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Culture of Lies

Scott Swenson | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Abortion, Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Culture Wars, Rush Limbaugh, Culture of Lies, Mccain, Obama, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Culture of Life, Phyllis Schlafly, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, James Dobson, Religious Right, Tony Perkins, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Robertson, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Scott Swenson

Will any brave and clear-sighted Republicans realize that rather than throwing McCain a lifeline in this election, far-right extremism has further isolated McCain, and the party, from mainstream Americans?

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The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party

Jane Devin | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: George Bush, Religion, Michele Bachmann, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Christian Right, Ethics, Barry Goldwater, Jerry Fallwell, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Home News
Jane Devin

Under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican party became a bloated fool, stuffed with hypocrisy, greed, and anti-intellectualism. The price is now being paid through lost elections and a loss of public trust.

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Goodbye Gay Conservatives, Don't Let the Door Hit You On the Way Out

Wayne Besen | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Dan Quayle, Log Cabin Republicans, Dale Carpenter, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Pat Robertson, Gay, Truth Wins Out, Barack Obama, Wayne Besen, Politics News
Wayne Besen

I wasn't aware that Congress had to choose between the economy and protecting GLBT people from job discrimination. I had no idea that passing a hate crime law might hinder our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A Vote For Guns Is A Vote For "Family Values"

Michele Swenson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Fifty Caliber Funshoots, Gun Owners of America, National Rifle Association, National Security, .50-Caliber Sniper Weapons, Sarah Palin, Sports Guns, Pat Robertson, Unlimited Automatic Weapons, Guns, Pro-Gun-Anti-Abortion Coalition, Hunting Guns, Larry Pratt, Charleton Heston, Congressional Rejection of Gun Safety, Home News
Michele Swenson

Guns have been transformed into an article of faith by Christian idealogues like Pat Robertson, who anticipates an "epic struggle" to restore God's intent of national control to "gun-bearing Christians."

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"Bush & McCain & Pray for Rain"

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Religion, Grand Theft Jesus, Religious Right, Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama, Jesus Thieves, Democratic Convention, Invesco Speech, Barack Obama DNC Speech, Barack Obama Convention, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

The weather turned out to be beautiful. We await a reaction from Dr. Dobson. God is neither a terrorist nor a political partisan.

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Excuse Me, Pat Robertson, But Why Is God Sending Another Hurricane Towards New Orleans For The Start Of The GOP Convention?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertsons Beliefs, September 11th, Pat Robertson, New Orleans, Religion, God, RNC McCain, Hurricane Katrina, John McCain New Orleans, Republican Convention, God Hates Fags Church, Republican National Convention, Hurricane Gustav, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

So, I ask these same charlatans, why is God contemplating such a thing?

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Why Does the Media and the American Public Allow McCain to Ignore the Facts with No Consequences?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Paris Hilton, Jerry Falwell, Gas Prices, John McCain, Andrea Mitchell, Britney Spears, Obama Ambtious, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, McCain Offshore Drilling, Mccain Georgia Lobbyist, Jim Webb, Russia Georgia War, Iraq GAO Report Conclusions, Barack Obama, Mccain Letter Nbc Media Bias, Randy Scheunemann, Bush Tax Cuts, Veterans, Campaign Finance Reform, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Mccain Flip-Flop, Pat Robertson, Disabled Veterans Mccain, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

If Britney or Paris were to claim they were virgins, the media and public would go into apoplexy, but McCain can be equally dishonest about important policy issues, and virtually nobody says a word.

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Monster: Who Really Killed the Knoxville Unitarians?

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Univatian Universalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christian Right, Knoxville Church Killings, Intolerance, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Religion, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, Hagee, Pat Robertson, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Who really killed those Unitarians? The economic system that batters people like Jim Adkinson until they snap, then tells them their real enemies are gays and liberals and secular humanists?

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Screw the Evangelical Vote!

