Rev. Wright: I Meant to Say “Zionists” Are Keeping Me from Talking to President Obama — Not Jews

I wonder what the payoff was for that change.

Clarification noted and accepted.. Reverend..

I’m not sure how that makes it better. What Zionists are so close to Obama that they can tell him not to call his former pastor?
And why do the so-called Zionists want to keep Obama from Wright?
And what was Obama doing being so close to Wright for 20 years?

“I’m not sure how that makes it better. What Zionists are so close to Obama that they can tell him not to call his former pastor?”
Agreed. Changing the name doesn’t suddenly make the rehashed antisemitic implication that Jews control Obama (by extension the government) any better.

These new lies from Wright demonstrate perfectly how it has become acceptable among certain hate groups to be openly anti-Semitic in this country — by veiling it as “legitimate” criticism of “Zionists” or the Israeli government. I’m shocked at how much hate I hear being spewed by “progressives” in the last several years. As they have become more fascistic and tried to shut down dissenting viewpoints, they have become more open in their cynically and thinly veiled anti-Semitism. The US is starting to resemble 1930′s Germany more and more each day.

“Zionist” is the new PC term for “Jew” and it still means the same thing to all the anti-semites. Who does he think he is kidding? The only people who get some comfort from this are the Obama apologists.

I firmly believe the media created the stupid “he’s anti-American” circus around Wright by hammering snippets of a relatively complex sermon out of context. But reading these comments of his in a bit of context along with his followup weaseling, I think he sounds like a prejudiced conspiracy theorist nut job. (And I like AIPAC about as much as my liberal self likes the NRA.)

So, this doesn’t raise any flags or concerns? I mean, Wright was only Obama’s pastor for TWENTY years, marrie dhim and Michelle, baptized his two daughters.
Wright has ALWAYS spoken and preached like this, and we can see the results in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel stance the administration has taken very recently.
This should scare the hell out of all of us. We need Israel as an ally in the mid-east and we’re shunning them as quickly as possible and getting cozy with the lil’ Hitler of Iran.
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O.K. WHY should anybody be “scared” if what he’s saying is true? Isn’t he saying they control Obama? Isn’t that a hint that it means unlike what republicans are trying to say Obama will indeed protect our interests in Israel? You have this backwards and it makes no sense.

Wright is not only a racist, he’s a self absorbed racist who is fighting to avoid total obscurity.

Rev. Wright is old and probably suffering from early stages of Alzheimer’s. He addressed the Black Baptist Convention and was a guest minister in my hometown for decades and I never heard him say the kinds of things he is saying now. I am shocked as I am sure president Obama is shocked. Remember, the President’s beloved mother and grandparents were WHITE so he would not have sat under a person spewing racist talk. Mr. Emmanuel would not be serving as Chief of Staff under the Obama administration away from his own wife and children for the last six months if he believed the president was anti Semitic in any way. I understand why the press keeps this going but Rev. Wright’s family should have him examined for dementia or other signs of illness because the times I heard him minister are different from what I am hearing now.

Fine guy, this Wright. Must’ve had a
lot of sage utterances to keep Obama
coming back over a 20+ year period.
I could no sooner throw the Rev under
the bus than I could…..(fill in)

Rev racist railed against Israel constantly from the pulpit and his church gave the anti-semitic nutjob louie farrakhan a lifetime acheivement award, but he really does like Jews. Riiiiight.

It is difficult for me to believe that this poseur ever says anything he does not mean. That said, neither do I (generally) so that when I refer to the Reverend Wright as a phoney who is looking for a buck and built his mansion in a white neighborhood because he hated his parishioners—no surprise to me.

Most zionists aren’t even Jewish, they’re apocalyptic christians who believe that supporting a militaristic israel will help bring the messiah.

Yup. “Them Zionists” sounds so much better then “them Jews.”

