Hey folks, if yr as tired as I am by the media's double standard regarding which candidates must denounce and reject which religious supporters may I suggest a little action? For myself, I've decided to email at least one MSM outlet per day for the rest of this week with the hope that this repulsive little episode doesn't get lost in the bigger coverage of the primaries tomorrow.
To recap briefly; last week B. HUSSEIN O. was subjected to the full weight of the media's displeasure because Minister Louis Farrakhan dared to support his run for the presidency (like, who else was he supposed to endorse? Mike Huckabee? Ron Paul? I'll leave the subject of the Nation of Islam to someone who knows and/or cares about it more than I do). Michael Berube captured the spirit quite well here
Famously tough but fair questioner: Abrenuntiatis farrakhanae? [Do you renounce Farrakhan?]
Liberal black officeseeker: Abrenuntio.
Famously tough but fair questioner: Et omnibus operibus eius? [And all his works?]
Liberal black officeseeker: Abrenuntio.
Famously tough but fair questioner: Et omnibus pompis eius? [And all his pomps?]
Liberal black officeseeker: Abrenuntio.
It provided a few minutes of silliness in the debate and the MSM still hasn't let go of it.
Contrast with John McCain's active courting of Pastor John Hagee, well-regarded Christian evangelical-
I would describe Pastor Hagee with the words the Torah uses to describe Moses, he is an "Eesh Elo Kim," a man of God because those words fit him; and, like Moses he has become the leader of a mighty multitude in pursuit of and defense of Israel.
says Joe Lieberman. But fundamentally (ha...) he's a crackpot minister who AS A MATTER OF HIS FAITH believes that the Roman Catholic church is objectively the Great Whore of Revelations, believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for a too-racy Gay Pride parade in N'awlins and that the Harry Potter books are occult primers.
As with so many things, the Glenzilla is on it hereand here.
My contribution to all this mess is to search out all the usual suspects, the fawners-over, the "friends" of Mr. Str8 Talk and email them, over and over if necessary, asking why this episode is not leading every news broadcast every night, every newspaper coverage every day, until McCain is forced to admit that he doesn't give a shit what anyone believes as long as they can deliver some "core" conservative voters to his limp-dicking campaign. Won't you join me in this task?
Please imagine the Kossack community generating 100s, no 1,000s, of polite (but grumpy) emails to Russert, Matthews, Blitzer, Kurtz, yr local paper, the national papers, every frackin' media outlet that had a stoopid story about Obama and Farrakhan asking where's the coverage of McCain's actively seeking the support of this loony...Can we media consumers drive the coverage? One email a day for the rest of the week - let's find out.