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WaPo Columnist Compares Christians to KKK, Says They Love 'Torture'
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| 12/19/07
| Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 12/19/2007 6:15:05 AM PST by 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!
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
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.
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posted on
12/19/2007 8:14:54 AM PST
by
MBB1984
To: freekitty
I believe the Yiddish word for this person is “meshugenah” (sp?) and he can “gen drecht” for all I care.
42
posted on
12/19/2007 8:20:16 AM PST
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1 - Take no prisoners))
To: Right Wing Assault
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 >
43
posted on
12/19/2007 9:18:16 AM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: Juan Medén
Wow, that is ugly. It almost rises to the level of Freeper attacks on Huckabee and Mormons.
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posted on
12/19/2007 9:29:21 AM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
To: 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. 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.
45
posted on
12/19/2007 9:41:55 AM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
To: weegee
And don’t you dare try to confuse him with the facts again.
46
posted on
12/19/2007 9:43:55 AM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
To: flowerplough
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.
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posted on
12/19/2007 9:51:16 AM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
To: popdonnelly
And that they lynched Leo Frank? Wrong oone. But, tht's another discussion.
These cranky liberals dont know the countrys history. If they did, theyd know that Christians were the leading abolitionists.
CORRECTION: REPUBLICAN Christians.
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posted on
12/19/2007 9:57:11 AM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
To: IrishMike
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posted on
12/19/2007 10:00:06 AM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
To: Turret Gunner A20
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.
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posted on
12/19/2007 10:05:25 AM PST
by
IrishMike
(Liberalism is Jihad from within)
To: Mobile Vulgus
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.I don't get his point; shouldn't he be happy with this apparent separation of church/theology and state?
To: 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 dont understand and have no part in.
At recess in Catholic school we used to water board instead of skate board. I kinda liked it - but that was back in the 50’s when Christians were REALLY cruel we’re more “enlightened” mpw. I don’t know what this creep is talking about intolerant, cruel Christians. :)
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posted on
12/19/2007 10:34:10 AM PST
by
Bitsy
To: Juan Medén
Not Attacks!
FACTS on Huckabee!!
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posted on
12/19/2007 11:33:23 AM PST
by
chicagolady
(Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
To: chicagolady
Good rule. Let’s stick to it.
To: chicagolady
To: MBB1984
Nathan Beford Forrest did start the KKK; however it was a secret society solely for the purpose of fighting the Carpetbaggers. They had to. I bet none of you know at that time it was illegal for a white confederate man to vote; however blacks could vote. This was not about black against white or white against black. It was about the new reconstruction. And as usual blacks and whites were pit against each other when the real reason was tyranny; economics; etc. Sound familiar? What they are doing today. The bad things the KKK were doing wasn’t until later and Forrest got out.
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posted on
12/19/2007 12:31:11 PM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: freekitty
True, due to their disenfranchisement, such action was understandable. Also, once disenfranchisement was ended, Forrest ordered the KKK to disband.
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posted on
12/19/2007 12:48:47 PM PST
by
MBB1984
To: MBB1984
I don’t remember reading that. I just remember reading he left when they began their terrorizing.
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posted on
12/19/2007 12:57:14 PM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: bk1000
You are so right. The comments left on his column at the Washington Post are so vile against Christianity, and so uninformed, it’s scary. It also amazes me how people how hate Christianity, and probably think that Job is in the New Testament (like Howard Dean), think that they are biblical scholars in terms of what Christianity supposedly teaches on social policy matters. Their ignorance and hatred portends bad times for our country’s future.
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posted on
12/19/2007 1:15:03 PM PST
by
DeweyCA
To: 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. That will be 10 lashes with a wet noodle -- and don't let it happen again.
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posted on
12/19/2007 2:50:15 PM PST
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
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