Media tries to bury Pastorgate
Posted on March 18, 2008
Excerpt below. Compare this with what happened when GWB gave JUST ONE SPEECH at Bob Jones university
The broadcast network evening show blackout, of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s 2001 charge that the U.S. earned the 9/11 attacks, continued Monday night as neither CBS nor NBC touched the Wright issue and ABC ran a full story which included Wright’s “U.S. of K-K-K-A” hate speech and how Obama has been close to Wright for 20 years, but concluded with how “many African-Americans do not understand” the controversy since the “kind of fiery language Wright uses is not uncommon in black churches.”
The race-based, white-bashing rants may not be so uncommon, but is anti-American shouting — about how “we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye” and so “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” — so common?
Anchor Charles Gibson set up the story from Jake Tapper by asserting Obama “is being dogged by his pastor’s provocative comments.” After the “U.S. of K-K-K-A” soundbite, Tapper pointed out how “Wright has played an important role in Obama’s life for 20 years.” Viewers then saw a clip of Obama from June of 2007 giving “a special shout out to my pastor” who’s “a friend. And a great leader.” Following some quotes illustrating Obama’s awareness a year ago of how Wright’s views could prove embarrassing, Tapper ended with how such language is not unusual in black churches.
Not a word on Monday’s CBS Evening News (anchored by Russ Mitchell) of Wright/Obama and, on Monday’s NBC Nightly News, merely one cryptic “by the way” line from anchor Brian Williams….
In a sermon the Sunday after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Wright suggested America spurred and deserved the attacks:
We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki! And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye….We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.
No part of that far-left, Blame America First language has made it onto the ABC, CBS or NBC evening newscasts since the video became public last Thursday.
More here
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don’t forget your handy-dandy summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
» Filed Under Bigotry, Liberal Media/Bias, News, War On Terror
Trackback URL
Comments
2 Responses to “Media tries to bury Pastorgate”
Leave a Reply
I just found this less than flattering story about Obama online:
http://www.houston-press.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/full
The wheels are coming off the bus…
As always the liberal left-wing news media prefer to hide or cover up the truth when it comes to the demaccrooks