Keith Olbermann's report on the Administration's use of Evangelicals

[ck4829]

Or, as Karl Rove calls them, the "Nuts".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=72noFmMjkrc

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1. oh---but Tony denied karl said they were nuts!--see here: who you

going to believe.
I love this!


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_aide_s_book;_ylt=AnKsR_67mz4DdTICLkZOWpc7Xs8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--


White House denies book's allegations

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 13, 9:40 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A former Bush aide claims that evangelical Christians were embraced for political gain at the White House but derided privately as "nuts," "ridiculous" and "goofy."
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The allegations — denied by the White House on Friday — are in a new book by David Kuo, a conservative Christian who was deputy director of
President Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives until 2003.

The book describes Kuo's frustration at what he felt was lackluster enthusiasm in the White House for the program, which seeks to steer more federal social service contracts to religious organizations. Details from the book, "Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction," were reported by MSNBC ahead of Monday's publication date.

Kuo singled out staffers in the office of Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser and deputy chief of staff, as particularly condescending toward evangelical Christians, viewing them as necessary to help win elections but ridiculing them behind the scenes.

Kuo also described how officials from the faith-based office were systematically dispatched to hold large events in areas where there were key House and Senate races before the 2002 elections..........

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3. “Just get me a f-ing faith-based thing,” eight words attributed to Karl

.....ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15250170/
Book: Dirty politics of conservative compassion
David Kuo's "Tempting Faith" claims Bush will do anything for politics

• Analysis
Oct. 12: Rev. Barry Lyn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, talks to "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann about the allegations in "Tempting Faith."

Inside 'Tempting Faith'
Oct. 12: Our fifth story on the Countdown: part two of our look inside David’s Kuo's new book, "Tempting Faith," which was written from his earlier vantage point as the number two man in Bush's Office Of Faith-Based Initiatives.


TRANSCRIPT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
Updated: 1:58 p.m. CT Oct 13, 2006


In the No. 5 story on Thursday's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann revealed more details of David Kuo's "Tempting Faith," a new book which makes explosive claims against the Bush White House and its relationship with conservative Christians.

You can read the transcript below.

Good evening. This is Thursday, October 12th, 26 days until the 2006 midterm elections.
“Just get me a f-ing faith-based thing,” eight words attributed to Karl Rove by author and former special assistant to the president, David Kuo, that could by themselves very well decide those midterms. In our fifth story on the COUNTDOWN, part two of our look inside Mr. Kuo‘s extraordinary new book, “Tempting Faith,” written from his earlier vantage point as the number-two man in Bush‘s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.

And though it‘s a very large tip, the Rove quo

[Judi Lynn]

4. The end of this segment is horrifying:

Together with fellow Christian Mike Gerson, now Bush's top speechwriter, Kuo writes that he wrote political speeches designed to appeal to religion audiences, even when the speakers did not want to give those speeches. Jack Kemp, for one, removed religious values language from a speech he was to give to the Southern Baptist Convention. So instead, Kuo writes, Gerson and Kuo snuck in a few phrases that evangelicals would recognize but laypeople would not.

Kuo writes that it was a code that would continue to be used in speeches over the years by politicians, including John Ashcroft, Ralph Reed, Bob Dole and George W. Bush.
(snip)

I've read DU'ers discussing "code" in _Bushspeak, and here it is, exposed directly by one who did some of the planting of code words. This is absolutely FILTHY.

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Thanks so much for posting the transcript. It's definitely something to keep for later reference!

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7. I have asked about this code before but I can not find it---as relates to

this issue. can you direct me please where I might find it.

thanks,

[lonestarnot]

8. I want to see the buzz words as well, but don't think it's been

"declassified."

[madokie]

2. played 'em like a fiddle

gave 'em a good screwing without as much as a kiss

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6. great way to phase this.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thanks for the clip, ck4829,and for starting this thread.Very valuable.nt

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9. Sixty Minutes

David Kuo will be interviewed by Leslie Stahl tomorrow night (Oct. 15) on Sixty Minutes