Rev. Jeremiah Wright on PBS tonight

[Eddie Haskell]

Rev. Jeremiah Wright will give his first interview since the conservative corporate media's biased attack on Obama's pastor began several months ago. The interview will be conducted by Bill Moyers on the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS this evening. For those of us who enjoy fair and balanced reporting and interviews (or are such losers that we have nothing else better to do on a Friday night), it is a must watch.

For those who do not enjoy fair and balanced interviews but prefer right wing administration propoganda disguised as a news program, Fox will be showing Hannity & Colbes.

Eddie

 

[IntenseOperator]

Moyer?

Why not go ahead and use Ted Kennedy to handle the Rev's interview?

Hope they put it on the net later.

 

[IntenseOperator]

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/04/jeremiah_wright_clips_from_pbs.html#more

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Teddie do an interview at 9:00PM on a Friday night? IO, surely you jest. He will be in no shape to conduct an interview at that time of night. At that time of night, the only thing the senior senator from Massachusetts will be able to do is drive.

Ed

 

[IntenseOperator]

Wright risks giving Obama critics more fodder. O'Reilly "flabbergasted" Wright did PBS interview.

WASHINGTON--The controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Sen. Barack Obama's pastor -- is speaking Monday at the National Press Club as part of a divinity conference of black church leaders. Wright's decision to headline an event at the Press Club -- open to all media -- risks giving Obama's critics more fodder, as if they don't have enough already.

Meanwhile, PBS is touting an interview with Wright to be broadcast Friday on "Bill Moyers' Journal." Fresh material from Wright -- no matter how well-intended -- is not what Obama needs.

Wright's Press Club talk is supposed to be about offering perspective on black churches -- theology, history and politics, and the torrent of coverage stemming from Obama's presidential bid.

Wright's relationship with Obama triggered an uproar when video of Wright's inflammatory sermons surfaced. Faced with a crisis, Obama delivered a highly regarded speech in March about race and why he would not "disown" Wright, the senior pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side.

But the speech, good as it was, did not push Wright out of the picture.

Wright looms as a serious problem for Obama in his fight to be the Democratic presidential nominee over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and, if he wins, as a general election candidate against Sen. John McCain. Look no further than an ad the North Carolina Republican Party released Wednesday featuring a clip from Wright's "God Damn America" sermon and calling Obama an "extremist."

Fox News has been all over Wright -- helicopter shots of his Tinley Park mansion under construction -- and host Bill O'Reilly has been pounding Obama over Wright regularly on his show.

The backfire potential of Wright having any sort of a public profile at this point seems obvious.

I asked the church about the prospects of Wright further wounding Obama's candidacy, and I was e-mailed material about the divinity conference.

When the uproar over Wright started, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod asked his friends at Jasculca Terman -- a public affairs firm -- to advise Trinity on how to handle the crush of media coverage, and they did, pro bono. Jim Terman, the president of the firm, said, "We were not asked to provide our advice about the reported speech of Rev. Wright in Washington" and did not know about it until it was scheduled.

McCain denounced the North Carolina GOP party ad. "It's not the message of my campaign," he said. He wrote a letter to the state party chairman imploring them to pull the spot. The ad "degrades our civics," McCain said. The Republican National Committee also told the North Carolina party the ad was not "appropriate or helpful."

Obama, in Indiana, said he assumes if McCain "thinks that it's an inappropriate ad, that he can get them to pull it down since he's their nominee and standard bearer." The spot as I write this has not been pulled.

O'Reilly, chatting with Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on his show Wednesday night, said he was "flabbergasted" that Wright just does not "take a vacation." When O'Reilly is right, he's right.

 

[Double Two]

Have seen a few clips of this "Interview". Will wait until I've seen the entire thing before I pass judgement, but from what little I saw "Interview" might not be the best word to use when describing this event. I think it is safe to say that Moyers has his own agenda and is far-left of center. The few questions he served up to Rev. Wright were hit right out of the park. "Rehearsed Event" might be a more appropriate description. I will post my feelings after I've watched the entire thing, but I fear it will be little more than a "Obama for President" crusade.:shrug:

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Saw clips also -- Wrights alleging it was " script taken out of context"

Don't see how clips I saw can be taken out of context--with his vein popping rants--but just in case to be fair and balanced--here is link to his entire sermon that day.*
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352661,00.html

For Edwards benefit will add--
* disclaimer "Watch at own risk"


I know if he views he be up juking and jiving in accord with Wright--and didn't want to be sued if he throws back out of place--or ruptures a vocal chord. :SIB

 

[Eddie Haskell]

I did see the interview last night. Of course, I will get the preverbial right wing attack, but this man is quite intelligent and Moyers did not through him softball leading questions a la O'Reily, Limbaugh etc.

