The Shocking Sermons of Jeremiah Wright.
Here are the video tapes of Jeremiah Wright speaking in Obama’s church, sermonizing what can only be construed as hate-speech upon a congregation that includes Barack Obama himself.
Jeremiah Wright
Obama has called Dr. Jeremiah Wright an inspirational leader. Wright calls himself a prophet. He married Obama to his wife and baptized their children.
He is generally considered to be a racist who speaks about America in words that go well beyond the usual rhetoric of thoughtful liberals. He tells his congregation to sing “God Damn America,” blames the United States for 911, and rants against “white people.”
The hate-speech is reminiscent of the locals dancing in the streets in the Middle East after 911. Wright’s ties to Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam are well known.
The “black separatism” of the pastor’s church is now becoming well known, one grounded in the black liberation theology (communism) of the 1960’s. Obama’s church overtly puts African priorities ahead of the USA and uses inflammatory language in brochures and on their website.
See the sermon video tapes for yourself, thanks to our friends.
I have been writing a full expose on Obama’s politicized church and the overall liberation theology of its denomination, but current events are beating me to it.
Obama’s church may just sink his general election campaign, so partisan Republicans can only hope that he makes it so far. Someday we may wonder how he made it this far in American politics.
As an update to this story, the Wall Street Journal ran a good piece that explains why this is such a problem for Obama. The money paragraphs…
Hearing Mr. Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through numerous similar sermons by Mr. Wright.
Indeed, Mr. Obama has described Mr. Wright as his “sounding board” during the two decades he has known him. Mr. Obama has said he found religion through the minister in the 1980s. He joined the church in 1991 and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith.
The title of Mr. Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Mr. Wright is one of the first people Mr. Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Mr. Obama consulted Mr. Wright before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Mr. Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
Jeremiah Wright Rants Against Rich White People (Video)
Jeremiah Wright Blames America for 911 (Video)
Jeremiah Wright Says God Damn America (Video)
March 13th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Wow. This might be the biggest dirt the msm has produced on Obama. Rezko amounted to nothing. The cocaine thing he fully admitted to. But, attending a church for 20 years, when the minister says “God Damn America” and blames the U.S. for 9/11?
Oh boy. Dilemma. Obama says he denounces this man (a 20 year friend), like he denounces Farrakhan, and he’s seen as disloyal. He doesn’t denounce him, and keeps going to this church…no good.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Will you give equal treatment to this?
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Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam with the aim of destroying it.
On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a “strong, true, consistent conservative.” The endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain’s effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a “spiritual guide.”
The leader of a 12,000-member congregation, Parsley has written several books outlining his fundamentalist religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More. In this work, Parsley decries the “spiritual desperation” of the United States, and he blasts away at the usual suspects: activist judges, civil libertarians who advocate the separation of church and state, the homosexual “culture” (“homosexuals are anything but happy and carefree”), the “abortion industry,” and the crass and profane entertainment industry. And Parsley targets another profound threat to the United States: the religion of Islam.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Moral equivalent treatment? Of course not intellectually, but you’ve posted enough words if that is what you mean.
I haven’t researched this pastor, whom I understand John McCain doesn’t know, didn’t marry him, doesn’t preach to him, didn’t baptise his kids, and doesn’t talk admiringly as a gigantic influence in his book. So a smart guy like you will recognize attempts at equivalency to be disingenuous.
Besides, there isn’t that much you just wrote that is controversial to conservatives except that part about Islam being fundamentally a false religion in its entirety — although that has been mainstream Christian thinking for a long time until recently whereas now it is a fringe view. I say “fringe” for lack of a better word at the moment — it is too strong a thought.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Big difference between the two: McCain’s preacher is anti-Islam. Obama’s is anti-America.
In my mind, these are both equally ignorant viewpoints. But that’s not how the general electorate will see it, I’m afraid.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
This is scary stuff. How will white supremacy maintain itself if this outsider gets in?
March 13th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
McCain, if you have info that links Obama personally to this man’s beliefs, then you’re gonna have one hell of a story. As it stands right now, Obama is passively condoning this Rev.’s hate by attending his church. That’s pretty damaging as it is. If we have more than just attendance every Sunday, but active, knowing involvement in black separatism, then Obama could very well go down because of this.
As for blaming Islam for Wahabism, well, if you want to blame the whole of Islam for every one of its sects, you would have to willing to blame America for…Rev. Wright!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
God dam communists! Can’t these black people appreciate all of the privelege the white man has given them!!! Don’t they appreciate capitalist values?
March 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I will say this, Communism has worked everywhere it has been tried except the USSR, Cuba, China, Viet Nam and North Korea.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
That’s why I want Obama the opponent to McCain. He can be beaten soundly by McCain.
