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RUSH: The Reverend Jeremiah Wright. On September 17th of this year he was in New York City, the 60th anniversary celebration of Monthly Review magazine, a big -- I mean this thing is far, far, far left magazine, Monthly Review. Now, remember, this was Reverend Obama... Ah, ah! President Obama's reverend for 20 years. And in those 20 years, President Obama never heard a word Reverend Wright said. Not a word. Jeremiah Wright was the featured speaker at the 60th anniversary celebration of this liberal magazine. Here's a portion of his remarks.
WRIGHT: From the victims of neocolonialism, to the victims of the chameleon nature of racism and from the Cold War in the days of its infancy to the needless wars of Vietnam in its second decade through wars of greed in Afghanistan and Iraq in its sixth decade; this magazine unflinchingly has tackled the tough issues, from McCarthyism to militarism, from the Chinese revolution to the Ghanan revolution, to the Cuban revolution, from the lies told by United States presidents to the lies told the by the United States media.
RUSH: I think Obama heard every word Reverend Wright said in those sermons. I think Reverend Wright is President Obama. Did you hear that, Mr. Matthews? Ahem. I'll say take a little louder: Reverend Wright IS President Obama! And now he thanks these people for their socialist and Marxist perspective.
WRIGHT: Thank you for -- for fulfilling the invaluable purpose that you had in mind to offer a forum for commentary and analysis from a specifically socialist perspective. You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word "socialism" or "Marxism." You have championed the interests of those who are the victims of Martin Luther King's famous menage a trois: Militarism, capitalism and racism.
RUSH: Reverend Wright IS President Obama. President Obama IS Reverend Wright. I'm sorry. You don't hang around people like this for 20 years and not be influenced by them. You don't hang around the people he hung around and not be influenced by them. President Obama IS Reverend Wright. And it didn't stop there. |
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 WRIGHT: Walmartization of the world proceeds from the premise of profit. Is it oppression masquerading as democracy and globalization? Is it militarism dressed up in a costume calling itself "peace," making the world safe for capitalism, the profit of a few -- or making the world livable for all the level playing field for all? My work with liberation theology, with Latin-American theologians with the Black Theology Project and the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed who were trying desperately to break free of the political economies undergirded by this country that were choking them and cutting off any hope of a possible future where all of the people would benefit.
RUSH: President Obama IS Reverend Jeremiah Wright. They're indistinguishable. Black theology, black liberation theology teaches hatred of the United States of America. Obama's out apologizing for it. Look at this. "My work with liberation theology, Latin-American theologians with the Black Theology Project, with the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed." He might as well have said, "I'm going to return the nation's wealth to its, quote, unquote, 'rightful owners.'" Reverend Wright IS President Obama and vice-versa. (interruption) Well, I mean check the transcript, Mr. Snerdley. I don't think we've got Reverend Wright praising Chairman Mao but there are enough people in Obama's administration doing that. He's praising Castro and Marx. I mean can Chairman Mao be far from his conscious mind? No. He wasn't through, ladies and gentlemen.
WRIGHT: If I help a homeless child they'll call me a saint. If I ask, "Why are there homeless?" (angry) they'll call me a socialist! That's what Martin Luther King said he was. I will be proud to be called a socialist because I want to know why in this country there are homeless. When people are the priority, it causes us to see the law from a different perspective. It was only when I was introduced, Attorney Tiger, to the brilliant mind of Appellate Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham that I began to understand the problematic (sic) between the law and how poor people and people of color are seen in this land of the greed and home of the brave -- excuse me. Uh, land of the greed and home of the slave. |
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RUSH: "Land of the greed and home of the slave." President Obama IS Jeremiah Wright. Jeremiah Wright IS President Obama: Happy to be called a socialist. Look, I've heard Obama say similar words in interviews, talking about the court not going far enough in redistribution, when Reverend Wright here said, "The problematic between the law and how poor people and people of color are seen in this land of the greed and home of the brave -- excuse me -- land of the greed and home of the slave." (interruption) I don't know who the slaves... (interruption) Well, the slaves are as many people of color that Reverend Wright can convince they are slaves. You've got guys like this preaching all over this country teaching black people that slavery still is around. This is what black liberation theology is all about. He's not letting go of the past. (interruption)
Well, you would know better than I, liberation from what. But my point is, I make the mistake of assuming. I live it. We live in a colorblind society and I assume that. That's what everybody wants when they say they want a colorblind society. I don't believe Reverend Wright wants a colorblind society. I don't believe President Obama wants a colorblind society. I don't believe they want a postracial society whatsoever. They're carrying around too many grievances here. Now, when I listen to this man, I understand why to this day there's still so much anger. It's because it's being stoked! It's being fueled from pulpits. (interruption) Yeah, I'll play the Marx one one more time. This is audio sound bite number three. No, it's audio sound bite... I'm scanning for the word "Marx." Yeah, it's number three. Here. Hit it again.
WRIGHT: Walmartization of the world proceeds from the premise of profit. Is it oppression masquerading as democracy and globalization? Is it militarism dressed up in a costume calling itself "peace," making the world safe for capitalism, the profit of a few -- or making the world livable for all the level playing field for all? My work with liberation theology, with Latin-American theologians with the Black Theology Project and the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the social realities of the vulnerable and the oppressed who were trying desperately to break free of the political economies undergirded by this country that were choking them and cutting off any hope of a possible future where all of the people would benefit.
RUSH: Reverend Jeremiah Wright. This is from September of this year, at a magazine's 60th anniversary celebration. He was the featured speaker. And here is finally Reverend Wright on slavery and the Constitution.
WRIGHT: For 150 years racism was built into the legal fabric of this country such that by 1787 when you get the Constitution of the United States, the legal document which makes this country a -- the foundation legally of the country, you have racism built into the Constitution. Africans are defined as property, not people. Women are denied the vote, not seen as equal persons under the law. Indians are not important, and property rights trump human rights. What else would you expect after 150 years of racist legal precedent? If, however, if we saw Africans and Asians, women and same-gender loving persons, Indians and the indigent as people, our laws and our legal system would possibly not be as jacked up as they are today.
RUSH: You know, he coulda written that hoax on Obama's thesis. Reverend Jeremiah Wright and President Obama: They are interchangeable. Let's not forget Reverend Wright's greatest hits.
WRIGHT (screaming): Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! [snip] Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! [snip] Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: He was riding dirty. [snip] In white America, US of KKKA: black men turning on black men. [snip] I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. [snip] Not God bless America, God (bleep) America! It's in the Bible. For killing innocent people, God (bleep) America! [snip] (screaming) And now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: America's chickensssss are coming home to roost.
RUSH: A greatest hits of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, President Obama's pastor for 20 years. |
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