Good News: "Daughter: Rev. Wright NOT publishing book in October" plus he is in Ghana.

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Daughter: Rev. Wright NOT publishing book in October

A New York magazine cover story last week reignited the debate over Rev. Jeremiah Wright when it stated - without attribution - that the former pastor of Sen. Barack Obama was releasing a new book.

But his daughter, Jeri, told me today that the story is absolutely false.

"The only book we're working on is the history of Trinity (United Church of Christ) and I haven't even started editing that," Wright told Essence.com.

After I reached out to her, she called her father, who is teaching and ministering in Ghana (I ran into him last month when I was in the West African nation) and said he "laughed" when she asked about the book.

"He said that he also got an email, but was unable to respond since he's in email hell," Wright said, meaning in a place in Ghana where it's difficult to send and receive email.

"I asked him if he was writing and he said, 'Nope. I'm not publishing anything. I'm not going on any book tours.'"

http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/daughter-rev-wr.html

[Fluffdaddy]

1. We dodged another one

[FrenchieCat]

2. I already knew that.

Wright may like attention but he ain't out of his mind.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Thank goodness. I figured he was going to have some big problems with a lot of people

if he was going to do anything like that.

Where did you see it?

[FrenchieCat]

5. As a Black person, I already knew that

Rev. Wright isn't that kind of an individual, no matter how bad he looked during his temporary lapse of judgment on his last foray. I think at that time, there were folks who didn't have Obama's best interest at heart wispering in his ear. Those folks are no longer opposed to Obama's candidacy like they were during the primaries, and Rev. Wright has cleaned out his ears.

[nc4bo]

3. Gargles with Scope then breathes a huge sigh of relief. nt

[DCBob]

6. This is great news.....

I think only Rev Wright could stop Obama from being POTUS in Jan 2009.

[Jazzgirl]

13. I think....

you're an idiot if you think Reverend Wright will bring Obama down by his own pronouncements.

[bluestateguy]

7. That's good news, but trust me, the Goopers will bring back Wright for Vol. 3

And we need to be on our guard.

[Tim4319]

8. Can we please get the word out?

Rev. Wright is in Ghana. So, the next time there is some controversy that Rev. Wright is going to disrupt Barack Obama, we can immediately discredit it by saying that Rev. Wright in Ghana!

[Top Cat]

9. Thank God

[Marrah_G]

10. Fabulous news

[AtomicKitten]

11. The reason this is so funny is that the wingnuts have been salivating over this.

Hopefully they'll be the last to find out about this. Don't want to the spoil the surprise.

[Pirate Smile]

12. It seemed so bizarre that it would actually happen in October. Talk about not making any sense.

[angee_is_mad]

14. Was posted earlier

but I glad that it is showing up again. It's amazing how bias and non factchecking the media is toward Obama.

[slinkerwink]

15. thanks for posting this!

[anonymous171]

16. Wow. I wonder where that rumor started?

[aaroh]

17. please please please stay in Ghana

until after the GE