Thursday, June 11, 2009
By Chris Wallace
Not Making the Wright Noises
President Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, says White House officials will not allow his former church member to contact him. Wright tells the Chicago Tribune: "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. They will not allow him to talk to somebody ? who calls a spade what it is."
Wright's sermons blaming the US for 9/11, and charging that the government created the AIDS virus, caused an uproar last year and led Obama to leave his church. But Wright says he has no regrets: "Regret for what? That the media went back 5, 7, 10 years, and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons?"
Wright attempted to clarify his remarks during a radio interview today, saying he meant to use the word "Zionists" instead of "Jews."
By Chris Wallace
Not Making the Wright Noises
President Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, says White House officials will not allow his former church member to contact him. Wright tells the Chicago Tribune: "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. They will not allow him to talk to somebody ? who calls a spade what it is."
Wright's sermons blaming the US for 9/11, and charging that the government created the AIDS virus, caused an uproar last year and led Obama to leave his church. But Wright says he has no regrets: "Regret for what? That the media went back 5, 7, 10 years, and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons?"
Wright attempted to clarify his remarks during a radio interview today, saying he meant to use the word "Zionists" instead of "Jews."
