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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:11:03 PM
Rosie O'Donnell defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright on the "Today" show on Monday, saying Barack Obama's former pastor "made sense to me."
Below is a partial transcript:
HODA KOTB, co-host: You know Rosie there has been a void on morning TV since we don't hear your opinions. Every times there's like, I was going through a story today "I wonder what Rosie thinks about that." What about — can I ask you about just the little Jeremiah Wright thing?
KOTB: This is a big deal. What have you been thinking when you've been watching this stuff in the headlines?
O'DONNELL: Well, did you see Bill Moyers recently give his speech about what happened after Reverend Wright was on his show?
KOTB: Tell, tell me.
O'DONNELL: He got thousands of e-mails, over like 5,000 e-mails and some of them irate, some of them understanding. But what it came to, boil down to in his mind is the fact that, you know, this man is, is following a tradition of black preachers and that there is a righteous indignation about people who were only considering three-fourths of a person until fairly recently in our history.
And that his anger, which annoys some and forces some to look at issues that America is not really ready to face, is the actual issue. That racism does exist in this country and it's still thriving.
And that some of the things that Jeremiah Wright says he's held accountable for and Oprah — not Oprah — Obama is held accountable for. But there are things that white preachers have said that are just as insane.
(Well it shouldn't be too much of a shock that O'Donnell defends this so called Pastor. She has said things like the 911 attacks were done by our own government and that those of us who follow the Bible are just as dangerous of radical follows of Islam. The two are in the same bed. Read more on this issue :right here.)
