This is Part VI. Read:

Part I, "Tempting Faith: Bush's 'Faith Based' Initiative a Scam"

PART II, "Tempting Faith: Bush Betrays Christian Conservatives"

PART III, "Tempting Faith: Bush Admin: Christian Cons are "Nuts", "Ridiculous""

In Part IV, Kuo reveals the administration's deliberate and conscious discrimination of non-Christian and otherwise non-Bush-supportive groups.

Clearly this is the most egregious trespass (among many) to American values laid out in Kuo's book -- a clear desecration of the first amendment.

Kuo charges that "the White House's own rationale for pushing the faith-based initiative -- an effort to make it easier for churches and other sectarian organizations to receive federal social-service funding -- was bogus."

(More over the flip...)

This is Part III. Read:

Part I, "Tempting Faith: Bush's 'Faith Based' Initiative a Scam"

and PART II, "Tempting Faith: Bush Betrays Christian Conservatives"

In Part III, Kuo reveals the Administration's disdain for and mockery of Bush's conservative Christian base.

...the book includes charges that high-ranking White House officials referred to prominent conservative Christian leaders as "nuts" behind their backs,

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"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 wrote. He added that top political officials in White House aide Karl Rove's office referred to the leaders as "the nuts."

Read Also:

Part IV, "Tempting Faith: Bush Admin Admits Discriminating Against Non-Christians"

This is Part II. Read: Part I, "Tempting Faith: Bush's 'Faith Based' Initiative a Scam"

In Part II, Kuo reveals the knife that the administration brazenly inserted into the back of their alleged allies.

Olbermann: "Kuo cites one example after another of a White House that repeatedly uses Evangelical Christians for their votes while consistently giving them nothing in return."

Olbermann: So, how does the Bush White House keep the 'nuts' turning out at the polls? One way, regular conference calls with groups lead by Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Ted Haggard, and radio hosts like Michael Reagan. ... They did get some things from the Bush White House, like the National Day of Prayer. ... Or 'Little trinkets like cufflinks or pens or pads of paper were passed out like business cards. Christian leaders could give them to their congregations or donors or friends to show just how influential they were.'"

Olbermann: "When cufflinks were not enough, the White House played the Jesus card, reminding Christian leaders that 'He knew the president's faith' and begging for patience.

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Yet another ex-Bush White House official is coming clean on the flagrant dishonesty, shameless politicization, and arrogant self-absorption of the current administration.

This time it's David Kuo, the former number two person in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Kuo, a self-described conservative evangelical, offers the inside scoop on the administration's pursuit of Christian conservative votes even as they mocked them behind their backs.

The full story, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction (Still unreleased, his book is currently the #13 Best Seller at Amazon), will be released on October 16. But MSNBC's Keith Olberman was able to obtain a copy early and shared some of it's insights on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on October 11th.

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Jerry Falwell achieved one of the demagogical milestones in American political history during the 1984 presidential race when he solemnly proclaimed that the Republican ticket of Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush had been selected by God to lead the nation.  Democrats and other comparably appalled citizens expressed outrage at Falwell for in effect declaring, "God is a Republican".

Falwell was back busily at work again this week, declaring before a convention of the "godly faithful" that Hillary Clinton, should she be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, would serve as an even greater lightning rod to mobilize his constituency than the Devil.  

Even some of the religious right saw potential problems stemming from such a tasteless and absurd remark.  They engaged in instant spin control, insisting that the right reverend from Virginia was only kidding and his remark was not to be taken seriously.

Whenever it appears that the Republican religious right's bigotry brigade has reached its low level watermark, a demagogue of the moment leaps forward with blinding purported spiritual impetus to enhance momentum.  

"Who would Jesus bomb?" has become the battle cry for those wishing to expose the dense hypocrisy of the fanatic right's militant brand of Christianity. They hate. They kill. They disregard -- and all in the name of Jesus.

Sweet Jesus, they would have you believe, was some kind of monster -- a homicidal, pathological and delusional figure bent on the destruction of all those unlike him.

Why would they make him the fall guy for their incalculable evil? Is it because he was such an unabashed liberal?