Its a question of judgment – Obama should have left that church a long time ago.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Obama’s Pastor…
If a presidential candidate was a member of the Westburo Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas (G@d Hates Fags) their words not mine, but claims he does not agree with everything that the “Reverend” Fred Phelps preaches, nor does he participate in protesti…
March 13th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
OK, I’ll have a shot at this. I don’t generally assign guilt by association whether it be a Republican or Democrat.
However, the closness of their relationship makes me pause and think – where there is smoke is their fire? I am also troubled by the fact that his so-called “renouncement” of Louis Farrahkan was narrowly positioned as ONLY a repudiation of Farrahkan’s recent anti-semetic remarks.
Having said all of this, I still don’t think that Obama is anti-american. Yes, his pastor is and if Obama was as smart as some people think he is, he would separated himself from the pastor in a public way at the beginning of the race. Did he really think this would not become a huge issue? Keith Olbermann can cry every night during his love fest for Obama, but that won’t change the reality – hate is hate whether it is directed at black or white.
I now REALLY want Obama to win the primaries!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I think these sorts of discussions are politics at its worst, let’s be honest, bringing up folks like Hagee, Farrakhan and Wright are meant to attack someone via guilt by association. We know that Obama has criticized Wright, calling him the Uncle who says things you wish he wouldn’t say. We know that John McCain doesn’t support Hagee’s rants against Christians.
All this is doing is reenforcing the politics of division, smear, and hate. It would be nice if folks would instead reinforce the ideals of William Buckley. We’ve got far more important things to worry about than if Obama’s minister says some outrageous things or if McCain enjoys the support of folks who hate Catholics or Muslims.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Bob,
You make a good point. We can beat Obama because he has no substance on the issues. However, the msm constantly attacks GOP politicans with guilt by association tactics. I can think of 20 off the top of my head. Will your side agree to stop the practice?
What is McCain’s pastor praised the KKK? Would you not be all over that?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
What is McCain’s pastor praised the KKK? Would you not be all over that?
No, but if “McCain” praised the KKK you’d have a real issue. Look, we know that Obama doesn’t support the views of Wright, we also know that McCain doesn’t support the views of Hagee and Parsley. It’s political theater designed to scare folks, or reinforce the notion that “the other guy is evil” to your own followers.
I don’t think it does the process, or anyone any good. We’ve got real issues to worry abut, if you look at the debt/deficit report that came out the other day we could be heading for a $500 billion to $1 trillion deficit this year. The dollar is in the toilet and we’re paying over $110 a barrel for oil because our Treasury has flooded the world with dollars. We’re arguably in a recession, and we still have a locked up credit system. Meanwhile, violence is increasing in Iraq, and the Iraq campaign is costing us $12 billion a month. We also have huge entitlement problems that are only getting worse.
Those are the real issues, anything else to me is a diversion. We should spend our time asking our candidates how they will address the fundamental problems (mostly fiscal) that this country faces in both the near and long term.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Bob, it’s not politics at its worst. The Dems are trying to nominate a guy who nobody knows anything about except for a nice stump speech. To make informed decisions, the voters deserve all the information that can get about what makes Obama tick.
BTM, Buckley sure did say that. Liberals today misunderstand Buckley and I’ve seen more than one invocation of his name as an attempt to devalue political speech like we are having here. Buckley threw the most wonderful, elegant, articulate bombs at his foes, but bombs they were nonetheless.
Bob, McCain isn’t a member of Hagee’s church so the analogy dies. It is like comparing Spitzer’s hooker with someone who merely voted for him.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
BTM, you are a bit off in your quoting. Buckley responded to an attack from Vidal in which Vidal essentially compared him to the Nazi’s.
Buckley’s quote: “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in you goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.â€?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
MCCAIN, I have to disagree, there’s a lot out there on Obama if one does there own digging. Have you read his book? Have you looked at his legislative record (including working with folks such as Tom Coburn on ethics reform?)
What is happening is folks (actually, Hillary Clinton more than anyone else) are resorting to gutter politics in an effort to tar the guy.
I’m convinced Clinton is doing everything she can to destroy Obama on the idea that if she doesn’t win in 2008, she’ll leave Obama a wreck so McCain wins and Hillary can try again in 2012.
WRT to Buckley, he responded to an attack. He didn’t launch gutter politics attacks of his own.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Yeah, that’s the first Buckley quote on this topic. When he discussed it somewhere later, he said something more. Something like, “Yes, that exchange was unfortunate because I am not a Nazi. He, on the other hand, really IS a f-g.” I’m paraphrasing.
