Nina Totenberg: Reverend Wright Is Irrelevant Because Obama Killed Bin Laden
The Obama-loving media had quite a hissy fit this week when the President's America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright suddenly became a campaign issue despite all their efforts.
So opposed to the mere mention of Wright's name is NPR's Nina Totenberg that on PBS's Inside Washington Friday, she said he's irrelevant because the current White House resident - wait for it! - killed Osama bin Laden (video follows with transcript and commentary):
GORDON PETERSON, HOST: Why is Wright off limits?
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: He’s not off limits, but why is he relevant anymore?
PETERSON: Oh, well okay. That’s another question.
TOTENBERG: Reverend Wright’s biggest sin was talking about 9/11 as if somehow, you know, the United States government was involved, and it was a reprehensible speech in many ways. But, you know, Barack Obama killed, ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. How is this relevant?
Actually, I think Totenberg has a great point.
Maybe everything - the economy, the debt, gas prices, and Obama's entire record as president - is irrelevant because bin Laden's dead.
Let's cancel the upcoming elections, give Obama another four years, and call Democrats the victors in all races across the country because bin Laden's dead.
All those opposed say nay.
The nays have it despite every media member including Totenberg voting aye.
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The Obama Legacy: A Body Count.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:38pm.
The Obama Legacy: I got bin Laden killed! Is that really how the liberals want us to remember Obama? The man who received the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Faulting the government for
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:39pm.
Faulting the government for 9/11 wasn't Wright's biggest sin. He also preached about how the CIA gave AIDS to black people and has a history of making racist comments.
Even if Obama doesn't agree with all that, it shows the sort of politician he is in cozying up to people like that just to get ahead politically.
➚ Who are you kidding, Noel?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:42pm.
Nina Totenberg is really Chris Matthews in tranny garb.
We've known it for years.
You're probably right!
Submitted by BBallleaper on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:52pm.
But how does Tingles get that Helmet Head hairdo of hers? As the jockey said to his mount, "Hey, why the log face?" Nina reminds me of an old sway back we had on the ranch in Douglas, Wyoming.
This woman is nuts!!
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:43pm.
"TOTENBERG: Reverend Wright’s biggest sin was talking about 9/11 as if somehow, you know, the United States government was involved, and it was a reprehensible speech in many ways. But, you know, Barack Obama killed, ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. How is this relevant?"
Talk about the mental gymnastics she went through to come up with that!! Like that was the only thing Wright ever said?? Not the hundred of other things he said about "evil white people, world need runs on whitemans greed", etc? Geeeez!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Not god Bless America, NO NO NO! God DAMN America!
Submitted by Conservator on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 2:19pm.
I know this because Rev. Jeremiah Wright told me so. And of all places, it was ABC News that put Wright's horrid sermons into proper context and they dealt with far more than 9/11.
Wright God Damn America
Of course, ABC did try to put somewhat of a spin on their coverage.
➚ Can't wait
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:48pm.
OK, Michelle, so you caught me with Reggie Love. Did I mention I got Bin Ladin?
Good one!
Submitted by BBallleaper on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:53pm.
LOL!
Cool, that soooooo needed a spew alert.
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 4:29pm.
ROFL!
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I married my wife.... So my
Submitted by Edhenry on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:50pm.
I married my wife....
So my mother is irrelevant.
Such the logic of liberals
Her mother, on the other hand...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:22pm.
"I married my wife....
So my mother is irrelevant."
Her mother, on the other hand, is not only relevant, but dominant! (I just can't resist the Mother in Law jokes!)
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
I love the Liberal version of Monopoly!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:53pm.
Kill (or in this case, order someone else to) a stinking, A-rab terrorist bastard, and get out of jail free for being a (sort of) black, racist, anti-American RBFSOB!
Wow!
Submitted by Bliggie on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:53pm.
I didn't realize Obama killed Osama! How did he do it? Did he read him a speech or give him Obamacare? Either way he's bored to death or dying in a waiting line, but I digress. Here all this time I thought Obama gave the go ahead to the Navy SEALS to kill Osama Bin Laden after he had a CYA plan, and only after using the tools that were in place by GW Bush that Obama was opposed to. Damn the one time he can actually blame Bush and he doesn't. But okay then he killed Bin Laden, I don't care if he's an adopted son of a racist, anti Semitic trash talker, no not Ayers the other guy, Wright. Maybe if Bush would've killed Bin Laden he could've hung out with David Duke. JS
Shucks, Bliggie, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:59pm.