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Hagee, Bible College, Intelligent Design, Creationism, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Evangelical Vote, Evangelicals, 236.Com, Politics News
Ian Gurvitz

How did this country become so colossally retarded? Sure, there will always be the lunatic fringe, but they belong on the fringe -- not playing host to presidential candidates.

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This Word Sounds Like That Word! Obama, Osama, And Other Media Tongue-Twisters

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Chris Matthews Obama Osama, Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Osama Obama, Brian Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Chuck Todd, Rick Perlstein, Ron Allen, Joe Klein, Pat Robertson, Brian Williams, Charlie Black, Ron Mott, Jon Klein, Richard Perle, Ron Perelman, Fear Watch 2008, Media News

Here is a fact of life: If you are having a conversation with someone about Obama and Osama, there is a very good chance that someone will slip up somewhere. But honestly, it's really no big deal.

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A Thousand Points of Blight: Lindsey Graham and the McSmear Campaign

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Ralph Reed, Karl Rove, John McCain, South Carolina Campaign 2000, George W. Bush, Charlie Condon, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Smears, Hillary Clinton, Lindsey Graham, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Tony Rezko, George Stephanopoulos, Osama Obama and Chelsea's Moma Poster, Home News
Linda Hansen

Lindsey Graham wants to be a kinder gentler right-winger. Really he does. He doesn't want to talk about which church Obama attends, he says, and, as we say down here in the Deep South, "That's mighty white of him."

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A Warning to My Old Republican Friends: Screw Up The Obama Moment and You're History -- Literally

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: History, Fox News, Dirty Tricks, Dr. Dobson, Race, The Republicans, Pat Robertson, Obama, The Religious Right, Francis Schaeffer, Barack Obama, The World's View of America, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

The Republicans are going to look as out of touch a few years from now as did the isolationists and "America First" folks after World War II.

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HuffLarious: Pat Robertson Pulls Out Best Bush Impersonation

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Gas Prices, 700 Club, Pat Robertson, Hufflarious, Media News

A record breaking heat wave is sweeping the East Coast and it looks like even God's closest friend, Pat Robertson, can't escape the torturous temperat...

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John McCain: The Devil You Don't Know

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Bill Clinton, Liberty University, Florida, John McCain, Log Cabin Republicans, Lobbyists, Abortion Rights, Cindy McCain, Campaign Finance, Rick Santorum, 2008 Election, Mitt Romney, Pat Robertson, Congress, Democrats, Barack Obama, Christian Fundamentalists, Catholics, Iraq War, Jewish Issues, Gay Rights, Rudy Giuliani, New Hampshire, Environment, Everglades, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Same-Sex Unions, Global Warming, Keating Five, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

McCain's political positions are what remain utterly confusing -- it's hard to think of another veteran politician whose political philosophy is as murky as his.

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McCain's Dilemma: Who's Next After Hagee & Parsley?

Chris McGowan | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, Rod Parsley, Paul Crouch, George W. Bush, James Dobson, Mccain Endorsements, Religious Right, John McCain Hagee, McCain Hagee, Tim LaHaye, Trinity Broadcasting Network, John McCain, Pat Robertson, Tbn, Politics News
Chris McGowan

John McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't accept endorsements from popular leaders of the Christian Right, many of whom have taken con...

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Blowback Mountain

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Billy Graham, Barack Obama 2008, Jerry Falwell, Ron Paul, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 9/11, Pat Robertson, Blowback, Barack Obama, Reverend Wright, Jeremigh Wright, Black Anger, Race, Politics News
Raymond Leon Roker

Note: I wrote this post back on April 1 of this year. Initially, after thinking that the Jeremiah Wright situation would resolve itself (finally), I s...

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FCC Endorses Junk News, Calls Fox's TMZ and 700 Club 'Bona fide Newscasts'

Josh Silver | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Mainstream Media, 700 Club, Media, Media Consolidation, Tmz, Pat Robertson, Fcc, Media News
Josh Silver

Stamping junk news as genuine isn't new; Entertainment Tonight got its bona fide pass from the FCC in 1988.

