AC360 - Reporting on Fuller Context Wright Sermons - TONIGHT

[RamboLiberal]

just announced. CNN. Tonight. Please keep this kicked. Roland Martin will be doing. He blogged today.

I just finished listening to the nearly 40-minute sermon Rev. Jeremiah Wright gave on April 13, 2003, titled, “Confusing God and Government.”

For those of us watching and listening to the media in the last week, it is better known as the “God Damn America” sermon.

Wright’s scriptural focus was Luke 19:37-44 (reading from the New Revised Standard Version).

In this sermon, Wright spoke about the military rule during biblical days, led by Pontius Pilate. It was clear, through his language, such as “occupying military brigade” that he was making an analogy to the war in Iraq.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-wright%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgod-damn-america%e2%80%9d-sermon/

As this whole sordid episode regarding the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has played out over the last week, I wanted to understand what he ACTUALLY said in this speech. I’ve been saying all week on CNN that context is important, and I just wanted to know what the heck is going on.

I have now actually listened to the sermon Rev. Wright gave after September 11 titled, “The Day of Jerusalem’s Fall.” It was delivered on Sept. 16, 2001.

One of the most controversial statements in this sermon was when he mentioned “chickens coming home to roost.” He was actually quoting Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force, who was speaking on FOX News. That’s what he told the congregation.

He was quoting Peck as saying that America’s foreign policy has put the nation in peril:

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-rev-jeremiah-wrights-911-sermon/

[RamboLiberal]

1. I'm shamelessly kicking this

[City Lights]

2. Thanks, RamboLiberal. I just turned it on. eom

[K Gardner]

3. Watching...

[Pushed To The Left]

4. K&R! What time is he on tonight? (I'm on the West Coast)

[RamboLiberal]

5. On East Coast it's 10PM and usually redo

at 11PM, 1AM, 2AM. Says 7PM PDT. They haven't showed the story yet. Probably toward bottom of hour.

[Pushed To The Left]

6. Thanks! I've got it on now. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

7. BTW Cool - just saw my first PA Obama right now

Great Timing!

[slinkerwink]

9. glad to hear!

[DerekJ]

8. Please let us know how did it go. Thanks. eom

[angie_love]

10. Thanks!

[RamboLiberal]

11. John King said after the break - 10:21

[RamboLiberal]

12. Looks like on now about 24 past the hour

[cliffordu]

13. K an R!!

:kick:

[RamboLiberal]

14. Aww Fuck they're still reporting the same old crap

and they had to allow frickin Baye Buchanan who you know haven't watched anything but the snippets to still paint him as hateful.

At least they are playing the Amb Peck part.

[K Gardner]

16. I absolutely am sickened by the advertising of NEW COVERAGE and then put the same

crap with the same disgusting comments.. I'm fucking calling again !

[K Gardner]

15. OMFG.. this is horrible. And they have the OTHER Buchanan spewing HATE and no one

can get a word in edgewise. They will not stop unless they are forced to.

[RamboLiberal]

18. Exactly - they need to give Roland a full hour

And not let these RW shills on. They need to show the full context of these sermons. But they are still cherry-picking.

Well another email to CNN tonight.

[kid a]

21. Do you get the feeling Anderson would love to see Clinton surge from this??

[K Gardner]

27. Yeah, he was a big Edwards supporter. But somebody "booked" and arranged this.. was it

higher up ? I imagine it was.

[jillan]

17. Anderson Cooper has become my favorite.

He is so down to earth.
So willing to get the facts straight.

[Tribetime]

19. another excuse the run the same old crap

shut the F*** up bay buchanan

[SunsetDreams]

20. self delete

[RamboLiberal]

24. Keep writing - they may have gotten the message

but they still can't report it worth a shit. WTF with letting Bay Buchanan on to continue to call it hate speech!

[EFerrari]

25. I missed it. Can you say what happened? n/t

[RamboLiberal]

29. They friggin' blew it

by basically showing the same old crap except they did show small snippet where Wright says he saw Peck on Fox.

