David Axelrod Tries to Re-Wright History
President Barack Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, wants America to take the two-decade relationship between Obama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s south side off the electoral issues table in the 2012 presidential election campaign.
Axelrod said as much in a speech delivered on January 10 as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California. There is apparently no evidence that he expressed a similar desire relative to Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, Newt Gingrich’s and Rick Santorum’s Catholicism, or Rick Perry’s evangelical Christianity. What a surprise.
You might think that Axelrod’s argument would be that Obama attempted to personally distance himself from Wright’s black liberation theology-based radicalism and fundamental hostility to his country in late March of 2008, and that he quit TUCC two months later.
Nope. Axelrod made it clear that he is pushing for a full historical “re-Wright” of a critical aspect of Barack Obama’s life when he told his California audience that the negativity surrounding Wright, who when last tracked was targeting a luxurious retirement in the 98% non-African-American Chicago suburb of Tinley Park, is the result of a ginormous media-driven misunderstanding. Axelrod’s axiom is that initial reports about Wright selectively used “ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher.”
Axelrod’s implication, of course, is that 90 seconds of “vitriol,” a word which as defined carries an implicit assumption of underlying truth (better words and terms describing the substance of Wright’s rants would include slander, defamation, overt racism, hatred, and lies), is all that could be found. His 90-second limitation quickly leads to what has been and what the left wants to remain as the mother of all 2008 presidential campaign fictions, namely that Obama did not know that Wright was a racist America-hater.
One can almost prove the contention wrong based on other video evidence alone. The March 13, 2008 report broadcast by Brian Ross at ABC (now at YouTube; the incomplete text summary at ABC’s web site, which once had the video, no longer does) stated that it had “reviewed more than a dozen sermons offered for sale by the Church,” and clearly could have provided far more material in its report if more time had been available. In an interview with Fox News’ Major Garrett the very next day, Obama characterized himself as a “regular in spurts” TUCC churchgoer. Thanks to Wright’s abundant variety of Africa-inspired vestments, we know that his most controversial comments occurred in at least a half-dozen separate sermons. The likelihood that frequent attendee Obama didn’t hear any of them, or about any of them, is quite remote.
Then there’s the video shown here, where at the 3:10 mark, Wright tells his congregation:
… one of our members just might … turn the tables on white supremacy and have a black woman sleeping legally at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Axelrod is wrapped around his own wheels of deception. These lying chickens will come to roost. We are now witnessing the many that deliberately choose to believe a lie. Their future is bleak.
What a fine revelation for the weekend honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. I wrote about prior attempts to clean up Wright’s reputation here: http://clarespark.com/2009/10/31/the-offing-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-ralph-bunche/. If you read James Cone, the chief spokesman for black liberation theology, you will be afraid, very afraid, for the damage done to young blacks is predictable and dreadful.
Or try anything on this list: http://clarespark.com/2010/07/15/index-to-black-power-blogs/. This upper-class white-enabled turn of events has been horrible for black people themselves, not to speak of the divisiveness and irrationality it has increased in an already irrational political culture.
What might be going on here is the guess that Romney may be the opposition to the dear leader and that the regime really needs to demonize the Mormon religion attached to Mitt without any repercussions from the the not so “wright” rev.
Axeldork is trying to turf his way to a Socialist victory by running the bus over one of his brethren! Does not get much better.
Well, Axel-rod and his wheels. The rod in his axel is broken, and his wheels no longer turn. He’s a whimpey misfit what outta go back to pasture.
Jeffrey – The Left believes that only it is correct, hence it is entitled not only to its own opinions but its own facts. (Along those lines Debbie Wasserman-Shultz is now claiming that the Tea Party is to blame for Gabrielle Gifford’s shooting; another example of someone who thinks she is entitled to her own reality.) I just hope that whoever is the Republican nominee is taking notes and uses Axelrod’s comments (and Wasserman-Shultz’s comments) to show just how out of touch with reality this Administration is along with the Democrat Party.
Spot on.
Just try debating the more radical lefties on sites like digg or fark – not only are conservatives wrong, but they’re evil backwards misogynists who want to turn America into a Theocracy.
I’m really getting tired of their ‘it’s ok if my guy does it’ or ‘you’re just lying’ defense, but we need to keep calling them out on it.
TheDougem – Can’t agree more.