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Grand Theft Jesus-IJ Released!

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Misogyny, Jerry Falwell, ChristianityLite. Jesus, Grand Theft Jesus, James Hagee, Grand Theft Auto, George W. Bush, James Dobson, Religious Right, Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye, Joel Osteen, Entertainment News
Robert S. McElvaine

It's here! In a quick move designed to avoid loss of market share to its main rival as a result of the much-ballyhooed roll-out of Grand Theft Auto I...

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TMZ, 700 Club Pass FCC's News Test: "Bona Fide Newscasts"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

Read More: 700 Club, Harvey Levin, News Organizations, Fcc, Tmz, Pat Robertson, Media News

In a development certain to astonish, the FCC has ruled that Fox's "TMZ" and the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club" are "bona fide newscasts...

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Obama & McCain: Delusional Spiritual Ally Test

Chris McGowan | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religious Delusion, HIV Conspiracy Theories, John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, James Dobson, McCain John Hagee, Liberty College, Tim LaHaye, Pat Robertson, John McCain, McCain Hagee, John McCain Hagee, Religious Right, Hagee Endorsement, Politics News
Chris McGowan

What if we were to disqualify all candidates with ties to delusional religious folks? A politician should not be held accountable for the views of every author he has read or every preacher he has heard.

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McCain and the Jesus Thieves

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Hagee, Grand Theft Jesus, Christian Right, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama, Jesus Thieves, Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, Religious Right, Pat Robertson, Bill Moyers, Christianitylite, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

John Hagee is just one of the many televangelists, hypocrites, imposters, snake-oil salesmen, and just plain snakes of the Irreligious Wrong with whom McCain has climbed into bed.

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War of the Word

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Obama Wright, John Hagee, Pat Robertson McCain, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Hagee Endorsement, Obama Jeremiah Wright, McCain Catholics Hagee, McCain Hagee, Jeremiah Wright, John McCain Hagee, Pat Robertson, Politics News
Robert Scheer

I respect Obama's right to repudiate his pastor's comments, as he did, but I respect even more his refusal to throw the man overboard in a practice we witnessed all too often with the Clintons.

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Blab It, Grab It: Why Evangelicals are Finally as Mad as Hell

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Evangelical Christians, Bono, Pat Robertson, Evangelicals, McCain Hagee, John McCain Hagee, 2008 Election, Ralph Reed, Religion, John Hagee, Oral Roberts, Hagee Endorsement, Religion and Politics, 2008 Election and Religion, Home News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

McCain is walking into the buzzsaw of denouncing the evangelical community again. Walking away this time is going to be more difficult than he anticipates.

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Religious Bigotry Across the Board

Catherine Crier | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Billy Graham, Stephen Colbert, Jerry Falwell, Religion, John Hagee, Barack Obama Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright Barack Obama, Religious Bigotry, Religion and Politics, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, Pat Robertson, Politics News
Catherine Crier

The expectation that politicians will excise everyone that offends and must ignore any good by these people for the moments of bad is asking more than most mortals would do.

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Leading "Christians" Have Crucified Jesus The Real Jesus Should Be Resurrected This Easter

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Five Years in Iraq, Bible, Ted Haggard, Evangelical Christians, Five Years Iraq, Pat Robertson, Christian Right, Iraq Five Years, Iraq Five Years of War, Evangelicals, Easter, Religion, God, Jesus Christ, Just War, Iraq War Five Years Later, Christ, Jesus, James Dobson, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Iraq Five Years Later, Tim LaHaye, Joel Osteen, Living News
Robert S. McElvaine

The Christian Holy Week provides an opportune moment for looking at how the names "Christianity" and "Jesus" have been stolen by people who preach and do the opposite of what Jesus taught.

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