I always wanted to write a tabloid headline like those the New York Post and New York Daily News have made famous. The New York Post has brought us a lurid exclusive this morning revealing the extramarital affair the Reverend Jeremiah Wright apparently had with the church secretary of one of his colleagues in Dallas earlier this year.
When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne’s husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post.
“I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that’s why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me,” Payne said.
She refused to reveal when the adulterous affair started or how she met Wright.
Her husband, a white man, and Wright’s colleague, Reverend Franklin Haynes, a black man, had an interesting and rather Jim Crowish meeting of the minds on the subject.
After discovering he had been cuckolded, Fred Payne, who had married Elizabeth in October 2006, headed straight for divorce court.
“I was downright mad about this bull- - - -,” said Fred, who said he is “in the oil and gas business,” belongs to a hunting club and makes his own bullets in his garage.
“People wouldn’t be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man.”
He added, “Rev. Haynes doesn’t like the interracial thing, either. This was quite an issue for him.”
Elizabeth Payne has filed a wrongful dismissal claim with the EEOC and there is no word yet from the Wright camp. Sarah Palin would be an exception to the old adage that politics is show business for ugly people, but the vast assortment of characters and melodramatic subplots has definitely added excitement to the campaigns over the last 18 months. Whatever the outcome of this sideshow to the 2008 presidential race, this has been the most entertaining election year in my lifetime.
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One White Sox game I attended with my father when I was very young, things seemed hopeless for the Sox. People started to leave in droves. We, of course, sat it out. The Sox eventually came back and won the game. That was exciting.
This election is entertaining indeed. With Palin, it’s become exciting.
Adultery is always unfortunate. Not surprising though Rev. Wright may have had one. If America is damned from above, how would this help prevent that, Rev. Wright?
Rev. Wrong was “right” about damning something but it shouldn’t have been America, it should have been himself. Power always gets to people’s head and they think they can get away with anything, just ask John Edwards, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton and many others.
Something tells me that churches are exempt from interstate commerce regulation. She’s got no case, except for entitlement mentality…
My word Robert. What could all these men have in common, I wonder? Now Rev. Wright can join their private/not so private club.
Yeah, but you guys have to admit this election submitted as a script 5 years ago would have gotten the writer thrown out of any movie studio as being too preposterous. Real life is much more interesting and funny than fiction.
Stuff like this only matters when it is a conservative committing the offense. No reason for the entitlement pimps to be worried.
I feel bad for all of them. I’m sick of peoples failures becoming headlines. They aren’t politicians, just sinners. Politicians are another matter. They are expected to walk the walk. This man who had to feel the white hot pain of being cheated on, is now in the national media living it once again. Yuck. I’m not even surprised about this info on Wright.
its all fun and games til someone gets hemorrhoids…! and you all know only money can cure those.
What could have possibly attracted her to him (Wright) in the first place?
ick
Charm?
I don’t feel the least bit bad about any of these characters(or should I say lack thereof).
Everyone’s life can be boiled down to a long list of decisions, and the resulting consequences, that are made daily. Both Wright and this woman made their own personal decisions to engage in this behavior. Now perhaps, they will deal with the consequences of their behavior.
Leadership, whether religious or political, starts at the top. When we, as constituencies, settle for this lack of character - that is exactly what we get.
AW, I admire your political passion, but I think you’re empathy in this matter, is sorely misplaced.
Lawrence, my empathy was mostly directed at the husband, who endured the cheating, and now it’s being rehashed. For some reason my mind dismisses Wright. I’m just not surprised. I think it’s because I never considered him a Godly man. Something worse. As to the cheating wife, a dummy.
If she had stayed home and cooked and cleaned and looked after her man like a woman is supposed to, this would never have happened. How could this evil Jezebel seduce this wRightous man of God and lead him to sin? Who knows what this trauma may have caused him to do, lose his mind, say stupid things, hate his country?
Absolutely shameful I must say.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Apparently, this is Wright’s m.o. Didn’t he hook up with his current wife this way?
# 5 - TexPat - Ain’t THAT the truth! Fact ‘outweirds’ fiction every time! Which is why I find reading history so entertaining.
#15 Dave5
According to the Post article, Wright seduced the wife of a parishioner when they came to him for marital counseling back in the 1980s. She left her husband and married the Reverend Wright.
#16 ShinerBlonde
There are very few comedians who I find funny anymore. I do get my daily laughs from reading about the real life antics of people now and from the past.
I have ZERO respect for anyone that can/will cheat on their wife! Not that I had any for Wright, just saying!
Wow, what a scumbag. The glow of The Enlightened One’s halo is starting to fade.
Alleluia!
God Bless Sarah Palin!
Ummm…guess Rev Wright doesn’t hate white people that much…I mean white women…it all feels the same, right Wright??
scumbag…
Could this have been Rev. Wright?
After listening to the ranting and raving of the Reverend Jessie Jackson all these years who would have thought there was someone even nuttier than him. I guess when you hate your country as much as the Right Reverend Wright a little adultery isn’t a big deal.