Rev. Wright “On The Couch” [UPDATED]
By SusanUnPC on April 25, 2008 at 9:40 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Probably most of you on the East Coast may have already seen, or be watching Bill Moyers’ Journal right now. I’m West Coast, so will catch it in a couple hours. [UPDATES: Transcript at PBS; Knowvox's MyDD diary and interpretations; and Cutting Edge News' article -- quite revealing -- of Wright's life story.]
Besides tonight’s PBS appearance and his speech at the National Press Club Monday morning (to be aired on C-Span at 9 a.m. ET) — Wright is speaking Sunday morning at a Dallas church and that afternoon at an NAACP event in Detroit, I hear. That totals FOUR appearances in a four-day time period. That is a full-fledged MEDIA TOUR.
I have some thoughts about why Rev. Wright HIMSELF is SEEKING to dominate the news, no matter the fallout or blowback to Barack Obama:
FOREMOST: I believe that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is deeply ANGRY with Barack Obama.
Obama has dismissed him, repudiated him, but also done so in the most milquetoast way — what with all of his uncomfortable hemming and hawing — that Rev. Wright couldn’t help but be angered, and even more insulted.
SECONDLY: Rev. Wright clearly has a HUGE ego. He has great PRIDE. He also CRAVES attention. And he is a PERFORMER extraordinaire.
He is therefore incapable of toeing the line, and staying quiet while Barack Obama awkwardly, limply, and inarticulately repudiates him, and never definitively speaks his mind about his 20-year association with Wright.
He is so vain and self-aggrandizing that his own need to prove himself to the world-at-large outweighs ANY consideration of how he might harm Obama’s candidacy.
THIRDLY: I think that Rev. Wright realizes — and has probably realized for some time — that Barack Obama’s SOLE reason for relating to him and attending his church was for his own POLITICAL gain.
Rev. Wright sees that Obama used him.
Nobody likes to be used.
To Barack Obama, Rev. Wright was merely a tool. And now that he’s an embarrassment to Obama, Rev. Wright feels slighted and publicly humiliated.
People with big egos especially do not handle public humiliation well.
And a man with a huge ego and a big need for affirmation — and obsequious praise — detests being used more than most people.
THAT is why Rev. Wright expressly called Barack Obama a “politician.”
Wright’s use of the term “politician” was a “dig” at Obama. It was meant to demean Obama for the humiliation that Wright has suffered.
I wish the noted psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist as well as Fox News analyst, were around to check with. But I think some of this may be true.
Do any of the rest of you want to “shrink” the Rev. Wright?
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You’ll be able to read the transcript, and watch the video, at Bill Moyers’ Journal — probably later tonight.
by Ronald Scott
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