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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:48 PM
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Anyone see Jerry Fallwell lay out bush's agenda on CNN tonight?
I flipped to CNN right after Keith O's report on this stolen election was over, and only listened for a minute or two. Some of what I heard was that "they" - the fallwell/robertson cult, had "delivered 30 million votes" and that they expect a vigorous "Christian" agenda from little hitler.

He listed a flat tax (God is for a flat tax?), an amendment barring gay marriage, and pro-life "strict constructionist" judges. He was very, very unhappy w/ Arlen Spector - for the stance AS took on an anti-Roe test for new judges, but also because AS helped keep Bork from the Supreme Court. Fallwell did say, tho, that Frist would take care of this "minor bump in the road."

You'd think a guy that worships an all caring God would be more for seeing to the health of all people rather than a "flat tax" - you'd think. I do not get these fundies.

So odd, seeing Keith on one news channel, reporting the truth of the "election" and bringing into question the results, and fraud, while, at the same time, on another channel, there is a hypocrite extreme laying out an agenda of selfishness and hate, because he and his kind provided the votes to give bush his "mandate."

Anybody else see this?





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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:50 PM
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1. CNN is giving Falwell a free platform these days nt
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Lilli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:50 PM
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2. Missed it...but saw an article saying Pat Robertson wants
that pesky fillibuster thing to go.
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UpsideDownFlag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:50 PM
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3. Falwell takes it from behind.
that is to say, his followers pat him on the back.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:52 PM
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7. CNN --esp Wolfe Blitzer and his coverage of the war have been
REAL parrots of the WH!!
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juliagoolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:50 PM
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4. This is what we need to build
http://everyvoice.org/community/index.php

Things like this.. I will keep hammering it folks. We have LW christians too, and they do not share these goals.. we need to help these groups that want to be the alternative to these hate mongers.
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Angrillori Donating Member (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:53 PM
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8. Yeah, we have LW christians, where's
Garrison Keilor(sp?) laying out the christian agenda for the left?
He delivered like a bajillion votes for democrats, now he's demanding results!

:)
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:51 PM
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5. "Blow 'em all away in the name of the Lord," was the last thing I heard
outta that fat glutton's grinning maw...
What a pathetic example of so-called Christian leadership.
:puke:
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:51 PM
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6. I saw it and it made me sick to think the American Taliban is stealing
control of my country. Where is the Forth Estate? When are we going to stand up to these thugs?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:56 PM
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14. Falwell denied ever having equated homosexuality to "smoking crack and bes


"http://mediamatters.org/items/200411080004"
Falwell denied his habit of comparing homosexuality to bestiality, crack addiction
During an interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, fundamentalist Baptist pastor and Moral Majority founder Reverend Jerry Falwell denied ever having equated homosexuality to "smoking crack and bestiality" -- a comparison Falwell has in fact made on several occasions.

From the November 5 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:

COOPER: I know in the past you believe homosexual behavior is immoral, a sin, you've equated it with smoking crack, bestiality. But what is the threat to you? What is -- I mean, two men saying that they love each to each other, what's the threat?

FALWELL: Well, I haven't equated it to anything, but I believe that the scripture makes it clear that all sexual activity outside of marriage between a man and a woman is wrong, whether it's heterosexual promiscuity or homosexual activity.
MORE
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:53 PM
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9. Something about the flat tax.
First, let me say this isn't the best system. But we aren't talking about best now. The flat tax isn't fair but it's going to trap a lot of those guys who didn't pay taxes at all. It will backfire on them.
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David Dunham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:58 PM
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16. Correct. It will prove very unpopular and backfire on the Repugs! Yeah!
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:53 PM
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10. If "they" delivered 30 million votes, then Kerry would have won by 26
million? Food for thought.

My guess is Bush will piss of the far right so they are discouraged in 08 when they don't get Roe v Wade overturned and concentration camps for Gays. :eyes:
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juliagoolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:57 PM
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15. We should encourage them to join up with the Constitution party
We need to be sending that info(Constitution Party) to all the churches and church members.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:05 PM
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20. We need to draft a Constitution Party candidate.
:evilgrin:
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:54 PM
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11. That man is worst than the Pharisees in the Bible, and is nothing
Edited on Mon Nov-08-04 09:55 PM by candy331
but a hate filled monger , be glad when all religion is crushed out of existence. How long do they think they can kiss a viper and not be killed.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:55 PM
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12. A Flat Tax Is BAD NEWS
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David Dunham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:58 PM
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17. It will be unpopular and we will win back Congress in 2006
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juliagoolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 09:55 PM
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13. Limos and Mansions
We need to expose these charlatans for what they are!

These people could care less about people. If they did, they'd be doing things like Jimmy Carter who lives a very humble life.

Disgusting power mongering bigots
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necso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:00 PM
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18. Well if it's a flat tax that we are getting,
then caps will have to come off of SS taxes -- and we might as well apply the same taxes to all income.

Tax simplification, you understand... And a flat tax should be truly flat, don't you think.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:10 PM
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21. It will be a flat tax with caps for purchases of luxury items.
You know the tax will be regressive if it is, in fact, flat.
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anakie Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:03 PM
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19. Is Falwell's organisation tax exempt?
or robbing the US taxpayer of funds by hiding behind a religious facade. Pay up or STFU
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Nimrod Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:11 PM
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22. But of course
This "man" needs to be locked up and the key thrown away. It should have happened a LONG time ago. My only comfort is the thought that one of his victims may someday take matters...

Nevermind, can't say it here.
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