... if Bush had ordered the killing of Asshoma bin Laudy, Bambi would have already declared a national holiday in memory of the tragic day that an American president committed the heinous crime of ordering the death of a peaceful leader of Islam.
Hell, he may have ordered that we observe Arab History Month each year in public schools!
Newsbubba,
Submitted by Bliggie on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:23pm.
I think they do that already, but your point is spot on.
Ok, liberal logic demands this...
Submitted by retrocon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:59pm.
"If Obama got Osama, then Rev. Wright is irrelevant."
isn't that similar to the Southpark "Chewbacca defense?"
"If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then you must acquit [O.J.]."
➚ Retro! This just in!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:07pm.
The White House has been renamed "Endor"
Now it's getting more logical...
Submitted by retrocon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 6:44pm.
Endor is now the White House...
Endor backwards is Rodne, as in Rodney King, King L.A. riots, King/Rex, T-Rex, Tyrannosaurus , Trayvon...
Eric/Ewok Holder coincidence?
So, logically...
"If Obama lives in the White House, then we will have rioting if Zimmerman is acquitted."
Not related to the Wright topic, sure, but you have to follow the Obamalogic where it takes you.
Hey, love yer new tagline Cool.
Was just about to mention that, retro
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 3:08pm.
"Look at the pretty monkey!"
*head explodes*
Monty Python
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 4:40pm.
TV Announcer: "It's just gone 8 o'clock and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode."
The penguin on top of the set now explodes.
➚ OMO, strat
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 6:08pm.
Mrs. -----Bader, too?
Pretty Big Stretch
Submitted by CJohnson on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:00pm.
To connect both dots like that requires an elasticity of purpose which, as a navigator, I cannot fathom.
Totenberg regularly fails the Connect the Dots test
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 6:06pm.
She is weekly cannon fodder for Krauthammer, and even Evan Thomas shoots her down occasionally.
Just realized about Dr. K.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:16pm.
He was board certified in psychiatry in 1984. I was board certified in 1982. In a formal credential sense, that makes me senior to him in one way. Problem is, he finished his psychiatry residency before I did. It all evens out.
Dr. K has lost none of his diagnostic or prognostic skill. I don't know if he maintains his board certification or license in medicine, but he is always 100% on target. He is a world-renowned authority on bipolar disorder, and literally wrote the book on the subject of managing a particularly difficult subset of patients.
I love hearing him spar with that dimbulb Totenberg, largely because she has absolutely zero comeback when he pins her ears back on any use of psychoblab or public health care policy. I remember seeing him destroy her on the issue of socialized medicine in the early Bush years. Who in the hell would she be to argue with a world-renowned psychiatrist?
I believe that's what they call...
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:05pm.
...a non-sequitor.
Surely, Nina, you're familiar with the term.
How about: "Obama has violated the constitution at least 5 ways I can think of off the top of my head that richly deserve impeachment and removal from office... but his wife has nice arms & arugula in her garden, so let' keep 'em."
Makes about as much sense.
Why is Rev. Wright "relevant" now? Goodess help us.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:06pm.
Why is Rev. Wright "relevant" now? Goodess help us.
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: He’s [Rev. Wright] not off limits, but why is he relevant anymore?
Well, because he's in the news in the moment, with some ground shaking revelations. How's that?
Hold on. Wait a minute, here. Oh, he's not in the news. Well, not the "new" news - the news that would damage Obama's re-election chances - it it were in the news.
The ‘bribe’ to silence Wright
‘Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election.”
“Who sent the e-mail?” I asked Wright.
“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”
“He offered you money?”
“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”
“How much money did he offer you?”
“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.
“Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?”
“Yes,” Wright said. “Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place.
Then Rev. Wright goes on and makes the case that "truth" is not high on Obama's list.
That makes him "relevant."
(;~/ gary
God D*mn America!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:15pm.
bin Laden thought the US was evil
Rev Wright thinks the US is evil
The statements condemming the US from osama were milder than those from Wright.
bin Laden attacked us from the outside and the Rev Wright attacks us from the inside. bin laden is gone but the venom from the good Reverand continues.
Well, You Know
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:24pm.
She couldn't very well call Wright a 'wracist' now could she? That would make her a 'wrace baiter'.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Nina the Nitwit
Submitted by mmilesll on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 2:14pm.
