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1. wendi muse wrote:

   um not that we can trust the ny daily news or anything
   but yikes
   my mom last night was like, “not to be a conspiracy theorist or anything, but something is fishy about this wright scandal”
   i’m going to have to agree

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 10:13 am ¶

2. kd wrote:

   I think it’s irresponsible to use this headline unless you have more information. Because now this headline is thrown out there. I can just imagine someone going out and saying “girl I heard the Hillibeast is responsible, I just read it on some site. ” Not to sound overly critical but isn’t the whole basis of your site to being very aware and critical and thoughtful of the judgements people make about innuendos and associations with little or nothing to supports them?

   The title and the excerpt you used “Jeremiah Wright’s press tour orchestrated by Clinton supporter” implies that Clinton is linked to this supporter or is behind her organizing of his events. I admit I favor Hillary over Barack, but I don’t get the point. I’m sure that Wright in his many events has people who were McCain supporters or NAder Supports or Clinton Supporters, etc. Why only highlights she one Clinton Supporter with that tagline? And in what capacity did she “organize” his press tour. It’s interested that the excerpt writers used quotations and did not elaborate.

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 10:28 am ¶

3. Feminist Punk! wrote:

   I definitely believe there is a conspiracy going on to destroy Obama’s campaign.

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 11:21 am ¶

4. Black Canseco wrote:

   KD,

   1) that Clinton supporter story has actually been verified, not only by the NY paper, but HuffingtonPost, not to mention by the subject of the piece, Ms. Reynolds.

   Her claim is that there is no conflict of interest because Rev Wright is news no matter what, and organizing the Press Corp event was just being responsible to the newsworthiness of the figure.

   2) Rev. Wright got screwed and shafted. He’s become the angry black man that Obama’s been rumored to be all along but has shown no signs of being.

   And Obama ditched him to appease a bunch of people who’ll never vote for him or support him anyway.

   here’s another take on it:

   http://knockthehustleblog.typepad.com/hustleknockin/2008/04/why-cant-barack.htm

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 11:23 am ¶

5. kd wrote:

   Black Canseco, Isn’t that the problem with Obama?

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 11:43 am ¶

6. Black Canseco wrote:

   KD,

   I’d agree. It is a problem with Obama, but it’s also a problem with everyone else, that this candidate isn’t allowed to be man enough to pick his own friends and agree to disagree with them.

   Bush can agree to disagree with his friends. Hilary can. Bill could. Bush Sr could. Ronald Reagan could.

   But Obama’s not allowed that option. His friends have to be appropriate according to the standards of mainstream america of what “black friends/black supporters” can look like, say or not say.

   It’s almost a perversion of the old Grandfather Clause that my grandmother faced. If your grandparents were slaves, you couldn’t vote.

   We’re telling Obama that we know you’re not one of “them”, but if you’re related to/associate with “one of them” then it’s the same thing.

   Barack should be man enough to tell people to go to hell on this, but he’s not.

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 1:00 pm ¶

7. dnA wrote:

   Dude, the NY Daily News is not the NY Post.

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 1:10 pm ¶

8. lowercase tasha wrote:

   Oh, is this how we’re playing it, now? Each and every time this man (Wright) accepts an invitation to speak in front of a camera, Hillary’s behind it? So, where’s the article naming Bill Moyers as a Clinton conspirator, since Moyer’s allowed Rev. Wright to speak on his show?

   @Black Conseco

   Be specific. Which occasion of Wright’s shafting are you referring? Are you referring to the leaking of the controversial “AmeriKKKa” sermon? Are you referring to Obama’s disowning him, or are you suggesting that Reynolds screwed Wright over? Because what I’m seeing is a lot of condescending equivocation. Carmen, this post serves only to patronize Rev. Wright and try to absolve him of his agency in this matter. This whole thing could have ended with Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race, but it didn’t because who decided to go on Bill Moyers? Rev. Wright. And who decided to speak at the National Press Club? Right again, Rev. Wright. No one strong-armed this man into doing anything, regardless of whether or not the media outlet was provided by a Clinton supporter. At the end of the day, he could’ve declined. This man is not stupid. He’s a former marine and a Howard grad, and given the amount of times Chicago politicians like Obama have used his (Wright’s) pulpit and influence in the black community, at their own convenience for political gain, Rev. Wright probably knows more about politics than what this post is crediting him. Now, I don’t know what Rev. Wright’s motives are, but to try to insinuate that Wright is somehow completely naïve and has no concept of the impact of his words on Obama’s campaign is insulting.

