Left Behind
Richie Rich gets all righteous on us.
by Alan Bisbort - November 18, 2004
JERRY FALWELL MINISTRIES PHOTO
Feature
It´s official: Jerry Falwell and other radical clerics are now setting policy.
The World This Week
The story line keeps changing. It's not about the quagmire in Iraq, the tanked economy, trashed environment and compromised national security. It's about "moral values." That's the phrase favored by the pundits and pollsters since Nov. 3rd.
The election losers do not possess "moral values" and, according to Larry Dobson, head of the extremist Focus on the Family, are also "God people haters." Dobson, by the way, is taking credit for putting Bush in the White House; he's now hitting the talk shows as though he were a mainstream figure and not the polarizing cultural warrior he truly is.
Also, according to radical clerics Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Bob Jones III -- now also setting public policy -- the winners were selected by God. The anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and racist Rev. Jones wrote directly to the president: "God has graciously granted America -- though she doesn't deserve it -- a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ."
Even the Wall Street Journal is slinging it around. Once the Wall Street Journal starts talking about "moral values," language itself has been hijacked. Yet there it was: The day after Bush was declared winner, the WSJ scolded Democrats for "sharing their contempt for the President's intelligence, moral values and religious beliefs" and for having "nothing in common with what's quaintly known as Middle America."
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