Who arranged Reverend Wright’s speaking engagement at the National Press Club?
Barbara Reynolds, a former USA Today editorial journalist who just happens to be
1. A Minister
2. A Hillary Clinton Supporter
3. A Woman who has her own Personal Blog
According to DD2, Reynold’s blog was taken down at 9:30am this morning (link to her website; also, while checking cached posts, this link to her blog works). He copied down one paragraph from her blog, before it happened:
“Like many African American women, I have struggled with the dilemma of selecting a black man or a white woman to go against warmonger Sen. John McCain. My problem was that both Senators Obama and Clinton are darn good. Finally I voted for Senator Clinton. My first reason was that as seductive as Obama’s mantra of hope, the Clintons legacy of help is more substantive and stronger. Hope by definition is not based on facts. It is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time. How do you abandon someone like Hillary Clinton, who at every opportunity worked for causes benefiting the poor, especially children? Her work began in her early days with her mentor Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’’s Defense Fund and at Yale Law School, where she pursued children’’s studies. Early on her stated life’s goal was to be a “voice for America’s children.”
*UPDATE* The blogspot link appears to work now; but the last entry shown is dated April 2nd. Did anything get deleted?
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A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
nydailynews, by way of DU:
I found the entry DD2 had published, cached. Here’s the whole entry, dated February 14th:
“Warmonger” McCain? Gimme a break. Only half minded parrots who echo their spoonfed talking points as if they were their own still believe that he wants 100yrs of war. Everyone else has seen the full quote from him where he says it’s ok to be in Iraq for 100 yrs IF NO ONE IS GETTING KILLED.
Classic blind partisanship never fails to overpower and outshout one’s intelligence.
Now that the dust has settled and we can see the trees in the forest of media spin and soundbites it would appear that all the negative energy spent by the kitchen sink strategy department has fizzled out and the wreck a candidate campaign truck has an engine blow out and had to stop in the pits for a complete engine overhaul.Well it’s just too late because the Barak political racing machine is just warming up and going into high revs and looks like the finishing line is just around the corner and the race will soon be over with a triumphant winner and one sorry sore loser.
Reality check up on streetwise politics says the word on the street is that Hillary may have done Barak a big favour on the O’Reilly factor Interview because most sitting on the fence voters can see clearly now. They can see media frenzy tried to hoodwink them that it was over for Barak. But it ain’t over til the lady sings. and on Friday it will be over. Barak will have won by a margin of 17%. “So who is a fooling a who?” as some wise song writer sang.Looks like the shoe is on the other foot. That’s right. What goes around comes around. A new day is dawning. Time for a breath of fresh air. Watch the press for details of the BARAK OBAMA LANDSLIDE VICTORY, next week. Errol Smythe
Some people may be jumping up and down with glee. They may revel in this kind of media frenzy. It ain’t good. It is sickening to see some self proclaimed political experts performing post operative post mortems on the Obama and Wright association.
Some one brewed up this crazy brew of media frenzy tonic in their twisted demented diabolical minds and are trying to destroy two people ,Barak and Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
It ain’t right. It is bad.There is need for forgiveness, for clearing the air, for reconciliation.
All this media frenzy is like piranha’s in the water looking for the next meal.
When the feeding frenzy is over, the waters recede to blessed quietness stained with the blood of the piranha’s latest victim.
It is sad that there is all this denouncing this and denouncing that in the public arena when more substantial issues are placed in the abeyance tray awaiting appropriate action.
Politricks is a dirty game.
Barak is being attacked for his association to Reverend Wright to cause confusion amongst the black electorate.
The next line of attack will be his name, then his speeches,then his voting record,then what he didn’t say,then what he should say,then he is not black enough,then he is not a good candidate….etc etc…THESE ARE ALL DELIBERATE DEVISIVE TACTICS engineered by someone that has a lot to gain and a lot to lose…Barack should remain focused.
Barak has nothing to be ashamed of. He should remain focused and by pass all this messy mudslinging kitchen sink strategy.The saying holds true WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. It won’t be long before Barak will be nominated by the superdelegates and have the task of healing the Democratic party torn by selfish destructive ambitions of YOU KNOW WHO. Errol Smythe.