You can’t debate Leftists for the same reason you can’t debate Mohammedans — they want your society destroyed and (ultimately) you dead. For Leftists, Marxism/Communism is only a rationalization for what they do; not the reason. Most non-lunatic Leftists know by now that Leftism doesn’t ‘work’, but the not-working nightmare is their goal, not a mistake.
Sadly “conservatives” are just as capable of their own likewise deceptive “reality” as is rabid dog-in-heat, fathead Sgt. Debbie Wasserman (=German for waterman) Schulz, mindless fascist prison camp guard and water carrier for mindless fascist Dems, because the Christian foundation on which the Founders built this Constitutional Republic has been rejected and abandoned for the certain fatal myth of a “secular” state unknown and inconceivable to the Founders who both built and maintained state churches and also believed in a thereby resultant national Christian church consensus versus today’s lawless fascist degenerate tratior Warren’s/SCOTUS’s bogus “separationofchurchandstate” bs today’s historically and especially Biblically illiterate deluded postmodern fools mindlessly embrace, pretending that the only sin is to say that there is sin and that the only thing that’s true is that nothing’s true, except what’s true for me. As John Piper says in his book for pastors, “Brothers We Are Not Professionals,” it was once held that what you believe is true isn’t superior to what I believe is true, but now I don’t even allow you to say anything is true, but of course I can do so.
It seems that these days “selective editing” is the Left’s go-to defense, since they continue to be caught out in all their inherent ugliness in this age of video and new media.
(That and trying to prosecute the videographers, of course).
Jeremiah was a bullfrog – he ain’t no friend of mine.
I always understood every word he said …
and I would NEVER drink with him!
In fact, I wouldn’t cross the street to p__ on him if he was on fire.
Knock knock
Who’s there?
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright who?
Oh come on Barrack, you know who I am!
It’s not just his relationship with Wright that has been buried by the media, there are also serious questions about his past.
Birth certificate…the one produced on the internet has been taken apart as a fake by clever seventeen year olds.
College grades, thesis, SAT score, LSAT score, and just how did he pay tuition?
Social security number aparently issued in Connicuticut in 1977…a state Barry had never been to.
Passport records…on what passport did he travel to Packistan in 1981?
There are also rumors that when he went to college in California he lived in the foreign student dorm.
It’s not just Barry’s relationship with his pastor…there are a lot of things about him we don’t know…things that are normally vetted by the press for all presidential.
Guess this guy is different.
I want to see his transcripts from Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard posted on line. Whether he’s the MSM’s smartest person in history to inhabit the White House or the utter Chicago Way kleptomaniac he appears to be can be decided and laid to rest by posting the transcripts. Come on BHO, release your transcripts. Transparency Now!
More than his grades, I am interested in what courses he took and who taught them, since in his own Ayers-ghosted auto-hagiographies he admits he sought out the radicals and Marxist professors to hang with in college. Did he take courses like “Deconstructing the Racist Homophobic Dead White European Males Who Designed the Deeply Flawed Constitution to Protect the Wealthy and Oppress the Poor” taught by the likes of Noam Chomsky, with guest lecturers Gus Hall and Angela Davis?
So, Where are all the people who would have been classmates if he’d been there?
We have a winner. One would think that given the uber-alles praise that The Won has received that former classmates, neighbors, girlfriends (boyfriends?) would be coming forward to seek acclaim and praise his very existence. There are strangely very, very few and none of any real note.
How does a man become your mentor, your closest advisor, your dear friend, ….you sit in the pews “11:00, every Sunday”, …and you don’t know of his virulent hateful attitudes?
You launch your campaign in the living room of “guilty as hell, free as a bird” small c communists, but you don’t know anything about their history.
You sign up for the Socialist Scholars conventions, but you don’t know they are Socialists?
You have Rashid Khalidi and his wife over for dinner frequently, but you didn’t mean any harm to Israel and don’t know anyone who might?
Mr. Magoo Obama walks through life in a sort of blissful haze, unaware of the extreme radicalism that such seems to barely miss landing squarely on his head.
Innocent and blissfully unaware of Frank Marshall Davis. Of Sam Graham Felsen. Of Danny Davis and Alice Palmer. Of the Midwest Academy and the New Party.
He didn’t see, he didn’t hear, he didn’t know.
Yeah, let’s go with that. After all…it’s not like the propaganda machine is going to vet him any more this time around, right? They will bootlick him clean and slurp up any dirt that happens to sneak by their coverup.
