Rev. Jeremiah Wright has more to say

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the fire-and-brimstone race-baiter and former “spiritual advisor” to President Barack Obama, struck a blow for anti-Semitism and against conventional grammar when he said he hasn’t spoken to Obama since he was elected because “them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me.”

Wright made the remarks in an interview with the Daily Press of Newport News, Va., after speaking Tuesday night at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference.

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“I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office,” added the former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

“The Jewish vote, the AIPAC vote that’s controlling him, that will not let him send representation to the Darfur Review Conference, that’s talking this craziness on Israel because they’re Zionists, they will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza – the ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionists is a sin and a crime against humanity.”

As reported by The Huffington Post, Wright tried Thursday to skin back his anti-Semitic bombast on the Sirius Radio program “Make It Plain with Mark Thompson,” saying, “Let me just say, like Hillary, I misspoke. Let me just say Zionists,” which he differentiated from “responsible Jewish persons.”

The White House hasn’t commented on Wright’s remarks.

This man of God’s original comments were made the same day white supremacist James von Brunn, 88, allegedly shot a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The guard, Stephen T. Johns, was killed.

Yesterday von Brunn – who was critically wounded when other security guards returned fire – was charged with murder and killing in the course of possessing a firearm in a federal facility. The FBI is investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime or domestic terrorism, which could lead to additional charges.

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