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Scott Walker’s insidious agnosticism [Another liberal's "brain" explodes]
Washington Post ^ | February 23, 2015 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 02/24/2015 10:26:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

".......But even when prompted with the facts, Walker — in Washington for the National Governors Association meeting — persisted, saying, “I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that,” and, “I’ve never asked him that,” and, “You’ve asked me to make statements about people that I haven’t had a conversation with about that.”

This is an intriguing standard. I’ve never had a conversation with Walker about whether he’s a cannibal, a eunuch, a sleeper cell for the Islamic State, a sufferer of irritable bowel syndrome or a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. By Walker’s logic, it would be fair for me to let stand the possibility that he just might be any of those — simply because I have no personal and direct refutation from him.

Walker justifies his agnosticism on grounds that he is avoiding gotcha questions. He caused a furor when he used the same logic last week to avoid saying whether Obama loves his country after Rudy Giuliani, at a dinner with Walker, volunteered his view that Obama does not. “To me, this is a classic example of why people hate Washington and, increasingly, they dislike the press,” he told my colleagues Balz and Costa, two of the best in the business.

This is insidious, and goes beyond last week’s questioning of Obama’s patriotism, because it allows Walker to wink and nod at the far-right fringe where people really believe that Obama is a Muslim from Kenya who hates America.........."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biasedmedia; msm; obamamedia; scottwalker; statemedia
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To: Loud Mime; huldah1776
The tactic is a gamble, but there is no other I can think of he can take. Maybe the libs heads will explode. I do wish he would try GLH to cover his bald spot.


61 posted on 02/24/2015 11:35:18 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Misprint, as Dana does not have a brain to explode!!


62 posted on 02/24/2015 11:40:42 AM PST by shoedog
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Does anyone else think his panties are to tight?


63 posted on 02/24/2015 11:41:00 AM PST by OLDCU
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To: shoedog
Misprint, as Dana does not have a brain to explode!!

And exactly why I put brain in quotation marks!

64 posted on 02/24/2015 12:03:07 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: OLDCU

I can’t believe he gets PAID to write this sophomoric stuff.


65 posted on 02/24/2015 12:05:45 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Gaffer
Incredibly so. The term agnosticism is usually used when discussing/describing one's personal lack of or belief in God.

To the Left, Obama is God. They're getting much more open about that fact every day.

66 posted on 02/24/2015 12:07:27 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: needmorePaine

Yes...IOW, “That’s not how it’s done!”


67 posted on 02/24/2015 12:10:34 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Dana Milibank is upset Scott Walker wouldn’t hang Rudy Guiliani out to dry.

Quit whining already. America doesn’t care.


68 posted on 02/24/2015 12:29:49 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Dana Milibank is upset Scott Walker wouldn’t hang Rudy Guiliani out to dry.

And then immediately validate Obama. These people are nuts.

69 posted on 02/24/2015 12:34:22 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: needmorePaine

They’re deathly afraid Scott Walker might be elected president and help to steer this country back to decency and sanity.

That’s the only reason they’re going after him with this nonsense. They hope something, no matter how ridiculous, sticks. Walker will have to keep a cool head during the long road ahead.


70 posted on 02/24/2015 12:46:29 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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To: bray

‘Pray America is waking.’

I admire your sentiments, but I’m old and I’ve given up my optimism.


71 posted on 02/24/2015 12:50:18 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

If he doesn’t care about his hair, and imagine what he’ll look like after being president, then I don’t care. It’s only been recently that the current office holder hasn’t colored his hair. gross


72 posted on 02/24/2015 2:19:38 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

If one is to accurately describe a certain thesbian, it’s best to avoid being niggardly with the details of just exactly how they act...


73 posted on 02/24/2015 2:52:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Just why on earth should anyone claim they KNOW Obama is a Christian when:

1. Obama made Georgetown University cover up their crucifixes when he came there to make a speech.

2. He claims the sweetest sound he had ever heard was the Muslim call to prayer as dusk.

3. Obama inadvertently referred to ‘my Muslim faith” when appearing on George Stephanopoulos’s news program in 2008, and only changed it when Georgie-boy corrected him, by changing it to ‘my Christian faith.”

4. He had never produced or mentioned being baptized or a certificate of it.

5. Obama disrespects all Christian citizens by forcing them to financially support patently anti-Christian behavior.

6. Obama never accuses Islam of any sins; but easily brings up 1000-year-old grievances against Christians.

7. Obama rarely attends a Christian church of any kind, so far as we know - he has only attended about 1-2 times a year.

8. Obama ridicules faith-filled citizens as ‘bitter clingers to guns and bibles.”

9. He stated in his ‘autobiography’ that he will favor Muslims if any serious conflict arises.

10. He gives not one fig of concern over the slaughter of Christians and Jews in the Middle East. [or in Europe, Africa, or the USA, for that matter]

Well, that is just the beginning. Liberal reporters are idiots to claim that Obama is a Christian. They show their ignorance.


74 posted on 02/24/2015 3:22:11 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: Gumdrop

The idiot liberal journalist who tweeted mocking Walker for waiting for God to tell him what to do is evidence of their ignorance of Christianity. What the heck do they think prayer is? Clueless. They think Christianity can be faked and used by politicians to rake in Christian votes. That’s all. Because that is what Democrats do. They pay lip service to Christians, then mock God at their convention.


75 posted on 02/24/2015 3:26:08 PM PST by tioga
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"classic example of why people hate Washington and, increasingly, they dislike the press"

Right on target.

76 posted on 02/25/2015 10:52:40 AM PST by Pietro
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