The Audacity of Anti-Semitism: Rev. Wright and ‘Them Jews”

For the record, I’m not blaming Reverend Wright for yesterday’s attack at the National Holocaust Museum. I’ll leave that kind of bizarre and convoluted thinking to Keith Olbermann. But I can’t ignore Reverend Wright’s reemergence on the national scene yesterday in the form of an anti-semitic rant in which he claimed that “them jews” are stopping Obama from talking to him while also committing “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” in Gaza. Here’s the full, ugly audio:

Reverend Wright can and should be dismissed as a nut job. But what does this say about our President. Wright was Obama’s friend and spiritual mentor for 20 years. The title of Obama’s book comes from a Wright sermon. But every time Wright opens his mouth it becomes clearer that he is not about the audacity of hope, but rather the embodiment of hate. Was Obama really that bad of a judge of Wright’s character?

And what should we make of Wright’s claim, in the preceding audio, that Obama has let politics “change who he is” and “compromise his beliefs,” which before the influence of the “Zionists” at AIPAC, apparently were the same as Wright’s?

Most importantly, why is it that I will be accused of being a racist for raising these perfectly legitimate questions?