WaPo Columnist Compares Christians to KKK, Says They Love 'Torture'

Newsbusters.org ^ | 12/19/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

After catching Harold Meyerson's latest Washington Post hatemongering against religion in general, Christians in particular, and Republicans especially, all I could say was just WOW! This thing is nearly unhinged and if you took the word Christian out and replaced it with any of the favored, protected minorities that the MSM guards like mother hens, it would be indistinguishable from the kind of pure bigotry that would result in Meyerson's utter ostracizing should it have been written about those protected classes. Calling Republicans/Christians torturers, abusers of immigrants, members of the KKK, bigots and even mean, Meyerson skipped only the Nazi and Hitler references making one wonder if his hatred for Christians isn't fully sated after all in this piece and if there is more seething bile that he decided it was better not to air?

There is absolutely no substance to Meyerson's piece at all. It is filled with lies, mischaracterizations, blatant spin and name-calling. In fact, it is nothing but a 12 paragraph excuse to call Christians names, so I won't waste time trying to refute his garbage as it is so bigoted and full of lies that it defies reply -- that and it would take far more time than I'm willing to give it. But, here is a list of all the names he calls Christians and Republicans and just some of his outrageously off-base "analysis" in this piece of trash.

• As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.

• Rather, it's the gap between the teachings of the Gospels and the preachings of the Gospel's Own Party that has widened past the point of absurdity, even as the ostensible Christianization of the party proceeds apace.

• Likewise his (George Bush's) support of torture, which he highlighted again this month when he threatened to veto House-passed legislation that would explicitly ban waterboarding.

• It's not just Bush whose catechism is a merry mix of torture and piety.

• But it's on their policies concerning immigrants where Republicans -- candidates and voters alike -- really run afoul of biblical writ. Not on immigration as such but on the treatment of immigrants who are already here.

• Yet the distinctive cry coming from the Republican base this year isn't simply to control the flow of immigrants across our borders but to punish the undocumented immigrants already here

• the push to persecute the immigrants already among us comes distinctly, though by no means entirely, from the same Republican right that protests its Christian faith at every turn.

• We've seen this kind of Christianity before in America... At its height in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan

• But nativist bigotry is strongest in the Old Time Religion precincts of the Republican Party

• The most depressing thing about the Republican presidential race is that the party's rank and file require their candidates to grow meaner with each passing week.

• And now, inconveniently, inconsiderately, comes Christmas, a holiday that couldn't be better calibrated to expose the Republicans' rank, fetid hypocrisy.

See what I mean? There is no "debate" here, nothing to say in reply to this hater because there isn't a single sentient point made by Meyerson. His just let lose a stream of hate that is as baseless and lacking of real proof as any a bigot ever devised against his most hated segment of humanity.

In the final analysis, Meyerson complains about the right's "hypocrisy" yet so revels in his own that it makes your head spin. After all, as he complains that the right is so overly concerned about religion in politics, he wants it utterly eliminated from the public sphere, then he complains that the right isn't "tolerant" enough. Yet, he so pummels Christians and religion showing he is just as intolerant in the opposite direction as those he claims to hate so much.

Like I said, reading Meyerson's piece boggles the mind. It really has to be read in its entirety to be believed. This kind of hatred would never be allowed by a newspaper should it have been leveled against Jews, blacks or gays, et al. This is the kind of stuff you'd see from the presses of dictators and tyrants' in their efforts to discredit their enemies. This is a China's or a Chavez' style, not that of a level headed democrat.

All you can say is just WOW!

[Mobile Vulgus]

WOW, indeed. This Meyerson is a wild-eyed bigot for sure.

[freekitty]

Can one get any dumber?

[Ron in Acreage]

He’s obviously a muslim loving, self-hating Jew. Who else could write such bile?

[PUGACHEV]

Why isn’t this hate speech? If you replaced Christian with the name of any other non-Christian religion, even the Post would have no trouble seeing this piece for what it is.

