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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Hannity: Bribe/Pay-off by Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright? $150,000? Benny Da' Man?


Bribe and  Pay-off to Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright by Mr. Obama?
     
          The ever-voluble, chatty, cheeky, pugnacious, churlish, country-music-lovin,' foot-stompin,' baccalaureate in the arts (B.A. only and nothing more), half-read, half-literate, noisy  and ever-confident Irishman, Sean Hannity, is reporting that Obama “bribed” his former Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah, with $150,000 to keep silent during the Presidential campaign.  
          We routinely patrol the Irish enthusiast’s program, a service of vetting that is needed in/for the media, as well as theological arenas.  RA does not easily abide half-literates easily.  Yet, Sean has surfaced an interesting--perhaps, an important--story.
          Reformation Anglicanism abhors Sean’s weak and shallow academic credentials.  In fact, that applies to everything on FOX from 1900-2200,  Sean is a putz.  A minor. A B.A.  He needs to go back to school for several years. 

         Sean is a blue-collar loud-mouth who entertains “political enthusiasts” (like the MSN"BS" exhorters and like other bucolic, religious “revivalists”).  Further, we dislike the “shout-overs” and “shout-outs” on his unscholarly program of loud-mouths.  Where are the scholarly footnotes?  Yet, this Irish Romanist and enthusiast, this blue collar fella, of few notable attainments, other than entertainment on TV and radio, has raised some good issues about Obama and his black Pastor, Dr. Wright, another infamous loudmouth who exclaimed “God damned America” in a sermon following 9/11. 
           Even if we dislike Hannity, there are issues here worth reviewing.
          The Rev. Dr. Wright claims that Obama’s team offered $150,000 for him to bow out and go silent.  Klein, a new author, is claiming some revealing things from the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright.  As an aside, where are these half-literates in the media?  CNN?  MSN"BS"?  ABC?  CBS?  FOX is on it, thanks to Hannity, but no others.
          Are we "elites" at Reformation Anglicanism?  Indeed, we are.  We are educated.  We insist on it.  We do so when visiting a Physican, flying on a jet, or taking a course in history at college.  We insist upon vetting media (and theological) elites.  We've earned that right and we insist on it.
          Here’s a brief roundup.   The story is developing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G1g7RzAdU&feature=related

        So, what are the facts?  Was there a $150,000 payoff?
        We'll need to ask Benny, the Big Thinker and Big Reader in America, for his views.   Benny, what do you think, Dude?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

With all due respect, what part of what Sean Hannity said about Obama and Wright 4 years ago was wrong? He was warning America how radical and Marxist Obama was - and 3.5 years of tearing apart this country, it's people, buisnesses, military, and Christian Churches is proof of a failed President.