Guess who has been doing a documentary about Father Michael "persona non grata" Pfleger? None other than Obama's very own strategist, David Axelrod. From Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/05/ pfleger_a_headache_for_obama_a.html
Pfleger is the subject of a documentary being made by Chicago-based David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist. On Friday, Axelrod told me in an e-mail that the film project has "been dormant for much of the last two years due to other commitments."
One wonders what is in Axelrod's video and audio file about Pfleger. For example, does it have the scenes from 2006 when Pfleger criticized a mass resignation of Jewish members on a state of Illinois hate crimes commission: http://www.nbc5.com/news/7782149/detail. html?rss=chi&psp=news
"Callers to Tuesday's radio show included the Rev. Michael Pfleger, the white pastor of a mostly black Chicago church and a friend of Muhammad's.
Pfleger said "good riddance" to the people who had left the commission. "Leave, go ahead and go on out, we don't need that kind of a spirit or mentality and a narrowness on that kind of commission. I'm glad they're gone," Pfleger said.
The controversy involved a member of the commission, Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad, who is the Nation of Islam's minister of protocol.
[She] "was under the radar until she invited other commissioners to attend a Farrakhan speech last month. Criticism of Muhammad mounted after the speech, which included references to "Hollywood Jews" promoting homosexuality and "other filth."
The three Jewish commission members who resigned said Muhammad should not be on the commission unless she repudiates Farrakhan's criticism of Jews, gays and other groups. On Tuesday, the Jewish Community Relations Council, which represents 46 Chicago-area groups, passed a resolution supporting the three commission members.
"We're not willing to give credibility to this commission in the face of this appointment," said Alan Solow, the chairman of the council."
Here's the quote from Farrakhan that sparked the brouhaha, from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pag es/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=698094
Farrakhan said, "These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood. It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality," and "Zionists have manipulated Bush and the American government" over the war in Iraq.
What else might be in those files? Could there be speeches Obama made while in the company of Pfleger? Appearances by Pfleger or Obama with Minister Farrakhan? Care to share those files, Mr. Axelrod?
Obama has said he was not present for the controversial sermons by Wright or Pfleger and condemned both. This week, he said he was "deeply disappointed" by Pfleger's "divisive, backward-looking rhetoric."
Sermons Obama might have heard from Pfleger?
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