Jeremiah Wright is on the tip of their tongues.
@7. cfbleachers
“He didn’t see, he didn’t hear, he didn’t know.”
Change the last to: “he didn’t speak.”, and you have the mythical ‘Three Wise Monkeys’ (actually ‘bring good luck’ guardians of the horses’ stables, according to Japan).
And no, he doesn’t look like a monkey.
But anyone care to cartoon that?
Axelrod is extreme and belligerent enough to look at Wright differently from Normal People, a sort of “what’s the big deal” thing. Not sure what the fat rat is worried about, the issue barely saw light of day when his midget protege ran in ’08. Maybe he anticpates trouble, some deserved mud coming his way.
Reminds me, we’re supposed to be the racists and Baby O spends twenty years in a screaming racist church.
It amazes me how this can be lied about and other than PJMedia and Tom Blumer no one really cares. I guess no one really cared what the so called “reverend” wright said this the first time. Axelrod can change it because most starry eyed media and democrats won’t care a second, third, fourth, whatever time.
People care, they just can’t see it. In a country steeped in political correctness, black folks get a virtually free pass when it comes to hate speech and that’s the long and the short of it.
You’re talking about people so deluded that the NAACP, formally organized around race, can call out the Tea Party, not formally organized around race, as racist. People don’t come much dumber or blinder than that.
Those who voted for and were/are sold on Obama will have a very hard time “fessing up,” and voting for a Republican this time around.
Odious, Rat-faced boy Axelrod is going to play them like a cheap Chinese violin.
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vicious right-wingers, vicious right-wingers, that’s all our bama groupies know
i know a dean at a nice little college, smart, good guy, and as clueless as can be
it’s like the invasion of the body snatchers, to look at him and listen to him talk
he’s just one of many old friends for decades who are zombie automatons now
I met the young Obama while he was a sophomore at Occidental College. I can confirm that young Obama was a Marxist socialist in 1980/1981. See, http://anonymouspoliticalscientist.blogspot.com/2010/02/face-to-face-with-young-marxist-obama.html
Red diaper doper baby & a disgrace to the Jewish people.
Wonder how he’ll cover up Reverend Wright’s membership in the Democratic Socialists of America…or Wright’s overt visits to Cuba in support of the Marxist agenda…and on and on.
It’s all there: Radical-in-Chief by Stanley Kurtz
Reverend Wright’s radical Marxist assocations run deep. Unless he can kill a few hundred thousand people, he probably won’t be able to bury this one.
eventually, to a good number of his 95 percent of black voters, and probably has already, that obama is not one of them at all, but has nothing but contempt instead for them in his heart. he is a racist toward blacks and whites alike, despising each half of himself with equal ardor, and his megalomania is born of that self-hatred transmogrified, by an effort of will, into idolatry of himself as a transcendent breed — a legend in his own mind.
“… his megalomania is born of that self-hatred transmogrified, by an effort of will, into idolatry of himself…”
Wow, how right on you are. I’m a returning college student, studying cognitive neuroscience (via psychology), and would seriously say he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. For real, for true. Symptoms:
•React to criticism with rage, shame, or humiliation
•Take advantage of other people to achieve his or her own goals
•Have excessive feelings of self-importance
•Exaggerate achievements and talents
•Be preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty, intelligence, or ideal love
•Have unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment
•Need constant attention and admiration
•Disregard the feelings of others, and have little ability to feel empathy
•Have obsessive self-interest
•Pursue mainly selfish goals
(from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Sound like anybody we know?
I can’t tell if you are talking about Obama,his wife,Valerie Jarrett or Axelrod …
After being contacted by a frantic aide while he was getting a haircut, President Obama gave the white staffer a lesson in black culture. “The relationship between a black man and his barber is sacred,” Obama said. “For failing to understand this truth, your punishment is to watch the movie Barbershop. And for further punishment, you will then watch the sequel, Barbershop 2.”
Imagine a modern day White CiC said something of this nonsensical and racially dividing context to a Black staffer.
It’d be the talk of the town for weeks..
The video held by the LAT – if such a brazen act were to be acted upon for a Conservative or Republican.. there’d be pitchforks demanding to see said tape.
The passes this fraud of a ‘leader’ gets speaks volumes of us, our elected officials and sadly our nation as a whole.