Is it necessary to do or say some mind boggling thing to get media attention. I don’tknow . It’s just politricks.
Preachers know that to grab the attention of a mind wandering audience,in your sermon you build a figurative bridge, build a figurative fire, then destroy the figurative bridge if necessary so that people can examine their options.Your sermon soaked in prayer backed up with scripture from the Bible then has got their attention.
Julius Caesar, history tells us, once did something similar by ordering his army the centurions etc to burn their ships on the shores of a foreign land.
Julius Caesar by issuing such a command inspired a fighting spirit and loyalty in his men to fight so that they could win the battle and win the war and go home to their loved ones.How does that relate to Reverend Jeremiah Wright? As an individual, he may have by deliberate intention focused the media mindset on the stark realities of prejudice.Racial prejudice, religious prejudice,bigotism,bitterness,hatred,malice,unfair media coverage,soundbites and deliberate mind manipulation in this high tech society and the need for reconciliation, truth,self examination, forgiveness,confession,repentance and constructive engagement in this present society.
Will it damage Barak? Who knows.Does America care for Barak with all the media frenzy and media post mortems of his name,his freinds, his associates ?.Yes some American’s care. Others don’t ,if you read the positive and negative chatlines, some do and some don’t. So what. Nobody is perfect. Some people like you others hATE YOU .SO WHAT. THAT’S REALITY.
America may need to have its own TRUTH COMMISSION for a reality check up. Will America have one? Who knows? Does America care?Yes.America cares for the good,the prospering,the dreamers, the ambitious ,the good and the not so good,the downtrodden,the sick ,the lame ,the unwanted,the ones with dreams and broken dreams. Some people are honest and others are not so honest.So what? NOBODY IS PERFECT. WE ALL HAVE OUR FAULTS ….BUT THERE IS SELF IMPROVEMENT and rehabilation for those who need it!!!!
There is strong undercurrents of a reality check up. Why?. Look back to KATRINA, HURRICANE KATRINA.Look back to yesterday down memory lane when everything was perfect until someone broke your dreams.
The ostrich likes to bury it’s head in the sand and the ostrich some say thinks as long as its head is buried in the sand , it’s vision is impaired and restricted and in this ostrich mindset what it cannot see the ostrich believes in it it’s ostrich birdbrain is not there? The ostrich needs a reality check up.
America is a great country. America is an IMMIGRANT BASED COUNTRY. That is why it is great. The beacon of hope of democracy. The open forum of democracy allows freedom of speech because America believes all men are created equal. That is on paper . That is in black and white,but some do not accept that because of the way they were brought up.
sOME OF THEIR TEACHERS MAY HAVE told them that some people are inferior to them and other people are superior. That is wrong teaching.tHAT IS WHY THERE IS SO MUCH CONTROVERSY TO DAY. The truth will set you free.
South Africa under NELSON MANDELA had a time of TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION. Things that worried and hurt and disturbed and offended many people had to be talked about. PEACEFULLLY, TRUTHFULLY, IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF RECONCILIATION WITHOUT RETRIBUTION,UNDER THE BANNER OF FORGIVENESS AND TRUE PEACE OF MIND.
GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD BLESS TRUTH AND GOD BLESS RECONCILIATION.GOD BLESS THE PEACEMAKERS.
All this mudslinging politics and slinging back mud, and negative below the belt teleads is no good. Look how much money candidates are blatantly spending to get elected when there is a food crisis in AFRICA AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. But people are so concerned with their own point of view they will forget people are dying without food, without democracy, without hope in other nations.
Maybe REVEREND WRIGHT MAY BE WRONG IN THE WAY HE SAYS WHAT HE SAYS, but maybe we need to take a GOOD LONG LOOK at ourselves.Maybe,it is time for self examination .Time for honest self judgement.Is it right to think about self first and others last? Is unfair treatment of minorities a paper excercise that does not mean nothing under our roofs? Are we really christians or make believers? Do we believe in God or are we apostate? GOD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL ?.
ERROL SMYTHE.
Good….grief.
