New GOP Talking Point > the "Secular Left" vs. the "Religious Right"

Stephanie

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Tue May-10-05 06:08 PM
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New GOP Talking Point > the "Secular Left" vs. the "Religious Right"

Edited on Tue May-10-05 06:24 PM by Stephanie

Mary Matalin repeated this about a hundred times on MTP on Sunday. She made sure to announce that her culture war was inclusive, as she named every religion she could think of, and asserted that every Catholic, every Jew, every Muslim, Methodist, and Unitarian, was a member of this new "Religious Right".

Disgusting hate speech, and yet watch it bloom. Anyone heard it anywhere else yet?

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*edit* I got carried away. She did NOT mention Unitarians! Here is the transcript:

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/7761272/

MR. RUSSERT: Let me turn to federal judges. There has been an enormous amount of criticism leveled against federal judges by some very prominent members of the conservative community. Last week Pat Robertson said that the threat from the federal judiciary is more serious than Islamic terrorists who slammed into the World Trade Center. MoveOn.org, a liberal Democratic activist group, has now taken to the airwaves with that quote. Let's watch it and come back and talk a bout it.

(Videotape, MoveOn.org ad):

Unidentified Man: Osama bin Laden ordered the worst terrorist attack in American history. Yet last Sunday Pat Robertson, a leader of the religious right, actually claimed that federal judges are a more serious threat to America than "a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." Will Bill Frist and Tom DeLay continue to pander to the radical fringe or will they have the guts to repudiate Pat Robertson and all the others who are threatening our federal judges?

(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: Mary Matalin....

MS. MATALIN: Right.

MR. RUSSERT: ...has this gone too far?

MS. MATALIN: It's demagoguery. That's sheer demagoguery.

MR. RUSSERT: Well, you don't agree with Pat Robertson.

MS. MATALIN: I think that was an injudicious thing to say, but that the secular left has behaved imperialistically--there's no other word for it. They have subverted the democratic process by taking their issues to the judiciary. What the so-called religious right has done has taken their petition and their concerns into the democratic process, into the public square. They organize and they try to affect legislation, as opposed to being the subverted process of democracy which is what the secular left does.

This is all demagoguery. There is a secular left. There is a religious right. It is the way in which the secular left overestimates its uniformity is funny. They're not--there's not just Christian conservatives. There is a lot of the people who are concerned about traditional values and in politics and in the public square. There are lots of Jews, there are a lot of conservative Muslims. There are--it's ecumenical. There's Catholics. It's across the board. There is not a uniformity. There's lots of pluralism and they're part of the democratic process. And this is just demagoguery on the parts of these left-wing extremists.

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