Comments on: He would have denounced Amos, too http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200804/he_would_have_denounced_amos_too/ Sat, 05 May 2012 02:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200804/he_would_have_denounced_amos_too/comment-page-1/#comment-75820 Burrowowl Sun, 04 May 2008 05:16:25 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1093#comment-75820 Is that a hint of jealousy I detect there, Logtar? Did you know how I know you're gay? Is that a hint of jealousy I detect there, Logtar? Did you know how I know you’re gay?

]]> By: logtar http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200804/he_would_have_denounced_amos_too/comment-page-1/#comment-75706 logtar Thu, 01 May 2008 12:22:47 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1093#comment-75706 Get a room you two. Get a room you two.

]]> By: meesha.v http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200804/he_would_have_denounced_amos_too/comment-page-1/#comment-75682 meesha.v Thu, 01 May 2008 00:41:42 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1093#comment-75682 at this point obama represents people who voted for him and want him to be a president. this is something he had to do to even have a chance to get elected,which is not going to happen anyway. press runs this circus and you have to play by their rules. he could have gone with the principle and stuck up for the rev. but every mccain ad would have had the rev. in the background. he had to do it and you know it. at this point obama represents people who voted for him and want him to be a president. this is something he had to do to even have a chance to get elected,which is not going to happen anyway. press runs this circus and you have to play by their rules. he could have gone with the principle and stuck up for the rev. but every mccain ad would have had the rev. in the background. he had to do it and you know it.

]]> By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200804/he_would_have_denounced_amos_too/comment-page-1/#comment-75681 Burrowowl Thu, 01 May 2008 00:34:58 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1093#comment-75681 Reverend Wright is somebody that has spent decades getting a full hour to get his point across. The presentations I've seen him give (including those linked above) aren't in a sound-bite-friendly format. He certainly should have known that anything he did since this media assault started would be put under a microscope and twisted around, but that doesn't make him an expert at producing the kinds of polished, sanitized, safe presentations that politicians produce these days. He made the grave political mistake of giving a serious and considered response without first passing it through the filter of "how can I say this without having any five-word phrase come out of my mouth that could be looped on the radio to make me sound bad?" There were a couple of questions he fielded (such as when asked about whether Muslims are eligible for salvation) that he had concise, quick answers for, but regarding the present political scandal the only mistake he has made is in acting like the public would be given his side of the story. I don't make a habit of agreeing with George W. Bush in public, but there is a problem with the media filter in our political discourse. I wouldn't have even put up this post if it weren't for all the "too little, too late" nonsense I've been hearing about Obama cutting off his pastor. It wasn't too little too late, it was wrong. It was politically convenient for Obama to step away from a man unfairly accused, just like it was politically convenient for Hillary Clinton to vote to authorize military force in Iraq. Easier to just do the wrong thing and try to get back on-message. Reverend Wright is somebody that has spent decades getting a full hour to get his point across. The presentations I’ve seen him give (including those linked above) aren’t in a sound-bite-friendly format. He certainly should have known that anything he did since this media assault started would be put under a microscope and twisted around, but that doesn’t make him an expert at producing the kinds of polished, sanitized, safe presentations that politicians produce these days. He made the grave political mistake of giving a serious and considered response without first passing it through the filter of “how can I say this without having any five-word phrase come out of my mouth that could be looped on the radio to make me sound bad?”

There were a couple of questions he fielded (such as when asked about whether Muslims are eligible for salvation) that he had concise, quick answers for, but regarding the present political scandal the only mistake he has made is in acting like the public would be given his side of the story. I don’t make a habit of agreeing with George W. Bush in public, but there is a problem with the media filter in our political discourse. I wouldn’t have even put up this post if it weren’t for all the “too little, too late” nonsense I’ve been hearing about Obama cutting off his pastor. It wasn’t too little too late, it was wrong. It was politically convenient for Obama to step away from a man unfairly accused, just like it was politically convenient for Hillary Clinton to vote to authorize military force in Iraq. Easier to just do the wrong thing and try to get back on-message.

]]> By: meesha.v http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200804/he_would_have_denounced_amos_too/comment-page-1/#comment-75672 meesha.v Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:59:10 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1093#comment-75672 I disagree. Rev knew exactly what he was doing and that his speech will be split into soundbites. He didn't strike me as clueless. I disagree. Rev knew exactly what he was doing and that his speech will be split into soundbites. He didn’t strike me as clueless.

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