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Rev. Wright Magazine Featured Obama on Cover with Farrakhan

Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:41:39 pm PST

To this day, Barack Obama continues to insist he was shocked and surprised to discover that Reverend Jeremiah Wright had bizarre racist views.

Now Tom Blumer has discovered images of Wright’s radical newsmagazine Trumpet—and look who was featured on the cover of that magazine at least three times: BizzyBlog - Attention Stanley Kurtz, Re Obama, Wright, Trumpet: I’ve Got You Covered.

Here’s one of the images, featuring pictures of Barack Obama, Rev. Wright — and Louis Farrakhan. Isn’t that cozy?

And if you think Barack Obama didn’t know he was featured on this cover, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.

For more about the deranged, hateful content of Trumpet, see: Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet’.

UPDATE at 5/13/08 5:42:49 pm:

LGF readers have identified several of the other people on this cover:

Adam Clayton Powell — 1st row, 1st from left
Dick Gregory — 1st row, 2nd from left
Shirley Chisholm — 1st row, 4th from left
O. J. Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran — 1st row, 5th from left
Rosa Parks — 1st row, 6th from left
Rapper “Common” — 2nd row, 1st from left
Is that Robert Mugabe? 2nd row, 2nd from left
Luther Vandross — 4th row, 1st from left
Ozzie Davis — 4th row, 2nd from left
Lou Rawls — 4th row, 3rd from left
Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad — 4th row, 5th from left

Notice who’s missing? Martin Luther King, Jr.

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#1 CapeCoddah 5/13/08 4:42:43 pm 0

Nice Cover Shot!

#2 storagemanager 5/13/08 4:42:59 pm 0

bored.

#3 Shug 5/13/08 4:43:11 pm 11

Obama's Pictures........are coming home to roost

#4 DesertSage 5/13/08 4:43:43 pm 0

The good Reverend is doing everything he can to sabotage Obama's candidacy.

#5 Cap'n DOC 5/13/08 4:43:46 pm 0

re: #2 storagemanager

Boring is more like it.

#6 threecoloursblue 5/13/08 4:43:46 pm 0

What's an Akiba?

#7 bosforus 5/13/08 4:44:17 pm 3

birds of a feather...

#8 EC Marm 5/13/08 4:44:20 pm 0

The Legacy Lives On...
Is the caption at the bottom.

#9 storagemanager 5/13/08 4:44:22 pm 1

there is no shock value...Obama is clear as a bell.

#10 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:44:24 pm 9

What was it that a poster much wittier than I said?:

"I did not have spiritual relations with that Pastor"

#11 Nevergiveup 5/13/08 4:44:27 pm 6

That is unfair. It's not like he was a member of that cult, err I mean church for 21 years. It only 20 years. And how does that help his kids anyway you racist bastard you.

#12 Shug 5/13/08 4:44:38 pm 3

It looks like the cast of Fat Albert

#13 CapeCoddah 5/13/08 4:44:47 pm 0

Gonna be hard for him to distance himself from this...

#14 Cap'n DOC 5/13/08 4:44:47 pm 0

re: #2 storagemanager

MOF, Storage, pass me the Maple syrup - please. I feel a waffle comin' on.

#15 yochanan 5/13/08 4:45:58 pm 3

T.J.W.P. against OBAMA

#16 EC Marm 5/13/08 4:46:54 pm 1

re: #6 threecoloursblue

What's an Akiba?


That's a good question. I can't find an answer. Wiki has some clues but they all seem related to Judaism.

#17 Lively 5/13/08 4:46:57 pm 0

re: #14 Cap'n DOC

MOF, Storage, pass me the Maple syrup - please. I feel a waffle comin' on.

Obama was conceived in a waffle iron....nothing sticks to him.

#18 pat 5/13/08 4:48:16 pm 4

Doing the work McCain is incapable of.

#19 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:49:02 pm 1

is that Common and Luther Vandross too?

