Faux News Special Investigation: Reverend Jeremiah Wright getting $1.6 mil home from Trinity church

[sabra]

This HUGH!!#$@! Obama is definitly going down for this one :sarcasm:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/27/obamas-former-pastor-builds-a-multimillion-dollar-retirement-home/

Obama’s Former Pastor Getting $1.6M Home in Retirement
by FOXNews.com


The four- bedroom, 10,000-plus square foot home that Trinity United Church of Christ is building for Reverend Jeremiah Wright. (FNC Photo)


By Jeff Goldblatt

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A two-week FOX News investigation, however, has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his time in retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years.

FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.

“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

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There is apparently nothing wrong with that, according to non-profit tax expert Jack Siegel of Charity Governance Consulting, who examined public documents FOX News obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds and the Village of Tinley Park.

[Nitrogenica]

1. Hey! Edwards has a big home TOO!!!! What's going on here?!!

Nobody on the right who is filthy stinking rich tries to help the poor, because if they did, they'd be hypocrites.

:sarcasm:

[Kittycat]

2. Oh for f*cks sake - why don't they just give out the address?

The guy is getting death threats, and they're going to list the suburb where it's being built, even? Jesus. WTF is wrong with them.

And for the record, it's freaking expensive to live here - regardless of whether some think it's excess or not. Nearly every major church pastor I've known of (and my parents are pastors - so I've known quite a few over the years) live in nice homes. This is nothing new. Why is this surprising to anyone? The man dedicated his life to working with the community, let him retire in peace and die of natural causes. Not because some asshole figured out where he lives, and killed him in his own home.

[sabra]

3. they spent two weeks investigating this nonsense... how about reporting

on something that actually matters to the average citizen :shrug:

[EFerrari]

17. Where did you read/hear he was getting death threats?

That's horrible.

[MnFats]

4. the right is going to make rev. wright the candidate from now on...

they will have a "team" of "investigators" and every parking ticket or spitting on the sidewalk incident will be reported as "news" and they'll pull out that "God DAMN America" tape every fuckin' time.
the dirty bastards.

Fox news...not just whores but wrinkled toothless whores...and not like the Emperor's club but more like the creature that stepped out of the bathtub to greet Jack Nicholson in "The Shining."

[MadMaddie]

5. Folks it really is time to serve the Republicans their own shit....

Do they want to really go there?

For all of you folks that live near big Right Wing Preachers it's time to take pictures of their churches, homes and other propert and start analyzing their lives.

You will find the Bakers all over again.

The Church is allowed to use their money how they like.

If this is the game they want to play.....

Play Ball!!!

[MikeNearMcChord]

6. Start with Rod Parsley's I heard he has a PHAAAT Crib!!!

[Johonny]

15. yip

It's a surprise the Christian right has not come down harder on attacks of Wright. After all they do not want people looking into what they've said, where they live, where they get their money.

[Janet Carter]

7. So F*cking WHAT ?

Check out the homes of most of the big name pastors of all churches in the United States. VERY FEW live in homes worth less that $1 mil.

[Middle finga]

8. Go investigate some of those bloodsucking corporate CEO's that walk away with

tens of millions of dollars in severance packages. Those racist assholes at fox really get on my nerves.

[Botany]

9. Now they can look @ Rod Parsley & his scams

[rurallib]

10. Like I am going o believe anything Fux reports.

[madrchsod]

11. they investigated and found.......

NOTHING! everything was legal and ethical! shocking is`t it!

[RB TexLa]

12. The church can give him a private jet if they want

If the parishioners don't like it they will let it be known and stop giving money, and they are the only ones who count.

[trudyco]

13. I dunno it's just wrong to me - nonprofits and churches get tax

breaks. Supposedly they are above the fray (unlike corporations). For the most part, in the past, they were. This stuff makes me sick. Sure it's legal but is it ethical?

Of course Fox is the post calling the kettle black - lord knows how many right wing religious fanatic groups are giving their church heads luxurious lifestyles.

It all bothers me.

[Mountainman]

14. Now how about those moral televangelists? didn't they have large houses too?

Money came in from their tv shows.

[hifalutin]

18. Yes they did

and it's all wrong, nobody NEEDS that much.

[EFerrari]

16. The real problem with Wright is his success. He built the largest congregation

in his denomination. Some people have to hate him for that.

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