I broke this story last February (with help from a Chicago area journalist whom I did credit because I’m extraordinarily noble), and as I said two weeks ago in this space, it had its fifteen minutes and fizzled, which was somewhat expected given the mindset of the establishment media.

The story of presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s controversial church and pastor has been given new life for a few reasons:

1. Obama is now a serious contender for the Democrat nomination,

2. The recent media-driven story vis-à-vis certain remarks made by Hillary Clinton,

3. Obama’s church (Trinity United in Chicago, www.tucc.org) honoring racist Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan and its exalting him in their magazine Trumpet, and

4. Trinity United’s pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s big mouth.

“Anything that portrays Obama as black and asks about the role of race in the contest will serve their political interest. And you can bet that there is nothing they won’t do… if they can get away with it.”

– from Hillary Slyly Plays the Race Card, by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, January 18, 2008.

Former Clinton advisor Morris may well have a point as regards Hillary Clinton’s undeniable political savvy and cleverness, although her statement, which carried the inference that blacks owed Democrats given that President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (despite more Republicans than Democrats having voted for it) was a bit weak.

That Obama hasn’t made his campaign about race has been commended by many, however quite a few observers such as myself maintain that this simply underscores Obama’s own undeniable political savvy and cleverness inasmuch as he’s never shown any philosophical transparency, something other candidates have either been forced to do by the establishment press, it’s been done for them by the establishment press or has become apparent due to their length of time in the public eye.

“Bill Clinton did the same thing to us that he did to Monica Lewinsky.”

- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright

On January 18, Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes featured a segment wherein Sean Hannity (one of the few high-profile journalists who seem to comprehend the gravity of possibly having a black nationalist in the Oval Office) discussed Jeremiah Wright’s attack on him during a speech the previous day. The racist and anti-American Wright, an impulsive, acerbic individual (and a maladroit embarrassment to Obama at this stage of the game), seems to find it necessary to make imprudent and untimely retaliatory statements in order to salve his ego, this doing even when it results in disadvantageous consequences for himself and his ambitious congregant.

Whether Wright’s remarks were the upshot of the following I can’t be certain, but on January 17, H&C had featured the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson and Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (a professor of Education at Temple University) discussing the “Clinton remarks” phenomenon. Last year, I appeared (via satellite) on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now with Peterson, whom I respect a great deal. The topic was Trinity United, of course, and after giving me around 57.2 nanoseconds to speak, they cut to Peterson being ambushed by two odious far-Lefters who were as knowledgeable regarding American culture as your average Airedale, and thus did not acquit themselves very well against Peterson.

“I want the Lord to use me to bring hope, in spite of what Hannity or [inaudible] say. I want the Lord to use me to restore change. I want the Lord to use me to give back courage to people, to use me to expose governmental hypocrisy, so people can see the heart of God and so that people will stand up and say ‘What matters to God matters to me.’”

- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Is there someone out there who can tell me what that nebulous jabber actually means..?

On the January 17 installment of H&C, once again (due to Hannity’s maneuvering), the subject came around to Obama’s association with Trinity United and Wright, a recent award received by Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan by TUCC and the church exalting him in their magazine Trumpet. Specifically, Hannity addressed Wright extolling Farrakhan as one who “truly epitomized greatness” – a man who holds that Judaism is a “gutter religion” and the white man is a “devil” and “the skunk of the planet earth.”

While Rev. Peterson had clarity on the issue, frequent Fox Contributor and decidedly obsequious twerp Dr. Marc Lamont Hill simply trotted out his usual boilerplate hip-hop culture of victimization rubbish. Since he was up against Peterson (who can debate rings around most people), his intellectual dishonesty didn’t hold up, and the discussion actually got a little hot, with Hill equating Trinity United’s chumminess with Farrakhan as akin to white Republicans associating with “racists” and “homophobes” Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, a baseless argument intended to misdirect, but to which he held like grim death.

Hill, who comes off like Sugar Ray Leonard after his pre-commentator speech therapy, is simply one among the new generation of opportunistic poverty pimps. Hill was challenged by Peterson for promoting “ghetto values,” which disempower blacks but which far-Left black activists (such as Hill) defend despite all reason because it keeps them famous and well-fed. Flustered, all Hill could do was repeatedly attempt to interrupt Peterson and shake his head while wearing Jack Nicholson’s Joker smirk.

Unfortunately, they ran out of time in the segment. With all the exposure Dr. Hill receives via Fox and the cottage industry he’s made out of riding the wave of his poverty pimp predecessors, the supercilious con man had the nerve to claim that he hadn’t been “heard.”

We need to see more people like Rev. Peterson, who actually have something to say in the press, rather than Russell Simmons and Marc Lamont Hill, for whom the song always remains the same. It is paramount for such men to convey the idea that their ilk represent “Black America,” and that black people’s actions – however questionable at first blush – are beyond reproach, either due to white repression or some other implausible or dubiously prudent dynamic. Dr. Hill in particular has quickly become too big for his britches with all those letters after his name; despite all his “education,” he is apparently unable to pen a column devoid of expletives. Perhaps it’s a “black thing.”

Well, thermometers have degrees, too – and you know what they used to do with them…

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