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- kinseyincanada, on 04/26/2008, -20/+83are you kidding me1 this entire time no one ***** interviewed this guy to get the other side of the story? my god America media sucks
- tcbishop12, on 04/26/2008, -28/+91Finally something more than deviously edited soundbites. Truth and humanity. Refreshing.
- tonino30, on 04/26/2008, -24/+80Context, Context, Context. How many times will the American public let the MSM fool them? Wake the Hell Up!
- dumpyhumpy, on 04/26/2008, -19/+69I ACTUALLY AGREE WITH REV WRIGHT NOW
- AntiMud2008, on 04/26/2008, -18/+61Wright is not Obama's problem. The distorted MSM is Obama's problem. Hold them accountable!!!!
- bluevillage, on 04/26/2008, -28/+64Bravo to Bill Moyers. I always thought his show would be the best place to deal with this in full. Rev. Wright is clearly a reasonable and compassionate man, and has done much more good in the world than his enemies in the media. I'm glad Moyers played the larger context of Wright's comments, especially on 9/11. I had seen that sermon before on Youtube, and cried when I heard it. I cried again seeing it this time, as he calls out the sins our government has committed.
- seanieb, on 04/26/2008, -16/+46The FCC should force the corporate media to broadcast this interview as penance for their crimes against journalism.
- marabout40, on 04/26/2008, -15/+44Factor in his military duty: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0404wri ...
This man has done more good for this country he supposedly hates than any of those snot-faced pundits and MSM newcasters. - chubbybubba, on 04/26/2008, -16/+44The video was very "eye opening" and gave an honest perspective of Rev. Wright. I can see where he's coming from. HOWEVER,
Barack was right about Wright. Clearly in Wright's Time, and in his experience his words are valid. The problem stems from Wrights perspective that things can not change and have not changed. You can't look at a white guy who's just trying to make a living and blame him for the injustices of his ancestors. You can't say to America, "You owe me for taking my great great grandfather as a slave." Times HAVE changed, but Rev. Wright has not. - relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -8/+33Jeremiah Wright is a former United States Marine and a pastor of many years. He serves his country with honor and distinction, and has done plenty of good for his community and members of his congregation.
To JamesSpaza and everyone else calling him a racist and a bigot, I would bet money any one of you has used the word "*****" or made some derogatory or inflammatory remarks in your lifetimes that are no less on par with what he said in those films. He is a product of his time just like every one of us is, and his perspectives on race and culture as an African American male coming of age in this country during the middle of the twentieth century are probably a lot different than yours.
Secondly, your comments aren't worth their salt, because I know your political agendas slant whatever you come here to say about him or Barack Obama regardless. - AntiMud2008, on 04/26/2008, -16/+37You must go beyond saying that Moyers has done a great job to protect and uphold journalistic integrity. You must share this video with everyone you know. You must hold the MSM accountable for their poor reporting and opinion journalism. All the major news outlets are beginning to spin like Faux News. Enough is enough. We can not stand for this any longer.
- cmzenise, on 04/26/2008, -7/+26Don't just rail against MSM on the message boards. Donate to your local PBS station.
- imgstacke, on 04/26/2008, -8/+26Funny seeing Rev. Wright and Bill Moyers standing behind LBJ... Who knew they had the same boss...
- Zlorp, on 04/26/2008, -10/+25so whens someone going to start railing mccain for HIS pastor, who is about 1000000000000 times more evil and brainwashed than Rev Wright? they saving that for the big race?
- parkerparrot, on 04/26/2008, -22/+36He's a brilliant, honorable man who was maligned for political gain. If in fact it was Hillary's campaign who unearthed this and started the avalanche, she is worse than I thought. How can you live with yourself after you do that to another person?
- Ethiope, on 04/26/2008, -12/+25Rev. Wright does not look at an average white guy trying to make a living and blame him for injustices of his ancestors. He's blaming the GOVERNMENT of the U.S., not the average U.S. citizen.
- marabout40, on 04/26/2008, -3/+16Precedence: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist.
—President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html
Contextualized enough for ya? - kraant, on 04/26/2008, -8/+19Uh, no...
If anything, Jesus looked like a modern day Palestinian. - stealth68, on 04/26/2008, -13/+24Folks we really should take 'reporters' to task... There were two different things going on here... Some reporters simply 'parroted' the views presented by other 'journalists' with nefarious objectives without first examining the story. the man or his message... They exhibited similar behavior when presenting the case for the war in Iraq. Other than the administration themselves the media helped define the case for the war and we need better from our free press... Or we will have even more damaging consequences...
