Obama bribed Reverend Wright to shut up

[applecorped]

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

"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."




150K to shut up? Not bad.

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[marplots]

So, when you said, "Obama bribed," you really meant, "one of Obama's friends?"

I get confused by thread titles.

 

[Richard Masters]

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

"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."




150K to shut up? Not bad.

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I would pay him to shut up too, but isn't the NY Post a tabloid?

 

[gnome]

Basically it's our Daily Fail, isn't it?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Basically it's our Daily Fail, isn't it?

Yup.

 

[BenBurch]

The CT section is ^^^

 

[Unabogie]

Isn't the Post owned by Murdoch?

Isn't this the same way they fabricated the "Obama was taught in a madrassa" smear? Or was that NY Mag?

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2007/01/19/9711/fox-obama-madrassa/

They print the smear in one of their "news" papers, then the next day all their hosts are discussing "the story first appeared in yesterday's Post". Are the righties already having their circle jerk meters turned up to eleven?

 

[WildCat]

The CT section is ^^^

So Wright is lying?

 

[WildCat]

Basically it's our Daily Fail, isn't it?

So that means Wright never said what Klein says he said in an interview?

 

[Unabogie]

Same writer, Ed Klein.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/05/12/483210/edward-klein-obama-book/

1. Klein’s last book, which was self-published, suggests Obama was born on foreign soil and is a practicing Mulism. Klein’s 2010 work The Obama Identity: A Novel (Or Is It?), co-authored with a former Republican congressman, is a compendium of Obama conspiracy theories. He had to self-publish the book.
2. Klein promoted a shameful conspiracy theory that Bill Clinton raped Hillary. In his 2005 book, Klein promoted an anonymous, hateful allegation supposedly made by two people who “claim” to have spoken with Bill Clinton about the circumstances surrounding the birth of the Clintons’ daughter Chelsea.
3. Klein repeatedly questioned Hillary Clinton’s sexual orientation. He has similarly disparaged Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy and Katie Couric in previous works, leading the Washington Post to comment that Klein “has made a second career of leaving knuckle prints on famous women.”
4. Klein has a history of publishing demonstrably false allegations about Obama as fact. In a 2010 entry in The Huffington Post, Klein detailed President Obama’s “humiliation” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu, claiming that sources told him of Obama leaving during a meeting with Netenyahu to have dinner with Michelle and their two daughters. One phone call would have revealed that to be impossible, since Michelle, Sasha and Malia were all in New York City at the time.
5. Klein’s book is being published by Regnery, a far-right imprint specializing in the promotion of conservative talking points. He was rejected by every respectable publishing house. In an interview, Klein claimed his difficulty locating a publisher was because Barack Obama was an “untouchable” subject. Yet several other books on the same subject, like Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas, set off a bidding war between the major New York publishers.
6. Even conservative critics view Klein as disreputable. Kathleen Parker, writing for the Tribune’s network of newspapers, described Klein’s 2005 book as “prurient tabloiding,” while New York Post columnist John Podhoretz said it was “one of the most sordid volumes I’ve ever waded through.” Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal review said it was “poorly written, poorly thought, poorly sourced and full of the kind of loaded language that is appropriate to a polemic but not an investigative work.”
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[KoihimeNakamura]

So that means Wright never said what Klein says he said in an interview?

Source credibility is pretty low.

 

[WildCat]

Source credibility is pretty low.

The source is Wright.

 

[applecorped]

The source is Wright.

But he's not credible.

 

[Unabogie]

The source is Wright.

The source is Klein, quoting Wright, describing an unnamed conspirator. But hey, I'm sure he's exactly correct. I think you should tell everyone you know about this bombshell.

while New York Post columnist John Podhoretz said it was “one of the most sordid volumes I’ve ever waded through.” Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal review said it was “poorly written, poorly thought, poorly sourced and full of the kind of loaded language that is appropriate to a polemic but not an investigative work.”

When you've lost Podhoretz...

 

[applecorped]

The source is Klein, quoting Wright, describing an unnamed conspirator. But hey, I'm sure he's exactly correct. I think you should tell everyone you know about this bombshell.

Are you suggesting Klein completely fabricated the quotes? We shall see if Wright denies this. If recordings exist that would make this all the more interesting.

“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said."

 

[A'isha]

So that means Wright never said what Klein says he said in an interview?

Given Klein's history and complete lack of credibility, probably. At the very least, it's unlikely to have happened exactly that way.

Do you trust Jerome Corsi too?

 

[Unabogie]

Are you suggesting Klein completely fabricated the quotes? We shall see if Wright denies this. If recordings exist that would make this all the more interesting.

“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said."

Yes, I am suggesting he's a fabulist. Did you see some of the other things he completely fabricated? Bill raped Hillary. Obama walked out on Netanyahu to have dinner with the family. Obama was born in Kenya.

I see no reason to believe a guy like that any more than if the source were Andrew Breitbart back from the dead.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

As someone who has been bashing Wright to the annoyance of several other posters here in other threads, I gotta admit myself the evidence here is rather thin.

I don't doubt that Klein is quoting Wright accurately, but Wrights credibility is all but nonexistant. it's well established that Wright also said that the jews are keeping him from talking to the president. Obviously no sane person believes that, so why should he be believed when he says Obama bribed him to shut up?

As much as I would enjoy this if it were true, I gotta say there doesn't seem to be any proof.

 

[A'isha]

In other words, its a nutcase with credibility issues being quoted by another nutcase with credibility issues. Published in the Post.

A recipe for the truth if I've ever heard one.

 

[DavidJames]

Republicans say the darndest things.