Marriage is between a man and a woman who wed to become husband and wife.
The Bible is the Word of God . The Bible is written for a special group of people that were foreordained unto eternal life.There are three groups of people in this world believers, make believers and unbelievers.In the days of Lot we see the Abraham group out of Sodom, the Lot group in Sodom and the Sodom group who were Sodomites. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with fire and brimstone. The Lot group escaped the fire judgement that rained down on Sodom because of the intercessory prayers of Abraham that requested God to deliver the Lot group.The Sodom group were burnt ashes. Archeological digs confirmed Bible truths.
There are other books in this world of witchcraft, fairy tales ,history, literature,comic books, philiosophy, religious books etc etc. Witchcraft books are written about wizards and witches and their spells. Fairy tales are books about fairies.The Bible condemns witchcraft. The Bible is not a fairy tale. Even if fairies exist in some people’s minds it will be just in fairy tales.History allegedly is supposed to be the correct chronicling of events as they happen but some events have recorded by biased scribes posing as historians.Literature is fictional writing,so are comics.Philiosophy is an attempt by man to discover the secret of life in man’s quest for eternal happiness and so are religiouws writings that offer man a panacea to escape the drudgery of the struggles of life.
None of these books can compare to the Bible. The Bible is the only book that tells mankind who they are, where they come from and where they are going to.The Bible is clear about right and wrong.The Bible will judge you now or judge you Judgement Day.The Bible tells mankind death is not the end, that there is life beyond the grave and there is a purpose for everything.
HOMOSEXUALITY IS CONDEMNED BY THE BIBLE (Leviticus 18 verse 22)
In the city of Sodom and Gormorrah sat a righteous man that was weak on convictions and afraid to denounce the wickedness of Sodom and Gormorrah.In Sodom and Gormorrah men had left the sanctity of marriage and debased themselves by sleeping man with man.
This perversion of the sex act was a debased sex act condemned by GOD, by nature and condemned by societies that upheld the sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage.
The righteous man Lot vexed his righteous soul by not speaking out and condemning the wicked filthy lives of the Sodomites in Sodom and Gormorrah.Everything he had in Sodom and Gormorrah was destroyed by fire and brimstone.
WHEN THE NATURAL ORDER OF LIFE IS DESTROYED THEN THE REASON TO LIVE IS NEGATED. Homosexuality is wrong and no perverse judgements by any Court of proper legal status can change that. Murder is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Bestiality is wrong.Sodom and Gormorrah was destroyed with fire and brimstone. The wickedness of homosexual sin will finally be done away with when the whole earth is burnt with fire and brimstone.
The tectonic plates have fractured. Volcanoes on the increase.Earthquakes will split the earth open and spew fire and brimstone on this wicked earth just like in Sodom and Gormorrah.SCIENCE KNOW THAT. They know that tremour activity is on the increase and the earth is cracking open and poisoning the earth and the oceans and the seas and ocean and sea water life are dying a slow agonising death.
There is no such thing as gay marriage. It is not a gay marriage but a perverse wicked filthy union. MARRIAGE IS ONLY BETWEEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN AND RIGHTEOUS WOMEN WHO LIVE FAITHFUL TO EACHOTHER AND KEEP THE MARRIAGE BED UNDEFILED.
The pornography industry has wormed its way into the Federal courts and is corrupting the legal system. When a man wants to be a woman and a woman wants to be a man it is a perversion.This world is on a collision course with judgement and all the legal statutes enacted by any legislative body cannot stop that.They call an unholy union of two genders of the same species a “ gay marriage”. It should be called a “perverse union” and as such it is condemned by the Holy Bible. Filth is filth. A spade is a spade. Corruption is corruption. Homosexulaity is a perverse sickness caused by perverse demons,unclean rebellious filthy spirits.
Wishy washy politicians that support gay marriage should be booted out of office. Supreme Court Judges that support gay marriage should be booted out of office. Any presidential candidate supporting perverse Supreme Court decisions should be shunned and not supported by the righteous voting public that still believe in the sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage.
Can homosexuals be delivered? In Sodom and Gormorrah they refused to repent and refused to change their way of life even when struck with blindness.
