Posted on 09/09/2008 12:53:17 PM PDT by mojito
We all know that CNN is cable television’s most fair and balanced independent-minded news station. In turn–and, apparently, irrespective of nuance–CNN is committed to asking the same questions of Republican and Democratic candidates. When convenient, it even tries to craft the same answers.
In this vein, last night on AC-360, Anderson Cooper ran a special segment on Sarah Palin’s church, explicitly asking the same questions of Palin’s religious outlook as CNN formerly asked regarding the influence of Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Barack Obama’s outlook. Yet through this line of questioning, CNN drew an outrageously inaccurate analogy between Obama’s longtime mentorship under Wright and Palin’s one-time membership in a Pentecostal church, implicitly suggesting that Palin’s supposed devoutness should negate voters’ prior concerns regarding Obama’s church attendance–or, more likely, that Palin’s devoutness represents a theocratic outlook that is more disconcerting.
But here’s where facts get in the way. In sharp contrast to Obama’s two decades of sitting silently while his preacher trashed the United States from the pulpit, Palin has personally used the pulpit to pray for the United States. In the CNN segment, she is shown saying:
Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.
If you’re a synagogue-attending American Jew, this prayer for our country probably sounds rather familiar. Frankly, I’d imagine that patriotic Americans with even an ounce of religious conviction probably pray for the United States all the time. CNN also reported that Palin–shudder–”prayed [with her pastor] to become a better leader.” Again, where’s the story?
Still, CNN did its best, probing for unsavory details that–despite its best efforts–had no consequence for Palin specifically. For example, CNN dutifully pointed out that members of Palin’s former church–which she left in 2002–speak in tongues, but quoted the pastor as saying that he never saw Palin actually doing so. Then, it added that the church’s pastor once declared that those who voted for John Kerry in 2004 would go to hell–again, a tidbit that has nothing to do with Palin, who left the church at least two years prior to this incident. Finally, there’s the issue of Palin’s current church hosting a Jews for Jesus speaker last month, which Palin attended. (John’s already handled this one.)
We can probably expect that rumors regarding Palin’s church and religious convictions will continue to circulate in the bowels of the liberal blogosphere, such as in Juan Cole’s idiotic analogy between Palin and radical Islamists (h/t Emanuele). That’s a good thing for Republicans: the Left’s ongoing vilification of religious American Christians only alienates them further from liberal Democrats such as Barack Obama.
One day, Anderson will ‘stuff one too many Gerbils’ and succumb to acute colonitus blockus.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I stopped reading after the first sentence, knowing the rest of the article was garbage.
Focus on the Family is having that 30 miles away.
You missed the sarcasm. The whole rest of the article busts CNN for media bias.
Maybe Obama should ask the media to stop trying to help him. LOL.
I saw the plug for this on CNN while channel surfing and it was clearly set up as a “you did it to Obama, now we will use that cover to do it to Palin” by Campbell Brown (Stain). Glad I didn’t stay tuned to watch it.
Wow, is this what the left is so excited about? I suggest a commercial where you line up this video clip of her saying this (if it exists) with some of Jeremiah Bullfrog Wright’s video clips. Better be a 527 ad rather than a McCain ad. But think of what great fun we will have watching this ad on FNC over and over and over....
Your average AoG member (if they had the power) would just as soon push the button and wipe us all out tomorrow, because they believe that they (the righteous ones) will go to heaven anyway, and the wicked (everybody else) will go to hell. They are no different from Osama bin Laden in that respect.Another one:
Rev. Wright's stuff is from the "prophetic" tradition which can carry a lot of anger, but its definitely anchored in the real world. People have both feet on the ground and their experiences and hopes and dreams are in the reality of this world. Not so with the Assembly of God types.This is the type of mentality we are dealing with, so the CNN smears will probably be believed and disseminated by the left.
One of my many, many complaints with the media, of nearly all flavors, is there near terminal pomposity in naming programing.
anderson cooper 360, the situation room. Even the names of the on-air ninny-ocracy: wolf, cameron, etc.
Goin' back to work, now. Better use of my time than fulminating over d!psh!ts who have been given expensive equipment with which to disseminate their smarmy opinions.
Thank you, CNN, for bringing up “Reverend” Wright again. I understand he’s been caught “ridin’ dirty” with some guy’s wife.
This was a flat-out hatchet job. Mayors of small towns attend churches. She was not the teacher’s pet like Obama was at his house of horrors. What got me was the look on Anderson’s face, so grave as if he were reporting a real news story. CNN the week before had one of their reporters do an interview with the director of Moveon.Org. She let him pontificate on how great we are with softball questions. Not one question on Soros, the owner, investing in Brazillian off shore oil drilling while opposing American oil shore drilling, how Soros had them scream against Haliburton and when the stocks fell, scooped up shares and made a bundle, and how he is backing the legalize marijuana campaign in Massachusetts and is he poised to corner the market if marijuana gets legalized in the states. CNN is a pathetic joke.
Turn him on his head, spin him like a top, and put a Russian naval base and a missile base in Havana.
Krushchev tried it with Kennedy, but JFK finally got his gonads back in place and decided to call Comrade K's bluff. We still lost the Turkish missiles out of this.
THE ONE would get an excruciating test from Vlad the Impaler, and would fold like a limp rag.
“Rev. Wright’s stuff is from the “prophetic” tradition”
What was the name of the prophet who screwed another guy’s wife? I can’t remember.
Who cares, AC has about 25 viewers. And even they think he is wacked.
She also asked the audience to similarly pray for the pipeline, since it would benefit their neighbors, the people of Alaska. If you look around the web today and yesterday though, this statement has morphed into "she believes the war is God's will." Even some YouTube videos, in which she clearly says the above (i.e. pray that our leaders are doing the right thing, i.e., the will of God) the titles are "Sarah Palin: War in Iraq is "God's Plan" and "Sarah Palin: Alaskan Pipeline is "God's Will."
Obama's minions really do rely on a) hatred of all things religious, and b) abject ignorance -- to further their agenda.
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