The one good thing to come out of the silly "Auschwitz flap" is the rather useful image conjured up by Barack Obama: The "crazy uncle in the attic."
Apparently, the Savior From Illinois has devoted much of his life to storing up a formidable supply of "crazy uncles." Indeed, we might consider Kos and DU to be one gigantic attic stuffed with crazy uncles -- people who are so insane that they cannot stop spewing hatred of Hillary, even though doing so can only hurt their candidate's chances in the general election.
Father Michael Pfleger -- a longtime associate and supporter of Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, and Louis Farrakhan -- has shambled down from his upstairs chamber, taken the pulpit at Trinity United, and delivered unto Obama's opponents yet another early Christmas present.
Not only is Pfleger a certifiable loon, he is one of the grandest hypocrites since Jim Jones. He claims solidarity with black people, yet he has strong political ties to the Blagojevich/Rezko machine which has profited from the sufferings of poor African Americans.(More about that below.)
As you know, I've often spoken out against Catholic-bashing in these cyber-pages. But in this case, let's make an exception. This man is pathetic. Though Pfleger is of German-American ancestry (I picture his grandfather as a Bundist tuning in every week to Coughlin), anyone watching this video will see that he desperately wants to be considered an "honorary black."
I don't get it. Some blacks are still pissed off at Bo Derek because, in a movie filmed nearly 30 years ago, she wore her hair in cornrows. (I'm not kidding: Feel the still-lingering hate here.) So why aren't African Americans offended when Pfleger offers this insulting caricature of a black preacher? Clearly, the oratorical style he adopts here is not natural to him. That fact becomes obvious toward the end, when he briefly drops the disguise and uses his normal voice.
I'm reminded of the phrase so often used to describe Al Gore: The man is not comfortable in his own skin.
The same can be said about Barack Obama (remember his weird fascination with the cover shot for Black Like Me?) and Jeremiah Wright. Take away Wright's false sense of racialized victimhood, and the guy just wouldn't have an act.
Pfleger has defended Wright:
"Dr. Wright is one of the great biblical scholars of our country and the best of preachers in the prophetic tradition. Dr. Wright has been shamefully demonized by 30 second sound bites that have tried to re-define him into someone other than who he is."No sale, Father. We watched Wright speak for far longer than 30 seconds at his press meet-up not so long ago. The guy dug his own grave.
By the way, Father -- is Wright really a great "Biblical scholar"?
Oh, but of course. One cannot open up a book by Bart Ehrman or John Dominic Crossan without seeing dozens of citations of Wright's works. Just last month, when I was having trouble translating an unusual bit of Koine, my old prof at UCLA told me: "Wow. This is way over my head. We've gotta get Jeremiah Wright in on this, pronto!"
The aspect of Pfleger's sermon that had me steaming like a teakettle is his presumption that all white people live luxuriously and have over-stuffed retirement accounts, purchased at the expense of black slave labor.
No sale, Father.
I'm white and living in poverty -- genuine poverty. So are a lot of other white people (and black and brown people) these days. In nearby Santa Barbara, the city has set aside two parking lots for use by homeless folk living in their cars -- and many of those Dodge-dwellers are as pale as you are, Pfleger. Meanwhile, your pals Wright, Farrakhan and Obama live in mansions.
I fired up Google and looked into Pfleger. Here's the gold mine.
The famously corrupt Governor Rod Blagovich appointed Pfleger to a hate crimes commission. Blago also appointed one Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad, a "minister of protocol" to Louis Farrakhan.
...she was under the radar until she invited other commissioners to attend a Farrakhan speech last month.I think it fair to conclude that the lady and her minister are both anti-Semitic and anti-gay. This, from a person on the hate crimes commission.
Criticism of Muhammad mounted after the speech, which included references to "Hollywood Jews" promoting homosexuality and "other filth."
Three Jewish members of the commission -- quite understandably -- quit. They were supported in this decision by pretty much the entire Jewish community in Chicago.
Claudette Muhammed's response was classic:
"For those who try to condemn me because of the honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's remarks ... which were perceived by some as anti-Semitic, it's ridiculous..."
