Huckabee Defends Wright
Religion sure makes for unexpected allies.
(Huckabee starts at 3:39)
You can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,” Huckabee says. “It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what … Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say ‘Well, I didn’t mean to say it quite like that.’”
Later, he defended Wright’s anger, too:
“As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say ‘That’s a terrible statement!’ … I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names…” source
Thanks for the ‘heads up’ n-2-me-i-c.
Posted by: Carmen D. in 
I wouldn’t be surprised if Huckabee ‘defending’ Wright is nothing more than a preemptive damage control strategy employed for when (or if) somebody FINALLY calls out some of those nuts from the Religious Right.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:21 pm -…nonetheless, I can appreciate Huckabee having the consciousness to contextualize both Obama’s and Wright’s clearly opposite views. If it were left up to the Ari Fleischers of the world, you’d think that Obama wrote Wright’s sermons for him.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:25 pm -Andre I thought about that too. Still, Huckabee’s stance will alienate quite a number of his supporters in the short term.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm -WTF, maybe Huckabee is a reasonable and thoughtful man. I tend to agree with everything he said.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:17 am -I guess he’s no longer lookingfor theVP slot.
Of course, I also wonder why right wing white preachers can say terribly bigotted things about blacks, catholics, jews and gays, then be embraced by right wing candidates for their support, but nobody is appalled by that.
The right is pulling out the old flag and wrapping themselves in it. Love of AmurKKKa, mom and apple pie gets the broadest response. Ya still gotta “love it or leave it.” “Talk nasty about who and whatever, but don’t be steppin on my flag you unpatriotic bastard!”
Patriotism breeds nationalism and nationalism breeds fanatacism.
Hey Sagacious Hillbilly, welcome to the conversation!
March 21st, 2008 at 7:28 am -“The right is pulling out the old flag and wrapping themselves in it.” You’ve hit on the aspect of the Wright fallout that reveals so much about the Right. “You love this country the way I tell you to or you don’t love it at all!!” And I am not talking about Wright. Turn on Fox or conservative talk radio and all you hear is how “the left” “hates” “this country” and wants to destroy it”. They say the exact kind of things that they are taking Wright to task for. Hypocrites!
Carmen,
March 21st, 2008 at 11:32 am -There’s something going on with these Republican ministers. watch this.