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Re: George, Beautifully stated! Summarizes what we the people must contend with as todays market/money driven media and numerous strangely mutated religous institutions' take a frenzied grab at our political life. the manipulating lies and narcissism of so many pundits, the blatant hypocrisy of many relious leaders and of course that strange litmus test you aptly described, all makes me shake my head and blink with wonder at their affectiveness. We could do well without Mr. Bozell's parasitic feeding on our political discussion.

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Slick Barry Obama is on a roll again. See his lies, videos, quotes, etc. at Slick Barry.com - http://SlickBarry.com

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Totally agree with you, George. "The pot calling the kettle black." These same Christian churches preached the superiority of the white race, or maybe I should say they preached the inferiority of the black race and every race, to the white race. Most also stood silent while jews were being ethnically cleansed. I wonder what they were preaching in their churches then? Now, they no longer preach race bashing, they preach gay bashing. I'm amazed at the "whitewash" and the audacity of anyone commenting on what anyone else listens to in his church when it is well known the problems all the churches have had with accepting blacks; to the degree they started and attend their own churches and now you criticize that. Professed Christians, in general, are as corrupt a group as you'll find anywhere and seem most intolerant to me, a follower of the teaching.

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Mr. Bozell's jeremiad(excuse the pun) seems to overlook the fact that some 20+ percent of the American church-going public sit in Catholic churches every Sunday when they know perfectly well that, for about thirty years, their own leadership at home and in Rome ran, what amounted to, a protection racket for pedophiles; that another significant portion of the public sat in ( or continue to sit in) churches and megachurches run by such flawed human beings as the late Dr. Falwell, Dr. Dobson, Rev. Haggard, Rev. Swaggart, Rev. Farrakhan, Rev. and the late Mrs. Bakker-- all of whom have had their sins enumerated ad nauseum; that an additional portion of the public, in their churches and civic organizations, embrace the unconditional support of the policies of the Israeli government not out of a justification for the morality of such a position, but rather because such support will hasten the curious concept of the Rapture--i.e nuclear devastation, in which those who encourage it by their actions, will somehow be saved from its effects. And, so it seems, a significant portion of our fellow citizens are weekly or bi -monthly duped by a toxic conflation of religion,politics and media which, if Mr. Bozell were honest with his readers and perhaps himself, would fess up to a fact of contemporary politcal reality that our conservative, (and deist) founding fathers would have found appalling--- that sadly, contemporary political candidates must pass some bizarre litmus test of Christian purity from a segment of a troubled populace enamoured of jejune, and often, profoundly unChristin concepts. ...let he who is without sin cast the (proverbial) first stone. It also seems that the outmoded concept of cognitive dissonance needs to be resusitated it time like these: that people of all faith traditions and concerned secularists mutually can shed some little light on the pomposity, power, and puerile posturings of media and religious elites who profit, routinely, from divisiveness, and exclusion of some, often dark, "other". I believe, contra Mr. Bozell, that Mr. Obama has asked that we all join in that unfinished,if daunting, conversation.