They had Bay Buchanan on as the counter to Roland and she was spewing the same it was hateful and Obama sat in the church for 20 years crap.

Roland should've defended it like he did on the blog, instead he ended up with the same defense.

They need to get an hour or two, Roland Martin, other sympathetic pastors, the current pastor of Trinity and even Wright himself. And they need to show the full context of these sermons. Not this hateful crap they've been peddling.

I'm sickened at how this F'in media has smeared Rev. Wright and Obama and his family. And this church!

[EFerrari]

34. I'm sorry to hear that and share your feeling.

Let's think about what we can do to push back.

This is sickening.

[woolldog]

35. They also said they couldn't find any record of Peck

appearing on Fox News. I wasn't sure what to make of that b/c the media has proven so incompetent in reporting this issue

[EFerrari]

22. I missed it but I thank you, Rambo Liberal.

:kick:

[City Lights]

23. The Buchanan: A TWO-HEADED MONSTER!

:argh:

One for CNN. One for MSNBC. :nuke:

What's up with CNN not being able to confirm that Peck appeared on Fox Noise? :shrug:

[cliffordu]

26. Bay Buchanan hates her face....

Terrible "work..."

[ecstatic]

28. (Sigh) I give a big fat "F" for effort. What struck me--"Roland and Bay are friends"

This is the problem. All the talking heads are friends. All the Congress and Senate are friends. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are friends.

These issues are just a big joke to them. Their pockets are fine--it doesn't matter to them who wins.

Did anyone notice how Bay went from being reasonable the other day to falling back in line with the usual RW foolishness?

This digging deeper segment was a complete, total farce. They just needed an excuse..any excuse..to keep the Wright clips circulating.

[SunsetDreams]

31. There are plenty of News Organizations...

who now have copies of those sermons, and letters from many, many people.

Someone will tell the story right.

I know this for fact, because I was involved in the effort.

[K Gardner]

39. Thanks, Sunset. I've been working on that, too. Hopefully some large groups have been engaged

in the effort.

[zulchzulu]

30. I wonder why there's no focus on McVain and Hagee on this Easter weekend

Hagee, a blowhole asswipe who Johhny McVain kissed his Holy Boots for his endorsement, thinks that the Catholic faith is a "whore". That would make a wonderful Easter message...

:puke:

As for CNN playing old Wright quotes and thereby inferring that that crazy nigger Obama was chortling like a Muslim nigger who wants to rape yo mama, they play right into the Repuglified joy that the OTHER Buchanan seems to revel in....she hates niggers too.

:sarcasm:

[4themind]

32. Geez, how many more avenues are there to delve into this....-nt

[K Gardner]

40. New tactic: Advertise it as something else, lure in viewers, play same old SHIT !

[Frank Booth]

33. Isn't obvious by now that Cooper does not like Obama?

I'm surprised Obama supporters actually got excited about this. After the other day, when Obama granted Cooper a full day of interviews and Cooper spent the entire time glaring and smirking at him, it should have been obvious that Cooper will never give him anything close to a fair shake.

Would Cooper act like such a jerk toward Hillary or McCain? Of course not. Cooper belongs on some morning wake-up show in Fargo. He's just another privileged legacy kid like Dubya.

[K Gardner]

37. It isn't Cooper tonight, tho. And I missed the interview, thank god. If I'd seen what you just

described, I'd be missing a brand new HDTV.

:mad: :nuke:

[ShortnFiery]

36. Thank goodness! eom

[RememberWellstone]

38. Too late

You cannot unscramble eggs. He said what he said, there's no parsing on the planet that will change that.

[RamboLiberal]

41. I suggest adding comments to Rolands Blog at AC 360

Tell CNN how you feel about this hatchet job.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-wright%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgod-damn-america%e2%80%9d-sermon/#comment-80614

[mzmolly]

42. Imagine that. The media, suddenly concerned

with "context".