Hillary Supporter Set Up Wright Talk Yesterday

By: KathyinBlacksburg
Published On: 4/29/2008 5:20:15 PM

This is What I've been complaining about.  The deviousness, destructiveness, divisiveness, and Democrat-defeating behavior by Clinton and/or her supporters will destroy us.  Now comes a Clinton supporter to be behind the bringing Rev. Jeremiah Wright yesterday in a bald-faced attempt to undo the front-runner.  That's right.  A Clinton supporter organized the appearance yesterday of Rev. Wright.  How convenient!

I found passed through (originally from the NY Daily News) this at Salon.com:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted. Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds. A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister). It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club "who organized" the event - is an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter.

Here's the link.
Ordinarily, I would be leery of the NY Post.  This story also appears prominently at Beliefnet,com, a Murdoch property.  Murdoch has given a fundraiser for Clinton, so I am not sure what he (Murdoch) gains here, except I have previously speculated that he aims to use his various media to destroy Obama first and Clinton later.  However, the first Clinton administration was good to big media.  So who knows?

On a blog linked to her Web site at www.reynoldsnews.com Reynolds said in a February post:

"My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you"

to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency."  

Here's where it gets interesting.  Reynolds also had a blog at blogspot.com, which she has taken down.  The article isn't on her www.reynoldsnews.com website either.  And the cache there is hard to read.  

But here's a cached version that is reeadable.  Read it here.

It is true that Reynolds has spoken flatteringly of Wright.  But then too she apparently refused to bring him to the National Press Club at an earlier time because he wasn't newsworthy.  What changed?  I can't fathom.  (Talk About a Set Up! )  


Comments



This is fishy... (proudvadem - 4/29/2008 5:41:03 PM)
And I doubt the MSM will pick up on it.
Excellent post and I think you nailed it on the head. This is straight out of Lee Atwater's old playbook.
I did not know beliefnet.com was a Murdoch property. God's Politics is an interesting blog and I enjoy when Wallis posts.


You are right about Atwater politics. (KathyinBlacksburg - 4/29/2008 5:48:25 PM)
Also, yes, that's a good blog (God's Politics)


Picked up by the Los Angeles Times! (Greg - 4/29/2008 9:02:04 PM)
"But now, it turns out, we should have been paying a little less attention to Wright's speech and the histrionics of his ensuing news conference and taken a peek at....

who was sitting next to him at the head table for the National Press Club event."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...



Google News (Greg - 4/29/2008 9:15:07 PM)
For the time being at least, the LAT link is at the TOP of Google News, guaranteeing it a wide readership:

http://news.google.com



You should crosspost this at DailyKos (Greg - 4/29/2008 6:11:05 PM)
... so it will get wider readership, if it's not already on the Rec list over there.


Sorry - Debunked (aznew - 4/29/2008 6:11:16 PM)
Reynolds was not at all responsible for the invitation itself. she just handled the logistics because she knew Wright, as is explained in this release from PRess Club President Sylvia Smith:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/2...



Sorry, not... (KathyinBlacksburg - 4/29/2008 6:25:50 PM)
debunked.  Whatever her role she was involved in organizing it.  Only logistics?  That doesn't change a thing.

If she is innocent of trying a take down of Obama, then why did she scrub both of her blog articles (at two different sites), in which she endorsed Hillary.  She obviously is hiding something.



I don't know why she scrubbed her site (aznew - 4/29/2008 6:31:30 PM)
but she apparently had nothing to do with the decision to invite Wright.

Sow how could her "organizing" have been a political dirty trick? Perhaps the people to whom she handed out tickets. But beyond that, how does the fact of his appearance there in any way, shape or form connect to Clinton?

Finally, just on principle, I think the burden ought to be on establishing facts to show someone is guilty of something, rather than inferring guilt  based on any question that begins with the words, "If he/she is innocent, then why..."  



Darn... I knew it! (TippingPoint08 - 4/29/2008 8:12:49 PM)
I was thinking about this latest news spin cycle all day.

Darth HRC forces at work.

How convenieeeeeent!



I hear a Hillary Clinton supporter also introduced Obama to Wright 20 years ago. (Silence Dogood - 4/30/2008 10:45:24 AM)
Of course, that's also a crazy myth about how Hillary Clinton is the real problem.  No matter how Wright happened to find his way in front of a microphone at the NPC, it doesn't alter the fact that Wright's far outside of mainstream and rational thought, practically alleging that the American government is waging a shadow war on black citizens.  People are right to demand that Obama reject this view, and I am glad that he did so.

Obama's problem with Wright wasn't Hillary, Obama's problem with Wright was Wright.