Pfleger and Obama Reflect Each Other

UPDATE: NRO says at this rate Obama won't have any friends left in Chicago. ***The Rev. Pfleger just keeps on giving. A new interview with the normally sympathetic Cathleen Falsani in the Sun Times. (Her Obama spiritual adviser column from 2004 has been getting lots of hits). I imagine this one will too:

As for his performance from the Trinity pulpit at a Sunday night service May 25, Pfleger has apologized for "the words that I chose" and for "my dramatization." Pfleger told me he called the Clinton campaign to apologize directly but had not heard back from Clinton or her representatives.

All that is well and good, but how, as a friend and passionate supporter of Obama's campaign for president, could he do what he did, with cameras rolling?

Pfleger's short answer? He didn't think the service and his "conversation" -- a more casual address than a classic sermon, he explained -- were being broadcast live online, as Trinity often does.

"They told me it was down," Pfleger said. "Their live streaming had been down all day, and they didn't know whether it was back up. . . . I regret the dramatization that I was naive enough to believe was just going to be kept among that church."

The Rev. Pfleger, naive? God give me strength. Once again, he doesn't apologize, he just regrets if people were offended, he doesn't regret doing it, he just pretends to regret getting caught. Falsani thinks Pfleger sounds narcissistic. Really? Why do you think that now? For the bigger picture, let's quote Mark Steyn on Dem sexism, which probably did color Pfleger's disgusting, racist performance:

How else to explain why their gal got clobbered by a pretty boy with a resume you could print on the back of his driver's license, a Rolodex apparently limited to neosegregationist race-baiters, campus Marxist terrorists and indicted fraudsters, and a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.

I wish Francis Cardinal George would finally defrock Pfleger. As for Obama, a good drubbing at the polls wouldn't be good enough for him, even as he locks in the Dem nomination. These two basked in each other's praise in the past, and their shoddy behavior now reflects each on the other.

UPDATE: And Mary Mitchell has gone off the deep end (I could say I was deeply offended--how much good has the Catholic Church done with its schools in the inner city--has any Dem come out for school choice? Has the sainted Barack? Emphasis mine.):

Pfleger, who has raised holy hell about racist policies, including those fostered by churches under the umbrella of the archdiocese, has been a modern-day John Brown.

For those who are fuzzy about history, in 1859, Brown was the white abolitionist who led an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, trying to arm blacks for an assault on slaveholders.

They were stopped before carrying out the plan, but the insurrection put the South on notice that there were abolitionists willing to wage fierce battle to end slavery in America.

Brown was hanged, but not before he challenged slaveholders with these poignant words:

Enough. So the Catholic Church are slaveholders, and John Brown was a hero. John Brown was a domestic terrorist, I don't care if he had good intentions. And I have news for you Mary--Michelle is after us, we're not after her.

UPDATE:UPDATE: Michelle Malkin following the Pfleger story, plus where's the purported Michelle O video? I haven't written on it either, only in passing, and skeptical, vis a vis Rezko. Also, ABC7 reports Father Pfleger is taking temporary leave.