No gift for understatement
A certain someone of recent note criticizes the “sensationalist” and apparently Republican New York Times, which he says quoted him out of context, and then amazingly praises Senator Obama as the first and possibly only honest man ever to run for President of the United States:
I have never been exposed to that kind of duplicitous behavior before, and I want to write you publicly to let you know that I do not approve of it and will not be party to any further smearing of the name, the reputation, the integrity or the character of perhaps this nation’s first (and maybe even only) honest candidate offering himself for public service as the person to occupy the Oval Office…
I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party’s national “blog.” The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame.
It is interesting that Reverend Wright seems to claim that Senator Obama is the Messiah — or does claiming him as perhaps the first and only honest man to stand for President in 220 years have another meaning? Perhaps it’s just another nutty statement in Wright’s long line of such statements, but it’s a particular kind of nuttiness to assert that a guy who has been a Senator for a couple of years is not just the new Lincoln, but superior to Lincoln, Washington, FDR, Jefferson, and all the others. (HT: Powerline)
UPDATE
It apparently turns out that master showman Jeremiah Wright might just be a big phony baloney who was raised in a very middle class way and is moving into a 10,000 square foot house. So is Wright just a huckster who drives a Porsche and mouths rhetoric that is the precise inverse of the way he lives his own life? This P.T. Barnum aspect to Wright adds an extra fillip to his relationship with the stirring orator he mentored. (HT: Larwyn)