Hillary Clinton is being skewered by the likes of Keith Olbermann for not condemning Geraldine Ferraro for her comments recently that if Obama were white he wouldn’t be in the position he’s in. (If you doubt her, look at John Edwards, another attractive, platitude-slinging politician of little experience with an inspiring personal story, but who is white.) When is the same media going to demand that Obama similarly condemn the words of his controversial pastor?:
Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, has a long history of what even Obama’s campaign aides concede is “inflammatory rhetoric,” including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”
Olbermann says Clinton should not be able to get away with saying she disagrees with Ferraro’s remarks, or that she finds them regrettable, but that’s exactly what the mainstream media has been allowing Obama to do:
In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” He said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.
“Move on, no news here,” has been the media’s approach to the Rev. Wright. But maybe that’s changing. ABC News, at least, is pointing out what Obama surely would like kept under the radar:
An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright’s sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
