Fair Play For False Prophets
Does a bear defacte in the woods? Rev. Wrights said shortly after 9/11 that “the chickens have come home to roost”, meaning our sins against many nations have caught up with us. Fawell and Robertson being the good “Christian” men, and champains of the Right, went a bit further. E.J. Dionne has a point, what if Obama’s spiritial leader had thrown out this red meat, instead of Bush’s spiritial leader. The press would have made sure there would have been blood in the water. Yes, there is a double standard controlled by the Right Wing media machine.
Two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Jerry Falwell, appearing on Pat Robertson’s “700 Club,” declared: “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.’ “
Robertson replied: “Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And the top people, of course, is the court system.”
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by George Sand
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Comment from Well
Time: May 2, 2008, 8:12 am
Loyal reader, almost all the time agreer but this is a wild pitch.
Difference #1.
No national candidate that I am aware was ever a member of Falwell’s or Robertson’s congregation.
While they are jerk-offs of great proportion, where were the candidates who sat placidly in the pew for two decades? Which candidates cited them as a mentor and influence? Which candidates gave them campaign positions?
Which candidates endorsed those two with two decades of donations?
Without question there have been candidates who certainly tried to use the double crazy team to their advantage because of their ability to influence a few votes on a national scale. Wright lacked that influence even within the city of Chicago. Obama didn’t go to Wright as political expediency, he endorsed his theology by choosing to place membership in that congregation.
Difference #2.
A handful of far right wing churches have had complaints filed for political activities such as distributing voter guides that only contain a few selected hot button issues and show the heathen secular Dems as just shy of devil worshippers along with a few sermons that normally don’t name names but make it clear who the bad guy is.
Contrast that with the black church. Let’s find some media guru to count pulpit appearances by candidates in the black churches vs. such appearances in the far right white churches.
Comment from George Sand
Time: May 4, 2008, 7:23 am
I’m not going to disagree - Obama, having been attacked from the minute he won Iowa by vicious emails…that he’s a Muslim, had to make a public and very demonstrive declaration that he’s Christian and how long he’s been a member of 1 church.
With the immergence of Wright and his wild glassy eyed views…Obama picked the wrong relative. The only saving grace for the Democratic Party; for all intense purposes, Obama was taken out by one of his own. The healing process will be easier.
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