DO WE HOLD THE MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE?
See how misleading the post-9/11 sound bite of Jeremiah Wright’s 35 minute sermon, really was. It matters greatly as people believe such sermons are what Obama heard on a regular basis.
The media has sold a story of an anti-American message given one week after the tragedy took place in order to tug at the heartstrings and patriotic sensibilities of Americans. Intentional smear? Read the full transcript of 9 minute sermon and see for yourself.
FOX News first aired the soundbites which have been repeatedly re-broadcast by mainstream media.
- Did you know that Wright starts out the sermon speaking of the “tragedy” of 9/11″ but says that a war killing innocent people as “payback” is wrong as is racism against them? He talks about the “insanity of the cycle of violence and the cycle of hatred”. He says people have:
“moved from a worship of God to the worship of war against those whom God has created… They have moved from the hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents.”
- Did you know that when Wright said “America’s chickens have come home to roost”, he was actually quoting former US Ambassador Edward Peck who had recently spoken on FOX News?
- Did you know that the media plays the sound bite as if Wright was unmoved by the tragedy of 9/11 but it’s clearly not true when you see the footage?
Wright mentions that he was stuck 20 minutes outside of New York in Newark, New Jersey on September 11th. He remained there for 4 days since all New York airports were closed, and he was unable to get to Chicago for a funeral.
- Wright preaches against the killing of unarmed civilians, children and what happens when war occurs. His sermon decries the killing of innocent people anywhere, including what has happened in this country to Native Americans, Japanese Americans and others.
- Wright says “Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred.”
- Wright goes on to ask in the sermon “What should our response be in light of such an unthinkable act? I asked the Lord that question Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I was stuck in Newark, NJ…” He calls for nonviolence and an end to hatred.
Perhaps now we can see how an excerpt can be grossly misleading. Why are we not shown these longer clips on the news media?
