Uncle Wackadoodle sends a warning
posted at 12:44 pm on November 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Jeremiah Wright apparently has no intention of going away quietly. The former pastor of president-elect Barack Obama tells the Chicago Tribune about the hurt feelings from the presidential campaign and how his former congregant didn’t even bother to inform him personally about being tossed under the bus. Wright warns Obama that he won’t cut him any slack, either:
Watching the election returns on TV—Wright was apparently not invited to the Grant Park rally—was somewhat bittersweet, he told Sirius XM Radio host Mark Thompson.
“It was like a mixed bag of being proud of him and being blessed to have lived to see something my parents would never have believed was going to happen while at the same time having been put up as the whipping boy by the media to be the weapon of mass destruction to destroy his candidacy,” he said.
Though he hopes to talk with Obama again once he leaves office, he also said he won’t hold back in criticizing Obama’s administration.
“I’ve already told . . . Obama: On Nov. 5, I’m coming after you,” he said. “It’s not you the person . . . it’s the policies of this country. And as long as you are presiding over policies that grind God’s people into the earth, I’m coming after you.["]
He didn’t get invited to Grant Park? Wasn’t that an open event? Apparently, Wright needs the gilt-edged invitation. It’s hard to blame him for that, though, considering how he discovered he’d gotten the boot from his spot on the Obama campaign. He saw the report on TV during a Caribbean cruise, rather than hearing from Team Obama.
Wright professed to developing a sense of humor about the press he received during the campaign, including adopting the “wackadoodle” label applied to him by a New York Times columnist. I guess we can look forward to lots of “garlic nose” jokes and demonstrations of high-school marching band routines over the next four years.
Obama may actually welcome attacks from Wright over the next four years. He needs to get as much distance from his former preacher as possible, and if Wright wants to carry that mileage, that should suit Obama just fine. It will make Obama appear less leftist and more mainstream to have Uncle Wackadoodle performing his routines from the sidelines.
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Obama’s friends will make for some great soundbites during his presidency wont they.
tx2654 on November 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM
I would love to see if there are Goodyear tread marks on the back of his shirt.
Zorro on November 25, 2008 at 12:48 PM
This is planned. I don’t buy any of it. Early in Obama’s campaign, Wright admitted that at some point Obama would have to distance himself from him. This is just following through with that.
Esthier on November 25, 2008 at 12:49 PM
*POPCORN*
Kini on November 25, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Looks like Obama used this guy as an excuse NOT to go to church anymore.
I guess physical fitness is now more important than spiritual fitness.
Badger40 on November 25, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Uncle Wackadoodle, pleeeeze don’t throw me in that brier patch of not being you favorite nephew anymore!!! I just could not stand it if you got angry with me on national TV all the time and people didn’t remember how I used to admire you soooo much! That would be just awful!! No, no, anything but that brier patch!!!
Brer Barack
drunyan8315 on November 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Being one of the 5%, I doubt I will find anything amusing in the next four years.
Ann NY on November 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Good God yes.
warbaby on November 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Well, Barry’s administration is turning out to be a saga. I look forward to more episodes of Hate Church: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/04/wright-still-in-charge-at-trinity-even-though-he-was-supposed-to-retire-june-1/ and Washington Hillbillies (starring Billy Jeff and Hillary).
Illinidiva on November 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Like everything else the big-eared goblin has done, his membership in that church was a political calculation. So…throwing Wright under the bus was not given a second thought when Oblammo decided he was a political liability. He learned from the master (Billy Jeff). He simply refined the technique while masking his Marxist ideology with the aid of the MSM. The problem Wright has is that, in his own bloated sense of self-importance, he can’t see that simple fact.
SKYFOX on November 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Maybe old Jeremiah will air-hump Michelle Obama from the pulpit and “ride her dirty.”
chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM
I was tempted to say “Tar Baby, he don’t say nothin”
warbaby on November 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Apparently you forgot that they told the “stars” to stay home because there was only room for one “star”. I think Wright thought he was included in the stay at home group.
katablog.com on November 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM
I call BS. Obama wants Wright to be his enemy. Takes it away as an issue in 4 years. Wright is the kind of guy who’s ego would cause him to do this anyways, but I sense something else is at play.
BadgerHawk on November 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM
The man lives in a multi-million dollar mansion funded from the offering plate of his racist congregation. He has some nerve talking about God’s people being ground up when he so clearly is not walking in Christ’s footsteps.
highhopes on November 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Yes, Wright needs to condemn those horrible American policies…from the comfort of his American Mansion. Media-whore loser.
robblefarian on November 25, 2008 at 12:56 PM
It will make Obama appear less leftist and more mainstream to have Uncle Wackadoodle performing…
All we have to do is say, “And Obama sat in THIS GUY’s CHURCH for 20 years…”
I see your point, but Obama is not going to be able to live this guy down.
