Are the Clintons behind the Wright media blitz?

[Skwmom]

When I saw the Wright media blitz I immediately wondered if the Clintons (and or Republicans) were behind it. They do have a lot of connections and a lot of emphasis has been put on NC by their hacks and talking heads. On Countdown Olbermann said that Wright is back in the news not b/c of the Republicans or Clinton but b/c of Wright himself. Is he sure about that?

From Gateway Pundit: On April 10th the NAACP announced that they had invited Rev Wright to speak. It was to be billed as “A Change is Going to Come.” (Hmmm…. Like a change in the Democratic Race...?) The NAACP Chairman is Julian Bond.

The Michigan Messenger claims that NAACP Chairman Julian Bond basically endorsed Clinton.

"The disturbing part of Bond’s letter is that could easily be interpreted as a backhanded way of endorsing Senator Clinton."
http://www.thesuperspade.com/naacp-chairman-julian-bond-endorses-clinton-basically.

On edit: On Lou Dobbs, a guy from the Michigan NAACP was on their and he said how the Clintons had spoken before the Michigan NAACP. I think they could have easily has their connections within the NAACP to invite Wright to speak to help get him back in the news. The Clintons said they weren't going to let the Wright matter drop.

Harold Ford, the Clinton hack, has kept making comments about NC (about who won NC would be the nominee). Other talking heads have also said we need to see who can win where they aren't expected to. This made me think that there was going to be an all out assault on Obama in NC. They’ve hinted of an Elizabeth Edwards endorsement and now the Gov has decided to endorse (I wonder if the Wright situation was the deciding factor?) I can’t help but wonder WHY are the super delegates waiting? Are they hoping that Clinton can take down Obama without being blamed for the dirty deed? Bill Clinton can then go out on the stump and say we didn't steal the nomination from Obama, one of your own people (Wright) took him down.

I'm still in the process of researching the rest of his media blitz. Does anyone know anything about the National Press Club speech or the book deal?

[jody]

1. I doubt it. BO is vulnerable because of his past association just as any candidate would be. n/t

[rwheeler31]

9. Pssst he is black .

[jody]

18. So are my cousins whom I love dearly. n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

21. Of course, the all-powerful, all-knowing Clintons have coerced

Rev. Wright into dragging down Sen. Obama's campaign.

It's definitely Billary's fault!

[Skwmom]

23. You might be glib and dismissive but I have a strong hunch that

the black voting block that the Clintons need to win in the general election are not going to be.

[TheDebbieDee]

29. Excuse me, but I am part of that black voting block..........

that the Clinton's need to win in the General Election and I'll be there for them.

Unlike most Obama supporters, I have not embued the Clintons with superhuman attributes and extrordinary Machiavellianism!

They're just trying to run a campaign and I'm not holding that fact against them........

Also, I'll state right up front that Sen. Obama wins the nomination, I will vote for him in November, as well.

[Skwmom]

35. Well considering the Clintons will need a MASSIVE black voter and young voter turnout out to win,

(not to mention Independents who do not favor Clinton), I think if they steal the nomination you might want to practice saying President McCain. While I'm sure some black voters will right it off as politics as usual, I just don't think that the majority will. Nor will a lot of white, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American voters.

[annie1]

43. then put Bo on the ticket. problem solved.

[Skwmom]

50. B.O. would be stupid to ever be on a Clinton ticket. The contempt that

the Clintons feel for Obama is obvious. He would change nothing and after serving under Clinton HE WOULD NEVER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT b/c the country would be so sick of the Clintons and all of their corruptness and drama that they will vote in a Republican. Don't you think there is a reason Bush and Clinton are so chummy?

[annie1]

40. I'm pretty sure she is the cause of all that is wrong in the world...

evil scary monster voodoo woman. ooooooh.

[dchill]

2. No.

But I'm sure they'll GET behind it!

[splat]

3. Wright is behind it! Book tour, National Press Club, in their faces

Hillary isn't in this one.

[Skwmom]

5. If I had as MANY connections as the Clintons, I could easily get Wright back on front page.

Especially with the help of my corporate media buddies.

[Critters2]

10. Wright is making his own choices.

He's a grown-up. A grown-up selling a book.

[Skwmom]

15. But who issued the invites to speak?

[splat]

24. It was part of a divinity conference of black church leaders, so they invited him

Not one of Hillary's big groups.

[ccharles000]

66. I agree

[NEDem]

4. I don't think so

They obviously aren't upset with the coverage, but I don't think they are behind it. This is just the American media showing it's tabloid self once again.