During my staunch Christian upbringing, Jesus taught me many things. Strangely, none of those teachings directed me to kill in his name, or in the name of God. Nothing I read instructed me to bash gays, subordinate women, destroy nature, convert heathens, or start wars. Nothing!

But apparently I missed some sort of biblical memo... one received by some pretty creepy characters. And here's the proof:

Originally posted on Talk to Action

One of the main reasons why the Rev. Jerry Falwell co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979 was to decry the corruption of America's values. For decades, the Southern Baptist pastor has hectored Hollywood, trash-talked TV, been het up on hip hop, and spouted vitriol about video games. But this once bold, big lion who strode the stage popping off about pop culture lately has been reduced to a peewee church mouse. On his claim to fame, Rev. Falwell's got no more game. When it came time to denounce Left Behind: Eternal Forces -- a Christian supremacist video game that one Republican attorney has characterized as "the worst example to date of how the corrosive pop culture has conformed the Church to its image" -- the broken down old culture warrior has cut and run. And he's not the only one to show such cowardice. But now he's being called out in public for the first time by a fellow culture warrior.

When Bible publisher Tyndale House licensed a video game that exploits 9/11, and teaches children that New Yorkers who don't convert deserve to die, conservative Christian leaders sat silent - all but one. Now, a 20-year veteran on the front lines of the culture wars is challenging his brethren and sisters to protest the game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces. So far, he's called out Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, PhD, Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren, and Southern Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell. In the past, all three have warned parents to keep their children away from other violent video games. But since Christian supremacist hate literature has been turned into a children's game, the No Comment Chorus has shucked and jived, ducked and covered, cut and run.

Two articles from the Thursday, May 11 opinion section of The Seattle Times demonstrate the path that the mainstream media is pursuing toward the 2006 and 2008 political cycles.  The mainstream media seeks to define what is "moderate" and hence electable, hoping that voters will buy into their arguments.

The article on top by Seattle Times syndicated columnist Joni Balter, appearing just below a cartoon humorously lampooning Cheney's secret meetings with oil executives in connection with spiraling gas prices, criticizes Dwight Pelz, the recently elected state chairman of the Washington Democratic Party.  

The focus of the criticism is in a familiar area, seeking to depict Pelz as outside the mainstream of Washington voters.

Balter perceives Pelz as "an old-time, Seattle lefty who often sees issues in black and white."  The columnist is agitated by Pelz's criticisms of Senator Maria Cantwell's support of the Iraq War, along with a comment that he expects many party activists to refuse to sign up for her upcoming reelection campaign due to her position regarding that bloody continuing conflict.  

It's good to know that, in his 2008 drive to the White House, Senator John McCain will refuse to pander to the various 'evils' of electoral reality simply for the sake of a few million measly votes... or will he...

The AP reports McCain says he no longer "considers evangelist Jerry Falwell to be one of the 'agents of intolerance' that he criticized during a previous White House run."

In 2000, as he sought the Republican nomination that eventually went to George W. Bush, McCain said: "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right."

McCain "will be the commencement speaker in May at Liberty University, the Lynchburg, Va., institution that Falwell founded in 1971."

On NBC's Meet the Press, McCain said, "I met with Reverend Falwell. He came to see me in Washington. We agreed to disagree on certain issues and we agreed to move forward.."

But what is it that McCain 'agreed to disagree with'?

Jerry Sloan and Jerry Falwell were friends in Bible College. But their lives took different directions. The next time they met Sloan asked Falwell about his statement that gay Christians were

"...BRUTE BEASTS, THAT IS, GOING TO THE BASER LUST OF THE FLESH TO LIVE IMMORALITY. AND SO, JUDE DESCRIBES THIS AS APOSTASY. THANK GOD, THIS VILE AND SATANIC SYSTEM WILL ONE DAY BE UTTERLY ANNIHILATED AND THERE WILL BE A CELEBRATION IN HEAVEN!"

Falwell said it was “an absolute lie” that he had said such a thing and said he would give Sloan $5000 if he could provide a tape. Sloan eventually produced tapes from Falwell’s own Old Time Gospel Hour.

Somebody quick call Bill O'Reilly!

Get me Jerry Falwell!

George and Laura Bush have joined The Evil One in the War On Christmas! So has the Republican National Committee!