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 1:12 pm ¶

9. donna darko wrote:

   No, that’s what the MSM and Obamablogs tell you. Read Clinton blogs. It’s just not true. This is just more character assassination from the MSM and Obamablogs.

   http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012446.php

   Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 1:21 pm ¶

10. NancyP wrote:

    From Rev. Wright’s speech at the Press Club, it sounded to me like he was also there in DC to attend a clergy conference, probably at Howard Divinity School. Reynolds is clergy as well as reporter and faculty member at Howard. It might be worth knowing if she was an organizer of the putative conference. In other words, do more research before making a conclusion one way or another. …..toddling to howard.edu…

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 1:42 pm ¶

11. simcha wrote:

    Please. This was no CON-speer-acy. Rev. Wright is a grown, well-educated clergyman and longtime activist. He knew exactly what he was getting into with these press appearences, even though he did clunk his way through them at times. I, for one, think the man had a right to defend his legacy and his church, as well as the historical relevance of the black church tradition, given all of the ignorance that’s hit the airwaves recently. He now needs to exit stage-right and leave Sen. Obama to his own devices. Any more chattering with the the unapologetically ignorant MSM on his part will make him look foolish and ego-driven. On the flip side, I can’t help but be angered by the undercurrent in the media throughout this campaign season that black Americans should as a “community” be thrown not under a bus, but a Mack Truck. You see, it’s all about those disaffected white voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. (Whatever to that. How about addressing the core conditions that create disaffected voters, black, white or otherwise, in the first place?) And frankly, I’m fed up to my dredlocks with thinly veiled attempts to tell American blacks, especially men like Wright who lived through the worst of times, that their anger is invalid. At least he channeled his anger productively these last 30+-odd years serving in Chicago and in the U.S. military. That’s more than a lot of the self-important scriveners and blowhards wagging their fingers and “tsk-tsk-ing” at this “uppity negro” can say about themselves. And while I certainly don’t agree with everything Rev. Wright has said, I don’t think the Faux News commentators of the world have the right to stand in judgment, especially since they’re more enamored with their own voices and maligning people with melanin content and lining their pockets than they are of telling the truth. Screw them and their Missy Anne indignation.

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 1:47 pm ¶

12. Amanda wrote:

    @Black Canseco: I completely agree that the campaign trail in and of itself is not letting Barack do or say what he really should be able to say regarding the supposed ’scandal’: “Fuck off!”
    The media’s ever-changing proclamations and ‘questions’ about Obama’s relationship to Wright reflect the shaky, institutionalized racist standards that make him have to PROVE from one moment to the next that he is Black, but not TOO Black, but wait, he’s not Black ENOUGH, blah blah blah. It makes me sick, because it does amount, in the end, to emasculating him and not letting him go where he needs to go about Rev. Wright.
    I am a white woman, and although I have heard the adage “You are the friends you keep,” I cannot name one time in my life where I have been forced to sell out someone who has been important to me just to prove myself to an audience that is looking find any little fault in me and debase my entire career.