[hannybal]

6. The Clinton have no control over the media that hates them

Don't you wonder why Clinton is where she is? Practically out of the race? If she could create media blitzes she would have done so a long time ago.

[TheDebbieDee]

30. Thank you.........

Obama supporters have been trying to have it both ways throughout these primaries. And I also have wondered how the Clintons were supposed to be controlling the media, the same media that apparently hates them and loves Sen. Obama.

[Skwmom]

51. Oh please. Clinton is only still in the race B/C of the corporate media and the

super delegates.

[Skittles]

7. no

the corporate-owned media does not need help from the Clintons

[Yossariant]

8. Bushbots always blame Clinton. Keep up the good work.

[Skwmom]

14. Why would anyone think the Clintons would be involved in dirty tricks?

I think you'd be stupid not to wonder it.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. No!

[Skip Intro]

12. Yes! Yes! Yes! Poor Obama is at the mercy of the omnipotent Clintons!

Oh yeah.

:eyes:

[Yossariant]

16. The magic Clenis strikes again.

:evilgrin:

[gauguin57]

45. Two words ...

... kitchen sink. Truly, the kitchen sink.

[featherman]

13. Not in my opinion... this is a cable news circle jerk

[BeyondGeography]

17. The Wright Gone Wild tour is a Jeremiah Wright Production

[Skwmom]

19. There is way to much protesting in this thread which leads me to believe it is even

more likely that the "do anything to win, we will not let the Wright matter drop, hinting for weeks that N.C. would be the deciding state, and wanting to take down Obama while keeping their hands clean," are somehow involved in this. Plus, they probably think that being able to blame a black man for taking down another black man will somehow appease the black voters in Nov. Of course, they are far from the brightest tools in the shed.

The fact that there is such outright denial.... Based on their conduct during this primary to immediately right off any involvement on their part is strange....

[QC]

42. Maybe people just know lunatic bullshit when they see it. n/t

[Skwmom]

Lunatic? Like the Clintons aren't professionals in DIRTY TRICKS and MANIPULATION?

It would be STUPID NOT TO WONDER if they had a hand in this. It would hardly take a genius to figure out how to get Wright back into the 24/7 news cycle (especially with plenty of connections to help you out).

[Raejeanowl]

54. So, It's A Conspiracy, Regardless Of Fact

How utterly convenient! Guess Wright had absolutely no option to say "no" in these appearances, either. The Clintons somehow coerced him into accepting, too.

Sometimes denial is a good thing...like when the accusers start drifting away from reality into paranoid delusions.

[Skwmom]

60. Are you suggesting that if the Clintons were behind the invites that Wright

accepted so that would absolve the Clintons of any responsibility? Wow, that is definitely Camp Clinton logic.

[2rth2pwr]

20. Clinton's fingerprints are all over his 2 speeches.

He would not have given such whackadoodle theories about black and white kids brains all by himself,

much less defending the idea that AIDS is a genocidal virus spread by the government to kill black people.

Would he?

[Skwmom]

22. We are not talking about the content. We are talking about the invites to give the speeches.

It sure wouldn't be too hard for the Clintons to set that up.

[2rth2pwr]

25. Funny, they would know that he would be like this?

If it's true then good for them, the more we know about the people a candidate chooses to be close to the better off we are.

[Skwmom]

26. They know that Wright in the news would be bad for Obama. The Clintons are dirty so my money is on

their being involved in this media blitz.

With the company the Clintons keep I'm surprised you can make that statement (but then again I'm not).

[2rth2pwr]

28. Why can't you place the blame where it belongs?

[Skwmom]

34. Why do you so readily dismiss any Clinton involvement in light of their

despicable behavior and willing to do anything to win attitude?

The surprise in this situation would be if the Clintons WERE NOT involved in getting Wright back in the media spotlight.

[2rth2pwr]

36. Let's assume they arranged the whole thing. So what?

Everything else that happened was up to Wright and Obama.

Wright could have declined, for what reason I don't know or he could have come across as a sane human being.

He did neither, the Clinton's had no power over the way he was going to come across.

[splat]

27. You have said this twice; Invite was to and by a divinity conference of black church leaders

And yes, it would be hard for the Clintons to set that up.

Why not Google first before making stuff like this up?

[Skwmom]

33. I read that the NAACP invited Wright to speak and that Wright CANCELED

his appearances before black churches b/c of safety concerns.

