all. After all, he's merely explaining that America is to be damned by God for arrogating to itself the blasphemous belief that it is greater than God Himself, so, you know, nothing to see here, folks.

Scan down to the "Yes We Can" Network post and scroll up for the various reactions from the Corner on CNN's absurdly partisan performance.

Thank God John McCain outlawed corporate in-kind donations to political campaigns, huh?

Once again, by the way, the media takes a speech and declares the issue settled. They tried this before with Obama's speech on Wright, which once again reiterated the same old song and dance that White People Bad Black People Good. Wright does the same thing, and the MSM once again eagerly, and quite prematurely, rush to claim "Case Closed."

'm seeing very little news about this. The developing meme seems to be
that Wright redeemed himself
with a speech about respecting one another's differences.

I disagree. First he didn't "respect" what he calls european
standards. He mocked them.
Second, I didn't hear him propose a new standard; simply that
"difference" is OK.

In short, I heard a man saying there should be NO standards: the
ultimate in moral-equivalence. There is
no correct way to speak. No correct education standard. No correct
theology. How long now before
he argues there is no correct LAW? "Why should we respect your
'european' laws?". Sound familiar?
It's already happening in Europe. There is no right or wrong; we can't
judge a person's behavior...
we have to respect his "difference".

And the media seems to have bought into it. Rush, Sean, et al will
take this on. Then the MSM will be able
to say Wright has become a "partisan" issue.

So Wright gets up before the NAACP and simply repeats his toxic ideology in less-unhinged words. Thus, the MSM insists (now very nearly literally foot-stomping to indicate its ever-growing petulance) there is simply no reason to continue dwelling on this "distraction" and we must MoveOn (TM) to the important national business of electing a red-diaper-baby unreconstructed sixties radical as president, because we owe it to the memories of Martin Luther King and Nell Carter or something.

Thanks to CJ for most of that.

More... at Michelle Makin's.

She quotes Rick at Brutally Honest:

IÂ’m sitting here watching CNNÂ’s coverage of Jeremiah WrightÂ’s speech at the Detroit NAACP convention and am struck by whatÂ’s being attempted here.

Defenders are quick to jump on his critics, basing that defense on the notion that snippets of his many words spoken (or written) over the years are being used to twist who he really is.

And so what are they now attempting?

The. Very. Same. Thing.

They take snippets of words spoken most recently (today on CNN, the other day on PBS), words shaped by the knowledge that every syllable will be dissected and reviewed, words influenced by that knowledge, words purposed in taking advantage of that knowledge and they attempt to tell us that these words, and not those used by his critics, define the man.

Snippets that critique are wrong. Snippets that defend are right.

WeÂ’re watching the rehabilitation, the reconstruction, the rebuilding, the remaking of a manÂ… from bigoted hate-monger to enlightened social critic.

Old Media will defend despite his many words over the years because Old Media and Jeremiah Wright are ideologically entwined and connected.

ItÂ’ll be up to New Media to counter that defense.

The main problem is that the MSM really doesn't think Wright's wrong-- most of them echo his sentiment "God Damn America" in their hearts every day. Just as they really didn't understand what was wrong saying that stupid white people bitterly cling to God and guns -- after all, they do, don't they?

I am still waiting for someone at CNN to ask Barack Obama if poor, uneducated black people also bitterly cling to their religion. Such as the hateful Krazy Konspiratorial Kristianity served up by "Reverend" Wright for 20 fucking years as Obama sat in the pews and said "Amen" and Hallelujah."

Wright Makes News! At this morning's press conference, Wright puts some meat on the bones of Obama's calls for "real change."

On Monday, Sen. Barack Obama's long-time pastor Jeremiah Wright also talked about change -- "real change" -- specifically, "God's desire for a radical change in the social order that has gone sour."

The Rev. Wright, who presided at the marriage of Obama and his wife, baptized Obama's children, and preached to him for many years, was explaining the black religious tradition to an audience at the National Press Club in Washington.

God wants the kind of "positive, meaningful, and permanent change" that amounts to transformation, Wright insisted on Monday.

In his speech, Wright said God doesn't want some people seeing themselves as superior to other people, nor does he want "the powerless masses...to stay locked into sick systems" that treat some as being more equal than others.

"God's desire is for positive change -- transformation; real change, not cosmetic change -- transformation; radical change, or a change that makes a permanent difference -- transformation.

"God's desire is for transformation -- changed lives, changed minds, changed laws, changed social orders and changed hearts in a changed world," Wright said. "This principle of transformation is at the heart of the prophetic theology of the black church," he added.

"These two foci -- of liberation and transformation -- have been at the very core of the black religious experience" for many years." Wright also said liberation and transformation have been at the "very core" of the United Church of Christ, the church Obama.

"In context," we'll soon be informed by our MSM betters, he wasn't suggesting as he himself says a "radical" transformation of society, but merely an expansion of Jack Kemp's inner-city Enterprise Zones.

Everyone got a better idea of Obama's vague call for "change" now?

Whoopsie! Even CNN is now wondering "how much damage was done" by Wright at this morning's press event.

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More here -- he does his arms, too.

Good Lord. It's not just ultradorky, it's positively hideous. Obviously this guy loves Spider-Man more than human sexual contact. For me, I admit, that's a somewhat narrow call, but still I side with the "human sexual contact" side.

Batman, on the other hand...

Ripped off from the Corner.

I'm going to really try to not "pull a Marcotte" with my attributions.

Kinda Related: And swiped from the same place. I'm not "Marcotting" things, here, I swear.

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Tough day to be a scumbag terrorist in Iraq.

The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 38 fighters in a day of battles in northeastern Baghdad as militants took advantage of dust storms to launch apparently coordinated assaults.

The attacks, which seemed to be some of the biggest clashes in weeks, showed some fighters have defied an order by anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to observe a truce.

Twenty-two fighters were killed battling U.S. tanks after dark on Sunday. In another battle, seven fighters were killed.

Nine were killed in engagements earlier in the day, it said.

I am not sure how getting almost 40 of your guys killed while not killing any Americans qualifies as ‘taking advantage of dust storms’. I guess they just don’t know what that term means or perhaps they always wanted to die in the midst of a dust storm and seized on the opportunity. If it was the latter, I am sure the US troops were only too happy to oblige them.

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6-3, Stevens and Kennedy joining with the majority. The usual suspects dissented.

Stevens: "The law is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral process'".

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