There was no “misspoken statement”. He said what he meant and meant what he said. In my eyes, Wright is just as bad as James von Brunn. If MLK could speak to today’s so-called pastors and civil rights leaders, I am sure he would reprimand them for all they do in his name.

“In my eyes, Wright is just as bad as James von Brunn.”
So one anti semitite is as bad as the other even though one of them killed for his beliefs?

Well now it’s okay, eh Jeremiah? You meant Zionists instead of Jews. Much better–not! I love all the Obama supporters SHOCKED, SHOCKED that Rev Wright could maybe, possibly, be a vile Jew hater? Amazin’ Barry didn’t notice for 20 years….you got Barry beat on WAKING UP to the truth!

jake – do you hold the exact same views as your pastor? Or for that matter everyone you are associated with?
Let’s make you 100% accountable for all they say and do to.

I don’t buy any of this. Wright and Obama are in cahoots as much as Fred Sanford and Lamont. Obama has been taking hits in the media and in Israel for his recent anti Israel rhetoric. Wright was hired to attack Jews so Obama can come to the rescue and defend them. If you remember Obama kept his blackberry. I am sure Wright has all the DIRECT ACCESS he needs and wants to Obama. He doesn’t need ” Them Jews” to contact Obama. This is all a PR game.

Wright says exactly what he thinks.He is a racist that ran a racist church.His ranting words fell on friendly ears and has served his needs well over the years.On another comment,Christians backing the Jewish state will not hasten or bring about the return of Christ.Christ will return in his own time and for his own reasons.

No one disputes the fact that these individuals have “dual-citizenship” and can rightly be questioned as to where their allegiances lay.
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Yes, people dispute the idea that Jewish Americans can rightly be questioned as to where their allegiances lay.

once again…judge people based on the friends and associates….this obama fella sure has some questionable friends ranging from terrorists to bigots to real estae swindlers. go figure he is your president

Ahem…I mean Zionists…
The only thing worse than an Anti-semite than a Spineless Anti-Semite. Stand up for your beliefs Holy Man Wright! The world is waiting to follow your lead!

Wright could probably fit into the Mel Gibson paranoia camp. That much is probably true. At least Obama is distancing himself from him–which is more than we can say for the presidents who kept Pat Buchanan on their guests lists.
So that’s a lot of self-righteous blathering about Obama and Wright being “in cahoots”. If it’s really that serious, you might want to look to your own closet.

So why should we be surprised at what this man says? I just wonder how loud he would be if say President Bush would say, ummm, those colored folks are keeping me from talking to whomever? And not only J. Wright but the media as a whole? They all would be going nuts, trying to take him to the gallows!

m..c..la
I wonder if you would be so willing to turn your head if the former President Bush had direct contact with say Mr. Duke, as in former Grand Wizard Duke? If I was a betting man, I would bet NOT! And I do not mean 20 years worth either!

Interesting that not one poster is willing to comment on the substance of Wright’s rebuttal. If Wright is wrong,other than choosing the wrong word, why not call him on the facts?

Chic Swank,ideally in a debate there should be coherent participants. What on earth did you find lucid about anything this ranting moron has said in the past or what he has most recently drooled?

That AIPAC is the most powerful lobbiest is a fact, and that zionist Jews, doesn’t speak for all Jews. Two things we must get rid of in our nation, to bring peace in the world. 1. that is religious, cultural and racial prejudice 2. Equal rights-Justice for all, which means we must all play by the same rules. Zionism was a political decision, one that American Government is responsible for, and there is history on this. Fact is, Truman only cared about votes, not about what would happen with the Palestinians. Israel has robbed land from its neighbors, not only Palestine but Golen hts. Its broken more UN mandates than any other nation. We all must play by the same rules. We cannot allow our allies to violate laws which we condemn, and punish other nations for much less.Call it whatever you want, but, if there isn’t fairness, we’ll never be able to have peace, and we cannot harm others without it harming us too.

Wright is a perfect example of people with money that have lost their objectivity along the way and let their hate and prejudice overwhelm them.

