According to David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist, reports of the radical statements made by Jeremiah Wright, the controversial former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, were the result of "selective editing," reports Joel B. Pollack of Big Government.
While speaking Tuesday at the Fred Kavli Theater in Thousand Oaks, CA, Axelrod characterized the reports as "ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher.”
In 2008, ABC News reported that it had reviewed "dozens" of the pastor's sermons and found "repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans."
Brian Ross wrote:
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
The claim that Wright’s sermons were selectively edited by Obama’s political opponents contradicts what is known about Wright’s preaching and the radical, racialist creed of the Trinity United Church of Christ, to which Obama belonged for two decades and to which he contributed a large amount of money.
Axelrod’s claim is also contradicted by Obama himself, who has cited Wright’s enthusiasm for radical politics as the main reason he was attracted to the church.
In 2008, Obama actually received a pass when it came to his connection to Jeremiah Wright and other unsavory figures — and he’s likely to receive a pass again in 2012. Yet, his worldview still incorporates the lessons he absorbed as he sat in a pew in Wright’s church.
Meanwhile, the MSM never misses an opportunity to report on the religions of the GOP candidates. The double-standard is blatant — and best be turned against the media if the GOP nominee wants to beat Barack Obama. That doesn’t necessarily mean the GOP nominee needs to sound bitter and angry at the media, as Newt Gingrich often does, but it does mean he needs to master light-hearted deflection and serious record-correcting.
Worse yet, some in the so-called mainstream media have gone so far as to present Obama as a modern-day messiah, even to the point of depicting him as "god of all things."
Pollack continued:
Axelrod’s defense of Jeremiah Wright, however, is a sign that the Obama camp is still resisting and obscuring the degree to which Obama’s own inspirations and ideas remain outside the political mainstream.
The Democrat-media complex has done all it can to cover Obama's ties to the controversial pastor while excoriating GOP candidates on their religious views. No doubt, it will continue to cover for Obama in the 2012 election.
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