Silence really is golden…

…if you’re name is Reverend Wright.

When sermons of Obama’s Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, surfaced during the Iowa primaries, it threatened to derail Obama’s campaign. ABC aired one where Wright screamed, “Goddamn America!” Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama’s team tried to buy his silence.

‘Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election.”

“Who sent the e-mail?” I asked Wright.

“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”

“He offered you money?”

“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”

“How much money did he offer you?”

“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.

Read it all here.

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Dave in EH

6 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on May 15, 2012 at 11:22 am

    And ?bama thought he had that loose end sewn up.?? Ooooops!



  2. Murphy on May 15, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    How much have they offered Biden?



    • JBS on May 16, 2012 at 8:03 pm

      Not enough!



  3. ricbee on May 15, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    Wright will grab the dough & keep going on like the blithering idiot he is….



  4. PatRiot on May 15, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    As much as Obama dislikes guns, he better figure out how to use one properly.
    He has shot himself in the foot and is now moving up his leg.?



  5. Lynn on May 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    Only one hundred and fifty thousand, not enough, Wright. Take it from me, hold out for more And a waiver from Obamacare!



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