Ten must-see Jeremiah Wright videos (updated)

Here's a selection of the top ten must-see videos on the Reverend Wright controversy currently circulating on the web. From the soundbites that triggered the current dispute to Wright's more glorious moments, with some surprising reactions too (ever expect to hear Mike Huckabee defending Obama's pastor? Watch on).

Update: Some readers have asked me to post a fuller version of the 9/11 sermon, in which Rev. Wright attributes the "chickens coming home to roost" quote to Edward Peck, a US ambassador. Happy to oblige. This one is first, followed by the "God damn America" quote in context. Then scroll down for the original ten.

Wright on Clinton and Obama:

Wright on World Aids Day:

Wright on Israel:

Wright as posted by Trinity:

Wright on 9/11:

Wright as posted by Trinity:

Wright on 9/11:

Reaction from John McCain:

Reaction from Otis Moss, current Trinity pastor:

Reaction from Mike Huckabee:

Comments

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[David]

Exactly what do people find inflammatory? Everything the pastor says is true. No doubt the moderator will not let this comment go through, but if she does, post your responses here:

http://reddit.com/info/6cszm/comments/

[Jaap den Haan]

Without a scandal nobody can exist, it seems. This is also true for small communities, and in the United States probably due to a kind of radical sense of humour from overacting and overstatement, unlike the British sense of humour which is the reverse, and based on underacting and understatement. The closer you get, also in intimate relation, the more repulsed you get. I don't see the point. But I understand why someone unnamed said once it is better to rouse a big scandal than a small one. The smaller ones take more time.

[Paul]

Too bad so many of the clips are surrounded by Fox "News" commentary. Fox can always be counted on to slant their comments toward the most banal conservative and republican talking points.

[Ben George]

I have always believed the Times Newspaper to be a serious newsprint. Now, I understand what it means to be unloved by Murdoch! Barak Obama is berated constantly by the media empire of the Murdoch American press and the vendetta is becoming all too obviuos. The Fox news media is so agressively anti Obama, now this newspaper - steeped in professional journalistic principles(or so I naively thought) is now been used as the propaganda tool of Republicans abroad.

[caroaber]

Actually, none of these are must see viewing. This pastor is already retired and he is not running for political office. Sen. McCain has also been endorsed by controversial religious leaders (Rev. Hagee, televangelist Pat Robertson), but has yet to renounce their bigoted remarks.

Sen. Obama gave a thoughtful and clarifying address about his reasons for belonging to this congregation. But he's spent much time in Washington, DC and on the road and heard some, not all, of the controversial remarks.

This whole issue is a red herring. We need to focus on our wars and our economy.

[Lee]

I'm actually quite impressed with the breadth of these comments. The selection of the 10 videos provides more of a balanced perspective than I was expecting. This makes iteresting viewing and I encourage readers to go through more than just the top one or two videos. The reactions from McCain, Huckabee and the new Trinity Pastor are worth seeing.

[Ann Womack]

Firstly, it is typical political strategy to hold Mr. Obama accountable for Rev. Wright's comments. What Rev. Wright said has not changed my support of Mr. Obama. The experiences of African Americans in America are fairly well documented. Not much has changed for the better. I have personally and almost consistently faced intensive racism in the workplace despite my education and credentials to the point where I have filed and won federal court lawsuits. I have personally witnessed and protested against disparaties in the public schools (Pennsylvania) that injure talented black children educationally and emotionally for the purpose of exalting average achieving white children. Personally I have been wrongfully harassed and charged by the police while riding legally through a small predominantly white town in PA. I am a 40 something black woman. America is yet jacked up and more and more nations of the world are lashing out and tired of the arrogance. A change is needed. Perhaps Obama is part of the answer right now. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called America out 40 years ago. If America does not repent of its sins, God will surely bring judgement. Rev. Wright need not damn America because America is damning itself.

[Veronica Lubeck]

I think Rev. Scott said it all. I was shocked by Rev. Wright's remarks but then I don't have his history. Getting all this out in the open is the best thing that could happen to our country.

