You already saw it? I have to wait 5 minutes here.

Oh, and don't go to Bill Moyers' website and read the reactions. They will make you sad...

wow. i have a totally different opinion of this man now. i may have to retract some mean things i said about him to other people. very intelligent guy.

It was a great interview in which they expanded the soundbites into actual coherent segments of his sermons. If people do not want to vote for Barack because of Jeremiah Wright, they will eventually get the leadership they deserve.

Some of Wright's comments were very insightful.

I cannot tell you how furious I am right now. Every time I hear peaople in the media discussiong Jeremiah Wright they have nothing good to say about the man. His sermons were the truth.

Again, if these people undermine Barack, they will regret it under John McCain. This is a guarantee. The same way people are looking back and wishing that Gore or Kerry actually won, this will be bigger. The republicans are setting the stage for a bleak American future.

Barack made the mistake of hiding Wright away. The right plan of attack is to get him out in interviews front and center. He is a very bright man who can rationally debate anybody who is willing and not simply looking for a gotcha soundbyte.

It's almost too bad that Obama has distanced himself from Wright - but he had to do it and I'm sure Wright understands as much.

The only way to diminish the effect of the Wright youtube remarks is to expose him to the masses to the point where everybody will see he is so much more than what the MSM, GOP and Clinton Camp want you to believe he is.

I was unsure of what to expect from this interview. The people who continue to spin the words of Rev. Wright refuse to listen. It was very informative. I am glad he broke his silence and I hope he continues to speak. I hope people can start focusing on dealing with the issues we face in 2008 and beyond.

Rev. Wright was charming, erudite and explained himself beautifully. I'm glad he's coming out and speaking out in self-defense. I'm glad he's doing it now, as the NC Repuke's get ready to air that hate loaded ad.

How about another take on this?

Besides tonight’s PBS appearance and his speech at the National Press Club Monday morning (to be aired on C-Span at 9 a.m. ET) — Wright is speaking Sunday morning at a Dallas church and that afternoon at an NAACP event in Detroit, I hear. That totals FOUR appearances in a four-day time period. That is a full-fledged MEDIA TOUR.

I have some thoughts about why Rev. Wright HIMSELF is SEEKING to dominate the news, no matter the fallout or blowback to Barack Obama:

FOREMOST: I believe that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is deeply ANGRY with Barack Obama.

Obama has dismissed him, repudiated him, but also done so in the most milquetoast way — what with all of his uncomfortable hemming and hawing - that Rev. Wright couldn’t help but be angered, and even more insulted.

SECONDLY: Rev. Wright clearly has a HUGE ego. He has great PRIDE. He also CRAVES attention. And he is a PERFORMER extraordinaire.

He is therefore incapable of toeing the line, and staying quiet while Barack Obama awkwardly, limply, and inarticulately repudiates him, and never definitively speaks his mind about his 20-year association with Wright.

He is so vain and self-aggrandizing that his own need to prove himself to the world-at-large outweighs ANY consideration of how he might harm Obama’s candidacy.

THIRDLY: I think that Rev. Wright realizes — and has probably realized for some time — that Barack Obama’s SOLE reason for relating to him and attending his church was for his own POLITICAL gain.

Rev. Wright sees that Obama used him.

Nobody likes to be used.

To Barack Obama, Rev. Wright was merely a tool. And now that he’s an embarrassment to Obama, Rev. Wright feels slighted and publicly humiliated.

People with big egos especially do not handle public humiliation well.

And a man with a huge ego and a big need for affirmation — and obsequious praise — detests being used more than most people.

THAT is why Rev. Wright expressly called Barack Obama a “politician.”

Wright’s use of the term “politician” was a “dig” at Obama. It was meant to demean Obama for the humiliation that Wright has suffered.

I wish the noted psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist as well as Fox News analyst, were around to check with. But I think some of this may be true.

Do any of the rest of you want to “shrink” the Rev. Wright?

By SusanUnPC Rev. Wright “On The Couch” [UPDATED]

Plain and simple, Reverend Wright is bad news for Obama. Bad news, too, for the Democratic party if they don't use this as an opportunity to dump Obama.

Matthew
TheProblemWithObama.com

I guess one has to live in a neighborhood such as the South side of Chicago to understand from whence Rev. Wright preaches. I did. Where were these men in my neighborhood. Many of the young black men I grew up with may have lived had they had a church like Trinity.

You can always count on Bill Moyers! I am agnostic, and it was easy to see why Obama felt the need to be baptized, almost felt the spirit m'self.

Do tell!

Well, the first 18 years of my life was spent in the projects. The projects are the notorious housing units (apartments) built by the government in the fifties and sixties to deal with growing African American population which moved North to seek jobs. Imagine the ninth ward in New Orleans before and after Katrina. It was low income housing and every thing that come with it: crime, under funded schools, drugs and any social-ill one can imagine in the United States.

