Holy Moly! Lord Have Mercy! OMG! Jesus!
Scott Walker was on CBN talking about God (he must be really desperate). The mainly political Christian Broadcasting Network founded and still run by the laughably former Presidential candidate Pat Robertson is giving Scott Walker air time and he's got all those fundie Chrisyian code words memorized along with his pretense that he's the victim.
Walker told interviewer David Brody, the network's chief political correspondent, that prayer has been important to him and his family. And it has made his family stronger, the governor said.
Referring to his family, Walker says: "God's got a plan for us that, who knows, where it might be even beyond just serving as governor of this state."
Walker added that, "God's grace is abundant no matter what you do."
Walker said Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch asked him recently if he felt he was living his faith strong enough. Walker said he told her that it was not just about quoting Scripture.
“It’s on how you live,” Walker said.
He's not done.
Brody spoke with Walker on Sunday at the governor's residence in Madison. The interview lasted an hour.
The network said it had released some of the video clips with plans to air more later in the week. Also, a story on Walker is expected to air on the network's "700 Club" in the next couple of weeks.
I was unable to embed the video attached to the linked article, but it's definitely worth a viewing (it's early enough in the month that the paywall for the Journal-Sentinel that allows 20 article views per month before locking out a subscriber kicks in).
Here's a bit of video of the interview I did find which was embedable where Governor Snotty plays the victim:
Sure, he's got plenty of time for RW TeeVee and RW hate radio, but gives our regular media the occassional couple of minutes of his time. Of course, the friendlies enable fundraising and meme spouting and don't ask pesky questions about the recalls million signatures or the ongoing John Doe investigation.
This, however, is pretty low for anyone. Scott, don't bring God into this. He is not to blame for your lot in life and isn't standing by to get you out of this one. God is likely more concerned about the victims of your political agenda - the people who lost their Badger Care, their decent schools, their chance to get higher education, their jobs, their voice in the workplace, a good chunk of their income so you can give more tax breaks to your corporate pals and millionaire buddies, and their hope of anything other than ridding our state of you and your Koch/ALEC agenda.
Leave God alone. He's already got a full plate after what you've done. And if you want someone to blame, it's not the "union bosses", "outside agitators" or DFHs. Take a look in the nearest mirror.
Update: Here's a direct link to the video.
David Brody: Where does God fit into all of this, because as as a "PK" (Preachers Kid) as you called yourself earlier, look, there's got to be peace there, at the root of all of this for you.
Governor Scott Walker: “Oh, absolutely. People ask all the time, to Tonette (his wife) and I, how do you get through this? It's just really prayer. It's the prayers that we have as a family, that we have individually, and the prayers that people tell us about. And those that we don't even hear about, but we feel people all around our state and really all around the country, that people go out of their way to lift us up, and it's just, it has been so amazing to us, and really as a family, I think it has made us stronger. We realize that all this is just a temporary thing and God's got a plan for us that, who knows where it might be, beyond just serving as Governor of this state, but if we stay true to that, there's always comfort. And God's grace is always abundant no matter what you do, and it's just every step of the way. In fact our Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, she asked me about this the other day, she's just been spectacular as well. She asked me, she said, Scott, do you feel like you're living your faith strong enough? She was asking me about this on a trip we were on. And I said yeah, the interesting thing is for me, it's not just about going out and quoting scripture, it's in how you live. And what I've tried to do over this past year is even at the moments of the peak of the attacks and the incivility and everything else, to make sure what I did was calm, it was reasoned, and that I was responding in kind.”