The righteous Judge of all the earth will be righteous in His judgement to destroy this wicked sinful world that has perverted the natural order of life in the streets and in the courts of the land and in the Laodocean Churches.
The gay priests are an abomination in the sight of God and should be booted out and excommunicated from their churches .Filth is filth whether clothed in priestly garbs, or court trappings or politician clothes. LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR.
The State Supreme Courts should read their law books. Their law books recognise that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.Marriage certificates by the millions attest to that.
Marriage is defined as “….. the institution under which a man and a woman become legally united under a permanent basis…..”( Webster’s Dictionary ).
The State Supreme Court may be guilty of proverbially putting “…..lipstick on a pig…”. Literally speaking, a pig is a pig with or without lipstick.The lipstick doesnot change it’s nature or it’s character. Pinning the label of “marriage” on two people of the same sex makes a mockery of law books , judicial precedent, traditional christian values and traditional moral values that regard marriage as between a man and a women.A man marries a woman. The woman becomes the wife to the man who becomes her husband.
For the courts to try and equate a man and a woman getting married in holy matrimony in the eyes of God to any same sex union under the definition of “…marriage …” is to go against legal certainty and to introduce absurdity in the law.
Right now there is a debate of changing marriage licence forms . What a legal mess !
The law books and case law define marriage as between one man and one woman .That is a legal and a historical fact. History bears record that marriage has always been between a man and a woman who love each other and are free to marry each other in accordance with the law.
The law books and case law define children born out of wedlock as illegitimate or bastards. Out of wedlock legally being defined as born of parents that are not registered as husband and wife in the recognised legal Marriage Register,That is also a legal and historical fact.
The Schools are required by law to include in the school curriculum Biology that includes teaching children of the appropriate age about the reproductive cycle.The children are taught about the biological functions of the male and female reproductive organs,the gestation cycle of the human foetus, etc etc. The children are also taught about the digestive system and the disposal of excreta through the anal duct and urea through the urine canal etc. The function of the kidneys, liver,eyes,ear nose, muscles etc.etc .Basic biology at secondary school level. That is a matter of school record and school education at secondary level.
In view of the above and recent attempts by various persons and various court officials to redefine marriage, it is clear that marriage will always be construed by people to be that defined by law as the ceremony performed between a man and a women to join them in holy matrimony as husband and wife.
Society is not bent and don’t need people sitting on a bench with no moral compass to put lipstick on a pig.
Pressure groups with no moral compass that don’t know if their name is Arthur or Marthur are trying to dictate policy for the whole world.They can go fly a kite and go live on Mars and do what they want there. This is planet earth here and hetereosexual couples also got rights to stand by their religious and personal and traditional and cultural moral convictions
Men and women living as husband and wife as Married couples that fulfilled the legal definition of marriage as defined in law books do not need mischievous wicked persons to dictate life and morals to them.
Why are hetereosexual couples being discriminated by groups that don’t know which side of the house they belong to? They don’t know if they belong to the frontside or backside and want to change their names from arthur to marthur or marthur to arthur.
In Genesis, Adam married Eve. Adam a man married a woman. Read Genesis chapter 2 verse 21to 25.
The courts of law follow judicial precedent. That is a legal fact.
Judges will always consult case law for guidance to make decisions that are legally correct based on judicial precedent.
Marriage has always been defined in case law as between a man and a woman. That is the law. Go argue with the constitutional judges.
It is sad some people feel that nature messed up their plumbing. Biological facts state that when male and female procreate, married or unmarried, the female will conceive and after gestation period of about nine months give birth to a child, or twins or triplets. That is the law of nature. Man and wife marry, have children and be father and mother to their sons and daughters , a family .
HOMOSEXUALITY IS CONDEMNED BY THE BIBLE (Leviticus 18 verse 22)
Where is the moral compass? Where is moral decency?If any person or any persons or any community or any club or any society or any courts say that a sheep is a pig then no matter what label is posted on that sheep be it the label ” a pig ” that sheep will still have the character of a sheep because it was born as a sheep and not ” a pig”. The label ” a pig” doesnot confer the character of a pig on the sheep. Nature is natural. The DNA of a sheep determine it’s natural sheep characteristics, for everything brings forth after it’s own kind. It is the law of seed and harvest.The law of seed and harvest cannt be changed by a stroke of a pen or by a declaration of any person or persons, society , club or person.