Objectively speaking, Wright came off extremely intelligent, explained his position well, defined the goals of the sound bite corporate media, and unfortuneatly for you Wayne, isn't the bigot you had hoped he would be. Now of course, a rebroadcast of this program will NOT be aired on the corporate conservative media since he did quite well.

I encourage anyone who really, I mean really wants to be fair and balanced, watch the entire interview with Moyers. Don't look for comments and sound bites that will confirm your belief system but rather listen with an open mind if that is possible and you will see that this is an attack by the media on Obama.

If you still don't think so, as my new best friend at this forum, Toledo Prophet, pointed out, where is the similar news coverage of McCain's embrace of the right Reverend's John Hegee's endorsement.

Wayne, of course, was so kind as to provide everyone with a link to the sermon. I on the other hand will be so generous as to provide everyone with a link to the interview. Judge for yourself:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/profile.html

Eddie

 

[gardenweasel]

"When asked what the people who aired the clips ?wanted to communicate,? Mr. Wright said, ?I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint? That?s what they wanted to communicate
.?

sounds like a communication success to me...where's the problem?:shrug:

 

[gjn23]

bill moyer

pbs

fair and balanced?

comical......next thing you know, keith olberman will be called mainstream!

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Thats the open minded gjn23 I was talking about.

Eddie

 

[IntenseOperator]

I'll watch the clip when I have enough time.

Thanks for posting it. I have to wash my bed linens right now. It's almost May already.

 

[smurphy]

Why don't the hateful comments of Hagee get even 1/10 of this attention?

 

[Toledo Prophet]

Why don't the hateful comments of Hagee get even 1/10 of this attention?

Or the antics of Ted Haggard and his relationship to GWB.

I think we can blame that damn liberal media? :shrug:

 

[IntenseOperator]

Does Hagee & Haggard hate whitey too?

Especially "rich" whitey?

 

[Toledo Prophet]

Does Hagee & Haggard hate whitey too?

Especially "rich" whitey?

Hagee probably hates rich white catholics.

Haggard goes the other way. Loves white men, the younger the better. And, if you have a special Meth recipe, then he adores you. :142smilie

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

I did see the interview last night. Of course, I will get the preverbial right wing attack, but this man is quite intelligent and Moyers did not through him softball leading questions a la O'Reily, Limbaugh etc.

Objectively speaking, Wright came off extremely intelligent, explained his position well, defined the goals of the sound bite corporate media, and unfortuneatly for you Wayne, isn't the bigot you had hoped he would be. Now of course, a rebroadcast of this program will NOT be aired on the corporate conservative media since he did quite well.

I encourage anyone who really, I mean really wants to be fair and balanced, watch the entire interview with Moyers. Don't look for comments and sound bites that will confirm your belief system but rather listen with an open mind if that is possible and you will see that this is an attack by the media on Obama.

If you still don't think so, as my new best friend at this forum, Toledo Prophet, pointed out, where is the similar news coverage of McCain's embrace of the right Reverend's John Hegee's endorsement.

Wayne, of course, was so kind as to provide everyone with a link to the sermon. I on the other hand will be so generous as to provide everyone with a link to the interview. Judge for yourself:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/profile.html

Eddie

intelligent--so are grifters--they just find the PT Barnum doctrine much easier to exploit than working.

You don't need intelligence to live in million dollar home--you just need an audience you can munipulate---given a speaking platform and a few writers--you can go from squat to multi millionaire ask the Clintons-Obama-Wright-TV preachers-Tony Robbins ect--

The hope is that you will bite--the change is what you got left over after you do.