I can't find words to express how numbingly stupid this woman is. Wright was nobama's mentor for 20 years, doesn't the idiot understand that.
Maybe she is right?
Submitted by c5then on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 2:31pm.
Maybe the only thing that Obama was needed for was to OK the request to kill Bin Laden. He's done that. Nothing else he has done has been even remotely helpful to the country. So...Nina is correct, but now we are done with that and don't need him anymore. We need an actual adult leader in the White House who realizes that government can only hinder the private sector and gets it the HELL out of the way so we can start the recovery.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
This idiot has just lowered the bar
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 2:36pm.
for all morons. This is the new greatest lower bound.
By the way, Nina...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 2:48pm.
By the way, Nina, you asked "how is it relevant?" Well, as bin Laden never attended Obama's Church, and bin Laden never LEAD that Church, as the Truther Reverend did, your argument is totally irrelevant, never mind being totally asinine.
In case you're too stupid to figure it, ask yourself this: what does the death of bin Laden have to do with Obama's former Church? NOTHING! For bin Laden was never a Truther! bin Laden claimed responsibility for 9/11, remember?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
After careful consideration I have reached the conclusion...
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 6:43pm.
...that the members of the Marxist State Media are not actually afflicted with a mental disorder.
No, their real problem is they are all SCREAMING YELLOW-ZONKERS BATSH*T NUTS!
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Race War and the P.C. Media
Submitted by berlet98 on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 5:43pm.
Race War and the P.C. Media
DrudgeReport.com’s Friday headline, “Race Related Hate Crimes Up, Coincide with Obama Presidency”, seemed to confirm what most people who follow the news already knew, that since the election of Barack Hussein Obama, incidents of blacks attacking whites had increased wildly, maybe exponentially.
Not so.
First of all, it’s difficult to determine numbers since the MSM rarely notes the race of the alleged criminals, a description that could aid in their apprehension. Secondly, much of the media don’t bother to report black racist crimes at all.
In any event, the linked article from ABCNews referred to the reaction of “white supremacist groups” to Obama’s presidency, not to the proliferation of black violence.
Indeed, ABC never saw fit to mention that proliferation, instead focusing exclusively on the increase in the number of white militias–from 150 to 1,274 over three years–who are incensed over “changes in demographics” and resort to violence, while never citing a single instance of that violence. (http://abcn.ws/LjAC3H)
Correction: “what most people who follow the news already knew” should read, “what most people are oblivious of” since the mainstream media, often with the complicity of law enforcement, has long been engaged in a concerted effort to conceal the extent of black hate crimes.
There are various reasons for the MSM’s failure to fulfill their fundamental journalistic responsibilities to the public of reporting news objectively and honestly.
Some in the media claim they are striving to avoid stirring up dissension, although they had no problem distorting facts related to the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case and causing nationwide upheavals with their proven misrepresentations.
Others claim black on white crime isn’t inspired by hatred of Caucasians but by poverty and discrimination which, in turn, somehow inspires blacks to attack whites in droves even though worse poverty and discrimination existed years ago and didn’t effect the mayhem we see today.
What most of the lamestreamers won’t admit is that they tailor much of the news to benefit Democrats and, especially, Barack Obama.
Featuring story after story involving black people assaulting, robbing, maiming, and murdering white people might awaken Americans to the reality that there is a one-sided race war in progress in America which could negatively impact Obama’s re-election chances.
Of course, First Lady Michelle Obama is on record as saying that every negative critique of her husband must incorporate a racist component, an odd opinion in light of Obama’s proclamation of a “post-racial America”, and an opinion that puts a damper on any implied criticism and automatically labels the critic a racist.
Lady O’s tactic is a variation on the theory that a great offense trumps any defense.
Noted African-American economist/philosopher/professor/prolific author Thomas Sowell is a keen observer of social trends in the United States. He is also fully cognizant of our race war and often goes on the offensive to illustrate the perils of that ongoing conflict. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=24164.)
Bin Laden is irrelevant
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 9:48pm.
because Obama killed the economy (and is working on the Bill of Rights).
So Obama's back to being a
Submitted by megax5000 on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 7:38pm.
So Obama's back to being a radical Christian instead of a radical muslin? Or atheist?
20 Years in the Pew of Hate-Spewing Rev. Wright
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