Townhall | Dennis Prager | Apr. 29, 2008
Here is what Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. (Obama’s pastor and spiritual advisor) said in his sermon on the Sunday following the horrific terrorists attacks on 9-11 (as replayed during the Moyers interview):
“Terrorism! We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel. We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hardworking fathers. We bombed Gadafi’s home and killed his child. ‘Blessed are they who bash your children’s head against a rock!’ We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living.
We bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy. Killed hundreds of hardworking people; mothers and fathers who left home to go that day, not knowing that they would never get back home. 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! Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children after school, civilians — not soldiers — people just trying to make it day by day. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant? Because the stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back into our own front yards! America’s chickens are coming home to roost! Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred and terrorism begets terrorism.”
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When Air America, the left-wing talk radio network, began, I predicted that it would not succeed. One of the main reasons I gave was that liberals already had their views expressed in the mainstream news media — the major networks, PBS and NPR (National Public Radio), and just about every major city newspaper. Therefore, the need liberals have for liberal talk radio is nowhere near the need conservatives have for conservative talk radio.
To its credit, The New York Times — through its public editor — has acknowledged that the Times is liberal; and anyone intellectually honest understands this is true regarding virtually all of the news media. But for those still needing proof, Bill Moyers supplied it on PBS this past weekend during his interview of one of the most radically polarizing figures in America today, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama’s mentor and pastor for 20 years.
The Rev. Wright’s decision to allow himself to be interviewed by Bill Moyers was, from his perspective, an excellent one. It is difficult to imagine a less challenging, more fawning, interview.
How bad was it?
Given that one of the most egregious of the Rev. Wright’s statements was his charge that the American government developed the AIDS virus and inflicted it on black Americans, one assumed that the first major reporter to interview Wright since the comments were made public would ask him about it. Not Bill Moyers. Beyond mentioning in the opening introduction, “Wright repeating the canard heard often in black communities that the U.S. government spread HIV in those communities,” the subject was never raised.
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Interesting how the liberal left always gives a pass and tolerates massive racism, hatred and incitement to violence by the leftist radicals. This monster spread this viciousness and vile for years, yet not ONE reporter from the liberal left and plain old vanilla liberal mainstream media dared challenge or expose this garbage. No wonder the New York Times readership is tanking and the alternative media is exposing the incompetence and deriliction of duties of the mainstream press.