Was thoughtful of you to provide link of interview--thank you Edward. will try to catch it on TV --if I miss it--will use your link provide --appreciate it:00x15

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Sorry, I know I'm the aclu, card carrying I hate america guy, but I can't disagree with what he said as true. You might not like the manner in which he said it, but there is truth behind the delivery. That is, the government has not always treated people failrly. You may say it was scripted, I don't know one way or the other, but what I do know is that when I heard his sermon, IN CONTEXT, I don't have as much quarrell with it as when I originally heard the sound bite on fox.

Governments do make mistakes. He said he was damning the govenment. Hell, I've been doing that for the last 7 years. Frankly, with reason.

Eddie

 

[Eddie Haskell]

The following is a note from Bill Moyers blog that I thought summed up the interview quite nicely and stated my position on why this interview will not air on conservative profit centered corportate media:

"Thank you, Bill Moyers and PBS, for offering this enlightening interview with Rev. Wright. I am alternately amazed and horrified by the lack of intelligent discourse among the mainstream corporate news media. That they have been so willing to rush to judgment on this man is truly shameful and yet another example of the depths to which our public discourse has sunk.

An electorate cannot make informed decisions when it is so poorly informed. Yet most broadcast and cable networks seem more interested in promoting a horse race than educating their viewers.

Thus, we end up with a tabloid debate on ABC and a focus on incendiary soundbites, instead of probing, thoughtful reporting. But that's what happens when the government abdicates its responsibility to ensure that networks fulfill their civic responsibility in exchange for free use of our public airwaves. When news becomes a profit center, the truth gets buried under an avalanche of cheap shots and mud.

After watching the interview, I must conclude that Rev. Wright is a decent and thoughtful man. Whether you agree or disagree with his opinions, you cannot deny that he is a sincere, honest American who loves his country and is doing his best to improve the lives of his congregants.

The search for a higher truth in a world overripe with flippant media blowhards is not easy. Those bloviating pundits of corporate "news" are paid good money to stir up controversy in the heartless pursuit of ratings. I sincerely hope that someone in the mainstream media would feel a twinge of nobility and offer this inteview - the full interview - to their viewers in the spirit of public service. I won't hold my breath...

In the meantime, thank you, Mr. Moyers, for fulfilling that function in your own way. You remind us what thoughtful, responsible journalism looks like. And thank you, PBS, for giving Mr. Moyers a forum."

Once again you all can chime in all you want about PBS being liberal etc. but no where in what you love to call the liberal media did you find this story or the story's of Hegge, Haggard, etc. with such exposure as you do the sound bites of "God Damn America" attributed to Wright.

The conservative corporate media is exposed for what it is. Remember the best defense is an offense. If you tell a lie over and over again, people will believe it. The biggest lie going is:

THE MEDIA IS LIBERAL.

Once again, Disney, GE, News Corp, Gannet are Corporate America. They are dyed in the wool Republicans. The big lie told over and over again is the media is liberal. Same as weapons of mass destruction. Cheney knew they were there. Same as the problem with health care costs rising is lawsuits. Caps are all over place now and see how those bills have come down.

I mean really people, what is it gonna take for you to wake up. Another republican administration?

Eddie

 

[The Sponge]

I mean really people, what is it gonna take for you to wake up. Another republican administration?

Eddie

Eddie there isn't even a need to blame politicians anymore. You write this long post basically trying to spoon feed people and it still won't sink in. So now you have to figure out why. Why is this so hard for people to see what you are pointing out? They watch Fox and listen to neocon radio and they just by all that bullshit. Okay maybe i can see buying it but at what point do you take a step back and say to yourself, hey maybe they are trying to mislead me or maybe i should put a little more thought into this? Then you see an administration get caught in lie after lie and this should be just enough of a nudge for people to question the Fox New's of the world but it still doesn't. The Neocons spin these lies and these guys buy everyone of them. Some of them are so pathetic sometimes i think these guys are just punking us but sadly they believe them. Last night i heard on a show someone say this country is flat out just stuck on stupid. Nobody is trying to say they are smarter than the next guy but jee wiz its simple common sense to realize what is going on. The only thing i see that can be done is somehow vote out some of these democrats but this was tried with Lieberman. We sit here defending a party that basically sits on there hands. No wonder these guys believe what is shovel to them. When the other side sits there just spineless. It is hard to keep up the fight. I see about five to ten guys in here that fight harder then the actual people who are in the position to fight.