"Perceived by some." Can you freaking buh-lieve the arrogance of this woman? Leonard Muhammed is Farrakhan's Chief of Staff:
"They need to come back or shut up," Leonard Muhammad said.On the radio, she added:
"And leave me alone," Claudette Muhammad chimed in.
"Please know I am not the victimizer here, OK, but instead I am the victim," she said.She's the victim? Arrogance! PURE FUCKING ARROGANCE!
And how did Father Pfleger weigh in?
Pfleger said "good riddance" to the people who had left the commission.This attitude exemplifies the Obot mentality. Pfleger plays the perpetual victim, but he is himself filled with rancor, divisiveness, amorphous rage and self-loathing.
"Leave, go ahead and go on out, we don't need that kind of a spirit or mentality and a narrowness on that kind of commission. I'm glad they're gone," Pfleger said.
As the above video clip demonstrates, he projects his own sins onto the Clintons. Contrary to his claims, no evidence suggests that Bill and Hillary Clinton have ever been motivated by a sense of "white entitlement." Even though sheer repetition of that canard has made it an article of faith within the progressive community, a lie repeated is still a lie.
FACT 1: Bill Clinton brought hundreds of millions of dollars into black communities.
FACT 2: Pfleger has not criticized Blagojevich and Tony Rezko, who have repeatedly victimized blacks and profited from their sufferings.
This whole Chicago mob is vile. A small team of slick operators has learned how to capitalize on black alienation even as they pick the pockets of the very African Americans they claim to love. When will the black community wake up and understand that they're being used?
The loudmouths telling you what you want to hear are always -- always -- the people you should mistrust first.
Pfleger cites the legacy of Malcolm X, yet remains a staunch ally of Louis Farrakhan.
No sale, Father.
Did you ever get a chance to ask Betty Shabazz for her thoughts about who killed Malcolm? Are you familiar with the things that Farrakhan has said on that subject over the years? Doesn't the assassination of Malcolm X count as a hate crime?
The entire black nationalist movement is anti-liberal, anti-(d)Democratic (note the large and small "D") and anti-progressive (if we use the old definition of "progressive;" in recent years, "progressive" has become a euphemism for "Libertarian"). Before WWII, the Nation of Islam was fervently anti-union and anti-New Deal. During the war, they received covert funds from the Bund. After the war, Elijah Muhammed teamed up with neo-Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell. Malcolm X -- a late convert to socialism -- came to understand that the NOI was and is a fascist movement. That's the real reason why he left -- and why he was killed.
Recently, Farrakhan said of Obama: "When the Messiah comes, the youth will listen. When the Messiah comes, the youth will listen." Tell me, Father Pfleger, has the Vatican changed its longstanding policy on the identity of the Messiah?
Pfleger later apologized for the remarks captured in the video clip shown above:
"These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama’s life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them.”No sale, father. I've been reading Obot commentary for months now, and I think your hate-filled, anti-rational guff was entirely consistent with Obama's message.
By the way, padre: When offering a mea culpa, you aren't allowed to use the word "if." In the spirit of exomologesis (yeah, I know most of those ten-dollar words), may I humbly suggest that you go fuck yourself in the ass with a barb-wire dildo until you feel true repentance?
(And if I have to do another hundred years in Purgatory for that parting shot, so be it.)
3 comments:
Thanks for noting the Pfleger support to Claudette Muhammed.
Talk about some Liberals buring unpleasant stuff.
I didn't know Ang Lee and E. Annie Proulx were Jewish.
To repent means that you have reached a point in your spiritual awareness, where it would never again occur to you to do (or say) what you did (or said) to need forgiveness. (I have an undergrad minor in Religion from TCU; Yea rah for me).
To explain, I usually ask people if they ever, as children, burned ants under a magnifying glass. Would they do that as adults? They all answer: No! Because it's cruel, and it's wrong, of course. And they're all sorry they ever did that.
And that's true, Biblical repentance.
Thanks for the intelligent post!
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