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OUT OF 'CONTEXT' OR OUT OF HIS MIND?
April 30, 2008


Whew! I'm certainly glad to hear the "snippets" from Rev. Jeremiah Wright's
sermons "in context."


In the famous B. Hussein Obama speech that sent a tingle down Chris Matthews'
leg, Obama dismissed the clips of Rev. Wright being played on TV as mere
"snippets." He claimed the media were highlighting Wright's "most offensive
words," complaining that they had been played endlessly, as if repetition
were the problem with the statement: "GOD DAMN AMERICA!"


It's absolutely unheard of to repeat passages from famous speeches. In fact,
I have a dream that we will not do that. Ask not what your country can do for
you, but ask that the media stop replaying "snippets." All we have to fear is
repetition itself, because we are the people we've been waiting for to tear
down that wall of endless repetition.


So, like I said: Whew. At last Rev. Wright's "snippets" have been put in a
healing context. In two speeches and one uxorious interview with PBS' Bill
Moyers over the past few days, Rev. Wright had plenty of time to lay out the
lush analytical context of his remarks.


In his speech to the National Press Club on Monday, for example, Wright
described America as a country of "segregation, Jim Crow, lynching and the
separate-but-equal fantasy." Then he ran outside to feed more quarters into
the meter where his time machine was parked.

Wright described this as a country that supported the "racist regime of South
Africa" and "the Contras, who were killing the peasants and the Miskito
Indians in those two countries" -- as opposed to the Sandinistas, who were
equal-opportunity murderers with a more diverse group of victims.


He said this is a country that "cuts food stamps and spends billions fighting
in an unjust war in Iraq," neglecting to add that before you can cut the food
stamp program, you must have a country that has a food stamp program.


He said we are a country that sent "over 4,000 American boys and girls of
every race to die over a lie." And Wright said it is a country "where I can
worship God on Sunday morning wearing a black clergy robe and kill others on
Sunday evening wearing a white Klan robe." (Unless, like me, you do all your
Klan-related murdering on "casual Fridays.")


And, to listen to Wright, those were the "U.S. of KKK A.'s" good points! (Is
it just me, or does Rev. Wright sound kind of bitter these days? I sure hope
he doesn't have a gun.)


He clarified his Sept. 16, 2001, sermon, in which he said that on 9/11
"America's chickens are coming home to roost" by saying: "You cannot do
terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you." I'm glad
to get the full context on that because I had thought he was talking about
chicken farming.


Actually, that's pretty much the way I took it even when presented as a
"snippet."


Rev. Wright also put into context his church giving an award to fellow Obama
supporter Louis Farrakhan by saying: "He is one of the most important voices
in the 20th and 21st century. That's what I think about him. ... I am not
going to put down Louis Farrakhan."


Why did Rev. Wright's supporters think it would be helpful to hear longer
versions of the "snippets"?


Curiously, Rev. Wright complained that "everybody wants to paint me as if I'm
anti-Semitic because of what Louis Farrakhan said 20 years ago" -- especially
those damn East Coast, money-grubbing Jews, he carelessly added. This from a
man whose entire oeuvre is based on reveling in what happened in this country
250 years ago.


Rev. Wright clarified his statement, "GOD DAMN AMERICA!" by explaining: "God
doesn't bless everything. God condemns something -- and d-e-m-n, 'demn,' is
where we get the word 'damn.' God damns some practices."


Well, that changes the meaning entirely.


One begins to suspect that the Clintons, flush with those megamillions they
got from selling their previous tenancy at the White House, have put the
reverend on staff. I believe this used to be called "walking around money."


Obama said the Rev. Wright he heard defending himself on Monday was not the
Rev. Wright he met 20 years ago. This is the political equivalent of the
"It's not you, it's me" speech. He might just as well have said, "I love Rev.
Wright. I'm just not in love with him anymore. Hey, can I have my CDs back?"


If it takes Obama 20 years to notice that his pastor is a traitorous, racist
nut-job, it will probably take him his full term of office to realize that
the U.S. has been invaded and subdued by al-Qaida. Let's just hope President
Obama pays closer attention during national security briefings than he did
during 20 years of the Rev. Wright's church services.


The only good news for the Obama campaign this week is that Obama admitted
that his relationship with Rev. Wright is "a legitimate political issue,"
which at least makes him smarter than John McCain, who just last week
denounced the North Carolina Republicans for an ad mentioning Obama's raving
lunatic pastor.


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