- mcool119, on 04/26/2008, -13/+24I'm so glad we have a candidate for president who is willing to talk to us like adults about race. Jeremiah Wright is a product of his times, just like everyone else, and he's a true patriot. Obama standing by him was the reason I first became interested in Obama. While the politically safe thing to do would have been to disown Wright's influence, Obama trusts that we have the maturity to understand Wright as a man, instead of hearing the MSM soundbytes and immediately branding Wright as a racist, and by doing that, Obama proved that he isn't just another political schill. And Wright is worth listening to in and of himself. He has so many more insightful things to say than all of those megachurch bigots.
- DVmaker, on 04/26/2008, -11/+21Finally a fair and balanced piece of news.
- ereddekopp, on 04/26/2008, -3/+13This interview shows what has become an epidemic in our news media. A complete loss of journalistic integrity. Gone are the days of Woodward and Bernstein or Edward R. Murrow. The major news outlets are all about sensational news, sound bites and a total distortion of the facts. That, in and of itself, is sad. What is worse is that the general public eats it up and watches it. As long as these supposed "news" outlets keep getting ratings then they will continue this practice. We are smarter then this are we not? I commend Moyers for actually reporting on Rev. Wright. Not only doing an in depth interview with the man, but also taking the time to do his research and present a background on the man I had not heard before. When you listen to what Rev. Wright said in its entirety, I for one totally agreed with him. He is speaking as a man of God, about how the scriptures and religious teachings see these acts. Americans that believe we have not committed deplorable acts in the name of our country are living in a fog. And a frightening one at that. It does not make all we stand for bad or evil. But it is real. We have the country we have by lying and murdering Native Americans. We built the country we have by the enslavement of African Americans. As grand as our flag is, it is very stained in blood, even against our own. These are truths, this is our history. I am not a religious man, but I have studied religion. Christ did not teach murder was OK in certain situations. Nor was there an appendix to the commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" with "Except in these circumstances...."
- whatthefu, on 04/26/2008, -10/+19Bill Moyers is awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers#Regarding ...
- Oheson, on 04/26/2008, -9/+18Good to see a real interview and not the yelling shows (Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh). This should not have even been a story. The right wing Lunatic Fringe is taking over this country.
- Bhima, on 04/26/2008, -14/+23Bill Moyers has been producing a steady stream of intellectually investigative interviewing and news reporting for decades.
- qwerter, on 04/26/2008, -8/+17Wright hasn't said anything racist. If he did, you would be able to point it out for us to see. He didn't, so you can't, and you won't--it's easier just to declare that he's racist and repeat it over and over. Besides, if Wright is so racist, how do you explain a white Catholic priest coming to his defense?
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Catholic_Priest_ ... - pintomp3, on 04/26/2008, -5/+14if you are going to quote something, quote it correctly. he didn't say white people did it, he said the government did it, and he was referring to the tuskegee experiments:
“The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment. They purposely infected African American men with syphilis. Governments lie. The government lied about bombing Cambodia and Richard Nixon stood in front of the camera, ‘Let me make myself perfectly clear…’ Governments lie. The government lied about the drugs for arms Contra scheme orchestrated by Oliver North, and then the government pardoned all the perpetrators so they could get better jobs in the government. Governments lie. The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. Governments lie. The government lied about a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and a connection between 9.11.01 and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Governments lie.”
he is saying that governments lie. do you dispute this? - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -11/+19Funny to see republicans leading the charge against racism all of a sudden.
What explains the change of heart? - pgm_01, on 04/26/2008, -3/+11Actually Jesus would have been darker than the current inhabitants of the Middle East but not as dakr as those from Africa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3958241.stm - marabout40, on 04/27/2008, -2/+10The government covered up the real number of vets who attempt and commit suicide a year. They told CBS that 790 vets attempted suicide last year. The real number is more like 12,000 per year. Not 790. They outright lied. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/21/cbsnews_ ... And George Bush stood in front of cameras and cried his crocodile tears when Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor's parents accepted the posthumous Medal of Honour for their son who gave his life to save his friends by throwing himself on a bomb. Bush was very "patriotically" wearing a lapel flag pin. Wooo hooo. Soooo patriotic. You know what would be truly patriotic? To tell the truth about what's happening to our young men and women coming back from that freaking illegal war he started and refuses to get us out of. THAT would be patriotic. I cannot stand the hypocrisy, the blind stupidity, self-delusion, and deliberate (yes, deliberate, because there's no excuse any more. There's just way too much information and access to information now) ignorance of the people in this country. WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -3/+11Obama's speech on race was also carefully crafted to avoid any phrases that could be chopped up into soundbites. He structured it so that the only way to listen to any of it required you to listen to a good size chunk of it. That's a good mark of intelligence and a damn good way to counteract the MSM's tendency to boil down this entire issue into 5 second soundbites.
