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‘A Source of Pain’: Jesse Jackson Defends Rev. Wright Against Media ‘Degradation’ & Manipulation

May. 22, 2012 7:50am Billy Hallowell

Jesse Jackson Defends Rev. Jeremiah Wright Against Media Attacks Over the past week, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has re-emerged in both media and political circles. Following author Ed Klein’s release of his new book, “The Amateur,” the fiery faith leader has received quite a bit of coverage. Last week, The Blaze shared exclusive audio tapes of Wright’s three-hour interview with Klein. We also covered a now-debunk GOP plan to potentially use Wright as a 2012 political tool against President Barack Obama.

In light of the deluge of coverage surrounding the preacher, who has come under fire numerous times before for harsh rhetoric and bizarre rants, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has come forward to defend Wright. On MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown” with Chuck Todd, Jackson proclaimed that it is a personal “source of pain” for him to see the media’s treatment of the controversial pastor.

“I know it’s a source of pain for me to see him used as an object of degradation and manipulated the way he’s been used the media as if he’s some sort of enemy of the state,” Jackson said of Wright. “It’s not fair and it’s not true. It pains me to see him used as an object of degradation.”

Jesse Jackson Defends Rev. Jeremiah Wright Against Media Attacks

According to Jackson, Wright’s goodwill and the help he has offered to people in need is being overshadowed by the divisive media persona that has been created.

“I remember when parents were kicking their youth out of houses, called AIDS a kind of leprosy, he had a ministry. I remember when gays were being in isolation and committing suicide, he had a gay ministry,” Jackson continued. “So his ministry has been a most profound one. That’s why people like a young Barack Obama and Michelle would go to that church, because it was such a well-ministered church.”

Jackson went on to liken the medias’ maligning of Jackson to that of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man he claims was accused of being a communist. In a similar fashion, Jackson contends that both Wright and King were unfairly used as objects of degradation.

Watch Jackson explain these feelings, below:

(H/T: Huffington Post)

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Comments (69)

blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:45pm
Jesse, putting on that “hang dog” look just makes a man of who you are inside look even more stupid. You and Wright are hell bound and phonies, who are using our Americans of the black race to do your dirty work. Look at what you all did to George Zimmernan and his family with your lies. You are nothing but a couple of old hipocrits out for fame and gain. You are both out of style. Go home and count your blessings black Americans have not figgured out where you really are coming from. By the way, it would be best if you got your hearts right and get salvation before you two old coots bite the dust. You have been and caused evil in your days.

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CEM
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:52pm
You know you’re a low-life when Jess Jackass endorses you.

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jeffile
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 11:31am
I wonder how the MSM would react if the Rev Billy Graham defended David Duke?

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JMJSS
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:08am
I’m so sick of these people. They clearly don’t promote the word of God nor do they follow in the foot steps of MLK.

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SGT Rock
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:27am
The only thing I can say about Rev. Wright is he tells the truth as he sees it. Don’t mean it is the real truth or the whole truth but it is as he sees it and he stands by what he says, unlike his follower Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm, mmmmm, mmmm. Who says and does what he can to garner support, that is a man with no moral compass, a weather vane. i would respect BHO if he who just come out with the truth and show his motives but then again he would never had been voted in if he did that.

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- blackyb
  Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:48pm
  That Wright dude is from hell and a plant causing harm to his own race and the rest of the country. He is a liar, a hipocrit and a treasonous jerk who wants your white of your very bodies. People like him are greedy and live for lust and gain. He has nothing inside him even resembling Truth or Christianity. If he is a Christian, then no one else has anything to worry about. That man is evil with a capital “E”.
  
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conserve48
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 3:11am
The ONLY thing that pains reverend jerkson is that someone is stealing his thunder and his payday. The reverend jessie ‘talks with crap in mouth’ jerkson is mad that someone else is horning in on his action. reverend my a$$.

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Titainiumman
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:08pm
Twiddle DEE defending Twiddle DUMB

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rickc34
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:44pm
what is he a Pastor of? Not the Bible. This man is a racist who cheated on his wife and fathered a bastard child. So who really listens to this idiot. Him and Al Sharpton. Both are hate filled and blame the white man for everything but takes the white mans money. Hypocrites.