[JoAnn Jackson]

Otis Moss, It only takes a SOUND BITE to show the true character of a man, and that my dear is all Jeremiah Wright is, A MAN (NOT A PASTOR). A pastor is someone called by GOD to teach Christianity, Love and Peace to his fellow man. This enitity is evil and filled with Hate and outrage for his fellow man and America. I thank GOD ALMIGHTY this came to everyones attention before his follower Barack Obama became this nations next President!!! THANK YOU JESUS!!!

[Phil Barr]

Based on my past experience and these videos, it is apparent that after over 300 years no matter what anyone else does who is not black will be paying for what happened to the blacks who were brought to America by a few people we are no longer responsible for. It is like anyone who is not black is held responsible for a crime that was done long ago as a form of guilt to be held over the heads of everyone else. How many more years of crying and spreading more hate is it going to take to satisfy this wrong doing to blacks and the rest who have to pay for the greed of a few greedy men in our past! Isn't it about time to bury history where it belongs in a society where Democracy breeds greed for land at the expense of the Indians who were here long before any of the rest of us! We should look at the injustice of all and realize that greed has gotten out of control as well as alcohol and drugs. How long of a look into the past does it take to realize that the only responsible persons for these problems were the greedy people who used the system at that time 300 years ago for gain. Holding the rest of people in America 300 years later for that past crime is simply asurd at best if not rediculous! To impose this hate on everyone else by exposing your past deep seated feelings makes things worse! Especially in a world where people can do nothing about correcting what someone else did or is responsible for!
Really, do I need to say anything more as I now feel like I should fear the rest of my life wondering what some black person will do with this hate generated past Rev Wright has dumped on his and our society! And since healing is something we would all like to eventually happen, do you think that will ever happen with the use of hate to stir up what has happened in the past! Democracy breeds greed and someone is going to get hurt, but do you judge everyone based on that or do you judge those who are responsible. Point the finger at the Bilderberg and the rest of the ones who control the money for they are the ones who make the rules we live and die from!

[Katie of St. Paul]

In the interest of full disclosure, don't you think the entire sermons, which are readily available, should be posted so viewers can put in context what this guy said? Or would you just prefer to fuel hatred rather than understand it?

This is not a defense of Rev. Wright. This is a defense of free speech. Sound bites hurt us all.

[John Chuckman, Toronto, Canada]

I suspect if you were to show a selection of videos from many American Christian preachers, you would raise eyebrows.

The late Jerry "Jabba the Hutt" Falwell used to sell videos at his services that suggested the Clintons had Vince Foster murdered.

Pat Robertson has numerous times blamed specific groups of Americans for bringing on God's vengeance in the form of natural disasters such as hurricanes.

Oral Roberts went up to the "Prayer Tower" at the "university" he named after himself to go on a hunger strike until his faithful fleeced flock coughed up another several million bucks in donations, and they did.

Scientology in the 1960s was everywhere talked of as a cult at best. It actually was widely regarded as an organized fraud and was investigated a number of times in various jurisdictions. Then the miracle of political influence somewhere gave them tax-exempt status with America's Internal Revenue Service, and they became, overnight, a (sort of mainline) religion keeping more out of each fee they charge followers.

Oh, by the way, a former church minister to the Clintons is being tried for child molestation.

[Karen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

This is the link to a part of the Sermon that The Reverend Jeremiah Wright gave and which have been playing continuously on the News.

You will see that he was in fact quoting a WHITE US ambassador who was on Fox News and who had made the comments about 'chickens coming host to roost'.

The media has DELIBERATELY distorted this mans comments in an attempt to damage Obama and cause further race divisions in the US.

I wonder who could possibly have a motive for that?

For anyone who is anyway interested in the truth and being self informed, PLEASE view the link above.

[Knowledge Is Power]

The Media has been biased to Obama all this time and finally something came out that can't deny. Hey CNN,FOX, why don't you whip out the tapes Larry Sinclair sent you? If Hillary even farts it's in the news! Why are you hiding the Larry Sinclair story??? You picked the wrong one to air. You thought the Pastor Wright story was the less damaging of the stories. It didn't work the way you planned, now your in full blown damage control mode but it's too late. Your Golden Boy is done!

