For one of the few times in the hitory of the Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate, the same "winner" of the coveted/dreaded statuette has repeated for two consecurtive seeks.
The Finger has pointed again this week at CNN, including, without limitation, the following: Wolf Blitzer, Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown, Soledad O'Brien, John Roberts, Kyra Phillips, David Gergen, and all of the rest.
Last week, the "Finger" pointed at CNN for its disgraceful attempted smear of sarah Palin on two grounds: the pregnancy of her DAUGHTER and the sexist idea that a woman could not have 5 children (only 3 really minors) and still be an effective Vice President. Read the entries over the past two weeks, including last weekend's award of the "Finger" to CNN for a complete explanation of how bad this attempted smear was--naming named and (on my part as to people in CNN) and taking no prisoners (in my itemization of the specific smears by CNN).
This week has contained another series of entries about CNN--this time CNN's smear of Sarah Palin's Pentecostal church she left 6 years ago. Now Pentecostals sometimes exist in "mainline" Christian religioons, and there are more than 20 million of them in the U.S. That did not stop CNN from arguing that the THOELOGY of the Pentecostal church, and Palni's former pastor, is a relevant "issue" in whether people should vote for her for Vicep Preisident. It is not going too far to say that CNN tried to DEMONIZE Sarah Palin, almost literally, as well as the Pentecostal movement--demonize, mind you, not over some secular evil the pastor had advocated but over the THEOLOGY of the pastor and the church.
How is this different from the Spanish Inquisition? Oh, CNN did not QUITE suggest that Sarah Palin be burned at the stake, but you could tell that the people at CNN wished they had that power. It is not only the Spanish Inquisition. CNN was adopting the tactics, and evil, of Hitler--the same evil that resulted in the death of at least 6 million Jews. Again, CNN stopped short of advocating an extermination camp for Palin Remember when Obama did not seem to know the difference between Auschwitz and Buchenwald (a concentration camp)? I digress (sort of).
Even though CNN did not go so far as to propose burning at the state or gas chamber extermination, the principle is the same. Hitler DEMONIZED the Jews partly for POLITICAL reasons--to gain power by attacking a group who were somewhat different than most of the population of Germany, and have always been a little suspect because of their alleged characteristics (see Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", and Shylock's famous speech). This attack on an entire religion by CNN was the same sort of thing: An attack on a religion as allegedly "different" from the norm, and therefore "suspect". Further, it was an attack for POLITICAL reasons, in an attempt to DEMONIZE Sarah Palin. Thus did CNN align itself squarely with two of the greatest evils of history (and those are not the only examples of this evil). The Spanish Inquisition burned people at the stake, or otherwise killed them, for heresy--which is merely another word for saying that the people did not conform to what the Spanish Inquisition considered proper, orthodox beliefs. Is there REALLY a "Holy Trinity" (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) exactly like the Catholic Church (once the Christian Church before the REFORMATION accused the Catholic Church of departing from the True path of Christianity). Was Jesus made of dvine stuff, or merely a Holy spirit in a human body?
CNN would have you believe that his is the kind of stuff we want in a Presidential campaign. If you suggest that no one thinks this theological hair splitting is important anymore, remember that it was once so important the people were burned at the stake. Nope. That is the road you go down once you say that the THEOLOGY of a church is fair game in a Presidential election. It is the road you go down when you assume that DMONIZING a person's religion for political reasons is acceptable. It is not, and the evil people at CNN should know it if their minds were not poisoned by bias (not to mention HATE). The path CNN went down last week is the direct path to religious hatred, the Spanish Inquisition, and Hitler. It is the path the mainstream media started down with Mitt Romney, and they have gone even further down the path attackig Sarah Palin.
Do we know this is evil? Of course we do, and that is not too strong a word. Barack "World" Obama told us so with regard to BOTH smear campaigns that CNN has participated in against Sarah Palin. He said that "this kind of thing" (evil, right?) has no place in American politics in connection with the smear off Palin and her daughter. He then said essentially the same thing with regard to these religious smears. Now, since CNN is doing these things ON BEHALF OF OBAMA, you (I, anyway) may question how sincere Obama is. It is easy from him to act noble--knowing that CNN, MSNBC, and the rest will do his dirty work for him. However, when even Obama recognizes the EVIL here, you know how obvious it is--obvious to anyone not as willing to wallow in evil as CNN is willing, even anxious, to do. As to the BIAS, consider:
Did CNN EVER examine the THEOLOGY of Reverend Wright's church to which Obama belonged, and which Obama supported, for 20 years? Now Obama has never claimed to be unaware of that theology or of the "controversial" things that Reverend Wright has said. What did Obama MEAN by "controversial things" of which he was aware. CNN was not interested. CNN was not even interested in the anti-American HATE speech of Reverend Wright, which goes way beyond theology. They only reluctantly addressed it after Obama was forced to confront the matter. Back to theology.
Reverend Wright's church clerly believes in a form of Black Liberation Theology. Louis Farrakhan was the recipient of a high award from Reverend Wright's church. You know how bad Farrakhan is because Obama disavowed Farrakhan BEFORE he disavowed Wright. He clearly knew about Wright's admiration of Farrakhan and STAYED in Reverend Wright's church.
