Media's Glare Off Focus, Again
The Question: Jeremiah Wright's sermons continue to be an issue in the presidential campaign. Why? What do you think of his preaching style? What do you wish you understood better about it?
The media tend to focus mainly on the incendiary and the divisive because it makes a better story. There are thousands of African American churches, from storefronts, to traditional looking buildings in which faithful pastors preach the age-old Gospel of Christ without the putrid anointing oil of politics. The media ignore them, leaving the impression -- especially among whites who don't visit black churches -- that African American churches are mostly hotbeds of black liberation theology and anti-American screeds. The black churches I have attended and the black pastors I know are the antithesis of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but they are never interviewed on TV which prefers rhetorical bomb throwers.
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Cal Thomas
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May 1, 2008; 2:43 AM ET
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Posted by: garyd | May 3, 2008 9:35 PM
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Sam:
"There are 1,000 of Wrights out there. It is how Black people cope with sustained injustice. "
What an absolute waste of time, too.
Posted by: Alex | May 2, 2008 10:56 AM
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There are 1,000 of Wrights out there. It is how Black people cope with sustained injustice.
Posted by: Sam | May 1, 2008 2:27 PM
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There are 1,000 of Wrights out there. It is how Black people cope with sustained injustice.
Posted by: Sam | May 1, 2008 2:27 PM
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Austria Salzburg, the City of Salz, may be interpreted as City of Elders (salts). salt is the dried sea water. as it is in the Bible, Euphrates shall be dried with the sixth bottle of Mary. so there should be saints masters and healthy people with the gold in the bank of the flowing water, the spine.
i was in Bursa with St Nicholas and St Thomas the Twin of Jesus, now i am in Didyma for St John and St Thomas the Twin, on the golden sand where turtles had been in water for the first time.
i shall travel in order to write about Aphrodite and Shell with Pearl, and Her Left Foot on the Turtle. and i shall explain Apostels and Signs. coffee with milk from Milkyway and wisdom shall be in too, on the table after the meal. i love speakers with milk-coffee skin colour, with the whitest teeth.
am i wrong? i have better talk to Swedish Norwegians for more of the wisdom.
Posted by: afreemerryinca | May 1, 2008 6:22 AM
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i am in the Land of Medusa and Apollon, in Didyma Aydin Anadolu, studying sixth bottle of Mary in Mageddo and hypophysis gland. may i ask Nikolas Sarkozy where the capital of Zeus and Europe is?
Posted by: afreemerryinca | May 1, 2008 6:07 AM
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You know, Doug, that's my thought, too.
I'll admit that a lot of 'black' storefront churches out there don't exactly radiate friendly to someone like me, but I'm utterly disgusted with the media for playing to all these fears and non-substantive things, in such a critical time in American history.
This is not what our democracy is *for.*
If the free market's so great, many in the media ought to be fired.
Posted by: Paganplace | April 29, 2008 3:07 PM
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Doug:
Infinitely many monkeys with infinitely many typewriters given an infinite period of time to do it will eventually write something that makes sense. No one ever gets everything wrong all the time.
If I didn't think I know better I'd say Cal is an Obama supporter. The bet is he thinks McCain can beat Obama and not Clinton. But then clearly the country is headed to hell, already at the gate being led by those who have sold their souls to Lucifer. Maybe Cal is a patriot?
Posted by: BGone | April 29, 2008 11:46 AM
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* Cough * * Cough *
-- Gasp... choke... gag --
I actually agree with Cal Thomas.
Posted by: Doug | April 28, 2008 6:29 PM
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So you're saying than that the only way to fight injustice is to tell lies? Lies that heap injustice upon injustice as if you could create justice by piling up enough injustice.
How horribly obtuse and ultimately self defeating.