Every time UW speaks up, the right needs to tie Obama’s 20 years of church going with him to whatever he’s saying.
catmman on November 25, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Who are “God’s people” exactly? He just means black people I take it.
indythinker on November 25, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Oh Baby Obamessiah, Uncle Wackadoodle is coming over for Thanksgiving! I need to start drinking now.
Mr. Joe on November 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM
he so clearly is not walking in Christ’s footsteps.
highhopes on November 25, 2008
He’s waiting for Christ to walk in his.
SKYFOX on November 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Rev. Souljah?
Cicero43 on November 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Rev Wright is nothing but a Pimp, it shows Obama’s phoniness.
Firebird on November 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Heh. Poor Wright. I guess his chickens came home to roost?
changer1701 on November 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM
All the uncles must be roaming…
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Well, there has to be a Black Liberation Church in DC Obama will be comfortable? There are plenty of J. Wrights in that city I’m sure.
Mercy4Me on November 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Poor Uncle Wackadoodle! Don’t cry to much now. You now know that you were a pawn. A distraction so to speak. Or an excuse for other motives. You are his dirty laundry. We know his secret of Worship. He needs fresh victims. That laid in the wood works like a ant guarding their Queen. You are now a speck of dirt.
sheebe on November 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM
He’s just bitter to be out-roostered.
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Good point, indythinker-I’m one of God’s people-chosen by God, not man…and as I am a white person, I doubt that I’d be welcomed in a “Black Liberation Theology” church.
Doug on November 25, 2008 at 1:02 PM
GOD DAMN AMERICA US OF KKK!
lodge on November 25, 2008 at 1:08 PM
as I am a white person, I doubt that I’d be welcomed in a “Black Liberation Theology” church.
Doug on November 25,
Of course you would be…if you denounced your race as white devils and called for reparations.
SKYFOX on November 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Reverend Wright can bring on a whole new meaning to OBAMA’S SWEARING IN CEREMONY! You ain’t heard nothing yet–I hope he brings the asbestos Bible.
John Bibb
rocketman on November 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Wow, can you imagine just how hard the liberals will have it trying to decide which of these clowns is the – RACIST!
Good luck with that.
Here’s a hint – both of them.
kybowexar on November 25, 2008 at 1:12 PM
That’s Dr. Wackadoodle to you, sweetie.
pedestrian on November 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM
This is not the Whackadoodle I thought I knew.
BKennedy on November 25, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Jeremiah Wright and Jimmy Carter: Uncle Whackadoodle and Jiminy Cracker.
AubieJon on November 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Naw naw naw….
gippergal1984 on November 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Hannity & Wright
You know I’m right.
Christien on November 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM
lodge, it’s actually spelled Amerikkka. I think it will become official by
ExecutiveRoyal Order after theInaugurationCoronation.TugboatPhil on November 25, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Not bad.
However, as a cracker I must point out that “cracker”, not unlike “honkie”, is the equivalent of “nigger”.
Not cool, Yankees
warbaby on November 25, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Goodyear? On The One’s bus? Tut tut… Pirelli’s, my good man!
RegularJoe on November 25, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Don’t believe a word of it. Hussein and Wright both lie, NO,NO,NO bitter feelings between these old pal’s. Remember Wright said “He’s just saying what he needs to say,it’s political talk”
I give them a (4) for putting on the act.
christene on November 25, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Jeremiah Wright’s about the whitest black man I’ve ever seen.
DarkCurrent on November 25, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I see that Mr. Devout Christian Guy Who Doesn’t Object When People Call Him Jesus is staying away from churches (now that’s he’s got the job) and is using his Sunday mornings for … working out at a gym.
This reminds me of a scripture in Paul’s first letter to Timothy (4:7,8):
But, then again, maybe he knows about this passage, and just ignores it. After all, it is from the Apostle Paul, who also authored that “obscure passage in Romans.”
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 1:34 PM
How’s the good reverend getting along in retirement, living in an upper class, mostly WHITE neighborhood?
GarandFan on November 25, 2008 at 1:40 PM
all of this is bull corn. they are just two egos fightin it out. both are waaaaayyyy less impressive to us than they are to themselves. barry is too busy bustin a move behind the “Office of the president elect’s” lecturn. give me a freakin break!!!
sandlin71 on November 25, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Obama will set up a private prayer room at the White House.