This is like the Tribe Called Quest album cover for "Midnight Mauraders".. can anyone name everyone on the cover?

Barak must be one heck of a singer!

#20 HelloDare 5/13/08 4:49:10 pm 0

Obama is either a liar or the dumbest man in the world. And he ain't stupid.

#21 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:49:17 pm 1

re: #16 EC Marm


Rav Akiba....woot! woot!

#22 MandyManners 5/13/08 4:49:25 pm 0

re: #17 Lively

Obama was conceived in a waffle iron....nothing sticks to him.


Batter man!

#23 pat 5/13/08 4:49:58 pm 1

Isn't Akiba a Jewish school?

#24 Yankee Division Son 5/13/08 4:50:51 pm 0

I am totally shocked and surprised to discover this...

#25 goddessoftheclassroom 5/13/08 4:51:08 pm 1

re: #23 pat

Isn't Akiba a Jewish school?

I thought it was the wizard prison in the Harry Potter books...

/

#26 pat 5/13/08 4:51:28 pm 0

But the polls are closed in West Virgina/

#27 mbruce 5/13/08 4:51:30 pm 0

Man, those pesky distractions keep[ piling up,don't they.
Good thing the MSM will get on their knees for him so willingly.

#28 savage_nation 5/13/08 4:51:31 pm 2

re: #4 DesertSage

The good Reverend is doing everything he can to sabotage Obama's candidacy.

Well, God bless Jeremiah!

#29 HelloDare 5/13/08 4:51:39 pm 0

That cover is going to be like the cover of Sgt. Pepper's. Who can name all those guys?

#30 song_and_dance_man 5/13/08 4:51:57 pm 4

B. Hussein is riding dirty atop the (D) donkey.

#31 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:52:11 pm 0

re: #29 HelloDare

That cover is going to be like the cover of Sgt. Pepper's. Who can name all those guys?

see #19.

#32 buzzsawmonkey 5/13/08 4:52:16 pm 5

re: #6 threecoloursblue

What's an Akiba?

An Akiba is a famous Rabbi--Rabbi Akiba--who lived during the period of the Second Jewish Revolt against the Romans, and was martyred by them.

If you mean "what do Reverend Wright and his clowns mean by 'an Akiba'?" that is a more difficult question to answer. From the context it looks like they mean it to refer to some sort of gift shop--and have appropriated an exotic-sounding word to give it gloss, much as black-supremacist Marxist Ron Karenga appropriated the seven-branched menorah and called it a "Kinara" to give gloss to the bogus Kwanzaa festival.

#33 pat 5/13/08 4:52:25 pm 0

re: #30 song_and_dance_man

LOL

#34 jcm 5/13/08 4:52:27 pm 1

I seee nothiiiing!
I knoooow nothiiing!

/Sgt. Obamaltz.

#35 Psaturn 5/13/08 4:52:30 pm 0

So...will Obama try to rewrite history again ?

#36 HelloDare 5/13/08 4:52:57 pm 3

The Dems are busy searching for pictures of McCain on anything and everything.

#37 CapeCoddah 5/13/08 4:53:06 pm 1

re: #6 threecoloursblue

Probably just a word the zeroes liked and decided to call the desk in the hall an "Akiba".
I cant find anything unrelated to Judeaism ...

#38 Charles 5/13/08 4:53:17 pm 0

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown.

#39 Killian Bundy 5/13/08 4:53:27 pm 1

More Outrageous Talk from a Minister at Barack Obama's Church, and it's Not Reverend Wright

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright may have stepped down as pastor, but the Trinity United Church of Christ may continue to haunt Barack Obama.

Newsmax reports the new Senior Pastor, Otis Moss, has called biblical patriarch Abraham a pimp, said Noah and Moses were thugs and said Jesus had a "soft spot for thugs." Moss has also praised late rapper Tupac Shakur as a prophet despite his profanity-laced lyrics that glorify violence and a criminal record including assault and sexual abuse.

