I noticed on the news last night that Reverend Wright was trying to make nice with the MSM and tell them that he felt that he had been done wrong with the constant looping of his “God Damn America” comments. He thoughtfully pointed out that anyone could be made to look bad with a single comment taken out of context and looped and played over and over like this one was.
The problem is, this comment was not taken out of context. Sure the MSM had to shorten the bite to fit their time constraints, but when the story hit, there was no shortage that I was aware of in hearing the comments in their complete context. I know that I first heard them on Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Program while I was eating lunch. I remember it well as I was stunned that this could have possibly been uttered from the pulpit not even a week after 9/11.
Ed Morrissey posted a piece entitled “The Wright Stuff: ABC provides the context” on HotAir.Com yesterday and it contains the printed transcript of the entire tirade Wright made from his pulpit. It is pretty much as I remember hearing it on the radio when the story first hit, so his complaint that this was taken out of context seems to just reinforce the idea that this is not the person best qualified to be the ‘spiritual advisor’ to POTUS.
But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.
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