Connie on November 25, 2008 at 1:45 PM
More, please.
Mason on November 25, 2008 at 1:47 PM
warbaby wrote:
Not true, warbaby.
Presuming that you are NOT being sarcastic, it may be the way you perceive the word “cracker” as an individual, but that view is not universally shared. If that were the case, the minor league baseball team in Atlanta wouldn’t have been known for 64 years (1901-1965) as the “Atlanta Crackers” and the city’s Negro League team wouldn’t have been called the “Atlanta Black Crackers.”
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM
“Obama. In your heart, you know he’s Wright.”
Mandrake on November 25, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Connie wrote:
The Oval Office is already a private prayer room any time the President wants it to be. No doubt George W. Bush prayed often at his desk. And you know that in the Clinton years, at least one intern was regularly on her knees there.
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM
The leftards always say most of TUCC’s congregation is white. They just need a sense of humor about how worthless they are in God’s eyes.
chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM
…Not “God Bless America…”
gippergal1984 on November 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Wright is Obama’s Monica
- The Cat
P.S.
That’s a new one.
MirCat on November 25, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Barry WAS worshiping that Sunday morning. He was worshiping HIMSELF.
The White Man did not use and abuse you this time, Uncle Wackadoodle. A Black Man did.
kingsjester on November 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM
However, as a cracker I must point out that “cracker”, not unlike “honkie”, is the equivalent of “nigger”.
Not cool, Yankees
warbaby on November 25, 2008 at 1:27 PM
I have been called a “cracker” and a “honkie”. I know they were intended as slurs, but I never took it as anything but evidence of the name-callers stupidity. People can call you anything, but if you know who you are, it doesn’t matter. They don’t define you. Your actions do.
SKYFOX on November 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Rev. Wright is trying to figure out how to make lots of money off his past relationship with Obama.
Same with Bill Ayers and all the others that were thrown under the bus.
albill on November 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Heh, he’d have to fight the cuda first.
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM
moron
SDarchitect on November 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM
“Being There”, the reality, not the movie.
Sit back and enjoy for a bit, while worrying about our country.
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Fair enough, but it only takes living close to the ground for a few years to realize what it most certainly means to black people (not to mention the ESA) now.
And to SKYFOX, of course you’re right. I confess my Christianity got harder to witness for after being attacked a couple of times. Mea, y’know, culpa…
warbaby on November 25, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Entelechy wrote:
I wouldn’t go that far. Obama may not be as brilliant as the MSM would have you believe, but he’s not Chauncey Gardner. That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if some people believed he could walk on water if he tried.
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 2:05 PM
“God DAYMMMMMM America!”
I love this guy. I think he should follow in Ellen and Rosie’s footsteps and do a variety show.
Comedy Hour with Uncle Jeremiah. I’d watch.
gippergal1984 on November 25, 2008 at 2:05 PM
warbaby wrote:
I am black.
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Boy, does that say a whole lot about Jerry WRight, and Barry’s church.
benrand on November 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Heh heh.
the_souse on November 25, 2008 at 2:12 PM
There is so much more to “Being There” than Chauncey. So many of the characters resemble others in Wash. D.C. today. Were it not so tragic, it w/b hilarious.
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Conspiracies everywhere!!!!
Grow Fins on November 25, 2008 at 2:19 PM
In that case, I apologize – to you. But in my 63 years I have never heard a black person use that term about a white person without snottiness intended.
warbaby on November 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Wright, has already passed his expiration date.
Dr Evil on November 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Haha.
CP on November 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM
L.N. Smithee, great list you compiled:
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 2:26 PM
I’m going to cut Barack Obama some slack on this one. I do think that he “got religion” from Michelle and that the Rev. Wright was Michelle’s choice for preacher. His words are consistent with hers up until late in the election.
I think Michelle has learned propriety as a part of this whole thing, and Barack hadn’t cut loose from Wright due to the family ties, until it became obvious that Mr. Wright’s message was divisive to the point of losing Obama potential votes. I’m thinking further that both Barack and Michelle have analysed Jeremiah’s message, and figured out where it was going and that place isn’t where they want either themselves or their children to be. After all, they can’t send their kids to Sidwell and follow fully Mr. Wrights message too.
Now that Mr. Obama has abandoned Mr. Wright, and hasn’t returned immediately post election, as both Wright and I expected he would, I’m willing to give Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt with respect to this.
I still think the “cargo cult” thing about Obama is correct, but I’m also hoping I’ve misjudged Obama severely. We shall see after he takes the helm.
