Comments on Bill Moyers Weighs in on Rev. Wright

Thanks, Bill Moyers.

Amen.

Moyers is a pimp and the truth is his bitch.

He misses the point that 9/11 is a sacred cow. If you suggest 9/11 was deserved, expected, predictable result, in anyway, you will be publicly castigated and reviled. Ask Bill Maher, Ward Churchill, etc.

This isn't Katrina or Assassinating a foreign head of state.

What a weenie!

Please post this again tomorrow and everyday 'til the election.

After watching Wright speak for himself I had to admit that he was a good bit more reasonable than most of the famous preachers I could think of, and unlike Pat Robertson et al he didn't seem to be a complete asshole. His church actually does work in the community to help the poor, embraces non-violence and supports the separation of Church and State. In short, they show evidence of understanding and putting into practice the teachings of their socialist hippie pacifist savior.

Not to say the doesn't believe some highly questionable things ("HIV is a government conspiracy," for instance) but that seems to go with the territory when you sign up for a lifetime of unquestioning obedience to an invisible grandpa in the sky. But really, he doesn't sound half as crazy as the right-wing fundamentalist crowd that has been calling the shots for the GOP for thirty years.

So I'm going to have to go ahead and agree that there is a double standard at work here. Nobody is asking McCain to account for the crazy-ass shit his evangelical supporters say on a regular basis.

While I respect Bill Moyers and what he has to say, he doesn't convince me that this issue isn't newsworthy or that Wright isn't a nut. I hear him, and others, bending over backwards to excuse Wright's comments in ways they would never do with a Falwell or a Dobson. But I'll still enthusiastically vote for Obama.

Robertson, Falwell, and Billy Graham are regularly and routinely given a pass by the mainstream media. They bring up Hagee occasionally, but even that is getting a mere fraction of the coverage of Wright. And I haven't heard a single mention of the weekly phone calls that Bush used to have with Ted Haggard before the coke and male hooker scandal.

Yes, Wright is a bit of a nut job. But the media coverage of him is WAY out of proportion to their coverage of any number of other nut job white preachers that other candidates have close associations with.

The coverage is clearly racist and sensationalist, and should be roundly condemned.

Bill Moyers is the voice of reason.

#9 Well that's just it. All these people act like Wright doesn't deserve a free pass if we (leftists, liberals etc.) are going to oppose the religious right. But most Americans don't even pay attention to or care about the rhetoric coming out of the mouths of the religious right, because they're not attacking mainstream American, i.e. middle class white people. Whatever one thinks about Wright's rhetoric/sanity, he's certainly been made a far bigger issue by the mainstream media than Hagee, even though we all know that Hagee is by far the more insane and bigoted of the two. If the Democrats had any balls, they'd united and take the war to the Republicans.

i agree that obama != wright, and that wright != crazy, but there is a difference between an endorsement and a mentor. it's not all about race, as pastor mcclurkin did get a pass (or obama got a pass on mcclurkin).

The voice of reason.

i like most of what moyers says, until he tries to focus on hagee. i don't like the comparisons to hagee for four reasons:

1) it validates attacks on a candidate based on their preacher

2) mccain actually said wright's connection didn't matter, so why attack mccain?

3) there is a difference between an endorsement and a mentor.

4) in many christian eyes -- really -- wright is worse than hagee. you won't get much traction from repubs on this one.