Time to Lock the Crazy Uncle...

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HomeDiariesBreaking BlueE-Wire 2008Joe Klein: Time to Lock the Crazy Uncle in the Attic
by campskunk, Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 02:51:47 PM EST

Joe Klein sees trouble - BIG trouble - in Rev Wright's latest foray into celebrity status. In his column today, Joe opines:


And furthermore, I've been to dozens and dozens of African-American church services over the years, including the investiture of one of my friends as an AME minister two years ago, and I have very rarely, if ever, heard the kind of rants that are part of Reverend Wright's canon. Yes, as many have pointed out, Martin Luther King Jr. gave some angry, angry sermons--especially about the obscenity of the war in Vietnam--but for Wright to say the attacks on him are an attack on the black church is to offer a straitened and solipsistic view of that grand institution. Black liberation theology is not the black church.

And worse, Wright's purpose now seems quite clear: to aggrandize himself--the guy is going to be a go-to mainstream media source for racial extremist spew, the next iteration of Al Sharpton--and destroy Barack Obama.


Joe's right: Rev. Wright is not representative of the black church, and to claim that recent criticism of his words are attacks on the black church in general is a little... egotistical? Self-aggrandizing? Something like that.



Dana Milbank has some other ominous

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/28/145147/322

[thunder rising]

1. Funny all the Obamabots are just fine with it. (count me in that crowd) Thanks for your concern.

[spooky3]

2. Separation of church and state...

This is just another example of why religion should be kept OUT of politics. Candidates need to tell reporters that their religious views are their own personal business (as the Founding Parents intended) and the public needs to get USED to it.

[DearAbby]

3. good response....wished it was used.....n/t