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To: goldstategop; Howlin; Fedora; Shermy; cyncooper; Grampa Dave; Cindy
Same old theme as the old Joe Wilson-, Richard Clark-, Greg Thielman-tactics : libs try to portray their posterboys as former rightwingers in hopes of making their leftwing spin somehow more palatable to rightwingers...

Speaking of Jim Wallis, this is an example:

Bogus Betrayal - [New York Times {mis}identifies livid lib as disillusioned Bush supporter

26 posted on 01/17/2005 12:59:17 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: piasa

They were never conservatives to begin with. There are liberals who do serve in a Republican administration. They simply don't reveal their true colors until well after they've left office.


27 posted on 01/17/2005 1:01:05 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: piasa

Same old bs is correct!


42 posted on 01/17/2005 2:15:47 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( The MSM has been a weapon of mass disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: piasa; Liz; kattracks
Mr. Wallis, the founder and editor of the Christian magazine Sojourners

Sojourners is not a Christian magazine except by the loosest definition of Christianity. It's a front for antiwar infiltrators of the theological community of the Daniel Berrigan/Robert Drinan type. I posted some more on them here starting at Post 25:

Kerry's Choice for Religious Outreach Director 'Confounding,' Group Says

See esp. Post 31:

From S. Stephen Powell, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, 281-3:

Sojourners was founded by Jim Wallis in 1976, the offspring of the Post American, which was published by a few radical theology students who banded together commal-style in Chicago in the late 1960s. Encouraged by Richard Barnet [of the Institute for Policy Studies], Gordon Cosby [of World Peacemakers], and others, Wallis decided to move his ragtag Christian hippie community to Washington. Barnet's influence was soon felt at Sojourners, for after Wallis moved the Sojourners commune to Washington and came in contact with IPS, the appearance of the magazine improved and its rhetoric was toned down. But when Wallis addresses his colleagues in the elite theological circles, he makes no effort to conceal his politics. He told Mission Tracks in 1979, in the article "Liberation and Conformity", that he hoped "more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes. . ."

[SNIP]

The U.N. Special Session on Disarmament of 1978 was to be an extravaganza for peace activists throughout the Western world. . .The entire endeavor had been conceived and approved by the World Peace Council in 1975, based on the Soviets' perception. . .Never mind that nothing specific on disarament resulted from the special session. What did emerge were some organizational vehicles for "the movement"--Mobilization for Survival, the Riverside Church Disarmament Program, World Peacemakers--all of which "IPS fellows were instrumental in organizing", as an IPS annual report pointed out. . .

The theme of the March 1978 Sojourners issue was in keeping with the campaign being promoted by World Peacemakers. . .

Also see Post 25 on some related figures among the religious left.

67 posted on 01/17/2005 11:18:12 AM PST by Fedora
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