[Juan Medén]

Wow, that is ugly. It almost rises to the level of Freeper attacks on Huckabee.

[Jibaholic]

“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first” —John 15:18

[Ann Archy]

Meyerson sounds like an ANTI-CHRISTIAN!! Where is OUR ANTI-CHRISTIAN fighters on this??

[kittymyrib]

If Christians were really so intolerant, they would have gotten rid of liberal Jews long ago, instead of putting up with their ankle-biting sniping at something they don’t understand and have no part in.

[Always Right]

Yet, he so pummels Christians and religion showing he is just as intolerant in the opposite direction as those he claims to hate so much.

Intolerance is only intolerable when it is against perverts.

[VeniVidiVici]

Yawn. A self-hating Jew writes badly about Christians. And he’s employed by the Washington Post.

Can it be any more sterotypical? :)

[goodwithagun]

As I was making gingerbread cookies for my students this weekend, I couldn’t help but think of all I had to do yet before Christmas. How will I ever find time to build a wooden cross, fill my portable gas container, buy a new lighter. . .

[Melinda]

Wow for sure, and I bet if someone looked into his childhood, he came from a broken family or was abused mentally, or something similar. That kind of hate only comes from an upbringing of neglect in some form, or a huge sense of personal failure. I truly feel sorry for him.

[weegee]

Democrats can stump speech in black churches from the pulpit on Sundays before election day and there is no outcry from the antiChristian Left.

REVEREND Al Sharpton can run for President and there is no one on the Left asking from where comes his title of “Reverend”.

Bill Clinton can carry a show Bible that is bigger than the NYC phonebook to Church during his impeachment hearings over perjury during a sexual harassment trial and there is no outcry from the Left.

They know that this “ol’ time religion” “superstitious bunk” is something they have to put up with and shuck and jive the rubes over. So the Republicans get debate questions over Evolution but no Democrats are asked questions of matters of faith. Belief in God does not prohibit support for the theory of Evolution, but to say that God did not CREATE anything is to say that God evolved like everything else (leaving the possibility for multiple) OR the God does not exist. So why not ask the Democrats at the next debate, “Did God create this world or not?”.

[Diogenesis]

Would it matter that the Democrats were behind the KKK?

[weegee]

The Stalinist Left is getting their talking points out early this scampaign because they know that they continue to lose elections over “religious bigotry” over things like homosexuality.

The Black Community doesn’t buy the agenda they are selling and have to be made to lose their religion to adopt the liberal position on every issue.

So bring up the KKK and tell them they are being “Oreo cookies”, black on the outside but white on the inside. The Democrats want everyone’s vote even if they radically disagree with those voters.

[wagglebee]

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[AppyPappy]

His boyfriend must have stayed out all night, causing Mr Hateman to go into a self-righteous tizzy. I’m surprised he and his goose-stepping buddies aren’t out smashing windows at Christian book stores.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I think it’s time for us to contact the Washington Post and call for the termination of bigots like this jerkoff.

[Kay Syrah]

I read, “American Fascists” just to see how the bigotry is being nurtured in these days. What a vile screed it was, but it seems to be the template for this kind of stuff.

These Christophobes have a great deal of hatred to discharge. Very disturbing people.

[weegee]

Interesting too that he glosses over the FACTS that when the KKK was founded, it specifically included Republicans alongside Catholics and black people as the groups to target because the KKK was founded by Democrats.

He discusses the KKK of the 1920s but again neglects to mention that there were Democrat Klansmen.

And of course he omits the detail that there was a Klansman RECRUITER who still sits in the Senate and is a Democrat - Senator Robert Byrd. AND Mr. Byrd still uses the N-word PROUDLY declaring that there are black N*****S and white N******S.

Racism is an ugly thing. So is discrimination against Christians.

[popdonnelly]

Who the heck is Meyerson? He’s obviously in his own fantasyland of stereotypes, and I really don’t care what he thinks about anything.

[GBA]

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say he's a wild-eyed bigot, but he's definitely a confused liberal.

