Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

McCullough recently rose to national prominence as a media consultant to the parents of Terri Schiavo, whose feeding tube removal begat a hurricane of hyperbole over a husband's right to carry out his wife's end-of-life choices without undue government interference.

Less well known is the fact that McCullough previously served as a publicist, apologist, and funding conduit for the unapologetically pro-violence wing of the anti-abortion movement. For example, he was the principal of Prisoners of Christ, a group that provided financial aid and other support for antiabortion activists who been convicted of crimes including murder, arson, bombings, and kidnapping. Frederick Clarkson has noted in a 2002 article for Salon.com that some of the convicts were members of the violent, antiabortion Army of God.

Bizzarely McCullough's "Christian Communications Network" ALSO features a recent press release from "International Christian Concern" which worries about attacks on Christians worldwide from the eruption of anger in the Islamic World over the Anti-Islamic cartoons that Gary McCullough has printed on his own CCN website ostensibly in defense - as McCullough and Terry write of -  Freedom of speech !

To: National & International Desks

Contact: Jeff King, President, of International Christian Concern, 301-989-1708, icc@persecution.org

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 Christian Wire Service --  The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has been monitoring the response of Muslims to cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in a way they say is a blasphemous. ICC is concerned that as Muslim outrage grows against the publication of these cartoons, Christians will increasingly be targeted because of their association with the Western world.

In protest over the publication of these "offensive" cartoons, Muslims are attacking embassies, burning flags, boycotting products, and attacking Christians and others associated with the West. The violent protests have continued to spread to Beirut, Indonesia, Palestine, and Afghanistan. In Beirut, over the weekend, a Christian neighborhood was attacked and rampaged by Muslims, in Pakistan, a church was ransacked and Christians beaten.

One pressing question is this :

If Al Qaeda attacks the United States with a nuclear weapon, as Rober Scheuer, "former CIA officer in charge of hunting Osama bin Laden" predicts, would the Bush Administration charge Terry and McCullough - for their aggressive PR work in fanning inter-religious hatred and so helping win new recruits to Islamic ( and Christian ) terrorist groups - with aiding and abetting Al Qaeda ?

If elephants flapped their ears vigorously enough, could they fly ?