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All of this concerns the latest doctrine of political correctness. To criticize the Mormon religion is okay because a white Republican running for president is a Mormon. To criticize the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor is not okay-even though he has talked against the Jews-because Obama belongs to that church and the criticism of his church defines you as a racist. Besides, Jews aren’t that big a deal anymore in the political correct lexicon. They used to be. Not now. The super-sensitive holy of holies category is gay. You are a bigot if you criticize gays. Criticize Jews-aw, well, some of them have it coming.
Who is criticizing the Mormon religion? I know of many conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, but not so much in terms of liberals.
Now, when has Wright ‘talked against the Jews?’ He’s criticized actions of the Israeli state, but that’s not attacking a faith, that’s attacking a political position. Notice, how Tom cannot actually offer an instance of antisemitism. Strange that.
One can criticize Wright all they want. The issue is that people have tried to turn him into a black supremacist by misrepresenting the church’s positions. The church has been compared to the Branch Davidians. Now, does anyone think Wright is buggering little girls and declaring himself the Messiah? Nope. The only guy declaring himself the Messiah and having any actual power is the very conservative Reverend Moon.
That’s not the worst part of the post though:
Well, he has a daughter, that’s so-what. She looks like him which is rather a shame but she accentuates it. Doesn’t care to overcome it. She has horn-rimmed glasses and the same huge teeth but there is so much that can be done with women’s looks-I remember how Eleanor Roosevelt charmed me–that I fully believe Sheila is doing her old man once again, cultivating the art of plainness. She is a law professor at Southern Illinois University. So here’s the drill, liberal-watchers. The liberals are determined to have another go at plain, homely old Paul Simon through his daughter, dowdily dressing dully to show she’s honest. So she’s running as destiny’s tot for mayor of Carbondale and the liberal media hearts up here are going patty-pat, patty-pat.
Does Tom Roeser really want to get in a discussion over looks?
I would talk about Edwards but I’ve heard that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot’?
Ann Coulter Everybody. She’s here all week. That’s your Daily Dolt.
Video here
Right before that Multiple Choice Mitt had very nice things to say about her. I think he may need to clarify those remarks.
Akin to the Branch Davidians
Seriously, what kind of a moron would compare Trinity to the Branch Davidians? Sean Hannity.
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Is it really that hard to understand that African-American communities face challenges distinct to being an African-American community? And that Christianity might play a role in that?
BTW, Hannity is trying to claim to being a good Christian in the bit (not work safe)
Prostitution as a family value.
Only Rich People Should Donate to Campaigns
Is apparently the message the Hotline on Call is trying to send.
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The DC press corps is potentially the most vacuous group of people to ever walk the Earth.
Dan on The IRP
He continues the Apostasy. It’s quite amusing.
Today’s Tosser
John Ruskin offering up another chestnut from the right wing noise machine:
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported today (see here) that Al Gore, who won an Academy Award Sunday night for his film about global warming and the importance of energy conservation, uses 20 times the national average to power his Nashville mansion. What’s more, his use has increased since the release of “An Inconvenient Truth”.
TCPR, of course, didn’t really understand what it was talking about.
What seems to escape people criticizing Gore is that the Gore has challenged the assumption that Green power has to be more expensive in the long term and that generically power consumption isn’t the problem. The problem is power consumption from carbon based fuels.
The scare tactic used by the denial industry is that it will cost tremendous amounts to change the way we produce power or to reduce power consumption. This isn’t true largely because green power is likely to become far cheaper as it is more widely used.
But as with many things in wingnut land, facts aren’t real important.
Daily Dolt: Jill Stanek
Fritchey works toward his Teen Genocide Promotion award
It’s really hard to improve upon that.
Just What is AntiSemitic?
Fran Eaton is trying to tar Obama’s pastor with antisemitism after her attempts to paint the church as black supremacist were met with the appropriate, “What the hell are you talking about?”
The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.
The Divestment issue will hit the floor during this month’s General Synod. Divesting dollars from businesses and banks that do business with Israel is the new strategy being proposed to wake the world up concerning the racism of Zionism. That Divestment issue won’t make the press either, however.
What’s unclear is what is antisemitic. It’s not antisemitic to criticize the Israeli state. Antisemitism is when someone is bigoted against Jews in general–like saying Jews are cheap or Jews are conniving. Not that the state of Israel is illegally occupying territory.
I happen to think Wright is oversimplifying the situation in Israel as the Palestineans have had pretty clear paths to peace, but rejected them. That said, Israel’s treatment of Palestine has been far from perfect. Calling for political action to reverse Israel’s actions in Palestine is hardly bigoted, however. Essentially, he is calling for Israel to live up to the partition in 1948. George Bush has too. They just get there in different ways.
Of course, one can guess that the real problem she has with Wright is that he thinks George Bush is a jackass.
Eaton is a bit clueless when throwing words around like Black Supremacist or Antisemitic apparently because it doesn’t matter to her whether the charges are true. In the case of the Black Supremacy charge, the documents on the church’s website provide an important context for the discussion of race in the Black Values System right here. If one actually reads the context of the 12 precepts it boils down to the fact that Christians in the church have a special responsibility to their community and to viewing those around them as equal before the eyes of God. It’s kind of like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps as a community. That’s not Black Supremacy, it’s Christianity in the context of a particular community which faces a number of challenges specific to that community.
All from a site that labels a State Senator a slut, says a State Rep is backing genocide, and continues to have authors lie about the madrassa story.
There is nothing wingnuts can say that marginalizes them.