When I was growing up, I never thought about it this way. It was home. It was familiar. It was ninety-five percent black. The projects were (when I think back on it) was next to paint factory. I was recently researching a specific incident that happen in my neighborhood and found that this paint company was warned several times by the city that they were admitting hazardous chemicals in the air.

This paint factory was right next to the elementary school I attended. There was always a foul odor in the air. Reading the articles and looking back, I wonder why the paint company incessantly polluted the air? It just seems like they were warned but it didn't matter.

While I was looking up this information, I spotted a few articles about crimes that happen on the street I lived on in the projects. As I look back, I don't believe that these crimes happened so close to the place I laid my head at night. I don't remember the killings. I thank my family for protecting me for the nastiness of life in the projects.

My elementary school is brick building and when I went to visit home, it seemed so small. In this and brick schoolhouse, I spent my first six years surround by my family and a majority of black people. The principal and a majority of the teachers were at my school were black. So black people were the center of my world. A world which included my family, the school and my church. I didn't really know or have relationship with a white person until I went to the second year of middle school. For me, they were people on television. This was the only experience I had with white people.

After leaving elementary, I attended an all-black middle school. This school was about five miles from my apartment in the projects. I had to walk every day which was always an adventure. On the way, there were always men who stood on the corners. I didn't know what to make of them. I
didn't understand the concept of being unemployed as well as under-employed. All I knew is that
they just held down the corner while I was coming and going to school. I looked at the men on the corner. I looked at the sadness in their faces.
I didn't want to become them even though they looked like me. They were a grown up version of me. It wasn't a problem, I thought so long as I attended school. I wouldn't fall into this trap. These men where like ghost that no one saw or cared about. They were the people who my mother told me I would become if I didn't stay in school.

This scared me along with one, just one gun fight I witnessed on the way home one day. I asked my mother if I could transfer to a school in a neighborhood which didn't have so much violence and was near her place of employmemt. She didn't like the idea at first but I convinced her that I was afraid. She finally allowed me to sign-up for a transfer. I went through the process of transferring but before it happened, the school district decided to de-segregate the whole school system. It was about 1978 and some white parents in the suburbs protested the school systems decision. They didn't want us to come their neighborhoods even though we where just going to school. They had the better funded schools. They had the newest schools which happen to be part and parcel of the same school system.

Despite the white parents being upset, we left our neighborhood to go to schools in the city's suburbs. Some the white students were bused to the inner city schools. Wow! They had everything. A functioning library, a gymnasium and teachers who taught with current teaching materials. I didn't know this world existed.

Despite going to a de-segregated school, even though my mother worked, my family remained in the projects. The longer we remained in the projects the more I understood how to different peoples in one country could have so much disparity in one country. This is the time in my life I knew we were poor. The houses we passed everyday on the way to and from reminded me that our neighborhood was in a poor condition. It seemed like no one cared that we lived in these conditions. It made me feel like I was in prison. A prison with economic bars to keep us in.

While riding the bus, I still saw those men on the corner. This was so depressing. It was depressing because there were no jobs in our neighborhood. If this happened to them, then what was going to happen to me? I don't remember that paint factory hiring anyone from the projects. I never saw black men come from its gates. This was the time in my life when I wanted to work. I tried everything to get a job. I even tried to go through government programs and they said, NO! It was so depressing because I was slowly but surely becoming those men on those street corners despite going to school. I was frustrated. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to escape this situation.

It was and is still depressing. It was the reason some of the people I knew then are dead today. I know they are dead because I went back to ask about them. The answer is always the same.

You people are unbelievable.

Rev. Wright has accused whites of "killing outright" members of the "talented tenth" of the black community. He has accused whites of creating the AIDS virus as an act of genocide against blacks. He says blacks that died in Katrina were "murdered" by the government response.

Rev. Wright is a racist. His ministry exists for the purpose of psychologically separating blacks from the rest of America.

Hiding your heads in the sand will not help Obama in this. He needs to leave that church before the issue destroys his cahances to win in November.

There isn't a chance that this issue will go away.

Barack Obama is in a lose-lose situation as regards TUCC. Either he was sleeping in the pews for 20 years or he has heard Wright speak like this (anti-American, anti-white) many times. Considering that Obama attended the Million Man March with Wright in 1995, we can easily deduce that Obama has known about Wright's beliefs from the beginning.

The President Of The United States must not be a member of a racially divisive church. What a bad example that would be! in so many ways.

The media has failed to inform the American public as to the nature of Wright's ministry. He fosters racial resentment and hopelessness amongst his congregation.

No candidate other than an African American could ever survive membership in a racist church.

Transcendent. Thank you, thank you and thanks again, Bill Moyers. I was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta as a Southern Baptist. The summer before my senior year in high school, Emmett Till was murdered. I have seen a lot of history and am now settled comfortably into a life of secular humanism and it works for me. Yet when heard Jeremiah Wright explain his work in the church and the application of his own Christian philosophy to the purpose of human fulfillment and justice, for just a moment, I suspended disbelief and wondered, "Am I one too?"