Americans are whimps and for that, Israel is able to control America thru proxy.

“Zionism was a political decision, one that American Government is responsible for, and there is history on this.”
You might want to consider reading a book sometime. Seriously.

God bless Reverend Wright. Your snide little commentary notwithstanding, if Obama actually manages to decouple this country from Israel–sadly contrary to my expectations–he’ll go down as the greatest president in history. The hell with Israel. We’ve spent and bled for those colonizers and thieves long enough.

Obviously Wright is off his rocker, and likely has been for quite a while.
However, it was clear last March, and even clearer now, that this kind of toxic racial divisiveness and resentment was at the core of Wright’s beliefs and the purpose of his church. That Obama was a member of this church for nearly two decades and a self-described acolyte of Wright while remaining ignorant of this defies reason.
This kind of relationship would have sunk just about any other candidate or political figure. But in the media’s hands, Wright’s backwards racial prejudice was portrayed as mainstream, and Obama’s self-protecting speech on the matter hailed as the greatest speech since Gettysburg, despite its almost immediate obsolescence a few weeks later.
I doubt Obama shares Wright’s contemptible beliefs, but it’s amazing to me that we still don’t know why Obama remained a loyal member of the church for so long.

the demonization of every person who does not do as aipac commands is actually funny these days, as transparency weaves it all into visibility. We are watching the last days of this context. The indefensible is just that. Israel killed itself in gaza.

Wright is a Muslim in sheep’s clothing; bedfellows with Farrakhan. No room for that in the Lincoln Bedroom, but can you imagine??? 8-(
Obama distances himself, but it doesn’t change the fact that he spent 20 years in the false teacher’s church.
No matter. Jesus will win in the end. Global collapse on the way. All things lining up, just as predicted. R U ready?

To all you Obama toelicking lemmings. Here’s a fact that can’t be disputed. The ONLY reason Obama disavowed himself from Wright and UCC was out of political expedience, period. There’s no doubt in my mind that if Clinton would have been the nominee, Obama would have been sitting in the “pews of hatred” that very next sunday hollering “AMEN” to everything racist and anti-semitic that Wright said.

It bites so many of you when the truth is told. The books referenced by Rev Wright where authored by Jews.
The Palestinians have the right to live as well as everyone. Using the US- assisted Might to suppress a People is apartheid.
Its all good if it is the Palestinians that are being marginalized. But say something truthful about the Zionists, it becomes anti-semite.

The moustache looks the same, whether
on Hitler or ‘Revered’ Wright…and Obama is his Albert Speer (“I didn’t
know anything wrong was going on,
I just went with the flow..”).
Obama and Wright and all their acolytes
are a disgrace to the United States, humanity and African-Americans..
Martin Luther King would have scolded
this man…and harshly…..
When there are so many honorable
people, many of whom are Black, like
Bill Cosby, Clarence Page (journalist),
Thomas Sowell (conservative economist
and academic), Grant Hill (basketball
player and naval officer), Alan Page
(former Vikings linebacker and Minnesote
Supreme Court judge), all of them
far more qualified to lead this country
than Obama, it is appaling to look
at the collective idiocy that elected
this “shuck and jive” (to accurately
quote Bill Clinton)….

Zionism, in this sense, is the elephant in the room which the West must not criticize lest it be accused of anti-semitism
(a term which was once meant to refer to ALL people of Middle Eastern descent…not just Jewish people, particularly not of European descent)
Our reason is held hostage by the events of WWII of which we dare not allow to be repeated and we are never allowed to forget…and yet on the opposite end of the spectrum, a reactive and self-protective racism which goes by another name continues the working of this same spirit in the world.

Rev. Wright is sick just like Rush and Hannity. He just has a different paint job.

I cannot believe this is getting so little press. After the shooting in the Holocaust Museum and all the talk about this type of prejudice. Once again a double standard.

