It's Very Black and White, If You Think About It
Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 07:57:01 PM PDT
I am very upset with the hypocrisy that has been promulgated by the talking heads of the mainstream media with respect to Obama's relationship with his minister Rev. Wright....
As we all know, Obama himself is not responsible for the statements for which he is being held accountable.
Still, Republicans have fed into this notion that Obama "sat there in a pew for 20 years" listening to the racist and unpatriotic statements, and so he is guilty by association and/or osmosis.
They claim that Obama should have abandoned the Reverand and the Church, and found a new one somewhere.... They argue that by staying with the Church and continuing to seek counsel from the man responsible for the bile that Obama was condoning it....
Were these same Republicans up in arms when Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson BOTH claimed that God was punishing America through the 9/11 attacks for accepting gays?
No.
Were these same Republicans up in arms when Falwell claimed that America was "rotting from within", and that God did not answer "the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew"?
No.
So why the double-standard?
I am very upset with the hypocrisy that has been promulgated by the talking heads of the mainstream media with respect to Obama's relationship with his minister Rev. Wright....
As we all know, Obama himself is not responsible for the statements for which he is being held accountable.
Still, Republicans have fed into this notion that Obama "sat there in a pew for 20 years" listening to the racist and unpatriotic statements, and so he is guilty by association and/or osmosis.
They claim that Obama should have abandoned the Reverand and the Church, and found a new one somewhere.... They argue that by staying with the Church and continuing to seek counsel from the man responsible for the bile that Obama was condoning it....
Were these same Republicans up in arms when Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson BOTH claimed that God was punishing America through the 9/11 attacks for accepting gays?
No.
Just days after 9/11, Falwell said, "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.....And I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say: you helped this happen."
Were these same Republicans up in arms when Falwell claimed that America was "rotting from within", and that God did not answer "the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew"?
No.
Did these same Republicans go ballastic when the right-wing religious leader Francis Schaeffer denounced America, even calling for the overthrow of the government?
No.
Did these same Republicans EVER demand that SITTING PRESIDENTS, including George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan condemn and abandon their own spiritual leaders after they spewed homophobic, anti-semetic, racist, sexist and unpatriotic filth?
No.
No white Republican has ever been asked to denounce and reject ANY white spiritual leader, despite their bile, brimstone and baloney. Period.
Then why are they demanding that of Obama, a mere candidate?
The answer is simple: Wright is a black Democrat, and Falwell, Robertson and Shaeffer are white Republicans.
It's that simple.
The outrage of certain Americans to Rev. Wright's comments, but non-response of those same people to Schaeffer, Falwell and Robertson demonstrates Obama's point to a "T"....
Think LONG and HARD about this.
It's quite black and white (pun intended).
We are so divided that we cannot acknowledge that what the other is saying MAY contain part of the puzzle.
We are so divided that anything coming from "The Others" MUST be wrong.
Obama has masterfully brought this issue into the national dialog. What's even more unbelievable is that the words that he spoke were his own words, not those of a speechwriter. Obama penned the speech himself.
Simple amazing!
I just hope that the MSM actually pursues this issue of the double-standard that is being foisted on Obama. I would like to see coverage of that inherent hypocrisy in this false firestorm.
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Here is an excellent article on this subject by Schaeffer's son.
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