What Mr. Wright wants are those 40 acres and a mule, and I don’t think he understands that Barack intends to give them to him as economic policy balanced on the backs of the “rich”. But it won’t happen explicitly as reparations, as Mr. Wright wants.
unclesmrgol on November 25, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Hey, hey, wait a minute! Didn’t Wright, in his “Audacity of Hope” sermon that inspired the title of Baracko Marx’s 2nd memoir, make reference to …
Did Rev. Wright bring a doggie bag to his Haitian brothers and sisters?
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Pay no attention to that, L.N. He is just a humble Man of God. I mean, it’s not like he lives in an enormous mansion on a gold course in an upscale neighborhood.
Oh…never mind.
kingsjester on November 25, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Entelechy wrote:
Thanks, E. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one reading my blog.
To everybody else: If you’re a fan of the Emmy-winning TV drama Mad Men, you should check out my list showing how similar Obama and Don Draper are.
L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM
golf=golf
greudian slip bwahahahahahahahaha
kingsjester on November 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM
It was asked yesterday whether black Republicans have a chance. What about the sad case of black Democrats who take their inspiration and marching orders from men who spend the rank and file’s money on limos, mansions and Caribbean vacations.
snaggletoothie on November 25, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Never, never forget this.
baldilocks on November 25, 2008 at 2:51 PM
I’ll repeat what I said there: who knows? However, it’s black conservatives who indeed have a chance. Conservatives of all hues pledge their allegiances based on conservative principles, rather than on superficial commonalities (like skin color) or political expediency (popularity at a given moment in time).
An offshoot of political expediency, that.
baldilocks on November 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Uncle Wackadoodle!
awesome
Mallard T. Drake on November 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM
The Rev is just another stepping stone used by the Fool’s handlers in their strategy to sieze power.
The Fool doesn’t seem to have any real feelings for anybody, does he?
Does he have a single friend?
notagool on November 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Just wondering….does that include the black babies that are “grounded into the earth”, at three times the rate of their white counterparts?
Would actually really like to know ole’ Wacky’s position on that.
Hawkins1701 on November 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Jeremiah, you’ve been used up and you are no longer useful to The One. Attack him from your pulpit and see your attendance dwindle; Obama is their new god.
Grafted on November 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Which 5%?
Count to 10 on November 25, 2008 at 3:17 PM
NOW, the MSM will make Wright the villain, but ONLY because his attack of Obama. LOL
marklmail on November 25, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Geez, I hope Rev Wright is not holding out for an ingural ball invite.
nor on November 25, 2008 at 3:51 PM
DarkCurrent wrote:
You must be too young to remember
MichaelMikaeel Jackson.L.N. Smithee on November 25, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Obama to Wright: I’m a Constitutional Lawya. I’ll give you another 20 grand if you’ll just take the Fifth Amendment for four years. You know, the part about remaining silent. And another 20 grand for Phlegmatic Pfleger not to mention all the white people in the White House.
Steve Z on November 25, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Let’s hope the deep pockets of Uncle Wack’s parishioners will keep ponying up enough change to enable him to continue his opulent lifestyle in the upscale, mostly-cracker community of this ___-damned country.
whitetop on November 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Sorry…still giggling over the headline “Uncle Wackadoodle”…that’s good stuff. Think he’ll be staying in the Lincoln Bedroom along with all of O’s other “friends of the family”?
BiasedGirl on November 25, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Can’t wait for Uncle to humiliate Barry with family stories; This is not a man who will go quietly into the night. And yeah, the press will eat him up for it, but it’ll still be entertaining and enlightening.
anniekc on November 25, 2008 at 5:02 PM
FIFY, Eddie.
benny shakar on November 25, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Like the Clintons who “used” Arkansas to launch their National political machine, Bumbles used the South side of Chicago and Wright’s Church as a platform. He’s so done with them now…Wright’s smart enough to know he’s been had…
Nozzle on November 25, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I fail to see the humour in the association between the messiah and the black satan.
spareadime on November 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM
You haven’t even given him four years of inevitable failure yet, bunny shaker.
chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Wright’s like a boomerang. You can’t throw it away.
heh.. heh.. heh…
Obama’s preachers are coming home to roost.
Hog Wild on November 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
He can take over for Colmes.
chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Dwarfs have been spotted, jumping up and down.
Entelechy on November 25, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Economy of characters. Obama doesn’t have to pretend to be Christian anymore.
RightTurnOnly on November 25, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Wright wing was seduced & abandoned. Speaks volumes about BHO.
BHO Jonestown on November 25, 2008 at 6:32 PM
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