Trumpet and Its Covers Coverage Picked up by Hannity (with Links to Underlying Posts)
Hannity.com has linked to the first of my three posts on the Trumpet Newsmagazine covers and content (see box with rotating items on the left side at Sean Hannity’s site; the other two BizzyBlog posts are here and here):
Trumpet is the mostly-monthly magazine published by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s 20-year pastor and “sounding board” Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s South Side.
Stanley Kurtz of the Weekly Standard is the person who did the original detailed work to reveal the radical, controversial nature of what has been in Trumpet since it transitioned from being an in-house organ of the TUCC to a magazine available to the general public. The covers of the pre-transition Trumpets indicate that the radicalism was present well before the move to public availability.
Barack Obama has been on Trumpet’s cover at least three times, once by himself (first and third images are clickable, and will open in a separate window):
Louis Farrakhan has also been on the cover at least three times, twice by himself (all graphics are clickable; each will open in a separate window), and once in a montage that included Wright and Obama:
Jesse Jackson and Al “Close This City” Sharpton have also appeared (all graphics are clickable; each will open in a separate window):
Kurtz’s core and inescapable conclusion (at very end):
There can be no mistaking it. What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it? Everything. Always.
The three previous detailed posts are these:
- May 14 — Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine: Cover Pic ‘Highlights’ (Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, Others)
- May 14 — As Media Ogles, Stanley Kurtz Trumpets the Obviously Deep Obama-Wright Connections
- May 12 — Attention Stanley Kurtz Re Obama, Wright, Trumpet: I’ve Got You Covered
Well-done and well-deserved. Kudos for your diligence and for Hannity’s people who are serendipitously smart enough to pick it up and give you credit.
Comment by Rose — May 15, 2008 @ 10:43 am
Nice work, and for what it’s worth, I’m almost positive that Chicago-based rapper, Common, directly above Barry in the goofy red hat.
Comment by Colin — May 15, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
#1 and #2, thanks.
#2, that is “Common.” He got his own cover, which is shown at one of the previous posts.
Comment by TBlumer — May 15, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Tom, great work, and making the Ohio blogosphere proud. Well, at least some of us.
Comment by Ben Keeler — May 15, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
[...] Oblivious Do You Have to Be… …to not notice that you’re on the cover of your church’s magazine along with Louis Farrakhan? I can understand not reading every page of every issue, but if they put you on the cover I think [...]
Pingback by Snarky Bastards » Blog Archive » How Oblivious Do You Have to Be… — May 15, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Exposing JEREMIAH WRIGHT to the sun and watch him crumble to dust like dracula
Comment by Birdzilla — May 16, 2008 @ 9:19 am
I would like to know what the articles actually said in those issues with Barry Obama on the cover. And why is Trumpet Magazine now refusing to share any copies of that issue? What are they hiding?
Comment by Jewels — May 16, 2008 @ 10:02 am
I’ve looked around the web for back issues of Trumpet to buy. Can’t find any. Strange. Nothing even on eBay. I bet they’d be a very hot item right now for anybody who would want to sell some. Is eBay not allowing sales of the mag maybe?
Comment by Joe — May 20, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
#8, that’s surprising, given its supposed circulation of 200,000 (/dripping sarcasm).
I’m not up on what goes on in the aftermarket for mags currently, but a related experience a few years ago tells me it’s a ridiculously tough market, and would be even for a “collector’s item” like a Trumpet.
I attempted to unload a lot of really cool, not-found-anywhere-else content, hard-bound American Heritage Mags from the 1950s, 1960s plus some not-bound ones from the 1970s & forward. I priced them to move on Ebay, and didn’t get a single nibble.
After the election? Who know?
Comment by TBlumer — May 20, 2008 @ 4:41 pm