I would expect Hillary is doing everything she can to defeat Obama, and vice-versa. But the information about Obama’s church is freely available to anyone with a browser. This finally made it to the MSM today thanks to ABC’s investigative arm. This problem isn’t really Hillary’s making.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
It’s not gutter tactics. This is a legitimate issue that deserves further inspection. If you don’t condone a man’s views, you shouldn’t be a part of his church. It’s that simple. Going to his church for 20 years in effect means you accept/respect the man’s views. If those views include “God Damn America” then this deserves more air time.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
This is funny. What you guys fail to understand is that Obama is immune to any effort against him that is anything other than a direct hit.
Do you believe Obama hates White people? You don’t? Then your whole line of questioning is dishonest in a broad sense and will be recognized as such. You harm McCain by pressing these pointless issues, making him seem dishonest by association with his supporters. Please keep it up!
March 14th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Ingat, Obama has said he doesn’t support Wright’s views. So that should be the end of it. Again, you could make the same argument that McCain hates Catholics because he has embraced Hagee. Do you think anyone will buy that?
Blog-hole is absolutely correct.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Okay Bob, come on, you know it is Rightpundits policy to disagree with everything Blog-hole says. If you want to maintain your credibility around here you have to toe the line.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Chuckle
Something else to remember, hasn’t McCain sought the support of folks like Falwell and Robertson who have argued that the U.S. got what it deserved on 9/11 and that Katrina was a result of tolerance of homosexuality?
Are we to judge McCain by the company he keeps?
March 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I’d say it’s one thing to seek the voting support of people like Falwell etc., all politicans do that to some degree. Its another thing to view someone like Falwell or this guy as your spiritual confidant and advisor. If I walked into a church and the pastor was saying the kinds of things this guy has said, not only would I leave, I’d tell everyone I know to avoid that place like the plague.
So, its a matter of degree. I don’t fault Obama for accepting Farakan’s support, he doesn’t co-mingle and go to his church. This Wright guy is on a whole other plane though.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Bob, it’s one thing to say you don’t agree with the man. It’s another to go to his church every Sunday for 20 years and make him your religious mentor. It’s like me saying I don’t agree with Catholicism, but being baptised in a Catholic church and attending mass every Sunday. If you don’t agree, stop going.
Did McCain go to that pastor’s church every Sunday for 20 years? If not, McCain is not as much to blame as Obama…
March 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
So it’s OK to seek out the support of those who preach hate and intolerance, so long as you don’t regularly attend their church? Is that your standard? Or is this just another example of making a judgment based on political affiliation?
McCain actively sought the support of Jerry Falwell in his presidential campaign, Falwell previously had blamed abortionists, gays, lesbians, and feminists for causing 9/11.
So let’s be consistent, what do you think that says about McCain’s judgement? Isn’t it fair to say that McCain supports those views as well?
March 14th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I’ve updated this story with the Wall Street Journal article today.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120545277093135111.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
This is the pertinent thought with respect to our discussion here:
“Hearing Mr. Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through numerous similar sermons by Mr. Wright.
Indeed, Mr. Obama has described Mr. Wright as his “sounding board” during the two decades he has known him. Mr. Obama has said he found religion through the minister in the 1980s. He joined the church in 1991 and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith.
The title of Mr. Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Mr. Wright is one of the first people Mr. Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Mr. Obama consulted Mr. Wright before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Mr. Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.”
March 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Foxnews and CNN have it up on their websites. ABC, which broke the story, has it as its most viewed story.
Unlike Rezko, it looks like this story might get some momentum.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
This may be news to some of you all, and maybe you all have been talking about this all day. If you have already covered this, I apologize in advance….
But…there are very FEW Black pastors who have NOT on some level preached this same stuff. First of all, please realize that African American people have been oppressed people for nearly 350 years. The main oppressors, were white people. Whether they were slave masters, Klansmen, Jim Crow supporters, or just a predjudiced man next door. It happens and it comes up alot in the community.
But, since Obama has come on the scene, hopefully this type of thinking will be on the downswing. But, plenty of Black pastors speak like this. Not feeling like its hate, because it started years ago, to uplift the Black community. To let them know, even though you aren’t considered equals, you can still go about your life, and live in this country, and do better for yourself.
I know Obama will reject, repudiate, and denounce. AGAIN. But for some of us watching this crazy preacher, have seen and heard it all before. DOESN’T MAKE IT RIGHT, though, but Obama will overcome this.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I don’t think this will end Obama’s campaign, but this is precisely the kind of thing that his opponents were looking for. This will be a thorn on his side. Yes, many black preachers say stuff like this all the time. BUT Obama was supposed to be the guy that was DIFFERENT. Remember, how offended his team got by comparisons to Jesse Jackson. Being part of a church like this makes him seem just like a lot of unsuccessful black politicians that preceded him.
July 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Great blog!