reverend jeremiah wright had some controversial things during sermons he delivered this weekend. the right wing is jumping all over it. wright hasn't been president obama's reverend for four years. when dan rather said race would be a factor in this year's election, some conservative web sites blamed the media for stirring up the conversation. here is what dan rather said. >> let's not forget that race will be factor in this presidential campaign. yes, the country can feel good about we elected a person of color, which i did not expect do see in my lifetime, but race will be a factor in this. >> according to a new poll race relations are still a problem. 89% of blacks and 72% of whites say the country is either very divided by race or somewhat divided by race. only 40% of whites believe president obama has been helpful in bridging the racial divide. let's turn to dr. james peterson, professor at lehigh university. those polls show some pretty interesting numbers. great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> those polls show race as still a

conservatives are bringing up reverend jeremiah wright. dr. james peterson joins me on that. >>> the koch brothers are just getting started in the effort to bring down president obama. i'll talk about the citizen's united coming up. stay with us. >>> we have an update. the bill and melinda gates foundation has announced it will end its support for a.l.e.c. the gates foundation has given nearly $400,000 over the last couple of years but no more. the gates foundation joins a long list of big name donors leaving a.l.e.c. including kraft, pepsi and intuit. >>> breaking news in the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman is asking people to donate money to his legal defense fund. the martin family attorney is here to respond to that. share your thoughts on twitter using the hashtag ed show. >>> welcome back. jeremiah wright is back. the birthers are back. the race is going to be a factor. race is going to be a factor in this year's election. here is what missouri congresswoman said when asked about president obama's birth certificate. >> i have my do

>> it was a tactical blunder on his part not to use reverend jeremiah wright and i wrote a book thatame out months before anybody talked about him and i talked about it being a damaging thing for obama's candidacy and the media didn't care and when john mccain started tepidly talking about wright, obama started losing primaries, if it was brought up in the normal course of a race, obama never would have won and, reverend jeremiah wright is important for three reasons. first of all, the kkk-gd america happened the sunday after 9/11 where he blamed america for what happened on 9/11 and the other thing, a church member at jeremiah wright's church who told obama she was going to move out to the suburbs because the suburb she was going to move to had a marching band and, reverend jeremiah wright tried to cut her out of it and the kid was black and would be in and all-white neighborhood and thought it would be bad for his self-image and obama is by racial and his mother went him to hawaii to get a good education and obama heard her say this and joined the church and it is amazing he wasn't

>> it was a tactical blunder on his part not to use reverend jeremiah wright and i wrote a book thatout months before anybody talked about him and i talked about it being a damaging thing for obama's candidacy and the media didn't care and when john mccain started tepidly talking about wright, obama started losing primaries, if it was brought up in the normal course of a race, obama never would have won and, reverend jeremiah wright is important for three reasons. first of all, the kkk-gd america happened the sunday after 9/11 where he blamed america for what happened on 9/11 and the other thing, a church member at jeremiah wright's church who told obama she was going to move out to the suburbs because the suburb she was going to move to had a marching band and, reverend jeremiah wright tried to cut her out of it and the kid was black and would be in and all-white neighborhood and thought it would be bad for his self-image and obama is by racial and his mother went him to hawaii to get a good education and obama heard her say this and joined the church and it is amazing he wasn't pou

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>> it was a tactical blunder on his part not to use reverend jeremiah wright and i wrote a book thatt months before anybody talked about him and i talked about it being a damaging thing for obama's candidacy and the media didn't care and when john mccain started tepidly talking about wright, obama started losing primaries, if it was brought up in the normal course of a race, obama never would have won and, reverend jeremiah wright is important for three reasons. first of all, the kkk-gd america happened the sunday after 9/11 where he blamed america for what happened on 9/11 and the other thing, a church member at jeremiah wright's church who told obama she was going to move out to the suburbs because the suburb she was going to move to had a marching band and, reverend jeremiah wright tried to cut her out of it and the kid was black and would be in and all-white neighborhood and thought it would be bad for his self-image and obama is by racial and his mother went him to hawaii to get a good education and obama heard her say this and joined the church and it is amazing he wasn't pound

reverend jeremiah wright delivers a controversial sermon on faith, race, and politics. we're going to show you the tape. trust me, you do not want to miss this one. >> richard nixon, fund mentionly dishonest or he just get in over his head in watergate thing. >> dishonest or stupid. >> and the factor honors mike wallace. we will show you a classic o'reilly interview with the legendary news man. >> monica lewenski? he could have done better. >> laura: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> laura: hi, everyone, i'm lauer are a ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the phony moron women that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. keeping with the theme of suffering on good friday, the white house hosted and boasted a women in the economy conference. now, this, of course, follows the relentless push by democrats to gin up the contrived war on women election narrative. the obama campaign has made it clear that appealing to working women is a key part of th

