Ron Kessler (Newsmax reporter behind Wright story) hangs up on Roland Martin just now

[wndycty]

On Roland Martin's radio show on WVON-AM just now.

After Martin called him out on not telling the full story. Asked why he was not balanced and did not report on other things Wright said that could be considered positive. Also, when Martin called out Kessler for hypocrisy in his treatment of Falwell, Parsely, Hagee et al.

It was great he was stammering and just said I got to go.

[blogslut]

1. I hope others call Mr. Kessler

The man should answer for his actions.

[Tarc]

2. "did not report on other things Wright said that could be considered positive"

Funny, I never realized that making racially charged remarks is a balancing game, where such utterances can simply be counter-weighted by making "good" remarks and it is all good and forgiven. :eyes:

[DU9598]

4. Talking social justice???

If you talk about social justice, sometimes it is necessary to talk about disparity that occurred because of race. It is reality, not "racially charged". If truths hurt, it is probably good that it is being spoken.

[wndycty]

6. Tarc, I have question for you. What do you know about Wright other than . . .

. . .what has been seen in the last week? Do you know he is a veteran of both the Marines and Navy? Do you know that the UCC, which is not some militant Black organization, has honored him for his work?

What do you know about Wright?

[Tarc]

7. Windy proves my point

"he is a veteran of both the Marines and Navy"

More excuses, more "look at all this good stuff, let's hope they don't pay any attention to the bad stuff" nonsense.

You clowns crack me up.

[wndycty]

8. You call me a clown, yet you have yet to tell me more about Wright. . .

. . .you the full story. Who he is, what he has done (both good and bad) in his long career as a minister. Mock me all you want, but tell me everything you can about Wright other than what you have learned in the last week.

[Tarc]

20. Do you understand English? Not a shred of anything of Wright's history absolves the hate

I don't care if he rescued kittens from trees, caught the winning touchdown in high school, or saved the poor with Mother Teresa. The inflammatory, race-baiting rhetoric he has used in his church...in Obama's presence or otherwise, he was still a member for 20+ years regardless...can not and will not be excused.

Racists are bad enough; their excuse-makers and apologetics, i.e. you, are are bare step up.

[wndycty]

21. OK, please quote for me the hate? And just don't excerpt it for me. . .

. . .give me full quotes, not just "hateful" passages. COntext is very important.

[Tarc]

22. The "hateful passages" are all that are necessary

Context does not lessen their ignorance or hatefulness.

[wndycty]

23. Well go ahead and quote them. . .

:kick:

[Tarc]

24. They have all been on their airwaves all goddamned week

Why do you need me to cut and paste what we have all been talking about for several days now? Do you really think that this method of excess pedantry is working for you?

[wndycty]

26. Because a lot of folks have claimed it was hate speech, yet they have yet to tell me what was. . .

. . .hateful about it. If you want to call it hate speech, you tell me what you found offensive.

[Tarc]

27. Here ya go

[LanternWaste]

28. If I posted some quotes that were...

If I posted some quotes that were a) just as "bad" or b) even worse, but came from Abbie Hoffman, Gandhi, Lincoln and Einstein, would you justify them or call them on it?

If you state you would call them on it, why haven't you prior to this...?

[anigbrowl]

29. So pointing out that we nuked hundreds of thousands of civilians is hate?

Pointing out tht America has made grevious mistakes in foreign policy and some of them have bitten us in the ass is hate?

[wndycty]

33. OK here is my response

How is political commentary on what he feels Bill Clinton's record in the African American community is hate?

Has Hillary ever been called a ni#$er? How is that hate?

Didn't we bom Hiroshima and Nagasaki and didn't more people die in those attacks than died on 9/11? How is that hate speech?

Isn't there a belief that a foreign policy has impacted world opinion of us and while it does not in any shape or form justify the attacks on 9/11 might we consider what role it might have played in the attacks of 9/11?

[elixir]

11. Hero of the Day: Tarc. Represent.

[wndycty]

14. What is Tarc representing? Lies?

:kick:

[Tarc]

17. Representing the poking of holes into your idiotic bullshit

[wndycty]

18. Tell me what my idiotic bullshit is please?

:kick:

[Forkboy]

30. Yep..representing your crew of imbeciles.

[Iceburg]

15. (W)Right -- Apparently some think its a game of debits and credits/nt

[jefferson_dem]

3. What "full story"?

Did he concede that Obama was not present in church that day after all?

[elixir]

12. Which day? The day he blamed americans for 9/11? the day he said God Damn America?

or how about the day Wright said "Hillary never been called a n*****"? I didn't know all of Wright's outrageous and inaccurate comments happened in one sermon.

That's because they didn't.

[beachmom]

5. Is this the same Kessler who was on The Daily Show last week?

He was advocating for waterboarding and saying there wasn't a terrorist attack because of the great jobs Bush, the CIA, and the FBI have done. Jon got him a few times on his preposterous position on waterboarding.

[goclark]

9. I love Roland Martin ~

Glad he called him out on it.

Watch, Roland won't be on MSNBC or Cable News in the near future.

They don't want to hear the truth.

[progressoid]

10. Hagee said that New Orleans deserved what they got.

Where is the outrage now that he's endorsed McBush?

[elixir]

13. Don't worry, his time will come. The voters are way smarter than we give them credit for, they're

not buying this crap from Hagee or Wright.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

16. Great! Maybe Martin will get this national media attention. Isn't he often on CNN?

[wndycty]

19. Yes he is. . .

:kick:

[grantcart]

25. I for one thank Kessler for bringing it up now - they kicked the hell out of it

over did it - its gone - better than 3 weeks from now or in October.

[Jersey Devil]

31. Did Martin give him any bass fishing tips?

http://www.fishingwithrolandmartin.com/

[sudopod]

32. OH SHIT

The internet is coming!