He's baaaaaaaaaack. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the former minister and confidant of President Barack Obama that caused him quite a stir on the campaign trail last year, is ruffling feathers again. Wright is now blaming "them Jews" for keeping Obama from giving him a call.

Wright told the Daily Press in Newport News, Va.:

"Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office.

"They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is .... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do."

The White House, wanting nothing to do with another controversy involving Wright, declined to comment. Officials pointed out, however, that the Obamas ditched Wright last year after he made incendiary remarks, including blaming the government for the spread of AIDS.

The former pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago continued:

"Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing [by] the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel."