{"id":28692,"date":"2008-03-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:05:40","slug":"tell_us_which_pastor_wright_sermons_you_agree_with_senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/14\/tell_us_which_pastor_wright_sermons_you_agree_with_senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us Which Pastor Wright Sermons You Agree With, Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I find something very interesting. We\u2019ve had two calls today, and I am certain we will get more, from people who say that they don\u2019t hear anything wrong with what we have played from the sermons of the pastor of Obama\u2019s church in Chicago, Jeremiah Wright. Let\u2019s listen to this one again. This is a sermon from 2001 shortly after the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America\u2019s chickens are coming home to roost.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Now, let\u2019s examine this within the context of modern-day politics. We\u2019ve had people call and they don\u2019t hear anything wrong with what the pastor is saying. Ladies and gentlemen, what is the thrust of the Obama foreign policy as stated to date? See, I think because of the way Senator Obama\u2019s responding to this bunch of video and audio of his pastor that\u2019s out there, gives us an indication what his foreign policy is. What we just heard from Jeremiah Wright is pretty close to what today\u2019s Democrat Party believes. All through the past five years during the war in Iraq, what have we heard from various Democrats? That our reputation in the world\u2019s gone south, our reputation\u2019s horrible, this kind of stuff we\u2019ve brought on ourself. We deserve this. We gotta go around and we gotta talk, we gotta get a new president, we gotta talk to these people around the world and let them know that we\u2019re not the bad apples that they think we are. We\u2019ve just got one rotten guy, that\u2019s Bush — well, two, and Cheney. <\/p>\n

All Obama would have had to say, if somebody asked him specifically about this comment from his pastor, all Obama would have had to say is, ‘Well, that\u2019s why I want to be president, because there are more Americans who think this than is healthy. I want to be president so I can straighten this out. It\u2019s not healthy for as many Americans to think this as do.\u2019 Speaking of nukes, he could knock it out of the ballpark with that. He wouldn\u2019t endorse it. He would say, ‘I\u2019m sad to hear this. I\u2019m sad to know so many Americans think this is true. That\u2019s why I want to be president.\u2019 But instead, what does he do? He goes into one of these answers as though Mrs. Clinton\u2019s got his testicles in a lockbox, he starts pussyfooting around, doesn\u2019t say anything, which, as a voter and as an American, makes me think, makes me ask, ‘Perhaps Obama agrees with the guy on this, too.\u2019 Maybe Obama does think that we are the evil in the world. Maybe he believes that the United States is the problem and not the solution. Maybe he agrees with this pastor. That\u2019s why I want to know from Senator Obama, don\u2019t tell us what you don\u2019t agree with that your pastor has said. Please tell us what you like that he has said. It would be very easy to do, would it not? Just tell us what he said that you agree with. <\/p>\n

Wall Street Journal today, Ronald Kessler: ”Obama and the Minister\u2019 — In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama\u2019s longtime minister, friend and advisor blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president. The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Mr. Obama\u2019s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school\u2019s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. ‘We\u2019ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,\u2019 he began. ‘Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.” That\u2019s two years ago. ‘Mr. Wright thundered on: ‘America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. … We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers … We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi … We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.\u2019 His voice rising, Mr. Wright said, ‘We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. … We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means…\u2019 Concluding, Mr. Wright said: ‘We started the AIDS virus … We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty…\u2019<\/p>\n

All right. You can chalk it up to the black experience, but what he\u2019s doing when he makes these hate-filled, racist remarks is literally dispiriting and destroying the opportunity for anybody who hears him and believes him to become a full-fledged participating American. He\u2019s creating and sustaining, like so much of the race business does in this country, so much in the civil rights movement does, a second-class population with just enough money to give to the church, but not enough money to be independent from some sort of government assistance, which equals a vote for a Democrat. Started the AIDS virus — ‘But, Rush, that\u2019s what they believe, you gotta deal with it.\u2019 That\u2019s what Obama should say. Obama should come out and say, ‘Well, too many people believe this. I agree that it\u2019s a problem. That\u2019s why I want to be president, because it\u2019s unhealthy for this many Americans,\u2019 but I\u2019m not sure he thinks that. I\u2019m not sure, based on this guy going to this church for 20 years and listening to this pastor, I\u2019m not sure that this candidate doesn\u2019t disagree, because it would be so easy to deal with this and be done with it, but he\u2019s not doing that. <\/p>\n

You want to hear a bit of irony? I bet you haven\u2019t heard this. It\u2019s a Reuters story from the Times Online in the UK. Headline: ”John McCain Told to Dump Spiritual Guide in Row Over ‘War\u2019 on Islam\u2019 — John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been called upon to renounce a church leader he considers his spiritual guide for urging a Christian war to destroy the ‘false religion\u2019 of Islam. A number of prominent US weblogs demanded he reject the support of Reverend Rod Parsley, of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, an influential televangelist and political figure who campaigned alongside him in the run up to the Ohio primary. On February 26, a week before the Ohio vote, Mr. McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the evangelical pastor, who praised the candidate as a ‘strong, true, consistent conservative\u2019. With Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, then continuing to snap at his heels, Mr. Parsley\u2019s endorsement was a boon to Mr. McCain\u2019s efforts to knock out his last remaining challenger and win over social conservatives. Standing side-by-side with the minister, Mr. McCain hailed him as a ‘spiritual guide.”<\/p>\n

Okay, so McCain\u2019s got an evangelical Christian who is a spiritual guide, and apparently — I\u2019ve never heard this — but this preacher urges Christian war to destroy the false religion of Islam. And now everybody, ‘You\u2019ve got to get rid of this guy! You\u2019ve gotta denounce this and you\u2019ve gotta get rid of this guy.\u2019 Double standard, anyone?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cristina in Chico, California. It\u2019s nice to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s nice to be here with you, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is it okay for me to make one comment, before the original reason I called?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir, of course. It\u2019s Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Full liberties are extended.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was just going to say that as a churchgoing person that I would never allow someone to be my spiritual advisor unless I agreed with their integrity and their view of the world and that we shared the same views and moral character and I was in agreement with them. I could never let someone advise me…<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the scary thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the scary thing. I\u2019ve got a story here from the Chicago Tribune, from January 21st of 2007, like 15 months ago. ‘Barack Obama visited the church in 1985 as a community activist. He was not a churchgoer at the time, but he found himself returning to the sanctuary of Trinity United. In Jeremiah Wright, he found both a spiritual mentor and role model.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. For whatever he says about his disagreements, I don\u2019t believe it. It\u2019s insincere, and it\u2019s just not believable to me. So, I think he could be (garbled). <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a good point. You\u2019re not going to have to somebody as a spiritual advisor that you don\u2019t agree with.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know how you could do that. And then the other reason I called is just having been in churches and having pastored with my husband, as a 501(c)(3), you are not allowed from the pulpit to make any kind of political statement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but they\u2019re looking into the guy. They\u2019re looking into his church, the IRS.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, you know, this has been looked at and winked at for I don\u2019t know how many years. How many times have Democrats gone into the church — Clinton did it — and raised money in there, during —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — election season.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s true. They\u2019re allowed to do that as long as they give equal time to the other side. You\u2019re allowed to. As long as you\u2019re giving equal time to both sides, you\u2019re supposed to be allowed to do that, but you can\u2019t just give one person or one leaning. I mean, lean towards one direction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know if the other side\u2019s been allowed in the Trinity United Church of Christ, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just found it interesting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cristina, thanks for the call, I appreciate it. <\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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