The Sermon of Reverend Kerry
Imagine if the following story appeared in your newspaper tomorrow morning (quote modified from Captain Ed's original post):
"President Bush did the worst kind of pandering last night at the West Mt. Sinai Pentacostal Church in Cleveland. Bush told the predominantly conservative evangelical church that the Democratic Party is actively suppressing the military vote in battleground states, a claim which he repeatedly makes and for which he gives absolutely no evidence:
"'In battleground states across the country, we're hearing stories of how people are trying to make it harder to file for additional time, or how they're making it harder to even register,' Bush told an enthusiastic congregation at West Mt. Sinai Pentacostal Church.
"'We're not going to let that happen because the memories of 2000 are too strong. We're not going to allow over a million men and women in uniform to be disenfranchised.'
"At a stop in Ohio earlier Sunday, Bush told a voter concerned about ballots cast by African-American voters that Republicans are aware of voting problems and are concerned."
1) Can anybody imagine such a story ever being written in a Big Media publication?
And, more to the point...
2) Can anybody imagine any Republican making a political stump speech from the pulpit of an evangelical church, much less the President of the United States? My God, the Left would erupt into spontaneous anti-Christian pogroms. The cries of "THEOCRACY!!!!!" would be deafening.
But John Kerry, arguably the most culturally "white" man in the entire country, can preach the guest sermon at another black church, fertilize the entire sanctuary and half the parking lot beyond, and yet somehow that's not mixing church and state. And if anybody, much less a Republican, raises such questions, they're automatically smeared as "racist," even though it is Kerry himself who is engaging in flagrant racism by the very act of fecalizing his "predominantly" black audience in the expectation of the resumption of Jim Crow-ism on the self-evident premise that they'll believe it yet again.
The sad part is, they probably will.
It's a pity Benin Dakar wasn't afforded the opportunity to sermonize at Mt. Zion Baptist yesterday. His is a message that all black Americans need to hear - and take to heart.
"President Bush did the worst kind of pandering last night at the West Mt. Sinai Pentacostal Church in Cleveland. Bush told the predominantly conservative evangelical church that the Democratic Party is actively suppressing the military vote in battleground states, a claim which he repeatedly makes and for which he gives absolutely no evidence:
"'In battleground states across the country, we're hearing stories of how people are trying to make it harder to file for additional time, or how they're making it harder to even register,' Bush told an enthusiastic congregation at West Mt. Sinai Pentacostal Church.
"'We're not going to let that happen because the memories of 2000 are too strong. We're not going to allow over a million men and women in uniform to be disenfranchised.'
"At a stop in Ohio earlier Sunday, Bush told a voter concerned about ballots cast by African-American voters that Republicans are aware of voting problems and are concerned."
1) Can anybody imagine such a story ever being written in a Big Media publication?
And, more to the point...
2) Can anybody imagine any Republican making a political stump speech from the pulpit of an evangelical church, much less the President of the United States? My God, the Left would erupt into spontaneous anti-Christian pogroms. The cries of "THEOCRACY!!!!!" would be deafening.
But John Kerry, arguably the most culturally "white" man in the entire country, can preach the guest sermon at another black church, fertilize the entire sanctuary and half the parking lot beyond, and yet somehow that's not mixing church and state. And if anybody, much less a Republican, raises such questions, they're automatically smeared as "racist," even though it is Kerry himself who is engaging in flagrant racism by the very act of fecalizing his "predominantly" black audience in the expectation of the resumption of Jim Crow-ism on the self-evident premise that they'll believe it yet again.
The sad part is, they probably will.
It's a pity Benin Dakar wasn't afforded the opportunity to sermonize at Mt. Zion Baptist yesterday. His is a message that all black Americans need to hear - and take to heart.
posted by JASmius at 9:37 PM
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