Rep. Michele Bachmann's impressive performance at Monday's debate has catapulted her near the front of the GOP pack, but the radical roots of her ideology remain poorly understood. The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg reports.
Posted on 06/26/2011 7:45:23 PM PDT by RED SOUTH
Edited on 06/26/2011 7:55:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
We already have the damage of one of them, why put a second one in office?
“Much of the stuff that you post at huffingtoncompost wouldn’t stay up for 5 minutes here.”
So that ‘s where the newbie came from. I thought he was a Mitt mole from race42012.
If this is so important, why post a months old Daily Beast article and not post the date? This Bachmann story is on going. You are telling me that this is the only story on it and that it should be regularly posted twice a week?
The Sarahphiles are getting frantic their gal still hasn’t jumped in. They’re keeping her spot in line by trashing the competition.
I don't think Sarah Palin would approve of your methods here. In fact what your are doing is discrediting Sarah Palin by using MSM tactics against everyone she might be running against.
BE GONE TROLL!
I don't think Sarah Palin would approve of your methods here. In fact what your are doing is discrediting Sarah Palin by using MSM tactics against everyone she might be running against.
BE GONE TROLL!
Worth repeating!
You should have directed that at RED SOUTH. :-)
Or at least put it in italics.
That’s the second time I’ve seen you use that term, “Sarahphiles”, to label Palin supporters.
The owner of this forum is a Palin supporter.
You need to knock it off, punk.
so that means it's ok to trash other conservatives here? I don't think so. I doubt Palin would approve either.
Rush Limbaugh has said (re:Palin) the media will always tell us who they’re afraid of by who they trash. Using that logic, some Palin supporters here must certainly be afraid of Bachmann. Because they’re sure trying to take her down.
It’s not an insult. It merely describes someone who has a interest in Palin.
The term phile is taken from audiophile, someone who appreciates high fidelity sound.
A Palinphile would thus be someone who appreciates or has an interest in Palin.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/audiophiles
What was her response?
Michelle Goldberg is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. Her new book, “The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World,” will be published by Penguin Press in April, 2009
PRAISe for Kingdom coming
“Michelle Goldberg has done the impossible. She’s written a serious, scathing, eye-opening expose of the ongoing takeover of our country by rightwing Christians– and somehow managed to make it witty, funny, and humane. If it were satire, Kingdom Coming would be hilarious. Unfortunately, it’s all true – things are even worse than you thought. Read it while you can!”
–Katha Pollitt, columnist, The Nation ; author, Virginity or Death! : And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
“Michelle Goldberg ventured into the heartland of American fundamentalist extremism — and returned to warn us of the authoritarian ambitions that lie behind the moralistic posturing of the religious right. Every patriot who still cherishes the freedoms we inherited from the nation’s founders should read her book.”
– Joe Conason, author of The Hunting of the President, Big Lies, and The Raw Deal
Rep. Michele Bachmann's impressive performance at Monday's debate has catapulted her near the front of the GOP pack, but the radical roots of her ideology remain poorly understood. The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg reports.
Journalist Michelle Goldberg has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw how the growing influence of dominionism—the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers—is threatening the foundations of democracy.
In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military veterans pledging to seize the nation in Christ’s name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country’s social problems.
With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America.
Sorry about that.... You are so correct...I was just too stoked at your good post!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.