I'm happy to see the backlash against the pious critics of Barack Obama and his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Yesterday, Colin McEnroe wrote a great blog, and spoke about the topic at length on his radio show.
In addition, the Courant re-printed a Washington Post story about Obama's congregation and how they are defending Wright, and their freedom to express outrage at the problems of our country.
I have to say that I'd love to attend a sermon by Wright. He's exciting, flamboyant, entertaining, inspiring and controversial - unlike most sermonizers I've ever heard.
In addition, WWUH aired a program about how Dr. Martin Luther King was spied upon by the FBI, and how his opponents questioned his patriotism, his love of country and actually accused him of sedition. A great reminder that a man who changed the course of history, who we celebrate with a Nation Holiday, was once seen as a threat to the status quo.
Meanwhile, the right wing blowhards keep up a relentless drumbeat questioning Wright's creds as a pastor and preacher and man of God (funny they never question George Bush's claims to be a man of god), and against Obama's patriotism (he doesn't wear a flag pin either!!!), his commitment to Jesus and his truthfulness.
And on this last point, the script is out there for the radio zealots. Here in Hartford WTIC's Jim Vicevich (don't try to leave a comment on his blog - the man is too frightened, and likely not confident in his own reporting, to allow comments) repeatedly implied, and sometimes said, that Obama's statement that he had never heard the most inflammatory of Wright's words couldn't be true. Without a shred of evidence to the contrary, he repeated the innuendo again and again. In the following radio slot, Rush Limbaugh did the same. And here's what they're saying on Fox News:
It all comes down to one thing: fear of a black president.
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