Rev. Jeremiah Wright gained much applause and a few standing ovations this morning speaking at the National Press Club to an appreciably Black audience.
He served out a few zingers for the supportive crowd which is in Washington for a two day black church symposium.
"I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?" Said Reverend Very Right
"My goddaughter’s unit just arrived in Iraq this week while those who call me unpatriotic have used their positions of privilege to avoid military service while sending over 4,000 American boys and girls to die over a lie." Said Reverend Very Right
A few video clips of the speech…
But his central theme was that it is not he who is being vilified by the media, but the African American Church. Said Reverend Very Right
"The most recent attack on the black church — it is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright — it’s an attack on the black church, just might mean that the reality of the African-American church will no longer be invisible."
NYTs – Wright says criticism is attack on black church
Geraldine Ferraro and Bill Clinton have spoken the truth to race concerning the politics of the Democratic Primaries and are also Very Right.
Rev Wright has rightly dissed the media, which as Hillary Clinton has learned, no good can come from. All that will come from his recent televised appearances on Bill Moyers, the NAACP and the National Press Club will be on the one hand a further saturation of his divisive video clips by the media, and on the other, complaints that putting himself out front will further saturate the air with his divisive video clips from the media.
Speaking of being Right, Adlai Stevenson was right, Hubert Humphrey was right, George McGovern was right, Jimmy Carter was right, Walter Mondale was right, Michael Dukkasis was right, Al Gore was right and so was John Kerry. Looking back further Jesus Christ was right, Gandhi was right, JFK, RFK and MLK were right.
Being right mostly gets you a little sticky gold star and a kick in the head…