Cybercast News reports another pastor as the church, reverend Reginald Williams, has written in the church bulletin that the Pentagon trains Latin Americans to become terrorists and the major TV networks are run by right wing racists who see blacks as subhuman.

The Obama campaign has not yet responded to our request for a comment.

/the gift that keeps on giving

#40 Russkilitlover 5/13/08 4:53:52 pm 0

re: #4 DesertSage

The good Reverend is doing everything he can to sabotage Obama's candidacy.

Makes me suspicious that if elected Pres [shudder], BHO will be beholden to the shady Chi-Town political power makers.

#41 Shug 5/13/08 4:54:18 pm 0

re: #6 threecoloursblue

What's an Akiba?

I thought it was a breed of dog

#42 Cap'n DOC 5/13/08 4:54:40 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

SWEET. Rap away.

#43 EC Marm 5/13/08 4:54:51 pm 0

re: #32 buzzsawmonkey
I think you've got it. I did a Google search on:
"Akiba contributions Trinity" and they have a bookstore named that, too.

#44 Psaturn 5/13/08 4:54:53 pm 0

re: #41 Shug

I thought it was a breed of dog

I agree ! LOL

#45 CapeCoddah 5/13/08 4:55:02 pm 0

re: #41 Shug

I thought it was a breed of dog


LOL, Akita?... Think OJ trial...Barking dog

#46 MandyManners 5/13/08 4:55:16 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

Sure looks like him.

#47 Psaturn 5/13/08 4:55:43 pm 3

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).


I think this demonstrates that the Trinity UCC is Christian in NAME ONLY...

#48 pat 5/13/08 4:56:07 pm 2

Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (approx. 15-135 C.E.)

A poor, semi-literate shepherd, Rabbi Akiba became one of Judaism's greatest scholars. He developed the exegetical method of the Mishnah, linking each traditional practice to a basis in the biblical text, and systematized the material that later became the Mishnah.

Rabbi Akiba was active in the Bar Kokhba rebellion against Rome. He believed that Bar Kokhba was the Moshiach (messiah), though some other rabbis openly ridiculed him for that belief (the Talmud records another rabbi as saying, "Akiba, grass will grow in your cheeks and still the son of David will not have come.") When the Bar Kokhba rebellion failed, Rabbi Akiba was taken by the Roman authorities and tortured to death.
Many Jewish schools and academies named after him, as well as an area of study

#49 HelloDare 5/13/08 4:56:07 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

Cleaver Pants.

#51 Yankee Division Son 5/13/08 4:56:20 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

what's that saying my mother had about "the company you keep"?

#52 Nevergiveup 5/13/08 4:56:42 pm 0

re: #41 Shug

I thought it was a breed of dog

OJ's dog if my memory serves me?

#53 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:57:31 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

I believe that is the rapper "Common".

#54 neocon hippie 5/13/08 4:57:35 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

Brown and Cleaver are not the same demented individual.

#55 Shug 5/13/08 4:57:40 pm 0

but but but Rosa parks and Johnny Cochren and I believe Lou Rawls are there too,

/ moonbat

#56 pat 5/13/08 4:58:01 pm 0

Deciphering that cover will give the bloggers work for days. Someone should email the church and ask. Likely the names are in the mag

#57 bosforus 5/13/08 4:58:21 pm 0

With any luck, two years into his presidency the country will look at that magazine and think 'what hell were we thinking?'

#58 Alouette 5/13/08 4:58:25 pm 1

re: #6 threecoloursblue

What's an Akiba?

Rabbi Akiba was a Talmudic sage who lived about 130 A.D. But somehow I don't think this is the "Akiba" they are referring to.

#59 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:58:25 pm 0

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

More "Common" photos.

#60 The Other Les 5/13/08 4:59:10 pm 0

re: #54 neocon hippie

Brown and Cleaver are not the same demented individual.

Two demented individuals then?

#61 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:59:50 pm 0

re: #59 PIMF

More "Common" photos.