Where is the link that the invite was to an by a divinity conference of black church leaders?

[SeattleGirl]

31. I doubt it.

The M$M is just doing their usual dog and pony show.

[Forkboy]

32. Nah, the media is just a school of sharks smelling some blood.

[annie1]

37. Didn't the clintons cause AIDS too? and global warming? and hide my keys today?

[gauguin57]

41. Dunno about your keys, but ...

... I'd believe they'd do just about anything to have their heinies back in that White House. Just about anything.

Don't get me wrong -- I always liked Bill (till the last few weeks at least) and I used to support Hill ...

But they are truly ruthless. That's the facts, Jack!!!

[annie1]

44. More paranoid hysterics for obama.

[gauguin57]

48. Hey, I'm not crazy for either of these candidates. I'm an Edwards girl.

I just woke up to the fact a LONG time ago that the Clintons would sell their own mothers to be in power again. If you don't know that, you don't know something absolutely seminal about those two.

If you're gonna support a candidate, you should at least know what she is in the depths of her soul. I wouldn't want any fellow Democrat wandering around in that naive a fog.

[Skwmom]

53. The problem with ridiculing is it makes one think they must really have

hit a nerve (and why would that be)?

[Skwmom]

57. If the Clintons have their hand in this, the Republicans will MAKE SURE that it

comes out in the general election (which will be BAD NEWS for the Clintons).

Wait a minute - even if they didn't I'm sure the Republicans will get a majority of people to think the Clintons were behind it. So I guess the Clintons are kind of in a lose, lose situation. :)

I guess the Clintons never learned that "your word is everything." She is viewed by the vast majority as so dishonest (which she is) that when she says she had nothing to do with it she will not be believed. That is what one truly would call "the chickens coming home to roost!"

[gauguin57]

38. If you don't think the Clintons/their surrogates are at least partially behind this ...

... you're too naive to cross the street!

[QC]

39. Of course. The Clintons control the corporate media.

That is why they get such uniformly flattering coverage and always have. It's why no one has ever heard of Genital Flowers, Monica Lewinski, cattle futures, Whitewater, etc.

[Skwmom]

46. Oh please. The Clintons are in bed with the Republicans and the Corporate Media to take down Obama

(or haven't you noticed)?

[dailykoff]

49. That's how I'd put it too.

They're in league and aiding and abetting, but not directly responsible.

[QC]

59. Were the Clintons responsible for the corpmedia thinking Obama was the best thing

since sliced bread? Remember all those months when the corpmedia adored Obama and thought Hillary was dead meat? Was Hillary behind that, too?

This sounds like something seventhson would cook up.

[ruby slippers]

47. No, but I do smell a FOX.......

[Sapphocrat]

52. Blame Hillary! Blame Hillary! Blame Hillary! SQUAWWWWWWWK!

Do you have any idea how desperate and pathetic and ridiculous all this tinfoil-hatting sounds?

No, actually, I guess you don't.

Christ, when shall we expect "Hillary flew BOTH PLANES into the World Trade Center!!!111!1!11111"?

[ccharles000]

68. I agree 100 percent.

[BenDavid]

55. LMAO.....obama folk always looking for someone to BLAME

for obama's campaign during into dodo......

[Ronnie]

56. Incredibly

[ElsewheresDaughter]

58. Hillary is an agent of Satan ....yap yap yap...agent of Satan!...some of you O people are pathetic!

[NMMNG]

61. Antipsychotics.

Look into them.

[anonymous171]

62. Clinton supporter invited Rev. Wright to speak:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5728458&mesg_id=5728458

[Eurobabe]

63. Clintons ARE behind this, see Politico

Clinton supporter invited Wright

Obama's campaign has disavowed Wright's media tour, and a correspondent notes an interesting detail:

Wright was invited to the National Press Club by a journalist and minister who supports Clinton.

The Tribune reports that Wright was invited by Barbara Reynolds, a former USA Today editorial board member who has written on personal blog of her support for Clinton.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Clinton_supporter_invited_Wright.html#comments

[ElsewheresDaughter]

64. ~*~....

[ccharles000]

65. Yes Hillary is behind it all.

I mean if you think about it she is an evil woman with great powers. My guess is she concocted a magical apple that forced the Reverend to go and give speeches until he drops.






Damn you Hillary damn you.:sarcasm:

[MonkeyFunk]

67. No

but so what if they were?

This is politics.

[Hepburn]

69. IMO, the Clintons are dirty and involved. n/t