Frank Schaeffer eviscerates McCain/Palin on Amy Goodman's show today.

[EFerrari]

Former McCain Supporter Accuses the Senator of “Deliberately Feeding the Most Unhinged Elements of Our Society the Red Meat of Hate”

Frank Schaeffer is the bestselling author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back. He is the son of the late evangelist Francis Schaeffer and considered himself a lifelong Republican. He voted for John McCain in 2000, and McCain even endorsed one of Schaeffer’s earlier books on military service. But on Friday, Schaeffer published an open letter to McCain excoriating the Arizona senator.


No transcript yet but video, audio here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/13/former_mccain_supporter_accuses_the_senator

[EFerrari]

1. Schaeffer: Why I'm pro-life and pro-Obama

Why I'm pro-life and pro-Obama

I am an Obama supporter. I am also pro-life. In fact, without my family's involvement in the pro-life movement it would not exist as we know it. Evangelicals weren't politicized until after my late father and evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer, Dr. Koop (Reagan's soon-to-be Surgeon General) and I stirred them up over the issue of abortion in the mid-1970s. Our Whatever Happened to the Human Race? book, movie series and seminars brought the evangelicals into the pro-life movement.

(Dad's political influence persists. Last week one of my father's followers -- Mike Huckabee -- was interviewed by Katie Couric, along with all the other presidential candidates. Couric asked the candidates if they were to be sent to a desert island and could only take one book besides the Bible, what would that that book be? Huckabee answered that he'd take my father's book Whatever Happened To The Human Race?)

Fast forward...


In 2000, we elected a president who claimed he believed God created the earth and who, as president, put car manufacturers and oil company's interests ahead of caring for that creation. We elected a pro-life Republican Congress that did nothing to actually care for pregnant women and babies. And they took their sincere evangelical followers for granted, and played them for suckers.

The so-called evangelical leadership -- Dobson, Robertson et al. also played the pro-life community for suckers. While thousands of men and women in the crisis pregnancy movement gave of themselves to help women and babies, their evangelical "leaders" did little more than cash in on fundraising opportunities and represent themselves as power-brokers to the craven politicians willing to kowtow to them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/why-im-prolife-and-pro_b_85636.html

[mckara]

2. This Interview Should Be Watched by All

[EFerrari]

3. It was so interesting -- a real light bulb moment. He said the wingnuts

have already seceded, just as the AIP wants to do. They have their own schools, own media, their own churches -- they're not really part of the American project at all. He said they were deeply anti-American.

[EFerrari]

4. The Religious Right: A former insider tells all (interview)

Crazy for God: How I Was Born as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All - or Almost All - of it Back

Probably no religious movement in America has been more talked about in the last 25 years than the so-called Religious Right. Usually the conservative crusade is analyzed by outsiders. But now Frank Schaeffer-a former Religious Right kingpin and "700 Club" regular-has written about it from the inside.

Schaeffer's book, "Crazy for God: How I Was Born as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All - or Almost All - of it Back," offers a rare look at his life inside the movement, and why he eventually left. At once an emotional memoir and a tell-all confession, Schaffer's book shows what happens when you "lose your faith and yet pretend to have it, because there are bills to be paid, because you are booked up for a year, because this is what you do."

Schaeffer offers his candid views on the current leaders of the Religious Right and the "Disney-fication" of religion in America today.

http://interfaithradio.org/node/229

[Karenina]

5. K&R!

[EFerrari]

6. Hey! Have you seen him? He's one of the smartest people ever

and great on the air. I can't believe how profoundly he communicates what the wingnuts are about and I can't believe he's out there talking up Obama!. :wow:

[trof]

7. I'd K&R this 100 times if I could. MUST SEE!

THANK YOU!

[EFerrari]

8. So much my pleasure!

:hi:

[a la izquierda]

9. K & R

The people he's talking about scare the crap out of me.

[EFerrari]

10. Transcript up now at link:

Welcome to Democracy Now!

FRANK SCHAEFFER: Thank you, Amy.

AMY GOODMAN: It’s very good to have you with us. Can you—do you, by chance, have the letter in front of you?

FRANK SCHAEFFER: Yes, I do. I have it right here. What would you like to hear?

AMY GOODMAN: Could you read it to us?

FRANK SCHAEFFER: Sure. This is the op-ed.

“John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as ‘not one of us,’ I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence.

“At a Sarah Palin rally, someone called out, ‘Kill him!’ At one of your rallies, someone called out, ‘Terrorist!’ Neither was answered or denounced by you or your running mate, as the crowd laughed and cheered. At your campaign event Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pa., the crowd was seething with hatred for the Democratic nominee—an attitude encouraged in speeches there by you, your running mate, your wife and the local Republican chairman.

“Shame!

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/13/former_mccain_supporter_accuses_the_senator

[mzmolly]

11. And another

K and R here. :hi:

[EFerrari]

12. Thank you, mzmolly!

It's nice to start the week out with some sanity!

:hi:

[mzmolly]

14. Isn't it though?

Only a few short weeks sister. :hi: I'm hoping to shed many tears of joy...

[EFerrari]

15. I just sent Frank Schaeffer ten questions that DU might like him to answer.

Let's see if he thinks it's a good idea.

Maybe his story can help us pass the time. I swear, these are going to be the longest 98 days of my life!

lol

:)

[mzmolly]

16. I'm biting things off in small pieces.

22 days, followed by 76 - HOPEFULLY! ;)

[EFerrari]

17. A very wise strategery.

:)

[Kaleko]

13. Thanks for posting this. Recommended.

[mzmolly]

18. Just wanting to add that the interview with Schaeffer starts at 34:00 in to the program.

I highly recommend it. :kick:

[Elidor]

19. Marking this for later

Sounds like some good stuff.