Jeremiah Wright: Tea Party is 'Lynch Mob 2.0'

America's favorite America-hating pastor is back, but hey, it's not like one of his congregation is going to become president or anything. Oh, never mind . . .

Jeremiah Wright was supposedly Barack Obama's spiritual mentor until he became a political liability, but you all remember that. My own theory is that Obama, like a lot of politicians, attended Wright's church mainly for the connections and the community cred it gave him. That's why he had no compunction about coldly throwing Wright under the bus after years of sitting in church and listening to Wright say the very things that suddenly troubled him so. Be that as it may, you have to give Wright credit for this: Given a choice between toning it down for Obama's sake or going full bore, he's going full bore. And if you're a Tea Party type, he's coming for you. USA Today reports:

"Tell your children we have some unfinished business on the agenda with the voting rights bill gutted by a right-wing dominated Supreme Court … with mass incarceration robbing black and brown communities of any positive future … with jobs being shipped overseas … with one branch of the tea party being nothing but a 2.0 upgrade of the lynch mobs … with some folks doing everything they can to get that black man out of their White House."

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I'm not sure which "faction" of the Tea Party he's talking about. Some of us in 2012 were all about getting that black man out of the White House and putting a different black man in, but if you pay attention you will of course find out that there are black men and there are black men. Take Sen. Tim Scott, who sure looks black to me but he is also a Republican and a member of the very same Tea Party that Wright thinks is a lynch mob. How is that possible? Glad you asked. Andrew Johnson explains via National Review:

A prominent NAACP official recognized Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by labeling black senator Tim Scott a puppet for the Republican party. “A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy,” said Reverend William Barber II, the president of North Carolina’s NAACP chapter. The State reports that Barber’s remarks came in a speech in Scott’s home state of South Carolina. “The extreme right wing down here,” he said, “finds a black guy to be senator and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the Tea Party.”

So this is how the left can feign devotion to civil rights on the one hand while shamelessly attacking prominent black public figures on the other, as the boss wrote on Sunday. Tea partiers don't oppose Obama because he's black, or they wouldn't support the likes of Herman Cain, Niger Innis and Tim Scott. They oppose Obama because he is a liberal. Jeremiah Wright can't possibly be ignorant enough not to understand that, but he knows how to nail an applause line and I guess that's all that matters to him. Does Obama know his old pastor was on the stump again? Maybe the president could use some spiritual guidance. Or maybe he needs some new ideas about who to blame for his own failures. Then again, as Rob reported yesterday, Obama doesn't need anyone to tell him to blame racism for his problems. He's got that down.