{"id":1880,"date":"2009-06-10T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2009-06-10T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:31:35","slug":"rev-jeremiah-wright-speaks-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/06\/10\/rev-jeremiah-wright-speaks-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Jeremiah Wright Speaks Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hampton Virginia Daily Press<\/a><\/strong> is reporting that:<\/p>\n

Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given Rev. Wright’s level of education and oratorical skills, I find it hard to believe that he would be so ungrammatical and yet serious at the same time.<\/p>\n

You cannot find a full report of all of his remarks in context anywhere on the web.\u00a0 The article does not say to whom he was talking nor when he said it.<\/p>\n

At almost the same time the Des Moines Register has an article Obama’s former pastor accents inclusiveness<\/strong><\/a> about a recent appearance of Rev. Wright. The following is an excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n

His message was a surprising one for many in the crowd.<\/p>\n

Terry Wehrman of Cedar Rapids said he had heard Wright only through short sound clips. He said he was struck by Wright’s intelligence and message of inclusiveness.<\/p>\n

“I came away extremely impressed,” Wehrman said.<\/p>\n

Jill Flyr of Des Moines said she liked Wright’s recognition of Saturday’s honorees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the press were reporting accurately on Rev. Wright, why are people who hear him in person so surprised at what he has to say?<\/p>\n

Search my blog here for other posts that I have made about Rev. Wright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hampton Virginia Daily Press is reporting that: Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}