Obama bribed Reverend Wright to shut up

[applecorped]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...l3fUF0cb7LpcNM

"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.

[marplots]

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

I get confused by thread titles.

[Richard Masters]

Originally Posted by applecorped

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...l3fUF0cb7LpcNM

"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.

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]

Originally Posted by gnome

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/...bama-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]

Originally Posted by BenBurch

The CT section is ^^^

So Wright is lying?

[WildCat]

Originally Posted by gnome

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/...in-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.”

[KoihimeNakamura]

Originally Posted by WildCat

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

Source credibility is pretty low.

[WildCat]

Originally Posted by KoihimeNakamura

Source credibility is pretty low.

The source is Wright.

[applecorped]

Originally Posted by WildCat

The source is Wright.

But he's not credible.

[Unabogie]

Originally Posted by WildCat

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.

Quote:

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]

Originally Posted by Unabogie

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."

[ANTPogo]

Originally Posted by WildCat

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]

Originally Posted by applecorped

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.

[ANTPogo]

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.

[Tsukasa Buddha]

I didn't know BAC was getting a book published.

Did you read the whole quote?

Quote:

“Barack said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?’ And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’ And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ I said, ‘That’s a good problem to have. That’s a good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a politician.'

I'm sure this is an entirely accurate recollection . Really reminds me of the Nixon guy they always use in these examples.

[Puppycow]

Even Fox Guests Say Ed Klein Isn't Credible -- So Why Can't The Network Stop Talking About His Book?

Quote:

Let's begin with the obvious: Edward Klein, author of the forthcoming Obama biography The Amateur, lacks anything resembling credibility.

His last offering was coauthored with John LeBoutillier, previously seen pushing various birther claims and trying to build a Counter Clinton Library to push conspiracies like the former president's supposed role in dozens of murders. Their self-published book, The Obama Identity: A Novel (Or Is It?), depicts a CIA agent's fictional (but based on "real stuff") investigation into President Obama, which reveals him to be a Kenyan-born Muslim Manchurian candidate.

Before that, in his thinly sourced, factually deficient 2005 tome The Truth About Hillary Klein insinuated that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian who conceived her daughter Chelsea after being raped by Bill Clinton; the book was widely denounced even by conservatives. That one, Klein claimed, was not a novel.

Even if it does turn out to be accurate, is it such a big scandal?

[WildCat]

Originally Posted by Unabogie

The source is Klein, quoting Wright

Which means Wright is the source, not Klein.

[WildCat]

Originally Posted by ANTPogo

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?

This is a named reporter quoting a named source.

Not "unnamed sources say" type of crap.

I'm sure Wright will deny it if he didn't say it, but I'm unaware that he has.

[Chaos]

Originally Posted by WildCat

Which means Wright is the source, not Klein.

Really?

Quote:

"Dick Cheney personally ordered the 9/11 attacks", former President Bush said.

So, if someone quoted me on that, his source would be Bush himself, right?

[Juniversal]

Originally Posted by Unabogie

Same writer, Ed Klein.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/...in-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.”

Seems like a credible and trustworthy guy to me.

[Juniversal]

More breaking News from Klein:

Quote:

MICHELLE OBAMA'S 'JEALOUSY' AND 'RESENTMENT' LED TO RIFT WITH OPRAH

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...#ixzz1unECnjkx

[Upchurch]

Originally Posted by WildCat

Which means Wright is the source, not Klein.

Which means the source is purportedly Wright. Given who is doing the alleging, I'd like a little confirmation that Wright actually said anything of the kind.

[jj]

Yep, the traitorous, anti-commander-in-chief articles are coming on strong again. Figures, that's how traitors work. I wonder who pays this "journalist" to run electioneering disinformation, anyhow? China? Russia?

[WildCat]

Originally Posted by Chaos

Really?

Really.

Originally Posted by Chaos

So, if someone quoted me on that, his source would be Bush himself, right?

No idea what you're on about here.

[WildCat]

Originally Posted by Upchurch

Which means the source is purportedly Wright. Given who is doing the alleging, I'd like a little confirmation that Wright actually said anything of the kind.

Has Klein been accused of fabricating quotes from those he's interviewed before?

Has Wright disputed the quote?

[ANTPogo]

Originally Posted by WildCat

This is a named reporter quoting a named source.

Not "unnamed sources say" type of crap.

Corsi quotes lots of named sources too. He even has the most famous sheriff in America backing him up.

So he's even more reliable than Klein, right?

[Upchurch]

Originally Posted by WildCat

Has Klein been accused of fabricating quotes from those he's interviewed before?

yes

Originally Posted by Unabogie

Same writer, Ed Klein.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/...in-obama-book/

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.

[leftysergeant]

Excuse me if I throw in a



at the thought that a liberal like Wright is going to willfully give damaging information against Obama to a piece of crap like Klein.

[dc1971]

Originally Posted by applecorped

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...l3fUF0cb7LpcNM

"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.

WOW! You conservatives have a boner for this Wright fella, don't you??

Incredible!

[dc1971]

Originally Posted by WildCat

Has Klein been accused of fabricating quotes from those he's interviewed before?

Has Wright disputed the quote?

Has any conservative here explained why it really matters?

[dc1971]

Originally Posted by WildCat

Which means Wright is the source, not Klein.

Which doesn't really matter considering Wright really didn't say anything or do anything all that damaging!

[dc1971]

Originally Posted by WildCat

So Wright is lying?

Who cares?






...besides you?

[dc1971]

An incident that happened many years ago has conservatives sportin' a woody about Obama's "ties to communist people".

Oh gee! It's the end of the world!!!!!!!!!

The sky is falling...

Where's Chicken Little?

AAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

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[bynmdsue]

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