"I think he has them snookered on that too..."
...Not necessarily. Again, it's a matter of perspective.
If I had to bet, I'd bet he's playing them for their votes, and he's not "religious". I don't believe for a second his claims that "god wanted him to be president/wanted him to attack iraq" etc. Besides his "talk", I can't think of anything that truly shows him as a "religious" person.
When you start looking at all those people, making money and having power rates first. Fractured theology comes way later --when they even stick to a particular "theology". Look at Robertson, gold mines, diamond mines, mixed up in Iran/Contra, fake cures, and he's changed what his alleged beliefs are time and again. They all know they are supporting various people that do fake cures etc. Then there's taking money, buddying arouond with, seeking favors for "Moon". Someone who says, in ugly language, Christ failed, and didn't even get into heaven before he (Moon) married him off ex post facto to an elderly Korean lady. That HE is the Messiah, not Christ. And Georgie and his family have been just as involved with the nut. None of this is in line with "religious" people. They don't even believe the crap they dish out.
Rove has always said they can get elected on that group alone. They were targeted and the only reason Bush got elected the first time. He learned that trick in Texas. He catered to that group, he got elected. He learned watching his Dad's campaign, and Reagan's. They all had to go after that group in order to secure their positions. They were his only hope. "Rev" Land, the baptist, that's way up in Bush's electioin/re-election gang is even on record for saying he can't tell when Bush is being genuine and when he's being caluculating.
The whole "faith-based" initiative thing works well in giving his voting block crumbs at the taxpayers expense (billions of crumbs) but plays well into the long established Republican platform that we shouldn't be feeding the poor or providing anything for anyone. Let charities do it, or just tough luck.
More palatable to present it as tied to doing right by religious groups.
Yeah there definitely is a theocratic force at work, but there's a bunch of power/money freaks too, riding this thing knowing they wouldn't live long enough to see the theocracy gang win out.
The whole game re saturating the airwaves -- radio, tv, print with hate garbage -- Rush, Savage, Coulter & dozens of others, along with the move to financing quasi-religous schools is great for re-shaping society in a manner totally detrimental to democracy. Rush etal have been at it for decades, and it's only ballooned greatly in more recent years. Combine that with the constant game of financing smear campaigns -- Scaife for years on Clinton -- Falwell selling the tapes he knew were nothing but lies, the so-called Swift Boat gang now. They *have* had an effect that can't be discounted. Combine the bigots with the fake-religous gang, with the guillable devouring all the crap they are being fed, and you will outnumber the sane souls. Good guess -- within the next two decades. A Democrat winning once/twice in that time period won't change a thing. Rooting out all that crap, and a few decades without the propaganda is mandatory, or you are only playing a delay of game routine.
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'Michael Savage Uncensored' event this past May," according to an August 2 article by mensnewsdaily.com.
From the August 3 nationally syndicated broadcast of Savage Nation:
[T]he San Francisco Human Rights Commission, hold your nose-- When you hear the words "Human Rights Commission," you know what you're dealing with. Think of the worst people in America, they're the ones who go on to human rights commissions. They're neo-fascists in the guise of human rights activists. They wanna tell you what you can think, what you can't think. Who you can listen to, who you can read -- they're stinkers. They're communist or Nazis or both. ... So they're attacking the San Francisco Police Officer's Association, because the San Francisco Police Officer's Association received free tickets to my event, Michael Savage Uncensored. ... Now I'm extremely popular, but the San Francisco Human Rights Commission thinks that their Nazi background gives them an opportunity to say that I'm a hateful person because they don't like what I say about homosexuals. ... When you hear "human rights," think gays. When you hear "human rights," think only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son. And you'll get it just right. OK, you got it, right? When you hear "human rights," think only someone who wants to molest your son, and send you to jail if you defend him. Write that down, make a note of it. So anyway, let's get back to the serious stuff here.
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Hannity on health risk of mercury to pregnant women and children: "This is silly"
After listening to a description of the health risks of mercury to pregnant women and their children by environmental advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance and vice president of Riverkeeper, FOX News Channel host Sean Hannity dismissed the subject as "silly" despite governmental evidence of the prevalence and seriousness of the problem.
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