The Jewish population in the U.S. is a little over 5 million (as of 2006). To put this in perspective a little bit, the African-American population is over 40.7 million (as of 2007); the Hispanic population 45.5 million (as of 2007); and caucasian population over 200 million.

I for one don’t see a thing in the world wrong with what Rev.Wright says.As long as the truth and things people need to hear is swept under the rug all of you that have a problem with what Rev. Wright says is fine.Personally I think some of the hateful comments made on this messageboard since Obama won the election is worse than what Rev.Wright said.
Posted by: vanesapenney | Jun 12
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Most racists will not see anything wrong with what Wright said. Most racists will agree with him whole-heartedly.

For those of you who believe the Jews are controlling everthing: The Jewish population in the U.S. is a little over 5 million (as of 2006). To put this in perspective a little bit, the African-American population is over 40.7 million (as of 2007); the Hispanic population 45.5 million (as of 2007); and caucasian population over 200 million.

Fascinating how none of the racists/terrorists leftys are quoting had a direct connection to the POTUS for 20 years. But you keep that moral equivalency going. It helps you look in the mirror everyday and tell yourself how wonderful and right you are while everyone who thinks other than you is a moron.

racist is one thing discriminating is something too; doing people wrong because of there race color ect. Is something too.
Right is right wrong is wrong Jesus said you have the poor… do for them…that mean help them leave rev wright alone think what you say he was wright about many of you. why obama can not address the race problem in america but he can go all the way to Europe and address the jews loss in Europe but will not help the blacks in the united states like he should.

Fascinating how none of the racists/terrorists leftys are quoting had a direct connection to the POTUS for 20 years. But you keep that moral equivalency going.
Posted by: rrr
Whether it’s Rev. Wright and his rant, or Pat Robertson advocating killing Hugo Chavez, and Hurricane Katrina was gods punishment, or Jerry Falwell saying that America deserved 9/11 ….
or the Vatican hiding and covering for the ped priests for hundreds of years
Religious hypocrites are exactly that, they proclaim the ‘good word’ and spread hate and division. you just have to look at who represents the ‘faithful’ and see how much cash they’re asking you to fork over to support their luxury life styles.
re: ‘racists/terrorists”
you should at least make a small effort to understand the difference between very hateful, uncomfortable protected speech and right-wing murderer/intimidation squads using religion and the constitution as a justification for their atrocities.

Wow, he’s baaa-aack!! This old doofus is one of the reasons we had misgivings about Barack Obama. How can ANYONE sit in that “church” for 20 years and NOT be anti-American and anti-Semiite? As far as we know Barack Obama never at any time objected to the hate-filled rants this man made from the pulpit for all those years. NOw we are finding out that Barack Obama met, secretly, with the Reverend during the campaign. Why wasn’t this investigated by the MSM? Oh…..never mind……we already know.

Didn’t Mel Gibson get into a lot of trouble some years ago for a similar comment ??
Is the Reverend going to go into rehab also?

of Senator Barack Obama’s Announcement for President
Springfield, IL | February 10, 2007:
It was here, in Springfield, where I saw all that is America converge – farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard. I made lasting friendships here – friends that I see in the audience today.
It was here we learned to disagree without being disagreeable – that it’s possible to compromise so long as you know those principles that can never be compromised; and that so long as we’re willing to listen to each other, we can assume the best in people instead of the worst…………..I personally find this last paragragh to give me some understanding of the man who would become president, the statement “so long as you know those principles that can never be compromised”quote, one can understand why someone who is willing to listen and be in the presents of different negative contacts but never compromising your principles, all of us know someone like Rev.Wright, we know them but are not like them.

Martin Luther King on Anti-Zionism:
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.”
Posted by: Scott S. | Jun 12, 2009 10:32:03 AM
That’s been proven to be miscredited to Mr. King. He NEVER said that NOR was it in any letter he wrote. It is a fabrication. Zionism isn’t healthy for living organisms period.