Mainstream media “discovers” Jeremiah Wright. But there’s more for them to learn.
(Editors note: this is expanded and modified version of a blog entry by C. Edmund Wright on AmericanThinker.com. By agreement American Thinker had early publishing exlcusivity to that version, which was quoted as part of template for Rush Limbaugh’s opening monologue of March 14.) We can thank his immense respect for American Thinker for this.
This week has certainly been a buzzsaw of incredible discovery. Why we haven’t seen the mainstream media have such revelations since Time Magazine discovered in the 1990s that “men and women may be different” (subject to certain surgical procedures now covered by the city of San Francisco’s health plan, that is).
In fact, the media has been rocked by the startling news that Eliot Spitzer is actually a spoiled rich hypocrit. Who knew? And while still staggered by that foundation rattling understanding, journalist have now escavated the deep hidden secret that Barack Obama’s pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago, is a white hating anti-American, scripture perverting racist. You don’t say? What next? Maybe you'll discover Spitzer's party affiliation.
But I digress. Obama’s pastor Dr. Wright, afterall, has only been saying things like “God Damn America” (can I take a shower now for having to write that) and that 9-11 was simply “America’s chickens coming home to roost” for a couple of decades now. He says it weekly to a congregation that includes the Obama family and has grown to the thousands. Can’t expect the media to discover a tiny church like that, now can we.
Not only that, but his sermons only go out via webcast, podcast, telecast, broadcast, cable cast… and for the technologically challenged, audio cassettes and books. I mean, just how deep should we expect our intrepid media mavens to dig? It’s hard to find that haystack in the needle, ain’t it?
But under the Biblical principal of being grateful for what you have, (listed somewhere near the prinicpal about damning America and supporting transgender communities, which Obama found in the Sermon on the Mount) I am thankful that millions more are aware of this now than were just 48 hours ago. You know, back in the good ole days before “client number 9” was a housefold word.
(I must wonder, however, how this got past Clinton, Inc, for so long. Maybe it’s just me, but since we’ve been told that white Iowans and so on loved the non-threatening post racial nature of Obama….I can’t help but think that a little Jerry Wright sprinkled in early and often might have nipped this hoax in the bud. Just a thought.)
It is critical now, however, that more understanding of this dymanic be circulated. People need to understand the very unique nature of a large, doctrinally independent church pastor and his congregation. It is very different from the relationship that exists im more traditional denominational churches.
Jeremiah Wright is not simply a pastor who was assigned to Trinity United Church of Christ by a synod or diocese….the latest in a long line of such assignments. Jeremiah Wright IS the TUCC. Or, more accurately, the TUCC is simply one of “Jeremiah Wright’s ministries.” This is how it works with these pastor driven churches. The UCC is a very loose organization, and TUCC mentions nothing about the bigger UCC anywhere on its web site.
These churches exist for the sole purpose of spreading the pastor’s specific ministry. If there is a market for such a ministry, and in Chicago there has been one, then the church will grow. Most of these churches, in fact, are founded by (and for) the pastor.
TUCC was not founded by Wright. But almost. He has pastored it from a membership of 87 to one now of over 8000. It is his doctrine, direction, interpretation and emphasis that is TUCC. Wright is TUCC and TUCC is Wright. Period. Even in so-called retirement, Jeremiah Wright is the dominant theme of TUCC via it’s website and any other measure you want to use.
And with this dymanic, being an active member and significant benefactor of such a church for 20 years is by natural extension an endorsement of the pastor’s message. With one of these churches, if you do not buy into the pastor’s specific direction, you go to another church. This ain’t your granppa’s little Methodist Church that you stay in because it’s a generational thing while numerous pastors flow through the pulpit.
Barack Obama sought out the message of Jeremiah Wright…joined and remained in and supported TUCC because of that message…and in fact named his book after a key tenet of that message. He even used that message so that black voters in Chicago would not focus on the half of Obama that is white and educated at a Hawaiian Prep School. To borrow a quote from the good pastor, Obama “was riding dirty” on the anti White anti privledge message.
In other words, he embraced Wright and TUCC’s agenda to get his black street cred and to escape his “whiter half.” Now, he’s trying to use his whiter half and divert attention away from his black street cred. Oh, by the way, he is attempting this little ruse so he can one day soon occupy the Oval Office.
The media will of course try and tie any conservative candidate to any outlandish statement made at any time by any pastor who endorses such a candidate. This week, MSNCB was trying to change the subject by linking John McCain to one of John Hagee’s statements about Catholics years ago. As far as I know, McCain and Hagee have never even met and the Catholic thing is not the founding principal of Hagee’s ministry.
But if that’s the standard, then it portends disaster for the Obama campaign. Or it should, if this message can get out. Because Barack Hussein Obama and Jeremiah Wright HAVE met. Often. For decades. And hating America and hating whites always has and always will be THE DRIVING PRINCIPAL of Jeremiah Wright and his followers.
God help us if the message does not get out…and one of those followers ends up in the Oval Office.