McCain Aide Suspended For Circulating Obama/Wright Video
Jonathan Martin at The Politico reports that a John McCain campaign aide was suspended today for sending out a racially-tinged Web video that calls into question Barack Obama's patriotism.
Soren Dayton, who works on McCain's political operation, distributed the YouTube link to the video on Twitter, but the link has since been taken down, Martin reports.
The video in question highlights some of the controversial statements made by Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright, including his now infamous "God damn America" diatribe.
It also questions Obama's patriotism using a clip of the Illinois senator listening to the national anthem without placing a hand on his heart and a separate shot of him saying, "I won't wear that pin on my chest." (In an October Interview, Obama said he stopped wearing the American flag pin because it had become a substitute for "true patriotism").
But the controversial video doesn't stop there. It included racial overtones, using an archived shot of Malcolm X and showing a "60 Minutes" clip of Michelle Obama saying, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country." Parts of the video were also set to the song "Fight The Power" by Public Enemy, an iconic hip-hop group known for its left-wing political activism and racially-charged lyrics.
McCain's communications director Jill Hazelbaker released the following statement:
"We have been very clear on the type of campaign we intend to run and this staffer acted in violation of our policy. He has been reprimanded by campaign leadership and suspended from the campaign."
The McCain campaign told CBS News that Dayton is a low-level employee who does not work on the communications side of the campaign.
Soren Dayton, who works on McCain's political operation, distributed the YouTube link to the video on Twitter, but the link has since been taken down, Martin reports.
The video in question highlights some of the controversial statements made by Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright, including his now infamous "God damn America" diatribe.
It also questions Obama's patriotism using a clip of the Illinois senator listening to the national anthem without placing a hand on his heart and a separate shot of him saying, "I won't wear that pin on my chest." (In an October Interview, Obama said he stopped wearing the American flag pin because it had become a substitute for "true patriotism").
But the controversial video doesn't stop there. It included racial overtones, using an archived shot of Malcolm X and showing a "60 Minutes" clip of Michelle Obama saying, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country." Parts of the video were also set to the song "Fight The Power" by Public Enemy, an iconic hip-hop group known for its left-wing political activism and racially-charged lyrics.
McCain's communications director Jill Hazelbaker released the following statement:
"We have been very clear on the type of campaign we intend to run and this staffer acted in violation of our policy. He has been reprimanded by campaign leadership and suspended from the campaign."
The McCain campaign told CBS News that Dayton is a low-level employee who does not work on the communications side of the campaign.
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oberlman what a loser
Just our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press trying to prop up and support their pals the Dems while attacking and smearing John McCain.
Maybe we need another Saturday Night Live skit
Posted by BLKPRESIDENT at 06:10 PM : Mar 20, 2008
Do you have any idea how much of an idiot you sound like? At least get some new material.
Maybe we need another Saturday Night Live skit
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Posted by perception5 at 06:17 PM : Mar 20, 2008
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Exactly how is that you fascist? Don''t you think the PEOPLE of this nation have a right to know this guy is a RACIST and that he''s working for the Party that has a Klan member running the TN State Party. I think that''s very important when we are looking at possibably the FIRST EVER Black President. VERY IMPORTANT INDEED. Sieg Heil Bush!!
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oberlman what a loser
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Posted by pepperp1 at 06:14 PM : Mar 20, 2008
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You fascist are getting awlful desperate here. LOL
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Posted by Candide777 at 06:25 PM : Mar 20, 2008
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Hey you can always pull up the 935 Bush Administratio Lies! You want to talk about sounding like an IDIOT!! People who support that, now THOSE are IDIOTS!! Sieg Heil Bush
America really has a simple choice to make this election year: cast a vote for a girl, an OLD man or Obama. It''s not Obama''s fault the Black Panthers endorsed the only real man left in the campaign.
Huffington Post | March 20, 2008 08:49 PM
**UPDATED**
Politico is reporting on a recently uncovered photo of Bill Clinton and Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
The recent coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright has often cast him as a marginal, almost fringe figure, but Trinity Church is a major Chicago institution, and Wright has long been a prominent pastor on the American scene.
And an anonymous blog set up to defend his church offers some compelling photographic evidence of this: A photograph of Wright and President Clinton, which it says was taken on September 11, 1998 -- the date of a White House gathering for religious leaders.
Hillary Clinton, according to her recently-released schedule for the day, was present at the gathering.
Clinton Campaign Statement:
Less than 48 hours after calling for a high-minded conversation on race, according to the New York Times the Obama campaign is peddling photos of an occasion when President Clinton shook hands with Reverend Wright. To be clear, President Clinton took tens of thousands of photos during his eight years as president.
Obama Campaign Statement:
After their top surrogates pushed this story line and Senator Clinton''s campaign outlined this as a central strategy in her plan to overturn the will of Democratic voters, I can see why they wouldn''t want such a photo out there that shows the respect even President Clinton has for Reverend Wright.
Perpetual War
Unfair taxation of the middle class
High prices for energy and everything else
High medical costs and prescription drugs
Pollution
Corruption
Religious hypocrisy and abuse of church status tax laws
Degradation of our infrastructure
Continued export of American jobs to overseas slave labor
Decline in US stature and respect of the world community
And, the only thing the Right can run on in this Presidential Election cycle is the same old playbook of Swift Boating and Racism.
STICK TO THE ISSUES AMERICA!
The Republicans have already made it clear they intend to milk this; if they do, Rev. Hagee and Pat Robertson and the like are fair game.
Along with him, officials of the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs who arranged to embezzle the licensing money paid in by Peabody Western Coal, supposedly for use to help the Navajo, but embezzled anyway, along with officials of the Bureau of Land Management and Mines, who manipulate the wildlife rights of American Indians every year, so as to reduce their number, concentration and ability to prosper by living off the land. In the most BRAZEN coordinated effort of Genocide in History, corrupt public officials are literally murdering the Navajo of Arizona and converting their lives and their lands into instant personal gain, by selling them off under the table to mining industry and the Power Industry. In Arizona, John McCain claims there is a "Range War" going on in the Black Mesa.
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by sunnygirl613
March 22, 2008 4:36 AM PDT
- Blasphemy in the media. The truth about Rev. Wright.
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See all 43 CommentsEnlighten yourself and see the truth before passing judgment on false pretences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw
If you watch these videos, you will see that Rev. Wright is a God loving Christian. He is not one ounce the person that the media has portrayed. Please share the TRUTH!
I would think that if you were a journalist, you would like to have some creditability behind your name. To all those incompetent journalists reporting false information, please do your homework! It wasn%u2019t very hard to find the truth.