"Black Liberation Theology is a type of religion that advocates a SEPARATE "black value" system where African-Americans essentially believe in their OWN values, and respect THEMSELVES, rather than catering to what "white Europeans" expect of them. In his speech to the NAACP in Detroit, which neither bothered Obama not CNN (racist Soledad O'Brien called it a "great speech"), Wright suggested that African-Americans and "white Europeans" both think differently, and learn differently. He advocated that African-Americans be true to their own thinking and traditions.
Believe it or not, I have said before in this blog that I do NOT think "Black Liberation Theology" is a proper "issue" in this campaign, unless CNN thinks we really should go down that road. Why not? For the same reasons that I set forth above as to Palin's church, except the issue is MUCH closer with regard to Obama's church. Black Liberation Theology comes perilously close, if it does not cross over the line, to advocating (as Reverend Wright ultimately DID advocate) that the world be viewed as a struggle between "people of color" and "white Europeans". I was willing however, to give Obama and Reverend Wright the benefit of the doubt on this one, to keep religions DOCTRIENE out of politics. After all, Obama's church COULD have been advocating just a kind of black "pride" to raise the "self-esteem" of African-American church members (despite language on their website that was hard to swallow, and despite Farrakhan, with whom WRight took an overseas trip to Syria or Libya).
Segue to the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Which is closer to a mainstream Christian religion, in their view? Is it Sarah Palin's FORMER (six years ago) Pentecostal church, or is it Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Theology variation on Christianity? If you say that the American people are likely to view Wright's church very favorably, if confronted with the BASIC stuff on the church's website, and in Wright's sermons, then you are deluded (or a in the tank for Obama as CNN is). OBAMA clearly knew that the American people would think that MANY of Reverend Wright's statements were "controversial". Obama SAID SO, at the time he said he was staying in the church. But the sanctimonious hypocrites at CNN NEVER told us what "controversial" things Reverend Wright said which Obama had previously heard. CNN did not even look into Obama's church, and what it professed to BELIEVE. CNN was uninterested in examining Wright's sermons. If they ad, of course, they would have discovered the following anti-American HATE speech, which showed that Reverend Wright DID believe that the world is in a struggle between evil "white Europeans" and "people of color:
1. The U.S. Government invented the AIDS virus as a means of genocide against "people of color".
2. The U.S. Government has been providing hard drugs to African-American males so that they will end up in jail.
3. 9/11 represented our "chickens come home to roost" because of the evil things we have done in the rest of the world.
4. U.S. KKK of America.
5. Not God Bless America, but God DAMN America (emphasis in original Wright sermon)
6. The U.S. knew about Pearl Harbor IN ADVANCE, and has been a terrorist against "people of color" in the world since at least Pearl Harbor (we lured them into war is the obvious conclusion of us knowing about Pearl Harbor in advance and doing nothing), and definitely including our terrorist dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Wright's clear message was that the U.S. has been the major terrorist nation in the world since at least World War II.
7. Italians killed Jesus because they looked down on the people of that region. This was in WRITING, and the clear implication was that "white Europenas" killed Jesus because they look down on "people of color". At the very least, it the article made clear that Wright looks upon modern Italians as the same as the ancient Romans. It is racial and ethnic hatred.
The above is NOT theology. It is NOT "Christian". It is a HATE MONGER uses his "church" as an instrument of HATE to advance his own POLITICAL philosophy. And CNN chose to attack PALIN over her former PENTECOSTAL religion (she now belongs to a non-denominational Christian evangelical church).. Plains' former church would have been more "mainstream" than Obama's church WITHOUT the anti-American HATE statements I list above.
"Sen. John McCain's tactics are drawing the scorn of many in the media..." This is the beginning of a present AOL story from Politico.com. It explains why I have ANOTHER series going on the SANCTIOMIOUS HYPOCRITES in the mainstream media who SAY they want the election to be about the real "issues", and yet are engaging in some of the most vicious and unfair "tactics" American politics has ever seen ON BEHALF OB OBAMA and against Palin and McCain. In addition to being the weekly "Finger" entry, this is also Part III of the series on the sanctimonious hypocrisy of CNN and the rest of the media. "Scorn" does not even come close to my opinion of CNN, and the restof the mainstream media. As I have said, the Carthage solution (Rome's destruction of Carthage down to the smallest stone--salting the earth thereafter so that things would not grow for hundreds of years) is the only solution for people both this evil and this hypocritical. What does Paln's former Pentecostal religion have to do with the "real" issues in this Presidential race?
If you don't know, the "Flying Fickle Finger of Fate is my unauthorized reincarnation of the old "Laugh in" award The ceremony is a ceremony in the IMAGINATION, with no graphics, where I suggest that you visualize Dick Martin (or Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart, if you don't remember Dick Martin or weren't alive then) presenting the statuette of the "Finger" to the camera. The statuette is of a pointing INDEX finger.
Award ceremony:
Visualize Dick Martin THRUSTING the statuette of the "Finger" at the camera and saying: CNN, as a representative of the whole mainstream media, this award is for YOU. You again DESERVE it. Rarely has an entity engaged in the "politics of personal destruction" to the extent of sinking so low as to invoke BOTH the specter of the Spanish Inquisition and the specter of Adolf Hitler's demonizing of the Jews. The colossal sanctimonious hypocrisy is a bonus."
Return next week to see if CNN can make it a consecutive threepeat--something never yet accomplished for the "Finger".
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