{"id":1578,"date":"2008-04-28T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2008-04-28T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:04:49","slug":"jeremiah-wright-at-the-national-press-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I read over at Michelle Malkin<\/a>‘s, and later at Ace Of Spades<\/a>, about Jeremiah Wright’s impending speech at the National Press Club<\/a> for an “NPC Breakfast”. Michele had links to the Free Republic<\/a>‘s intention to protest there, so I packed up my cameras and headed over there.<\/p>\n

It rained the whole time the Free Republic was outside the National Press Club which probably dampened participation as well. But five stalwarts showed up;<\/p>\n

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This gentleman (excuse me for not getting his name) is from Miami and he happened to be in town for another protest and decided to join the FReepers at the National Press Club. His group is Shalom International and he wanted me to tell my readers in the Atlanta area that they’ll be protesting at the Carter Center, Sunday, May 4th;<\/p>\n

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While we were waiting for the crowd to let out, I listened to Wright on CSPAN radio. I couldn’t take notes, of course, because I was standing in the rain, but here’s what I heard; the standard anti-war leftist line.<\/p>\n

Somehow he gets moral authority in the discussion because he “sent” his god-daughter to Iraq. I’m pretty sure a minister of a church has alot of god-children, and it stands to reason at least one of them would end up in Iraq sooner or later. But, I’m pretty sure he brought it up to contrast it with the fact that the president’s daughters aren’t in the military because right after he estabished his moral authority by recounting the fact that the woman went to Iraq, he made a point of telling us that rich people use their influence to avoid the war.<\/p>\n

Influence? I wouldn’t call it using influence when your children make the choice to not join the military. I think Wright got confused with the Vietnam when there was a draft and the anti-war Left accused the affluent of avoiding the draft.
\nBut, from what I heard on the radio, it got thunderous applause from the assembled crowd.<\/p>\n

To the media’s credit, they at least interviewed the FReepers. But I’ve learned that interviews don’t necessarily mean exposure.<\/p>\n

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I interviewed Jeff Gannon<\/a> when he came out (my camera was dying in the rain so the FReepers taped it for me and promised to send me a copy later) and he told me that his impression of the speech was similar to mine. Gannon also claims that Wright made up some of his Bible quotations – I didn’t hear that, but I’ll let the theologians wrestle with it.<\/p>\n

W ell, the crowd came out and they were in rare form. Here’s an example of the type of crowd that was in there;<\/p>\n

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That’s Marion Berry, getting in the car, if you don’t recognize him. Jeff Gannon told me that the crowd included Cornell West, the radical black “historian”, several radical Black theologians and whole lot of people I don’t recognize;<\/p>\n

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Wright had worked the crowd pretty good by the time they came out. In this video, a woman shouts at our new Jewish friend from Miami “Long live Palestine”. At about a minute and fifteen seconds into the video, another gentleman makes a karate-like kick at the guy from Miami and then again at about a minute and forty seconds.<\/p>\n

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Some elderly Black women pulled Cobie (the big Black FReeper) to the side and tried to change his mind about which side he was on. Cobie, a Navy veteran, Gathering of Eagles member and Veterans for Freedom founder, wasn’t convinced. Another Black man tried to argue with Kevin the other Black FReeper, and that didn’t work either.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the media and the attendees were more concerned about the Black men who were protesting Wright’s hateful talk than with the old white guys who were there. I guess they were all a bit surprised that there are Black people who don’t conform to the prevailing opinion based purely on their race.<\/p>\n

People talk about how brave Wright is for speaking his mind, it doesn’t take bravery to parrot the standard line, Kevin and Cobie were the bravest two people on that sidewalk this morning for sticking to what they believe in the face of the biases of the spittle-slinging mad dogs who just applauded on cue to the weakly hidden racist remarks of an opportunist who found a way to bamboozle his flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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