in two minutes, fiery new words from reverend jeremiah wright.for senator rick santorum and governor romney. what is his message? you will hear from reverend right iwright in a minute. it'd be so easy to check facebook, send emails. and the screen is easier to read in sunlight ! the universe is practically telling me to get a smartphone. it's like, "lisa, it'd be super cool if you got a smartphone. also, i like your outfit." thanks universe, let's get me a lucid. come in and say hello to your new, easy to use smartphone. the lucid by lg for only $79.99. verizon. >> greta: remember, reverend jeremiah wright? of course, you do. who could forget him? president obama's former pastor and he recently gave a speech at west virginia revival event and he spared no one. taking aim at thomas jefferson, clarence thomas and g.o.p. candidate. >> you know who is going to get in heaven? let me tell you who will get into heaven, santorum, let me tell you who is going to get in heaven, romney, and let me tell you who is going to get in heaven, tea party. when i wa

in two minutes, fiery new words from reverend jeremiah wright.nator rick santorum and governor romney. what is his message? >> greta: remember, reverend jeremiah wright? of course, you do. who could forget him? president obama's former pastor and he recently gave a speech at west virginia revival event and he spared no one. taking aim at thomas jefferson, clarence thomas and g.o.p. candidate. >> you know who is going to get in heaven? let me tell you who will get into heaven, santorum, let me tell you who is going to get in heaven, romney, and let me tell you who is going to get in heaven, tea party. when i was hungry, you fed me. you didn't cut food stamps. when i was thirsty, you gave me something to drink. you didn't shuttle all the money to the rich. when i was in prison, you did something about the mass incarceration where you have black people going to jail because there is a war on blacks, not war on drugs. and the least of these that you have done, jesus talking, that ain't jeremiah. >> greta: go to ♪ ♪ lord, you got no reason ♪ you got n

reverend jeremiah wright delivers a controversial sermon on faith, race, and politics. we're going to show you the tape. trust me, you do not want to miss this one. >> richard nixon, fund mentionly dishonest or he just get in over his head in watergate thing. >> dishonest or stupid. >> and the factor honors mike wallace. we will show you a classic o'reilly interview with the legendary news man. >> monica lewenski? he could have done better. >> laura: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> laura: hi, everyone, i'm lauer are a ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the phony moron women that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. keeping with the theme of suffering on good friday, the white house hosted and boasted a women in the economy conference. now, this, of course, follows the relentless push by democrats to gin up the contrived war on women election narrative. the obama campaign has made it clear that appealing to working women is a key part of th

. >> it was a tactical blunder not to use at least jeremiah wright. the media wanted to do it. a book where i talked about a damaging thing for bm's candidacy. the media didn't care and when john mccain started tepidly talking about jeremiah wright, obama started losing primarieses. if this had could many up with the normal course of a race, he wouldn't have one. and first of all, kkk-gd america happened at sunday after 9/11 where he blamed america for what happened at 9/11 and there was a church member at wright's church he was going to move out of the suburb because the suburb she moved to had a marching band and reverend jeremiah wright was trying to talk her out of it, it was a white neighborhood and he was black and might be-- obama was a man whose mother moved to indonesia and it's amazing that obama didn't get pounded and pounded and pounded, that he wasn't on this-- it's mind-boggling to me, governor, it wasn't used as an issue. >> mike: thank you for joining me today, i appreciate you being there. >> you've got it. >> mike: coming up next, fox business network's gerri

macias we'd have to bring out jeremiah wright. i'm really glad to be here this afternoon. having come to this writer's workshop for some years now both as a panelist and as one imbibing in the audience like most of you and it's been a wonderful experience. i'm also glad to be here because those being honored today are among my heroes and she rose this evening, ishmael reid and those others who are going to be honored this evening. and, we also have, i am alsodive glad to be here because we have a very, not only distinguished but differs group of panelists who are really extremely well-versed in politics but also have made their own marks incula political writing and variousn genre's. i'm going to introduce them, not any particular order but i would ask you to raise your hand when i call your name. our first panelist, i recognize anthony grooms who identifies himself as a writer of conscience as he puts it, a writer of conscience and he writes on a variety of subjects in several genres from historical fiction to scienceo fiction, b

