Another Dirty Trick

I subscribe to AOL, which is about as liberally biased as they come. This morning was the first time I had been on the internet in several days, and I was treated to this pile of guano from ABC news on my homepage.

So, now we are supposed to believe that President Bush, whom the MSM has tried to cast as a wacko fundamentalist Christian nut, allows his Administration to use the Christian right while mocking and degrading them behind closed doors. This is low by any standard.

Here are some excerpted bits from this dirty-trick article:



The accusations are coming from an unlikely source: David Kuo, former deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, which channels federal dollars to religious charities.

Kuo says the office was misused to rally evangelical Christians, the Republican base voters, to get GOP politicians elected. Not only that, Kuo claims Bush officials mocked evangelical leaders behind their backs, alleging that in the office of political guru Karl Rove they were called "the nuts."

"National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous', 'out of control,' and just plain 'goofy,' " Kuo writes.

"You name the important Christian leader, and I have heard them mocked by serious people in serious places," Kuo told "60 Minutes" Sunday night.

"And Christians need to understand that there's a difference between George W. Bush who is a great man, a good, compassionate man, and President Bush, a politician."

Kuo says it should come as no surprise that any administration plays politics.

"But my point is even in this White House, you are loved for your votes, not anything else. That's what you need to know," Kuo said. "I say it within this broader argument, Christians have put way too much emphasis on politics."


It was "spiritually wrong," Kuo told "60 Minutes." "You're taking the sacred and you're making it profane. You're taking Jesus and reducing him to some precinct captain, to some get-out-the-vote guy."

Kuo left the White House in late 2003 after a brain tumor and subsequent seizure caused him to have a serious car accident. He writes that his brush with death caused him to re-evaluate his priorities and realize that core Christian values have been severely compromised by allying with the GOP. The reason for this? Kuo writes: "Every politician needs evangelicals. And like a teenage boy on a date with a beautiful girl, they will say anything and everything to get what they want."


He proposes a two-year fast from politics not including voting and urges Christians to instead direct their energies toward practicing compassion and their money towards charity.

"We need to spend more time studying Jesus, and less time trying to get people elected," Kuo writes.

"We need to spend more time studying Jesus, and less time trying to get people elected," Kuo writes.


Kuo told "60 Minutes" that the "message that has been sent out to Christians for a long time now that Jesus came primarily for a political agenda, and recently primarily a right-wing political agenda as if this culture war is a war for God. And it's not a war for God, it's a war for politics. And that's a huge difference."


"We need to spend more time studying Jesus, and less time trying to get people elected," Kuo writes.


Kuo told "60 Minutes" that the "message that has been sent out to Christians for a long time now that Jesus came primarily for a political agenda, and recently primarily a right-wing political agenda as if this culture war is a war for God. And it's not a war for God, it's a war for politics. And that's a huge difference."

He said he wrote the book because he had "this burden on my heart that the name of God is being destroyed in the name of politics."


Notice that every angle has been covered to split Evangelicals from the Republicans, and this immediately before the election. We are told the Republicans secretly hold the Evangelicals in contempt, that they are misusing funds and breaking the law, that Christ would not approve of Christian political activism and that Christians exercising their duty as Americans to protect and defend the moral dignity of this nation is a dishonor to God. Why, one would gather from this that it is our Christian duty to shut our mouths and allow the forces of darkness to overrun us.

I suspect Mr. Kuo`s burden is a bit more financial than spiritual-why come out with this immediately before an election?

We were told ad nauseum after the `04 elections that ``value voters`` swung the vote in favor of the GOP. So, recently we were treated to the Foley Surprise, which was obviously intended to anger the Evangelical base and now this piece of False Witness. Uh, Mr. Kuo, bearing false witness is against one of the Commandments.

It never ceases to amaze me the depths to which the left will sink. What nauseates me to the core is the way Big Media puts this kind of thing out to erode the election chances for Republicans. Where are the stories about Harry Reid`s mafia land deal? Nothing on AOL when my homepage comes up. THAT is a real story! This is pure propoganda, yet the press will run with it because they will do ANYTHING to increase the chances of their dear Democrats.

Isn`t it time McCain-Feingold be applied to these news outlets? If they are going to keep carrying the Left`s water, they should be treated as any other lobby or campaign group.