Sunday, June 28, 2009
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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3:18 PM
 "Like my 'stache?" I know the Los Angeles Times has been hurt with it's incredibly diminishing audience size, but with writers like Mark Z. Barabak chapter 11 just can't come quickly enough... The headline says it all..."I'm a liberal journalist with a bias against evangelical voters and their phony cultural purity. I want to pounce on anyone I can see as hypocritical (as opposed to actually immoral). And just to 'prove my point' here's some quotes from some left of center 'Christian' voices just for good measure."Hey Captain Original... I'm filling on an L.A. Radio station in afternoon drive this coming Thursday and Friday. Why don't we have an actual substantive discussion about adultery, and how the two parties respond to it when it's leadership is caught transgressing? That way instead of picking and choosing you can hear from a nationally recognized evangelical who is not cloudy on the issue of morality, clarity about faith, the mandate that Christians have to the political arena, and what that should look like. Now THAT would be worth reading...
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It's pretty obvious that Revelations is about as far as most on the Right have gotten in regards to the bible, Kevin, and your columns indicate you are no different. If you had, you'd not be using the kind of tone that you do in your very public disrespect for our President - who happens to be our leader during the time of war. A wrongful war, but one he has been saddled with nonetheless. It would serve you and your readers well to think about what it is you stand for, and how you convey your hatred. You neither emulate or embody our God or his Son. |
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Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, Pot. |
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Although Mark Barabak and Duke Helfand wrote the story, the headline might have come from someone downstream. Copy editors used to bear much of the burden of headline writing, but few newspapers seem to employ them anymore. A typesetter faced with bad line break or an ugly space to fill might have written or rewritten this particular headline.
Still it fits the story, and the story is boilerplate: Republicans in Chaos! Holy Rollers Flee Culture of Corruption! More Sunday in the Style Section!
This junk has been around since the Clinton administration, probably longer. On the day in 1998 when the dinosaur media finally, grudgingly began to report on the Lewinsky matter (after _Newsweek_ had spiked it and Matt Drudge had broken it), Peter Jennings led the ABC _World News_ not with the scandal itself, but with the Republican reaction to it. The party was tearing itself apart, he said, over what to do about Clinton's misconduct.
Every Republican strategist worth his salt is probably concerned about losing the support of evangelicals. Their choices are few, however: (1) hang tough; (2) join forces with moral beacons like Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, and Robert ("Old Sheets") Byrd; (3) risk irrelevancy in a third party; (4) withdraw from worldly things altogether. Lefties obviously wouldn't mind options 2 and 3, but they probably prefer 4. So they keep harping.
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I don't hate Obama... I was the first person in America to predict his presidency.
I STRONGLY and VOCIFEROUSLY disagree with his policies, and I am allowed to do so.
I wrote a passage of quite respectful stuff on him yesterday... On this blog... you might wish to check it out.
And stop it with the holier than thou routine... everyone sees through it.
This blog space is a hardcore collision of ideas, principles, and issues.
If you don't like it - don't come back...
Otherwise... thanks for the traffic... |
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