Meyerson makes an idiotic attempt to use Christianity criticize Republicans, particularly on illegal immigration. He seems to say that, because Bush, Huckster, and others in the GOP profess to be Christians, then their christianity should govern all their decisions, exactly what those who scream the separation of Church and State are most afraid of. Yet, when their policies go against Meyerson's interpretation of Scripture, what could be considered "separation of Church and State", then that's a horrible thing. I'm sorry I wasted my time reading the column.

[bk1000]

“This Meyerson is a wild-eyed bigot for sure”

He is preaching to his choir. Read some of the comments after the article. I think we need to pray for those people.

[flowerplough]

After reading Myerson's entire article, it seems to be mainly an accusation of hypocrisy against we who support waterboarding suspected terrorists and also oppose illegal immigration. Truly a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury... can't imagine why the Post would pay for such inanity.

[Badeye]

I’m glad the leftwingnuts are doing this, especially at this time of year, and at this point in the election cycle.

All it does is remind voters why leftwingers cannot be trusted on National Security Issues.

Works for me.

[popdonnelly]

“Would it matter that the Democrats were behind the KKK?”

And that they lynched Leo Frank? These cranky liberals don’t know the country’s history. If they did, they’d know that Christians were the leading abolitionists.

[IrishMike]

Hillary doesn’t have to worry about her face. She has to worry about her mask. Back in the ’92 race, Clinton pollsters devised strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal. Fifteen years later, her campaign is devising strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal.

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Maureen Dowd from the New York Slime .....

One of my male colleagues was explaining why men age better than women.
“It’s evolutionary,” he said. “As we wear out our wives, who are running around taking care of the kids, we know we’re going to have to get another younger wife, so we stay good-looking.”

He was kidding. (I think.) We were discussing Hillary’s latest hurdle: the Old Hag routine.
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Paul Costello, who was an aide to Rosalynn Carter and Kitty Dukakis, calls this “the snake belly of the campaign,” and notes drily: “We’ve been staring at aging white men from the beginning of the democracy.”

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Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and John Edwards almost always look good, and pretty much the same, in dark suits or casual wear. Fred Thompson always looks crepuscular and droopy. Often Hillary looks great, and sometimes she looks tired, heavier or puffier. Jim Cole, The Associated Press photographer who took the offending shot, said that there were several other pictures that day where she looked “radiant.”

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[IrishMike]

Mike,
note to Mike
Wrong Thread Mike

Thanks Mike,

Mike

[popdonnelly]

Huckabee is a free-spending liberal who’s soft on illegal immigration and crime. Boy, was that ugly!

[weegee]

It is criminal to burn a cross even on your own land but burning an American flag on public or private property is protected free speech even in incidents where it is a stolen flag (the theft of the flag is criminal but there is no hate crime charge for doing this to someone else’s flag).

[weegee]

The DNC Brownshirts were out in full force in 2004 slashing tires of GOP campaign vehicles, throwing bricks through campaign office windows, writing pieces on the GOP campaign “through the eyes of a staffer” (for Rolling Stone and other periodicals acknowledging they volunteered for the article, not any belief in the party), painting swastikas on the homes, cars, and campaign signs of Bush supporters, and even assault.

Expect them to be even uglier thugs this time around because the 2004 incidents were treated as isolated events, not a national trend.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The Battle of Fort Pillow
(April 12, 1864)

