Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's Pastor, Incites YouTube Video Frenzy

Reverend Wright's Statements Reference 9/11, Clinton Campaign

When ABC News purchased copies of sermons given at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, they may not have known just what they would find. Quickly gaining attention across the nation are Reverend Jeremiah Wright's comments, delivered from the pulpit of Senator Barack Obama's long-time church.

In one 2003 sermon, commenting on the treatment of African-Americans in the United States, Wright says "the government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strikes law and then wants us to sing 'God bless America,' No, no, no, not 'God bless America,' God damn America -- that's in the Bible, you're killing innocent people, God damn America for treating us citizens as less than human."

According to ABC, of 9/11, Reverend Wright goes on: "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

In the video, Jeremiah Wright goes on to comment on the Clinton campaign, seemingly compares Obama's story to that of Jesus Christ, and suggests that the U.S. government intentionally provides drugs to African-Americans in an attempt to imprison them, among other claims.

While the Obama campaign is likely unhappy with the attention this story has garnered, it appears as if the pastor's comments are gaining steam. In the past 24 hours, 41 copies of the Good Morning America segment have been posted to YouTube by members such as "CultureWar77" and "DemocratsHateUS." These 41 videos have received 205,486, an average of 5,011 per YouTube video.

To date, Senator Obama has distanced himself from Reverend Wright's incendiary comments. In response to Reverend Wright's comments on the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times quotes Senator Obama as stating that "the violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification."