During an interview on The Sean Hannity Show, author of “The Amateur” Edward Klein revealed the name of the man who reportedly bribed Rev. Jeremiah Wright, offering him $150,000 to shut up during the 2008 campaign.
Video from The Daily Caller, via Hot Air:
Klein reminded listeners that Whitaker’s hospital is the same one that paid first lady Michelle Obama $316,962 a year to handle community affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center while her husband served in the U.S. Senate.
In an email, Klein said Whitaker had offered Wright $150,000 “if he would shut-up and not criticize Obama anymore.” When Wright refused Whitaker’s offer, Klein said Obama himself personally met with Wright, which supposedly took place after Obama’s March 18, 2008 “race speech,” confirmed by both Wright’s word and the U.S. Secret Service logs.
Hot Air reminds us exactly who Dr. Erick Whitaker is:
That’s the same guy who runs the Urban Health Initiative at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Michelle Obama got her big six-figure promotion coincidentally shortly after The One was elected to the Senate; the same guy who got a “glowing” reference from Obama for Tony Rezko, which led to Rod Blagojevich hiring Whitaker to be the state’s public health director; and the same guy whose UHI program just got nearly $6 million from HHS as one of 26 grantees in an applicant pool of 3,000.
Paging Jake Tapper. Since you’re one of the few White House press folks who ask actual questions, you might want to take some notes down for tomorrow. Jay Carney needs to spend the duration explaining this.
He may be the most nerdiest bag man ever!
Never let FACTS get in the way of a inciting story. Dr Eric came on board at the U of Chgo.
at ~ the same time as the First Lady and thereby had no hand in her hiring.
Sounds good though!