Wrong Link. Try this ONE.

#62 yochanan 5/13/08 5:00:14 pm 1

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

H.Rap Brown and Eldridge Cleaver are two different people both racist gangsters but different mothers and fathers

#63 buzzsawmonkey 5/13/08 5:00:33 pm 1

re: #38 Charles

I think the guy with the cap is Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown (aka Eldridge Cleaver).

Eldridge Cleaver (author of Soul on Ice) and H. Rap Brown were two different people, though both were bigwigs in the Black Panthers.

And kudos to Hello Dare at #49 for finding a link to Eldridge Cleaver's penis-pants.

#64 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 5:00:36 pm 0

PIMF:

Ok I'll try this again CHARLES

re: #61 WrathofG-d

Wrong Link. Try this ONE.

#65 HelloDare 5/13/08 5:01:09 pm 0

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

The internet is a wonderful thing.

#66 VegasRick 5/13/08 5:01:22 pm 0

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Eraserhead!

#67 Phil N Blanx 5/13/08 5:02:20 pm 3

The Trumpet blows in all 57 states...

#68 MandyManners 5/13/08 5:03:21 pm 0

re: #49 HelloDare

Cleaver Pants.

ROFLMAO!

#69 BGOH 5/13/08 5:03:39 pm 2

I think I'm going to cling to this.

/In addition to my guns, religion, and general hatred for anyone different from me, of course

/

DOUBLE TAG! HOOOAHHHH!

#70 coquimbojoe 5/13/08 5:03:56 pm 1

I don't think that's H. Rap Brown... I'm pretty sure that's Huggy Bear.

#71 song_and_dance_man 5/13/08 5:04:31 pm 0

The Legacy Lives On - that is, of another gospel.

Trumpet?

Maybe a better title would be Strumpet.

#72 EE 5/13/08 5:04:43 pm 10

Obama's denials that he knew anything about the racial and political tilt of Trinity are refuted by the affirmation that all members recite when a new member first comes to the church. They are refuted by the material that appeared in the Wright magazine. They are refuted by tapes of sermons that have been obtained. They are refuted by the words of Wright himself. Theyare refuted by the reputation that Trinity had acquired by the time Obama joined it.

It is very important to understand that Obama is and has been lying throughout his changing stories of his relationship with Rev. Wright, about what he knew and when, because that goes to the heart of the question about Obama's character, and integrity, and basic honesty.

The fact that Obama brought his children to Wright's church, to be indoctrinated in the hatred that Wright spewed, makes me wonder about Obama's basic judgment. Why did he subject his children to such racist and anti-American ravings if he strongly disagreed with them? And if he did not really strongly disagree with those ravings, then that tells us a great deal about Obama's core beliefs.

It is also disturbing that the Obama campaign and the Obamites are trying to delegitimize any investigation or any study or any discussion or consideration of these telling associations that Obama had: with Wright, with the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, with the fixer Tony Rezko. As Juan Williams pointed out, if you want to inquire about these things that Obama would rather hide, then you are a "racist pig" (Juan Williams said sarcastically).

#74 Charles 5/13/08 5:04:53 pm 2

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

Eldridge Cleaver (author of Soul on Ice) and H. Rap Brown were two different people, though both were bigwigs in the Black Panthers.

And kudos to Hello Dare at #49 for finding a link to Eldridge Cleaver's penis-pants.

Sorry, you're correct -- I wrote too fast. But it does look like Brown.

#75 buzzsawmonkey 5/13/08 5:05:02 pm 0

re: #68 MandyManners

I remember mentioning them a few weeks ago, and I believe it was you who was asking for a pic.

Hilarious, no?

#76 Thanos 5/13/08 5:05:31 pm 0

This is quite the find. MSM worthy, but they are slouches

#77 FrogMarch 5/13/08 5:05:41 pm 0

dutiful MSM - *sweep sweep sweeps it* under the rug...

#78 jainphx 5/13/08 5:05:50 pm