. >> bill, your good friend the reverend jeremiah wright is known for saying god damn america, so this is all a joke, right? >> sometimes i think you bring this up just to say that. i pal around with a lot of people and found out who they are and what they did. there is no reason they should be doing this song. and it is not because of the god factor. it is a terrible, terrible song. it is more mellow dramatic than brunch in chelsea, and it should not be inflicted on these poor kids and their tiny ears. >> bill, i disagree. i just bought a copy at the car wash in the bin for $2. >> it was one of the best ones. >> it was one of the best hits on his greatest hit. >> in between your horrible, horrible statement, the simple solution is don't pick that song. if there is a problem and we have to change the works, pick a different song. >> fourth graders know all of the lyrics to drake songs. >> there is no separation from drake and school. >> you made it better. >> should schools be sensitive toking a nose sticks and atheists? >> it is a public school. you could argue in it if you wanted. if

just when you think you heard the last of reverend jeremiah wright, obama's former pastor over the years he reemerges with more controversial comments. last week after delivering sermon at baptist church in west virginia, reverend wright spilled hate-filled commes. they refused to give us permission to air them but it won't stop us from revealing what reverend wright said from calling thomas jefferson a pedophile to take a swipe at clarence thomas. he covered it all on race and politics. the obama former pastor said there are politicians making decisions about you, your life, your future, your family and your children and the real tragedy is they live in a different world from your world altogether. they're people in power right now who have opinions about you based on their privilege of skin color. later he said, "the ignorance and arrogance of white supremacy have the shapers and movers of world policy living in a different world from people of color altogether." the sooner you realize that, the better off you're going to be. joining me with reaction is the former clinton advisor dick

i remember endless discussions about the reverend jeremiah wright. >> endless discussions but no answersse me, excuse me. you're having a discussion is asking questions. right? but the candidate needs to respond. and there was no response from the other side. so mitt romney is taking the same play book. the same page out of play book. the fact of the matter, romney has had this debate. he gave a major speech on his faith in his campaign. >> that's not true. >> you don't remember that? where were you in 2008? >> the president did talk about the issue of his faith repeatedly. >> so did romney. the fact that he doesn't want to talk about it now. >> no. no to be fair, you just suggested that what romney did today was consistent with what happened to the president. >> absolutely. >> that's not true. >> i don't know the campaign that you were in. i know the one i was in and that was a fact. and i understand that the reason to rewrite the history with respect to obama and what happened and didn't happen. you but the fact of the matter remains that mitt romney has addressed the issue of his fait

it was the media that hounded on then candidate barack obama to distance himself from reverend jeremiah wrights a standard that republicans enforced out into the media and the media covered this for months. now, the request he is will they force republicans to denounce in the same way. >> i doubt it very much. our thanks. we have some sad news, some breaking noo uz to report this afternoon. the legendary entertainer and producer dick clark has died. he was 81 years old. night-visi, like in a special ops mission? you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering, web-based trading platform. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up to $600 when you open an account. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. it's real milk full of calcium and vitamin d. and tastes simply delicious. fo

then i found another critique she made of reverend jeremiah wright during the 2008 primary season whereot at them for all the inflammatory rhetoric that we heard during that campaign out of the church. >> bill: that was during interview with me, correct? >> correct. >> bill: let's roll the tape on that. >> bill: can you believe this reverend wright guy? what do you think when you hear fellow american citizen say that stuff about america? what do you think. >> but minor. >> lukewarm critique what you didn't show in that clip is preceding that you had a couple of other questions. had you to pull that criticism out of her. >> bill: basically give her the look like if you are not going to say it i'm going to have to. that's right, monica. colmes, i think this thing is about pay back to rush limbaugh because, remember, limbaugh really griewttle hillary clinton. and i think that she got teed up by andrea mitchell. she knew it was coming. the fluke story is now a month old. really didn't, you know, she is the secretary of state and it doesn't really have anything to do with her. >> this was ab

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and he would have to bring out the -- he would have to bring jay miya -- jeremiah write -- wright. i've been coming here as a panelist and one imbibing in the audience like most of you and it's been a wonderful experience, and i'm also glad to be here because those being honored today are among my heroes. ishmael reed and others who are going to be honored this evening, and we have a very -- not only distinguished but diverse group of panelists who are really extremely well-versed in politics and also have made their own marks in political writing in various genres. i'm going to introduce them, not in a particular order but i'd ask you to raise your hand when i call your name. our first panelist is anthony green, who identifies himself as a writer of conscience as he puts it, and he writes on a variety of subjects. in several genres. from historical fiction to science fiction, but however his most notable writing has been in the american civil rights movement, and some of how to might be familiar with his fine, fine work, bombing-ham, a novel set in the period of the civil rights p

back then, one of the central figures on the obama side of things was reverend jeremiah wright.e obama's minister for maybe 15 years or so. >> baptized his children. >> baptized his children. he attended that church on a regular basis and then it came to light that reverend wright had said some things about the united states and god in general. he kind of went away after that. >> and the president severed ties. >> severed ties and actually, reverend wright then came out and since has criticized the president pretty heavily but is he back now? >> he is back. at least he was back for three sermons last week in charleston, west virginia. he spoke at the metropolitan baptist church and have what some have described as three hate-filled sermons. if you missed it, here's some of the reverend in action last week. >> there are politicians who are making decisions about you, about your life, about your future, about your family, about your children, and the real tragedy is they live in a different world from your world all together. there are people in power right now who have opinions a