Of course Axelrod wants this forgotten. Just like all the other inconsistancies of Obama should be forgotten. Maybe Obama was just in a cocaine induced haze and doesn’t remember it all.
“Rat faced” – I never thought about the resemblance with Axelrod – but have instead spent time mulling over this entire happening!
A racist communist president who lies – is surrounded by like minded administrators – czars – and cohorts all propelled into positions of power by a voting public that by their very actions display a weakness of mind that says ‘leftwing stupid’!
I am a people watcher – and the number of overweight – stupid people in America are starting to really worry me.
Let us all work – to out vote – the organized labor movement – the stupid overweight people movement and the confused black people movement (they think that because the president is partly black they have to vote for him) – if we can’t vote this crowd out – I am afraid the next word would be ‘revolution’!
What is “the way” that Axelrod seeks by putting this conversation out in the world? That is the question. He, after all, is a political strategist and his value to Obama is that he knows what conversations to place in the national conversation to have Obama win.
Given Obama’s anti-American, even anti-human results of the last 3 years, Axelrod would rather have us ranting over the pros and cons of Reverend Wright than the dismal failure of Barack Obama. Truth as correspondence to reality is not the measure of what is going on once you are in a political dogfight.
Axelrod knows that people are always concerned about how people’s statements correspond to reality. Knowing that, he manipulates that drive to shift our attention away from what he is working to slip under the radar. Axelrod is a smart snake.
If you want to really get to Axelrod, you have to take on the whole academic world that is governed right now by postmodernist philosophy. In that world, there is no truth to mean correspondence to reality. There is only truth to mean what you can get people to believe. Thus the narrative and its survival becomes all important. And Axelrod works the narrative – first and foremost.
Barack Obama’s message, and that of his handlers and promoters, is not designed to appeal to informed or principled voters. The appeal is to those who are emotionally invested in the weaknesses of Liberalism, and to those who avoid critical views of issues outside their close environment. Obama and his people apparently believe that there is a sufficient number of these lightly-tuned voters to reward him with 4 more years, based on whatever mendacious message is presented to them. They may be correct in their assumptions.
I agree with this view. The intelligent people grounded in values necessary for life are not going to be thrown off by this. We’ve already made up our mind about this.
Axelrod is signalling the media what their approach should be. He’s saying this is the narrative regarding Obama’s hate-filled, value-destroying past “so attack people related to the point of view that none of this past really happened and thus makes no difference. We say anyone who brings it up is a crackpot and a hater, so go to it boys.”
The value-creators are interested in having the country work for all people. The powerlusting value-destroyers are interested in lying their way to power. So they do.
The re-election campaign of Barack Obama may well be counting on the stupidity of American voters.
After all, he told us we could solve the energy crisis with proper tire inflation & promised the seas would cease to rise with him as President, and we elected him anyway.
They may have a point.
Why no mention of Pfleger, the most vile? How could anyone forget him?
Since this administration is going to throw everything including the kitchen sink at the Republican candidate, it better be someone who has the cajones to throw it Wright back! and not cower as McPain did.
Republicans must fight fire with wire, and at this point, I don’t see anyone, but I pray every day.
Hollywood and Other Liberal Hypocrites
Scratch a liberal often enough and you’ll always uncover a bigot–and a hypocrite.
No less a figure than George Lucas of Star Wars fame has discovered that fact of life and called out Hollywood liberals–if that’s not redundant–for its racism.
Accused of racism himself after the release of Star Wars due to the lack of inclusion of blacks, Lucas should have been prepared for the racial politics that exists in the Movie Capital of the World.
The famous film producer didn’t, couldn’t, express his feelings in those terms since he still has to work in Tinsel Town but he left no doubt what he meant during an appearance on ultra-liberal Jon Stewart’s ”Daily Show.”
The subject of Lucas’ charge concerned his film about the segregated Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, Red Tails, and Hollywood’s monumental disinterest in distributing the movie or having anything to do with it because, as he told Stewart, “It’s an all black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all. It’s one of the first all black action pictures ever made.”
He also described Red Tails as “very patriotic, very jingoistic, very old-fashioned, corny,” which may have been another factor in Hollywood’s refusal to assist Lucas even though he financed the filming on his own.
