04-28-2008, 12:13 AM
I'm watching Wright giving a speech at NAACP dinner in Detroit, being broadcast right now, making the case that African-American children have a "different way of learning", subject vs. object-oriented learning (anyone seen this?) racist nonsense that if a white person said he'd be crucified, but at an NAACP dinner, is probably considered normal or tame. None of this has anything to do with Obama, of course, but on his own, Wright is an annoying and divisive figure.
From Slate Magazine:
"Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the recently retired pastor of Barack Obama's church in Chicago. Here is the form that the reverend's "retirement" will take: a $1.6 million home, purchased in the name of his church and consisting of more than 10,000 square feet, in a gated community in Tinley Park, a prosperous white section of the city. There used to be a secularist line about fat shepherds and thin sheep, but the joke here is not just at the expense of a man who never pretended to be much more than a hustler. The joke is on those of the "flock" who tithed themselves to achieve this level of comfort for a man who must be pinching himself when he wakes up every day."
So we're supposed to think Wright is a modest and reasonable, well-spoken guy, because a prestigious outspoken Leftist ideologue journalist like Bill Moyers offered him a flattering showcase on his broadcast? Did we expect Bill Moyers to do anything less than give Wright a format to look good in?
I'm sure we'd all like to retire as comfortably as Wright, in a 1.6 million-dollar home, paid for by his admiring congregation.
From Slate Magazine:
"Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the recently retired pastor of Barack Obama's church in Chicago. Here is the form that the reverend's "retirement" will take: a $1.6 million home, purchased in the name of his church and consisting of more than 10,000 square feet, in a gated community in Tinley Park, a prosperous white section of the city. There used to be a secularist line about fat shepherds and thin sheep, but the joke here is not just at the expense of a man who never pretended to be much more than a hustler. The joke is on those of the "flock" who tithed themselves to achieve this level of comfort for a man who must be pinching himself when he wakes up every day."
So we're supposed to think Wright is a modest and reasonable, well-spoken guy, because a prestigious outspoken Leftist ideologue journalist like Bill Moyers offered him a flattering showcase on his broadcast? Did we expect Bill Moyers to do anything less than give Wright a format to look good in?
I'm sure we'd all like to retire as comfortably as Wright, in a 1.6 million-dollar home, paid for by his admiring congregation.