Sadly, this also reminds me that politics can empower the many while it diminishes the politician. I greatly admire and respect Obama and thought his "A More Perfect Union " speech was masterful, but I deeply believe that the most moral response would have been to praise and defend Rev. Wright. However, I realize that choice could have been made only at the expense of his candidacy. This of course, is why Ghandi and ML King did not and should not have ever run for office.

I have always admired Bill Moyers deeply, so it was a feast to watch these two fine people interact and reveal their rich inner lives.

Peace&solidarity,
Gramsci 08

The controversy is not about Wright being a bad person -- it's about him saying incredibly stupid things. It's no different than the Don Imus issue. Wright could've made this whole thing go away by just simply acknowledging he's gone over the top and doesn't really believe the government created AIDS and sold drugs to black people, and that he should'nt have said G__ D___ America. That's it. Apology made -- case closed.

It's interesting when Imus says something stupid, he gets fired. Wright says something stupid and his words were "taken out of context" or that white people just don't understand the black church.

My message to Wright is to apologize, of if he can't do that shut up! He keeps this controversy alive every time he makes an appearance, and he is hurting Obama not helping.

Reagan's intentional refusal to act to stem the tide of Aides doomed the gay and black communities, those most affected by his decision. He "murdered" them by his outright denial of govt. intervention in a near epidemic because he felt the afflicted didn't "deserve" the help for in his view they simply died of their own "immoral" actions. If you deny a thirsty man a drink of water his consequential death by dehydration is murder at your hands.
Jim Webb wrote a whole series of articles for the San Jose Mercury about the CIA/Govt. introduction of cocaine into the Haight Asbury and Oakland black communities. All of it was true and it was done at the time of the "Age of Aquarius" and Black Power. The Haight died out in two years, I watched it happen, and the black communities still have not recovered. Webb was dead within two years of Bushes ist term by "suicide" yet there were two bullet wholes in his temple.

Right on!

Sadly, this interview will not help Obama's cause. Nothing in it will change the White backlash that the Clinton's have hoped for and promoted.

It's looking like that old-time American politics again. And with the lastest news from inside dems saying that health care is not possible and the US "preparing" for Iran, time to hide under a bed.

I consider myself a reformed "Christian". I grew up in Lynchburg, VA under the cloud of Thomas Road Baptist Church, otherwise known as the home of Jerry Falwell. ugh. I would hope that no one in my life judged me harshly because I attended that church for so long. That's one of the main reasons why Rev. Wright's statements never bothered me at all. I heard things much more inflammatory against people of other religious affiliations, races, genders, & orientation regularly. Doesn't for one second mean that I ever "fell for it", as a matter of fact, I rebelled hard against it. Pretty much explains my liberal attitudes toward most things because I saw up close and personal the ignorance it takes to hold on to such prejudices.

I enjoyed, very much, Moyers interview with Wright last night. He is much more intelligent than people will ever give him credit for. I watched some on MSM shows rant on and on about how he was saying America deserved 9/11. If you took the 8 minutes to listen to the sermon you would have known that he was reading the words of someone else, a "white guy", that he thought would put the events in perspective for people in his congregation. Even if those were his thoughts, the coverage was so misleading and completely biased, calculated, and unfair.

I think the things that Falwell, Robertson, Hagee, Parsley, and Haggard said were much worse regarding 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Did the media cover those statements 24/7..yeah, that's a big NO..not even close.

Main reason why I refuse to watch cable news shows. After the ABC debate, I gave them up. No more CNN or MSNBC and I have to admit, I've been in a much better mood and haven't had to take fists full of Advil every day.

I sent Bill Moyers a NASTY email yesterday because I was so angry and disappointed that he was tearing this wound open again instead of simply letting it heal. Obviously, this morning, I sent him a sincere apology. What a great interview. I've known for some time what a compassionate, patriotic American Reverend Wright is. What I underestimated was his ability to make his own case.

When Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the United States, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright will be right up there with him.

If only there were some way of un-recommending this thread.

There are some trolls up on this ship. They pretend to be Obama supporters and take weird positions on stuff. Don't believe them. They are mucking things up because they are obviously threatened by Obama- the frontrunner!!!

Don't you notice all of these folks on here who have never been on here before spouting off stupid sh**? This is a public forum and it is bound to happen, pretty sick and down-low disgusting to me too.

They want to create division here so that we stop having meaningful conversation.

I always thought Wright was a human. A racist guilt-slinger, but a human.

I just watched the Moyers program. I'm grateful for his courage and that of Jeremiah Wright.

All you haters out there, are you so-called "Christians"?

If so, then you are what gives religion a bad name.

The amount of righteous, pious hypocrisy is absurd, but telling.

Never mind that the all mighty Billy Graham was (may still be) an anti-semite:

http://www.rense.com/general20/billy.htm

Haters is right.

I guess we really should have expected the playa haters, now that I think about it.

;)