Many of you have seen Hunter's diary about Sarah Palin's connections with Pastor Thomas Murthee, who started his career by driving out of town a woman he claimed was a witch.
The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.
Why is this story not being reported in the MSM (except on Countdown)?
Keith Olbermann had a detailed story on this tonight on Countdown (he says the story was reported by the "Times of London" -- it actually was on the paper's blog, TimesOnline, and on the London Daily Mail.
There's a story about this on the Alaskan blog Mudflats, and its seems Alaskans knew nothing about it. According to one commentator:
At first I was angry and scarred. Know I look at this situation and think, it’s absurd!!! If people vote these people in after the last couple of weeks of watching and listening to their antics. We are really in trouble.
Other commentators demanded that this story "get out to all the media - tv and papers!"
And perhaps the most insightful comment of all:
As far as I’m concerned you cross the line when you start inciting people to stone an individual because you have convinced them that this individual is a witch.
This is not a joke. This is the kind of sick thinking of the Inquisition, of the Salem, MA of four centuries ago, and yes, of Hitler. Cultural differences can not be used as a blanket excuse to protect an obvious violation of human rights. If Palin and the people of her church know this man’s background - if they know how he built his reputation - and if they embraced him as a leader them, then they are just plain dangerous.
Freedom of religion does not mean you have the right to violate the rights of another individual, let alone harm them, based on your spiritual beliefs. This is the danger of the sort of religious extremism behind 9/11 and the Taliban.
This same Pastor Muthee is preaching at the Wasilla Assembly of God this week.
This story is being covered in media from London to Poland to Australia. Is there some reason it is not being more widely reported here in the USA? Is there some reason to doubt the correctness of the story, or are a candidate's religious practices and affiliations taboo? I agree with the Mudflats commentators -- if Palin was aware of Muthee's witch-hunting and nevertheless respects him, the public needs to know about this.
More on You Tube about Palin-Muthee:
UPDATE
As Alec82 pointed out in the comments, RandySF was out on front on this story.