May First is a day celebrated worldwide, honoring workers with parades and festivities. But for Americans, this May Day demands a “Mayday! Mayday!” distress call... We are all in distress about things that used to not stress us at all…
The former press corps did not as much mind when high profile preachers and evangelists spoke out and said things that were unkind, or inflammatory about differing religions and ethnicities…
Take the Rev. Billy Graham for instance. In 1972, he was recorded in the Presidential Oval Office, on Nixon’s now infamous Watergate Tapes, talking about Jews and the media. Rev. Graham is heard saying: "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain." Then he went on to tell Nixon: "A lot of Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me, because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth, but they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them."
Well… I am glad Nixon had the temerity to tell Rev. Graham, “You must not let them know.” Or, as he might have said if it were Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “Be cool Jerry! Don’t blow our bigoted cover!”
History records that Nixon's and Rev. Graham’s cover got “blown,” but they both went on to more fame, or perhaps infamy… In November, 2004 Rev. Graham was lining up Christians by the thousands for baptism in the Pasadena Rose Bowl.. All the American Presidents since Eisenhower have called on Rev. Graham’s services and counsel…
In 2000, George W. Bush said he stopped drinking because of a bible study with Billy Graham…
Mayday!
How about the late Rev. Jerry Falwell? He was an outspoken supporter of the South African apartheid government? He gave much comfort and support to staunch apartheid advocate, P.W. Botha when he was elected South African President by the white minority... After Archbishop Desmond Tutu received his Noble Peace Prize in 1984, Rev. Falwell said of the Archbishop: "I think he's a phony, period, as far as representing the black people of South Africa."
In 2002, Jerry Falwell raised $1.2 million to push President George W. Bush's agenda through Congress… Approved by Bush himself.
Mayday! Mayday!
I now call the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the witness stand...
The former press corps did not as much mind when high profile preachers and evangelists spoke out and said things that were unkind, or inflammatory about differing religions and ethnicities…
Take the Rev. Billy Graham for instance. In 1972, he was recorded in the Presidential Oval Office, on Nixon’s now infamous Watergate Tapes, talking about Jews and the media. Rev. Graham is heard saying: "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain." Then he went on to tell Nixon: "A lot of Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me, because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth, but they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them."
Well… I am glad Nixon had the temerity to tell Rev. Graham, “You must not let them know.” Or, as he might have said if it were Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “Be cool Jerry! Don’t blow our bigoted cover!”
History records that Nixon's and Rev. Graham’s cover got “blown,” but they both went on to more fame, or perhaps infamy… In November, 2004 Rev. Graham was lining up Christians by the thousands for baptism in the Pasadena Rose Bowl.. All the American Presidents since Eisenhower have called on Rev. Graham’s services and counsel…
In 2000, George W. Bush said he stopped drinking because of a bible study with Billy Graham…
Mayday!
How about the late Rev. Jerry Falwell? He was an outspoken supporter of the South African apartheid government? He gave much comfort and support to staunch apartheid advocate, P.W. Botha when he was elected South African President by the white minority... After Archbishop Desmond Tutu received his Noble Peace Prize in 1984, Rev. Falwell said of the Archbishop: "I think he's a phony, period, as far as representing the black people of South Africa."
In 2002, Jerry Falwell raised $1.2 million to push President George W. Bush's agenda through Congress… Approved by Bush himself.
Mayday! Mayday!
I now call the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the witness stand...
We Americans now care about what these preachers are saying in the ears of presidents and presidential candidates... some of them, that is... We want to be sure that you, with your very divisive speech, will have little to no influence on Barack Obama who might become the next President of the United States of America…
What is your verdict “Conservative America?” “Reagan Democrats?” “Crossover Republicans?” “Libertarians?”
What is your verdict “Conservative America?” “Reagan Democrats?” “Crossover Republicans?” “Libertarians?”
Should Obama be banned from the White House for consorting with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and would you be more inclined to vote for him had he joined the Rev. Billy Graham or the Rev. Jerry Falwell crusades as did Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and "The Decider?"
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
GLM
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