Bigotry is acceptable in Tinsel Town but they cringe at patriotism there saying, “No. We don’t know how to market a movie like this. . . And they don’t believe there’s any foreign market for it. That’s 60 percent of their profit.”
See a brief clip from the film and Stewart’s sit-down with George Lucas here http://bit.ly/zAJ3HG.
In other words, the big wigs wouldn’t distribute Red Tails because it was all about blacks, was patriotic AND, as is typical with “black movies,”didn’t have enough profit potential to stuff their wallets.
Maybe if Lucas’ next effort involves African-Americans bad-mouthing their country, he’d get more support from Hollywood hypocrites.
Hypocrisy–and deception–are rampant in Liberal Land and the current effort to resurrect and refurbish President Barack Hussein Obama’s mentor and pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, is probably the most blatant in Washington.
In the event no one has noticed, 2012 is an election year and the president is in the process of “pulling a Clinton,” that is, ostensibly moving to the middle of the socio-political spectrum, transforming into a “moderate,” in hopes of concealing the extremist changes and dashed hopes of the past three years.
With the economy still a mess, there’s little hope in the White House of restoring any real economic hope before November 6th so rehabilitating Obama’s radical background is one way he can forestall anticipated Republican campaign attacks on his extremist past and his far-out leftist associations.
Obama’s old buddies, the un-reconstructed revolutionary Bill Ayers is as out there as he ever was preaching revolt to the Occupy Wall Street anarchists and Rev. Michael Pfleger has never given up his message of self-hating race hatred.
However, Rev. Wright has been relatively less-incendiary–relatively–since candidate Obama disowned him under pressure in the heat of the last campaign.
Therefore, close presidential adviser and confidante, David Axelrod, figured this was a good a time as any to re-hab the good reverend so that the Republican nominee can’t beat his boss over the head with Wright. Since the mainstream media ably assisted last time around in hiding the intimate Obama-Wright connection, the MSM should be onboard again.
Notwithstanding Wright’s history of denouncing white people as congenital liars, his mindless, vicious allegations that America brought on September 11th, 2001, that we caused the AIDS virus, that America is under the control of the KKK and supports terrorism, plus a slew of other craziness, Axelrod is defending the certifiable racist nut.
Axelrod contends that all the criticism boils down to “ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher.”
Either David is smoking what his hero smoked for years, and it’s not cigarettes, or he has evolved into a bigger nutcase than Rev. Wright. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12135.)
David Axelrod is in competition for the title of singularly largest piece of you know what on the planet.
Lies flow out of him with alacrity, with ease.
He comments on a republican candidate “…the higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see his butt,” and gets a pass in our classy media.
Point man in Chicago, there is nothing Axelrod won’t lie about and misrepresent in service to Obama’s re-election.
Will Axelrod tell us that we must not mention Obama’s friendship with Bill Ayers also? Are we not permitted to remember that Bill Ayers dedicated his book Rules for Radicals to the first community organizer, Lucifer, (father of all lies?) Obama has more baggage than the Queen, taking a month long trip! And the Republicans must use it all against him.
Wright is worse than is being claimed: he has portrayed Romans as people with “garlic noses” who lynched Jesus and also claimed the U.S. gov’t invented AIDS and imported drugs to kill black people. Wright is even crazier than Farrakhan if that’s possible.
If a white guy has attended such a church he would not only have never been President but not even on a city council anywhere in America. This is the massive double standard that the Democratic Party subsidizes.
The question of Black Liberation Theology of Rev. Wright is important. It marks Rev. Wright’s “church” as a cult. Does anyone remember the Rev. Jim Jones of the People’s Temple in California? His was also a Liberation Theology. He took his entire congregation to Guyana in South America and told them all to commit “revolutionary suicide”, which they did. Jones was a socialist and very popular with the Democrats. Jones you see was a cult leader and not a religious priest. The difference between a cult and a religion is that the religion worships a supersensory God – all powerful and merciful. The cult worships the cult leader. That is what gave the Rev. Jim Jones the power of life and death over his cult members.
Mr. Blumer, Research is available on what Rev. Wright taught in his Sunday school including quotes from his Sunday school books. Same anti-American “stuff” the Obama pretended not to hear. Hope you right about it. Now that we are three years in obama’s term, Americans will finally be able to put two and two together. Americans will recognize that Obama’s POLICIES flow directly from the Marxist black liberation theology he listened to for 20 years in Wrights church.