Thursday, June 11, 2009

Revved-Up Wright

I dropped by the excellent conservative news site, Not Tucker Carlson, and saw that the Right Reverend Jeremiah "Bullfrog" Wright let his mouth get away from him again. He recently complained that his efforts to win back his famous apostate parishioner were being thwarted by "them Jews." Shortly thereafter, some well-wisher - a deacon, perhaps, or maybe even Chris Matthews - dug him in the ribs and whispered that "them Jews", in addition to being ungrammatical, might well be construed as being anti-Semitic, and therefore, embarrassing to the President. Reverend Wright - this time shrewdly avoiding the minefield of demonstrative adjectives altogether - said simply that what he meant was "Zionists", thus provoking another mass rolling of eyeballs.

Well, don't worry about it, Rev; I'm sure you'll hit upon a happy epithet one of these days. For example, there's still them rootless cosmopolitans.

6 comments:

Old Tanker said...

When Ma Richards was running against George W. Bush for Governor of Texas she once said

(texas twang)"He can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth"(/texas twang)

Rev. Wright, open mouth, insert foot, grab other foot, repeat....

RebeccaH said...

Listening to Reverend Jerry try to explain his way out of his gaffe is amusing too. He talks about the "Zionists" controlling Obama, not letting him do this or that. So, in a way, besides insulting Jews, he's effectively calling Obama "boy".

richard mcenroe said...

Dayyum, that chicken-eatin' preacher sounds like some kind of right-wing extremist!

bruce said...

That 'rootless' link tells a very somber tale.

I am reminded of the old saying,

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

Or as Chaucer puts it:

'Therfor bihoveth him a ful long spoon/ That shal ete with a feend'.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/28/messages/1053.html

Paco said...

Bruce: That Chaucer! And people make fun of my spelling.

Evil Pundit said...

One of my favourite bloggers simply calls them "neocons".