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nosharia
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:27pm
If the left goes after Romney’s faith…..backatcha dudes. Jeremiah Wright has had a profound effect on Obama’s political decisions.

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fromo1946
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:01pm
Bottom feeders stand up for one another…where’s MSNBC’s brother Al? These guys make me puke, self serving, low rent, shiftless, pieces of dog s@&t! I’m tired of these idiots grandstanding before the cameras pointing fingers at everyone except themselves….

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abbygirl1994
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:45pm
That they have Reverand before their name is what gets me! Jesse Jackson has lived like a king off the backs of his own people for decades.. if he didn’t get their money I am sure he would have been a welfare king! Reverands, Pastors, Bishops whatever.. the name to me is a Christlike man.. I do not see that in Jackson, Wright or Sharpton. Jesus wasn’t about hate, he was about love.. He wasn’t about taking from the rich and giving to the poor.. that was always a choice. What this goverment has done is force all taxpayers to take care of the world… That should be our choice.. not demanded. We have heard Wrights own words Mr. Jackson.. you can paint him however you want.. but we did hear him.. and it didn’t sound like he was being forced to do it. Actually he sounded like he was relishing giving his information about the Obama’s.. they threw him under the bus when they were done with him.. And that is fact!

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jpeditor2
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:34pm
Hey Jesse, too bad your scheme to sue “ZIMMERMAN THE JOO” isn’t going to work out.

How are you going to pay child support for that love -child?

Maybe Soros and Øbambi can find you another project.

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suz
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:22pm
what’s not fair, what’s not true?

it’s all true.

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Arshloch
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:49pm
The pot and the kettle, hi diddle diddle, etc.

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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:52pm
This “reverend” has lost all credibility-why would anyone believe what he says?

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Mo Better
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:15pm
Seriously, are there any sentient beings who actually pay any attention at all to Da Reffren’ Jesse Jass-son?

This marble-mouthed mumbling moron hasn’t had a rational thought since Amos was laughing at Andy at the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge…

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Free2speakRN
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:09pm
“I know it’s a source of pain for me to see him used as an object of degradation and manipulated the way he’s been used the media as if……………..

he’s some sort of enemy of the state,”

Duh !!!

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progoyim
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:11pm
NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR NOT ONE MORE US LIFE FOR THE SAND PIT AT THE EASTERN END OF THE Mediterranean

Rev wright was correct about the chickens have come home to roost.I did not agree with this statement until recently
I put the blame for 9/11 ,Beirut marine barracks ,USS Cole and most other non secular attacks on our one sided Israel first polices..Jesse is a race batier

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SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:23am
You do have to hand it to the blacks. They stand together come hell or high water.

Jesse, Wright’s words convict him as a racist hood. He said those things, he means those things, d you are as bad as him.

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RodT82721
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:23am
I wish Jesse would spit out that mouthful of marbles before he starts to speak. Maybe he makes sense, but I’ll never know because I can’t understand him.

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Constructionist
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:22am
Jesse has been a supporter of Rev. Wright ever since he rubbed that cream on his inner thighs.

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Sgt_R_USMC
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:13am
One turd defending another is news?

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Want our country back
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:11am
Tamara Holder Named in Gay Jesse Jackson Ex-Aide’s Workplace Harassment Lawsuit
By
Dan Collins
– May 16, 2012
Tamara Holder, a Fox News contributor, is accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson, Sr. in a lawsuit that alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee to facilitate the relationship.
The accuser, Tommy R. Bennett, was Jackson’s personal travel assistant and ran the legal clinic at Jackson’s organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He says he was eventually fired for protesting his treatment by Jackson and other PUSH employees and is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
Holder has not responded to repeated requests for comment from Accuracy in Media, but Jackson’s press representative, Lauren Love, says the allegations are false and will be proven so.
*******

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Redleg99
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:06am
You’d have to be a low life to subject kids to re v. W rights racist sermons.

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Snake
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:26am
Jesse…. to me as a young WHITE boy growing up in middle America Kansas, you were a person of inspiration in the 70′s. It is truely sad to see you lied to me and so many others all those years. At one time I would have given anything to meet you in person, now I wouldn’t put forth the effort to spit on you if you were on fire!

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