Apparently, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was all over the place this weekend making a fool of himself and his spiritual-protégé, Barry Obama.
Much like John McCain and the North Carolina GOP ad — I didn’t see any of it. I didn’t watch any TV this weekend, and pretty much avoided all blogs (to include this one), too.
Michelle Malkin calls Jeremiah Wright a racial phrenologist — as he attempted to explain the difference between “black brains” and “white brains”:
If he’s this comfortable mocking black/white differences in front of media cameras, I can only imagine what he says in private to his faithful black liberation ideology adherents.
Didn’t Jimmy the Greek get fired for saying almost the exact same things as Wright was spewing forth this weekend?
Wright spoke at a Dallas-area church, where he compared his recent public ridicule to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. I shit you not.
Wright than went and spoke at a dinner held by the Detroit chapter of the NAACP Sunday night — where he mocked white people and further explained the differences between white folks and his black children:
He acted out the differences between marching bands at predominantly black and predominantly white colleges. “Africans have a different meter, and Africans have a different tonality,†he said. Europeans have seven tones, Africans have five. White people clap differently than black people. “Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style,†he said. “They have a different way of learning.†And so on.
After jokingly mocking the Boston accents of former Presidents John F. and Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Wright said, “nobody says to a Kennedy, ‘You speak bad English,’ only to a black child was that said.â€
Thankfully, Obama agreed yesterday that his relationship with Wright was a “legitimate political issue,†much to the dismay of all those Leftard Bloggers (and John McCain) who said it wasn’t.
Barack was able to get his wife Michelle to shut-up and quit embarrassing the campaign — but he has no such control over Wright.
Thank goodness.
When the Right and the media assumed that Hillary Clinton was the inevitable nominee and that Obama couldn’t win, the Right just “loved” Obama, and people like The New Republic’s Jason Zengerle marveled at what they actually believed was the astonishing (and real) phenomenon that no “conservative writer [is] able to withstand Obama’s charms.” Now that it appears that Obama rather than Clinton will likely be the nominee, that has, quite predictably, reversed itself completely: suddenly the Right hates Obama and has great respect for Hillary Clinton.
And, as always, the media follows along exactly the same path. When it looked to them as though Hillary would win, the media hated her and was largely deferential to Obama. Now, the reverse is true. As Thomas Edsall wrote last week: “In a blink of an eye, the media has jumped ship from the Obama campaign and become a crucial Clinton ally.” One can trace the media’s complete reversal regarding Obama to exactly the moment when it appeared he would actually win.
Left by Pat on April 28th, 2008 at 1:42 pm