In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow, a Confederate-built earthen fortification and a Union-built inner redoubt, overlooking the Mississippi River about forty river miles above Memphis, comprised 295 white Tennessee troops and 262 U.S. Colored Troops, all under the command of Maj. Lionel F. Booth. Confederate Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest attacked the fort on April 12 with a cavalry division of approximately 2,500 men. Forrest seized the older outworks, with high knolls commanding the Union position, to surround Booth’s force. Rugged terrain prevented the gunboat New Era from providing effective fire support for the Federals. The garrison was unable to depress its artillery enough to cover the approaches to the fort. To make matters worse, Rebel sharpshooters, on the surrounding knolls, began wounding and killing the Federals, including Booth, who was killed. Maj. William F. Bradford then took over command of the garrison. The Confederates launched a determined attack at 11:00 am, occupying more strategic locations around the fort, and Forrest demanded unconditional surrender. Bradford asked for an hour for consultation and Forrest granted twenty minutes. Bradford refused surrender and the Confederates renewed the attack, soon overran the fort, and drove the Federals down the river’s bluff into a deadly crossfire. Casualties were high and only sixty-two of the U.S. Colored Troops survived the fight. Many accused the Confederates of perpetrating a massacre of the black troops, and that controversy continues today. The Confederates evacuated Fort Pillow that evening so they gained little from the attack except to temporarily disrupt Union operations. The Fort Pillow Massacre became a Union rallying cry and cemented resolve to see the war through to its conclusion.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/forrestpillow.htm

http://www.civilwarhome.com/ftpillow.htm

The Long, Sad, Violent History of Democrats’
Racial Hatred for Blacks

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/pcism/sad_history.htm

[SQUID]

Meyerson hates himself.

[Thombo2]

“He(Meyerson)complains that the right is so overly concerned about religion in politics....”Correction-imo it’s the media that have a problem with religion.Like many of his his counterparts in the msm,Meyerson is a prime example of what i call an “agent provacateur”.Write an inflamatory article,sit back,and savor the ensuing results.

[ASA Vet]

[Right Wing Assault]

Let’s extend this using WaPo logic. Christians love torture. Muslims love torture. Therefore Christians are Muslims.

[Ingtar]

Yet the distinctive cry coming from the Republican base this year isn't simply to control the flow of immigrants across our borders but to punish the undocumented immigrants already here

He's correct here, somewhat. This is not the view of only Republicans, however, but the overwhelming view of legal Americans.

[pallis]

Once a guy gets to hating his maker, there is nothing you can do for him but pray and forgive.

[ASA Vet]

we know we’re going to have to get another younger wife

Worked for me.

[IrishMike]

Hillary’s trick to getting teary eyed?
learned from the master...Bubba,

She pulls a hair out of her nose!

[MBB1984]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was essentially cleared of any war crimes in the Fort Pillow engagement by a war tribunal, primarily composed of northern Republicans. Casualties were very high at Fort Pillow, but it was not a massacre. approximately 65% of the black solders were casualties and 35% of the white solders were casualties, leaving approximately half remaining. Also noteworthy is the fact that the commander of the black troops died early in the engagement, leaving those troops without proper leadership and contributing to the large number of casualties.

[NTHockey]

I believe the Yiddish word for this person is “meshugenah” (sp?) and he can “gen drecht” for all I care.

[weegee]

Muslims believe in the existence of Christ and include references to Him in their religious text, therefore they are Christians. This is why muslims love torture. < /sarc >

[Turret Gunner A20]

Wow, that is ugly. It almost rises to the level of Freeper attacks on Huckabee and Mormons.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Interesting too that he glosses over the FACTS that when the KKK was founded, it specifically included Republicans alongside Catholics and black people as the groups to target because the KKK was founded by Democrats.

Now whadja go and say that for? He also left out the fact taht it was those nasty Republicans hypocrites who passed the Civil Rights Act back in the late '60s -- over the vehement objections of his darling democrats.

[Turret Gunner A20]

And don’t you dare try to confuse him with the facts again.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Truly a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury... can't imagine why the Post would pay for such inanity.

Because it's the Washington Post, that's why.

[Turret Gunner A20]

And that they lynched Leo Frank?

Wrong oone. But, tht's another discussion.

These cranky liberals don’t know the country’s history. If they did, they’d know that Christians were the leading abolitionists.

CORRECTION: REPUBLICAN Christians.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Who’s Mike????

[IrishMike]

Me talking to myself, not a good sign.
I did post #26, obviously on the wring thread.
Post #27 was after I found my mistake.