My opinion piece on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is in Illinois Times this week, headlined "The prophet Jeremiah" ... I didn't write the head, but I think it's classy. It's about something that kind of got lost in all the uproar about Wright's sermons and their effect on Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, that I thought was important: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran in the Republican presidential primaries this year, was one of the few people calling on us all "cut [him] some slack."
That surprised me, coming from a prominent Republican as it did in the heat of a presidential year. Then I remembered Huckabee is a preacher, too.
Well, read it ...
(And as you read it, remember it is an opinion piece: It reflects my opinion and not the goals and objectives in the course, and you are not required to agree with it. In fact, one of my goals and objectives for you is to develop a skeptical attitude about everything I say.)
If you want to see Huckabee's interview on the Morning Joe show, it's on YouTube. It's a very interesting example of an journalist trying to get a politician on the record trying to say something confrontational when the politician doesn't want to go there.
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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