[jerval Peixoto Sobrinho]

the rev wright is wrong, this is (his) not America I love, no hate. GOD BLESS HILLARY

Uh. Is there a reason that you don't have the youtube link to Obama's rebutal? Let me help you out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo

[Daphne Kenward]

I have had the time to look and listen to what the rumpus about Rev Wright said, right wing American claim is anti-patriotic, I am afraid I am like many millions of people around the world who view America as exactly what Rev Wright expressed. The unfortunate thing for many Far Right Americans we now live in the 21th century and what America wants to do is shake off the baggage of the past, without accepting the fact that America has been involved in Genocide around the world, though far right racist dont see killing innocent Palestinians as a problem no more than Linching some poor innocent Black woman or child or man in America, many Blacks go to war only to come back and find they are fighting for freedom in Iraq, only that they have no right inside white America. Black Service man came back from the first Golf War a Documentary on the BBC showed a Black man came back from th Golf war dead and his body was dug up three times because he was black, he was not allowed to be buried in cirtain Cemeteries based on his colour. I met an American service man and I asked him how can you go around the world killing people who has never harmed Black people & the people sending you out to kill people you dont know has done you more harm, when you have no right in the country you live in, how do you do that, he said it is either do that or have no Job, I expressed I could not do it because morally it is wrong and I could not support that, first you must fight for your own right before that of some one else, if your Country do not respect you or your children what could you be fighting for, you are only doing it for money, it is the same as Judas 30 peices of silver it is morrally wrong. So how can Rev Wright be wrong for saying that America has committed Genocide in several countries, and also in Iraq and state sponcered Terrorism against the Palastinians, by giving Money to Israel to occupy the Land of the Plaestinians, and then lie that they have some peace plan, when it is a lie this war has been going on for over 60 years, with no end. I came to America for the first time in 1991 and when I saw the KKK crosses on the Free ways in the deep south I said these people are so religious, because I was young and did not know what it meant, it was when I began to say what my experience was in America I began to understand. It was a few years later I heard about two White men who dragged a disabled Black Man to his death to the point his body was dismembered, Mr Bird, when I think two white people could commit such a crime in the modern age, I can only imagine what Mr Wright knows about that I don't know, and to hear White America complaning that Rev Wright should not speak openly about life in Racist America would be to denigh the Holocust. America is a sick society, and they think covering up their past will help it to go away, well I disagree because one has to come to terms with their past to Change for the future. America can not be in denial, because even if the average American is ignorant of their past, the World is only too aware of the History of American facism and Racial divisions, and more over their sick Racist foreign policies. Quite frankly the sooner the people who support Fox News and the O'Riley's of this world which I would not be surprised if it is Murdoch who thinks Money is more important than Morality, and control the worlds Press, freedom of information is important to Americans because they are living in the Dark ages because most of them don't even know what is going on in their own Country.

[Betsy]

Watch Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9-11 sermon in context
Already 180,000 people have watched this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

Jeremiah Wright's God Damn America in context
Already 40,000 people have watched this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw

[John Aldridge]

I have found on YouTube two videos, one lasting about ten minutes and the other lasting about six minutes, which place the "Goddamn America" and "the country's chickens coming home to roost" soundbites in context. As an old white man who has lived all his life in the Old Conferacy in the U.S., I do not find the entire statements hateful or unpatriotic. I do find the statements truthful and honest.

Some people would rather maintain their pleasant fantasies and attack others, rather than face inconvienent truths.

[S.V.Rao]

A Charlaton

[Jesse]

I can't see what the pastor said that was wrong. One of those people had a so called pastor on denoncing pastor wright, what god doe's he serve the true and living god,or the god of this earth, the bible demonizes women and and the black african, and the dead african worship the white male as god, that image we grew up with of a white jesus has made idiots of the black people of this world and ego maniacs of white people ie EGO easing god out

[Wayne Peters]

I have always thought that our personal freedoms are the most important idea for a free society.
If a person expresses a view about things that affect our personal freedoms e.g., GM food, historical events, human embryo experimentation, it must be good to have these things out and talked about.

[Steef Schinkel]

DEAR PEOPLE OF the USA / AMERICA : Let's stopped the Patriotism of Mr. Barack Obama !

For its to late

[damnwewishyouwerepresident.com]

these are not very good videos, found most of them boring. certainly, you could find some better ones to post?

Hillary '08