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 2:02 pm ¶

13. team wrote:

    Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I just updated the post and headline - see above.
    –CVK

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 2:11 pm ¶

14. NancyP wrote:

    As promised in comment 10, here’s the occasion of Rev. Wright’s speech, a Howard Divinity School (and others) clergy conference. Reynolds is NOT full-time faculty at Howard, in any school, but it is possible she is volunteer adjunct faculty. The Wright NatPressClub speech was the opener of the conference.:

    The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.
    2008 Legislative Days and Wyatt Lucy Justice Institute
    The Prophetic Witness in the African American Religious Experience:
    Crisis, Calling, Critique and Community
    April 28 and 29, 2008
    Washington, DC
    In Partnership with:
    Howard University School of Divinity
    The Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University
    The Central Atlantic Conference and Potomac Association, United Church of Christ.
    National Ministries, ABC-USA
    Progressive National Baptist Convention

    program at:
    http://www.sdpconference.info/assets/downloads/program-sketch-eblast.pdf

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 2:37 pm ¶

15. Black Canseco wrote:

    It’s not an issue of conspiracy with me; nor is it an issue of Wright being absolved for his role in this fiasco. It comes down to 3 points from my perspective:

    1) All of Obama’s friends and supporters have to pass some ever-changing, largely mainstream led litmus test. If they don’t he’s got to publicly insult them and vow to never associate with them again.

    (Did Hilary have to disavow, condemn and repudiate Ferraro or Steinem? No. She was allowed to disagree with them and keep it moving.)

    Have any other candidates in this race been held to such an assisine standard of vetting? No.

    2) on this HuffPo link, you’ll find a story with quotes from Barbara Reynolds–a Clinton backer and organizer of Rev Wright’s NPC event. Reynolds defends her involvement by saying that Wright was a story worth covering whether she supported clinton or not.

    I don’t believe it’s a conspiracy either; it’s just a simple fact that people ride for who they ride and it clouds their actions.

    3) Wright has been insulted, slandered, painted as a loon, etc. mainly by people who will never set foot in any black church or church period and who have little context for their gripes with him. Wright has every right to publicly return fire and attempt define himself on his own terms and clarify whatever problems people have with him.

    I disagree with the guy on certain points. On other points i think he’s just wrong. But he’s not crazy, unpatriotic, nor is the guy a bigot. And he’s about as arrogant as anyone who thinks they should be leading 300 million people anywhere, based on little more than a marraige, a few years in senate or the ability to make people feel good about complex issues such as race.

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 2:41 pm ¶

16. Black Canseco wrote:

    i forgot the link if anyone’s interested:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/29/clinton-booster-organized_n_99129.html

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 2:43 pm ¶

17. Black Canseco wrote:

    i think i posted before Simcha and Amanda’s comments… I agree with both of you guys. well said.

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 2:46 pm ¶

18. Eric Daniels wrote:

    I saw the Press Conference Monday and I didn’t see anything Rev. Wright said that wasn’t wrong. I am tired of the Black Press and the Black Elite acting being angry at Wright for telling the truth and responding to Dumb-Ass questions by the MSM. Obama had very little chance of gaining the White Midwest/East Coast
    rural areas (along with other Americans) because of racial sterotypes of Afro- Americans ,Obama had his work cut out for him in that area.

    Even if Clinton gets the nomination, she still can’t win the general election without a substainal black vote, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans spilt their votes amongst the
    two parties. What Barbara Reynolds did for the
    is a Pyhrric victory because Mc Cain will beat her worse than Obama come Nov. Rev. Wright was right about the Black Church being under assault and independent black thought, if an African- American (mostly male) has an alternative opinion that doesn’t kowtow to whites, MSM and the Black Elite (media, entertainment or Politcal) comfort then he is the “angry black man”

    African- American democrats need to teach Black Elites, the Clintons and the Democratic Party a lesson and vote for either Mc Kinney, Nader or “None of the Above” in November. Sometimes you have stand up to your enemies and teach them a lesson.

    Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 10:02 pm ¶

19. thejoyprincess wrote:

    I know “the woman who ‘orchestrated’ Jeremiah Wright’s press conference at the National Press Club” through a family member and I am glad to see many here are not falling for the complete hype on this because there is some MAJOR spin going on. So much so you might as well just stop following this particular storyline because the truth and the lies are so intertwined, there’s no way out…

    Posted 02 May 2008 at 3:24 am ¶

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