Video: Rev Wright defends comments in first interview

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There’s four more videos of the Moyers Wright interview, see them here

Rev Wright sat down with Bill Moyers of PBS for his first interview since the world was exposed to his anti-American, black-nationalist, racist, conspiracy-ridden comments from the pulpit.

Of course, he did nothing but defend his comments:

“The persons who have heard the entire sermon understand the communication perfectly,” he tells Moyers, according to excerpts released by Moyers’ show.

“When something is taken like a sound bite for a political purpose and put constantly over and over again, looped in the face of the public,” Wright says, “that’s not a failure to communicate. Those who are doing that are communicating exactly what they want to do, which is to paint me as some sort of fanatic or as the learned journalist from the New York Times called me, a ‘wackadoodle.’

“It’s to paint me as something: ‘Something’s wrong with me. There’s nothing wrong with this country…for its policies. We’re perfect. Our hands are free. Our hands have no blood on them,’” Wright says. “That’s not a failure to communicate. The message that is being communicated by the sound bites is exactly what those pushing those sound bites want to communicate.”

Yea, so we just took him completely out of context. We are the real racists who “just don’t get it”. And Wright is the victim in all this. Moyers completely caters to Wright in the interview almost in full support of the Pastor’s comments:

Moyers asks Wright what he thought when he began to see the sound bites circulating.

“I felt it was unfair,” he says, “I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt for those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious reasons….The blowup and the blowing up of sermons preached 15, seven, six years ago and now becoming a media event, not the full sermon, but the snippets from the sermon and sound bite having made me the target of hatred, yes, that is something very new and something very, very unsettling.”

He then suggests that Obama’s disavowal of him was Obama “playing a politician”.

Wright is also asked how it went down after Obama criticized Wright?

“It went down very simply,” Wright responds. “He’s a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they’re two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician.”

Looks like more questions for Obama are on the horizon that he won’t want to answer.

If Wright were smart, he would go into hiding and never talk to anyone or be seen again.

A commenter links this video which gives a big “OUCH” to the Obama campaign:

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  1. [...] http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/24/rev-wright-defends-comments-in-first-interview/Related Articles at Infidels Are Cool:. A quick note on comments; New Video: Obama and Rev Wright signing books together; Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright: Former Muslim; Video: Wafa Sultan defends the West on Al Jazeera. [...]

  2. Rev.Wright ,has hurt Obama.What is wrong with this man.That the one thing about black folks they hate for us to reach our goals.This man need to hide under a rock.Obama need to throw him under and over the bus.It make it very hard to deal with your family and friends when you are trying to get ahead.

  3. Rev. Wright is a racist, period. Obama sat and listened to his poison for a thousand Sundays… do the math.

  4. That Reverend Wrong granted the interview to Moyers tells you all you need to know about both of them.

  5. Is there a way to get this on youtube. Maybe the embed code? This needs to be seen my lots of people.

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