Obama And Occidental College

The argument against believing Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not unique. It is the same pattern used every day by police and psychiatrists and other professionals. They use and rely on self identification. If a person says he or she is mentally ill, they are automatically believed. But if they say the FBI is following them they are not believed. Is that what happened to the 19 victims of James Bulger, FBI informant extraordinaire? If they say they are sane or innocent they are not believed. If they admit criminal acts, they are believed. That gives rise to false confessions, about 25 percent of all confessions according to one researcher. What makes this understandable is that people believe what they want to believe when they have no facts, only words. That is what credibility is about. But many people rely on credentials which they equate with credibility. How is the issue of unidentified sources by Klein, different from Bob Woodward's unidentified sources? Woodward remembered exact quotes from unidentified sources. The issue is a double standard, which journalists enjoy and thrive on. 

[From article]
The book’s big revelation comes from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He claims, in an on-the-record interview with Klein, that in 2008 an unnamed friend of an unnamed friend of Obama sent Wright an email offering him $150,000 “not to preach at all until the November presidential election.” Republicans may seethe, but it’s odd that they would suddenly take the word of Jeremiah Wright, a publicity-seeking narcissist who says AIDS was invented by the government.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/self-made-man_646858.html?nopager=1

Self-Made Man
Barack Obama’s autobiographical fictions
JUN 18, 2012, VOL. 17, NO. 38
BY ANDREW FERGUSON
Weekly Standard

Rev. Jeremaih Wright Interview with Obama Book Author

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/church-was-not-their-thing-new-audio-from-rev-wrights-shocking-interview-with-obama-book-author-ed-klein/

‘CHURCH WAS NOT THEIR THING’: NEW AUDIO FROM REV. WRIGHT’S SHOCKING INTERVIEW WITH OBAMA BOOK AUTHOR ED KLEIN
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:39 am
by Billy Hallowell

Obama Campaign Tried to Bribe Rev. Jeremiah Wright

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_bribe_to_silence_wright_io9jneobl3fUF0cb7LpcNM

The ‘bribe’ to silence Wright
By EDWARD KLEIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:43 PM, May 13, 2012 Posted: 11:14 PM, May 12, 2012

Ann Coulter: Obama Is Not A Muslim

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38812

Obama Is Not A Muslim

by Ann Coulter
Human Events

09/01/2010

Obama's Rev. Wright Speaks

[From article]
"During a five-day seminar Wright taught last week in Chicago, he was back at it, claiming that whites and Jews are controlling the flow of worldwide information and oppressing blacks in Israel and America.
[. . .]
Wright referred to Italians as "Mamma Luigi" and "pizzeria."
[. . .]
he told a Virginia newspaper that the only reason he and the president were not speaking at the moment is that "them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/white_folk_done_took_this_country_hWlQbwxvMbnYdkYwVZwSWJ

Obama's race-rant Rev. rages on
'White folk done took this country'
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:00 PM, June 27, 2010
Posted: 2:35 AM, June 27, 2010

Obama Breaks Ties with Israel

[From article]
"Regarding Israel, a lifetime of extremist associations has infected Obama with an emotional loathing for the Jewish state and a romantic vision of Palestinian terrorists as freedom fighters. (Anti-Israeli and naked anti-Jewish rhetoric is endemic within left-wing hate-church congregations, such as that led by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.)"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/breaking_with_israel_40EjmsZxdOigwkLAQAFqhJ

Obama: Did he imbibe distaste for Israel from pal Rev. Wright (r.)?

Breaking with Israel
Who will trust America now?
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:34 AM, March 18, 2010
Posted: 12:53 AM, March 18, 2010
Ralph Peters

Rev. Jeremiah Wright in New Video Outrage


http://www.aim.org/aim-column/controversial-new-video-of-obamas-pastor/

Controversial New Video of Obama’s Pastor
AIM Column
By Cliff Kincaid
November 1, 2009

Protected Speech

[Posted May 8, 2009 as a comment on Phoenix online. But it was deleted.]
[An edited version of this letter was published in the May 22, 2009 edition of the Boston Phoenix (see link below.]

Phoenix editors object to Jay Severin calling illegal aliens "the world's lowest of primitives." WTKK's Michelle McPhee and a great many police officers refer to criminals who are citizens as "dirt bags," and "scum bags." These are not human characteristics. Why no objection? Why is the Phoenix silent on allowing Bill Ayers an admitted bomber to speak at Brandeis? Why is his speech protected more than Severin's?

Phoenix editors say Severin's speech should be "unacceptable," while citing no standard. Calling illegal aliens "primitives" does not "deny the basic humanity of Mexicans." Severin insults illegal aliens as a special form of humans, unlike being a "dirt bag." Eric Holder insulted white Americans. Why is the Phoenix silent?

The editors affirmed "Severin's constitutional right to say what he said" suggesting that just because he can, does not mean he should say it.

The editors say, "his on-air presence does nothing to enrich or elevate public debate" with no supporting evidence. Why not compare Severin to Ayers or Rev. Jeremiah Wright?

Just because the Phoenix editors can write editorials, does not mean that they should.

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[Edited version published at this link. Third letter from the top.]

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/83883-Fascism-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/

or

http://tinyurl.com/oz8kg2

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[Comment posted May 9, 2009 on Phoenix online.]

Phoenix editors lament dehumanizing hate speech toward illegal aliens. Severin's comments are derogatory not dehumanizing. If dehumanizing speech is an evil to be denounced, why are the editors silent about dehumanizing speech toward persons with disabilities? Police, journalists, medical professionals, and court employees regularly dehumanize persons with disabilities calling them diseases. Why is saying a person is a "paraplegic" or a "schizophrenic" OK with the Phoenix editors? If a major concern of the Phoenix is hate speech and equal rights, why do the editors ignore widespread abuses of persons with disabilities? Is there bigotry at the Phoenix?

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Roy Bercaw, CEO and Founder
North American Pirate Defense League

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/82542-Bostons-Severin-problem/

Boston's Severin problem
Is WTKK up to measuring degrees of intolerance?
EDITORIAL
May 6, 2009