This morning’s post about a rumor that Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s former pastor is releasing a book in October ended with the following questions: So what have y’all heard? Is this truth or fiction?
Read that again THREE TIMES! The fact that I ASKED is this truth or fiction would indicate that i was not reporting it as gospel truth, just asking my well-read readers to give me the 411.
Enter the Jeremiah Wright Acolytes that went apoplectic because I asked whether a story posted in New York Magazine and on a massively larger blog was true or false. My response to all the Jeremiah Wright Acolytes is this: IF I AIN’T SCARED OF OBAMA ACOLYTES, I WON’T BE COWED BY YOU EITHER! So you can talk to the hand because I am not even listening to your foolishness because clearly you cant read for comprehension.
The title of the post was “Rumor Control” the easiest way to control a rumor is to state definitively that it ain’t true. Revolutionary, I know, but highly effective. I left home this morning with a question and by the end of the day, that question was answered.
Here is what Roland Martin had to say on his ESSENCE.com blog:
A New York magazine cover story last week reignited the debate over Rev. Jeremiah Wright when it stated – without attribution – that the former pastor of Sen. Barack Obama was releasing a new book.
But his daughter, Jeri, told me today that the story is absolutely false.
“The only book we’re working on is the history of Trinity (United Church of Christ) and I haven’t even started editing that,” Wright told Essence.com.
After I reached out to her, she called her father, who is teaching and ministering in Ghana (I ran into him last month when I was in the West African nation) and said he “laughed” when she asked about the book.
“He said that he also got an email, but was unable to respond since he’s in email hell,” Wright said, meaning in a place in Ghana where it’s difficult to send and receive email.
“I asked him if he was writing and he said, ‘Nope. I’m not publishing anything. I’m not going on any book tours.’” Roland Martin on Essence.com
So the rumor is fiction. Now I am going to sleep. Y’allz foolishness has given me an actual headache.
PS. All you WRIGHT ACOLYTES who sent emails might want to speak to his “online publicist” after reading my post, she offered to send me one of his earlier books to review so that i can compare it with his book coming out this October. BWHAHAHA.
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As a proud Obama acolyte, I am pleased by this development.
I am sure you are. I was wondering what y’all were gong to do if this supposed book had come out. I was waiting for the book burnings and the heckling tour.
Actually that might have been fun to watch. But then again, I am merely an observer.
I would have been “all up in it!” I am SO glad this is fiction because, despite all of the mess, I like Rev. Wright. He is FAR more than the cartoon character the right wing and mainstream media would like to imagine.
Forgive me If I’m wrong; but I thought WAOD was to be a dispenser of truth and justice. Not a rumor/gossip/tabloid/infantile-spat fiesta. C’mon sister Gina; this in no way is contributive to our collective struggle in holding Obama accountable to us.
@TO,
Who told you that? I have REPEATEDLY SAID that I AM . NOT. A. JOURNALIST!
I did not present this as fact. I said that I saw an interesting tidbit somewhere and wanted to know whether or not it was true.
I don’t your collective struggle, but I don’t owe you anything other than my time which I probably give too much of to you.
If I see something interesting that my readers MIGHT be interested in, I will post it. The fact that it is about Obama or Jeremiah does not change that.
The fact that all you acolytes have put your lives and liberties on hold until the election doesn’t mean I have to
Your struggle ain’t necessarily my struggle.
Read my tag line. Uncompromising, unapologetic, unbowed. I’ll write what I want to write and if you don’t like it LEAVE and don’t bother letting me knwo about. You are not about to burden me with your expectations especially considering the fact that unlike New York magazine which published the rumor, y’all don’t pay me a DIME!
So yes, you are wrong. Now when I posted two months ago about the Michelle Obama “whitey” rumor no one had a SINGLE complaint and were happy to know it was floating around, but now all of a sudden people have a problem with it.
In this campaign, rumor is fact, rumor is just as dangerous a weapon as truth or lies for that matter. Just because you don’t want to know about it doesn’t mean people are talking about it.
So please spare me your sanctimony because you aren’t consistent. If you had a problem with this rumor control post, you should have had a problem with the last one.
I’ll start contributing to YOUR collective struggle, when you start contributing to mine. The PayPal button is in the right sidebar.