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Falwell :: McCain as Wright :: Obama

Ezra Klein ties to pretend that Falwell :: McCain as Wright :: Obama.

Which is pure idiocy, as taken apart by Ross Douthat at The Atlantic.com. I agree with his entire assessment, except for the very first sentence:

Ezra Klein’s a smart guy, so I’m assuming this is a parody of liberal cluelessness rather than the real thing:

Actually, having read a lot of Klein’s crap, I’m not so much in the “smart guy” camp. Especially when he’s trying to make these types of asinine moral equivalence arguments.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Monday, March 17th, 2008 | Trackback |

3 Responses to “Falwell :: McCain as Wright :: Obama”

Unlike Wright and Obama — for whom the former’s controversial views are found nowhere near the latter’s public or private conduct — both George Bush and John McCain’s Middle Eastern militarism are perfectly consonant with the most maniacal and crazed views of Christian Rapture enthusiasts such as Hagee, Parsley, Inhofe, and Robertson. Yet the controversy created over their close ties is virtually non-existent.

The Republican Party long ago adopted as a central strategy aligning itself with, and granting great influence to, the most radical, “America-hating” white evangelical Christian ministers in the country. They’re given a complete pass on that because political orthodoxy mandates that white evangelical Christian ministers are inherently worthy of respect, no matter how extreme and noxious are their views. That orthodoxy stands in stark contrast to the universally enraged reaction to a few selected snippets from the angry rantings of a black Christian Minister. What accounts for that glaring disparity?

Left by Pat on March 17th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

get real pat- you may want to look into the inception and evolution of americas seperation of church and state.

Left by adam on March 17th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

See videos: Shame On Joe Scarborough, MSM and Obama Parts 2, 3 and 1
Scarborough wants the public to believe a lie. Scarborough calls Rev. Wright’s statements about Nagasaki and Hiroshima in his sermon a “hateful tirade.” The American people don’t deserve to be manipulated and lied to.

[Editor --- Except it's not a lie. It's an opinion. And a valid opinion at that. Nearly ever single word that comes out of Rev. Wright's pie hole is hate speech.

But you're right --- we don't deserve to be manipulated and lied to. Like for the last year when Barack Obama claimed that he had never heard any of Wright's hateful speech, and that Barack wasn't aware of it. And then a few nights ago, he admits that --- of course --- he's known all along. We definitely don't deserve the lies that Obama has been peddling. Which is why he'll never be President in this country.]

Left by Tom on March 21st, 2008 at 5:06 am

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