Posted by Barry

Yet more revelations from Barry, The Adorable Talking Chihuahua!! We have already learned that Brett Belmont is a liar, Tim Worstall is a paid agent of The International Right-Wing Conspiracy and abb1 is clueless, and now – as if that wasn’t enough – we get to sneak a peek inside Jacob Levy’s head! Brilliant!

More shocking revelations to follow, stay tuned.

Posted by Steve LaBonne

This bears endless repetition – Jacob Levy isn’t being deceptive; he’s just been so numbed by the current political situation that the repeated curses and lamentations of right-wing priests blend into the general background noise. As it does for most of us.

I have a hard time thinking of what it’d take for a right-winger priest to get ‘excommunicated’ by the media like Wright has been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47MsW9WIFR8

He rightly puts Wright’s statement on HIV in perspective. Even if he is mistaken on that, there was the case where medical officials let Black men die of syphilis while letting them believe they were receiving treatment.

I think that an avowed smart person should read the sermons again (and perhaps a bit of Kierkegaard) until he understands that’s not what Jeremiah Wright said.

No, it’s a real tragedy that many of those left-leaning people don’t vote.

(This is not to say that all non-voters are left-leaning or any such silliness – but your snark would only make sense if there was something approaching 100% participation in the voting process.)

This round was a reaction to a short-term explosive incident (Wright’s press conference) rather than a long-term bubbling up of rumormongering hitting a fever pitch (the original “Wright controversy”). I was mildly impressed by Obama’s original speech, and have since become so thoroughly irritated with the issue that Obama’s inelegant bluntness appealed to me more.

I find no evidence of Wright’s perspective in Obama’s copious policy recommendations, and can’t see that Wright has somehow tainted Obama’s psychology.

Regarding Northwestern: they cited controversy” as the reason for withdrawal? In other words, Wright’s statements and philosophy and service were sufficient to qualify him for a Northwestern degree in their eyes – none of that is problematic. The problem is the negative media attention that he has attracted, rather coincidentally due to the Obama presidential campaign.

So whatever body of work they intended to honor has been compromised by a burst of media hype? One way or another, that doesn’t speak well for the value of an honor from Northwestern.

[C]ould you point me to anything Wright said that’s wrong, besides the AIDS issue?

In general I am a Rev. Wright fan, but there was that racist bit about the left-brained blacks vs. right-brained whites in his NAACP speech.