Hey Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Your Sex Scandal Is Not Helping

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

Lemme get this straight, Reverend Jeremiah Wright: first, you give the Republicans the only real ammo they've ever had to go after Obama, who was supposed to be your friend, and then you made it worse by not shutting up about it and going away. You continued to give incendiary press conferences and even had to go after Obama to save face.

Now, what's this? A sex scandal? And in the most unholy of ways? Thanks a big whopping lot, jackass...

According to the New York Post and other sources, a woman named Elizabeth Payne is at the center of a love rectangle (hmm, that doesn't sound right), with the Wrong Reverend as the very public focal point:

1) 67-year-old Wright met 37-year-old Payne during the whole "Goddamn America" meltdown, when he was in Dallas visiting a protege, who was in charge of the church Payne worked at.

2) Payne was married. And so, of course, is Wright, who 20 years ago, snapped up a woman after his counseling of her marriage failed. Wow.

3) Payne was subsequently fired and divorced when allegations of her affair with Wright were made public. A lawsuit she filed to get her job back is pending...


Read more here.  

 

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Comments

Melissa Noble said:

Booooring. Where's the Obama sex scandal? C'mon media, dig something up.

September 10, 2008 11:55 AM

chuck said:

Don't worry. If McCain's people can't find a sex scandal in Obama's closet, they won't have any trouble fabricating one, swiftboat-style.

September 10, 2008 1:05 PM

Julian said:

Word on the street is that Obama recently got a 17 year old girl pregnant, and that her mom is a half-crazed, popular local politician in some backwoods hillbilly enclave.

September 11, 2008 9:24 AM

About Brian Fairbanks

Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Nerve, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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