This Year’s Greatest Television Moment: a most unexpected denunciation of ObamaCare

NewsReal Blog ^ | August 14, 2009 | John Perazzo

[Political Junkie Too]

I watched this earlier, and had some time to think about it. Here's my reply to Ed Schultz:

The reason the religious leaders Schultz cites are silent is because the Church has been in this business for a long time and were driven out of the public policy sector by secularists during the past several decades under the banner of "separation of church and state." Schultz shouldn't be surprised that they're not there now to comment.

I'm sure that Schultz actually isn't surprised, but rather, he's using the Alinsky rule of using their rules against them. He's trying to shame the religious leaders by holding them up to a standard he purports that they live by, but aren't now.

Didn't the church used to host medical clinics for the poor? Didn't the church used to host food banks for the poor? Weren't those clinics and kitchens funded by charitable donations from their parishioners and philanthropists?

What was Schultz' position when George W. Bush proposed "faith-based" initiatives to help the poor?

No, Schultz instead supports government handouts taken from confiscatory taxes, in the name of "morality."

True morality came from local organizations accepting local donations from local residents to help the local poor and down-on-their-luck neighbors in their local communities.

But local people helping their own to improve their situations doesn't fit the Left's agenda of consolidating power and centrally ruling everyone.

-PJ