Jim Wallis and Obama

The Reverend Jim Wallis is one of Obama's spiritual advisers.

Like Jeremiah Wright, Obama's spiritual mentor, Wallis says some controversial things and plays the race card.

From BreitbartTV:

It was recently revealed that Rev. Wallis accepted money for Sojourners from George Soros, who has financed groups supporting abortion and atheism.

Listen to an interview from November 24, 2010.

Audio.



Transcript

INTERVIEWER: Do you talk to President Obama regularly?

JIM WALLIS: Yeah, we talk about things. He's struggling because Washington, D.C. is wired to block change, and a lot of people thought electing him would make change. But we're learning again that social movements are what make change.

INTERVIEWER: But as someone who knows him, are you depressed by the kind of language that's used now in American politics?

WALLIS: Well, it's the kind of language, to be blunt, Rupert Murdoch likes.

INTERVIEWER: Really? You blame him?

WALLIS: FOX News has been the assassin of Obama's religion. I was on FOX News last week and they said, 'How do you explain that 18 percent of the American people now believe he's a Muslim?' And I said, 'Are you serious?' And they said, 'Yes.' And I said, 'Because you've been planting this seed of doubt 24/7 in people's minds.'

It's been a religious assassination of Barack Obama by the far Right. I've known him for ten years. He's been a Christian. He had a conversion. Nothing wrong with being a Muslim at all, but he's not. And so, what they're trying to do is to disconnect him and his values from the American people.

And to be blunt, there wouldn't be a Tea Party if there wasn't a black man in the White House. There wouldn't be a Tea Party. That's the fact.

INTERVIEWER: I suppose what they would say is that the problem actually is that the economy hasn't improved for most Americans. The problem is that Barack Obama's solutions seem to many Americans to be un-American. They seem to be rather more European in terms of government spending, and emphasis on things like that; and that it really has nothing to do with assassinating his religion. The issue is Obama himself.

WALLIS: Well, the two issues here: One is, journalists ask me how I react to the election results and I quote the proverb - without a vision, that people perish. And when people feel like they're perishing, they're angry and afraid. So the economy - lack of jobs, lack of success - is indeed the real issue here. But alongside that, alongside that, there's been a very calculated Right-wing media machine response, trying to discredit Obama. He wasn't born here. He was born someplace else. He's not really a Christian and all of that. So basically, you have an ideological food fight.

INTERVIEWER: Does he believe what you've been telling us this morning, that actually Rupert Murdoch is to a large extent responsible as you say?

WALLIS: No, I'm saying that. I'll take responsibility for that.

INTERVIEWER: But do you think he believes that?

WALLIS: Well, I think he certainly feels like he hasn't had a chance to sort of communicate effectively what he's been for.

This really is sickening.

Wallis says FOX News is little more than a vast Right-wing conspiracy to take down Obama, the Tea Party is a racist movement, and Obama hasn't been given a chance to communicate what he stands for.

Ridiculous.