4/25/2008

Comparing Rev. Wright's Sermon to what he claims that he said

Fox News does everyone a great service by providing Rev. Wright's entire "God Damn America" sermon here. Rev. Wright claims that the "God Damn America" sermon was taken out of context. Sorry, but I don't believe that anyone can listen to this sermon and think that his "God Damn America" are taken out of context. The whole sermon is about how evil the American government is (e.g., the "government lied" phrase must have been used 15 to 20 times in Part 3). The "God Damn America" discussion is just summarizing what he was saying up to that point. The sermon starts off slowly enough, but by the time you get to Part 2 it is going pretty strong. The "God Damn America" phrase is in Part 3.

This is a very long sermon, but if you only have time to listen to one part, please listen to Part 3, which is about 16 minutes long.

No one can listen to this sermon and think that "God Damn America" sermon was taken out of context. Indeed, there are so many offensive things in this sermon that Obama was spared by the media just using the few out takes that were used.

UPDATE: Juan Williams gives his take on the issue here. Williams doesn't think that the quotes were taken out of context. Williams says: "[Rev. Wright] needs to take some responsibility."

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