I think Republicans are kind of freaking out now too because the Wright controversy doesn't seem to have hurt Obama all that much. Weeks after the story broke he still manged to cut Hillary's PA lead in half and nationally his approval ratings are still as high as ever.
On a side note, the latest Newsweek poll shows only 25% of Americans thinking Obama "looks down on them" and 65% think he doesn't. Looks like Republicans are going to have dig up a whole lot more than the "bitter" comment to make that meme stick - nancy971, on 04/26/2008, -17/+25Amazing. The truth prevails every time. The Rev. is thoughtful and intellectual yet down to earth. The MSM are vile for defaming him.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -16/+24Thank you Bill Moyers for introducing America to the man behind the soundbite. But who knew he would be so intelligent?
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 04/26/2008, -5/+13help me? I've heard the guy talk, if he had his way my paycheck would be given to the state who would then redistribute it equally amongst us all. No thanks, I didn't grind through college to do that.
- dan.stryker, on 04/26/2008, -6/+13The US of KKKA????
- wacomwacoff, on 04/26/2008, -3/+10Sure thing. Wright was talking about the Tuskegee experiment, which was a government-run project using black men infected with syphilis as test subjects, which is known to have happened. And yes, he theorizes that the government similarly used HIV on black people. I don't know if it's true or not, but can you prove it isn't?
- jayfarer, on 04/26/2008, -2/+9It's funny cause "America's chickens have come home to roost" was Jeremiah Wright quoting an ambassador.
- chaosium, on 04/26/2008, -8/+15Soundbites, man.
- kraant, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7"The article is flawed and not by just a little but by a huge part. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was born in or lived in Africa for any major part of time....that I know of. Jesus was born in Bethlehem and that is in Israel....not Africa. He was not black."
Matthew 2:13-23
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthe ...
"13And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
14When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
..."
Geez... - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+6Why should it work any better when some shady 527 is running it instead of the 24 hour news networks though? If anything, the fact that it will be promoted by a group with an open agenda and not some talking head newsdude should detract from its credibility.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -7/+13p0s3r that video does not have the AIDS reference. The following does and it is approximately 40 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617eK2XIaLk - DavidinBoston, on 04/26/2008, -5/+11And ALL the MSM got out of it was that Wright referred to Obama as a "politician." Is anyone at all surprised that this was all that the MSM spoon-fed the masses who watch their cable shows?
- Stevanoski, on 04/26/2008, -7/+13Bitter old man who like Jimmy Carter hates America because Americans did not fall to their knees in adoration of them.
- toxicshok, on 04/26/2008, -2/+8irony, complaining about personal attacks, through personal attacks.
- nblsavage, on 04/26/2008, -12/+18and you're any different? I could write a book with the vile filth you've posted on digg. Hypocrite.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -4/+10Note also p0s3r total inability to refute my claim. Most right wingers, if you accuse them of being racists, will claim that they're actually not. They'll offer up some kind of thin intellectual justification for their opposition to things like the voting rights act or civil rights.
p0s3r, on the hand, make no such excuses for himself. Point out his white supremacist beliefs and he raises his hand and says "yep, that's me!"
This message brought to you be petrodollar: revealing Digg's KKK sympathizers, one lonely, jobless redneck at a time. - keishax, on 04/26/2008, -2/+8That is not true. Jerry Fallwell, Hagee and Parsley have all been associated with the Republican party. Hagee and McCain also have relationship in which McCain sought his endorsement. The issue still remains, If a white minister criticizes the government then he is being critical, the same cannot be said of African American ministers. Somehow any critique becomes separatist. Also if you watched the video, the you would see that your comment regarding him as a Black supremists is incorrect and you probably should stop watching Faux News.
- joshuasawyer, on 04/26/2008, -8/+14Got proof they didn't?
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