Minor Detail About Reverend Wright's 9/11 Sermon: He Didn't Say It!

Katie Halper — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:09:00 GMT

If you don't live in a cave, you've probably heard about the "controversial," "inflammatory," "over the top," "Obama Pastor" Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He's the preacher whose "fiery" speeches got Obama in a whole lot of trouble with white people. (He's also On Our "To-Do" List, but that's not germane right now.) Wright really got slammed for his 9/11 sermon. The poor media was so busy bombarding us with propaganda and manipulating video, they TOTALLY forgot to, you know, like show us the context, or, like tell the truth or whatever.

Turns out, when Reverend Wright was making those the "Anti-American" "unpatriotic" statements about 9/11, he was actually quoting someone else. You'll never guess which ~~left wing angry black man~~ white former U.S. Ambassador really uttered the words.

Edward Peck! If you don't know Edward Peck, he's a former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and was deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force. Oops!

Check out the true story here, which Roland Martin broke on Anderson Cooper's Blog:

One of the most controversial statements in this sermon was when he mentioned “chickens coming home to roost.” He was actually quoting Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force, who was speaking on FOX News. That’s what he told the congregation.

He was quoting Peck as saying that America’s foreign policy has put the nation in peril:

“I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday did anybody else see or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, he said Americas chickens, are coming home to roost.”

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Minor Detail About Reverend Wright's 9/11 Sermon: He Didn't Say It!