The nature of reproduction is for male and female of the same species to procreate. Everything brings forth of it’s own kind. The DNA of the sheep determines it’s characteristics.
In humanity, male and female procreate to produce children.That is the natural way. Every child has a father and a mother. A male father and a female mother.Husband and wife procreate to have children. That is the law of reproduction, the law of seed and harvest.Everything brings forth after it’s own kind.
and afraid to denounce the wickedness of Sodom and Gormorrah.In Sodom and Gormorrah men had left the sanctity of marriage and debased themselves by sleeping man with man.
This perversion of the sex act was a debased sex act condemned by GOD, by nature and condemned by societies that upheld the sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage.
The righteous man Lot vexed his righteous soul by not speaking out and condemning the wicked filthy lives of the Sodomites in Sodom and Gormorrah.Everything he had in Sodom and Gormorrah was destroyed by fire and brimstone.
WHEN THE NATURAL ORDER OF LIFE IS DESTROYED THEN THE REASON TO LIVE IS NEGATED. Homosexuality is wrong and no perverse judgements by any Court of proper legal status can change that. Murder is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Bestiality is wrong.Sodom and Gormorrah was destroyed with fire and brimstone. The wickedness of homosexual sin will finally be done away with when the whole earth is burnt with fire and brimstone.
The tectonic plates have fractured. Volcanoes on the increase.Earthquakes will split the earth open and spew fire and brimstone on this wicked earth just like in Sodom and Gormorrah.SCIENCE KNOW THAT. They know that tremour activity is on the increase and the earth is cracking open and poisoning the earth and the oceans and the seas and ocean and sea water life are dying a slow agonising death.
There is no such thing as gay marriage. It is not a gay marriage but a perverse wicked filthy union. MARRIAGE IS ONLY BETWEEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN AND RIGHTEOUS WOMEN WHO LIVE FAITHFUL TO EACHOTHER AND KEEP THE MARRIAGE BED UNDEFILED.
The pornography industry has wormed its way into the Federal courts and is corrupting the legal system. When a man wants to be a woman and a woman wants to be a man it is a perversion.This world is on a collision course with judgement and all the legal statutes enacted by any legislative body cannot stop that.They call an unholy union of two genders of the same species a “ gay marriage”. It should be called a “perverse union” and as such it is condemned by the Holy Bible. Filth is filth. A spade is a spade. Corruption is corruption. Homosexulaity is a perverse sickness caused by perverse demons,unclean rebellious filthy spirits.
Wishy washy politicians that support gay marriage should be booted out of office. Supreme Court Judges that support gay marriage should be booted out of office. Any presidential candidate supporting perverse Supreme Court decisions should be shunned and not supported by the righteous voting public that still believe in the sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage.
Can homosexuals be delivered? In Sodom and Gormorrah they refused to repent and refused to change their way of life even when struck with blindness.
The righteous Judge of all the earth will be righteous in His judgement to destroy this wicked sinful world that has perverted the natural order of life in the streets and in the courts of the land and in the Laodocean Churches.
The gay priests are an abomination in the sight of God and should be booted out and excommunicated from their churches .Filth is filth whether clothed in priestly garbs, or court trappings or politician clothes. LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR. Errol Smythe.
There is a difference between man’s law and God’s law. It is not the place of the United States Federal government to be exclusively Christian of any denomination. If we are to have our own faith or lack thereof respected, then we MUST respect other’s morals. Filth may be filth, but to many Americans the comments you just made are considered filth, and if your comments are to be respected by those people, then you must respect theirs. That’s called Freedom of Religion.
Scott, Word,
Want to bet that no matter how much we tell the above poster that they are waaayyy off base that the trolls will attack us reguardless?
Scott,
Great post and reply.
Why does Errol Smythe keep returning back to this post? Does he think this post constitutes the whole blog?
He’s like a frog who fell in the well…