I have been struggling to understand WHY the Reverend Wright had his very controversial speeches taped as late as this January then his church SOLD them to Fox. Why would he do this? He knows how controversial these tapes are. He has had an on going argument with Fox and Shawn Hannity for over a year. So why on earth did they sell Fox the tapes? What could be his motivation?
The only possible reason I could draw from this is he wished for people to understand his church´s doctrine, The Black Liberation Theology.
But if the reason Rev. Wright filmed and sold the tapes was to educate the American Public of his church´s doctrine, and since Rev. Wright is Obama´s spiritual advisor, then why on earth did Obama say, "I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy."
I was re-reading the text to Obama´s speech when suddenly the reason came to me. As I was re-reading the speech I remembered that Geraldine Ferraro incident. Drudge sent out the speech early, before Obama actually gave the speech. Then, as Obama spoke the words to his speech, I saw that Obama was READING the speech from Drudge, WORD for WORD. After the speech, the pundits kept talking about the importance and the dynamics of this speech, as if Obama was making up the words as he went along or likening him to Lincoln who wrote down the Gettysburg address on the back of a paper bag. But that is not what happened. This speech was specially formulated to address several issues. While there are those that say BHO wrote the speech himself, if you read the words, they are in response to the events that occurred between Wright and the media over the last year, Ferraro from last week, and the history of race in our country over the last 200+ years.
Let me offer a speculation. The AMShockJocks were severely attacking Obama re: Wright for months. Obama´s campaign knew this issue was going to come to a head in the mainstream media now or in the near future. The Obama campaign had to respond. Then the Geraldine Ferraro incident happened. Obama jumped all over it. Then, immediately, Obama´s church sold the Rev Wright Videos to Fox. Obama´s strategists knew the videos would get out eventually, but they wanted to be prepared and mitigate the backlash from the Right.
Obama´s side put the videos out and Obama´s team was prepared and it showed.
The speech was WELL PREPARED!! Obama responded but Obama did not offend either side too much. Obama´s media insiders responded as expected. Now this story is behind Obama and no one can say his team tried to suppress or hide anything.
Actually, from a political perspective, this is a beautiful strategy.
Also, think of the timing. The church sold the tapes last Thursday or Friday (no news channels on Saturday and only a few news shows Sunday) his speech yesterday morning and now we are on to new news!
I applaud Obama and his Strategy Team! Great Job!!