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Why? Because he's a Mormon. Cough ... bigots ... cough! Focus on the Family, the evangelical organization founded by James Dobson, has removed from its website an interview with former CNN host Glenn Beck following complaints over the politically conservative TV personality's Mormon faith.
The original article about Beck's best-selling new book, "The Christmas Sweater," appeared on the ministry's CitizenLink website Dec. 19, but three days later an article published on ChristianNewsWire criticized Focus for promoting a Mormon "as a Christian."
"While Glenn's social views are compatible with many Christian views, his beliefs in Mormonism are not," writes Steve McConkey of Underground Apologetics on ChristianNewsWire. "The CitizenLink story does not mention Beck's Mormon faith, however the story makes it look as if Beck is a Christian who believes in the essential doctrines of the faith."Focus on the Family website yanks Glenn Beck interviewLabels: News and Politics, Religion
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! ... and all that crap, from us over here at ThemeOfAbsence.com. Hope you all had a successful, happy and healthy year. Labels: Personal
The Media Research Center today announced its Best Notable Quotables of 2008: The 21st Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting, and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “won” the dubious honor of Quote of the Year for gushing over a Barack Obama speech back in February: “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often….And that is an objective assessment.”
Top runner-up for Quote of the Year went to Reuters for this ridiculous post-election headline: “Media bias largely unseen in U.S. presidential race.”Click the link to read the whole article. Statement of Brent Bozell on the Death of Paul WeyrichLabels: Funnies, News and Politics
It's official. The dems will be proposing the censorship of political speech. Who needed that pesky First Amendment anyhow, right? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (pictured), D-Palo Alto, said Monday she will work to restore the Fairness Doctrine and have it apply to cable and satellite programming as well as radio and TV.
“I’ll work on bringing it back. I still believe in it,” Eshoo told the Daily Post in Palo Alto.
The Fairness Doctrine required TV and radio stations to balance opposing points of view. It meant that those who disagreed with the political slant of a commentator were entitled to free air time to give contrasting points of view, usually in the same time slot as the original broadcast.San Francisco Peninsula Press Club: Rep. Eshoo to push for Fairness DoctrineLabels: News and Politics
Check out what Wikipedia had posted for WorldNetDaily.com founder, Joseph Farah... "Joseph Francis Farah is an Evangelical Christian American journalist and noted homosexual of Lebanese and Syrian heritage."This is pretty good example of why you can't take Wikipedia seriously. When you have a supposedly factual, unbiased "encyclopedia", you just can't leave it open to the world to anonymously edit. Wikipedia lies, slander continueLabels: News and Politics
While I really have no idea what Hearst News is, each time another organization bans Rense.com, I makes me just that much more certain that the Rense site knows what it's talking about. First, the US State Department names Rense the world's number one source of 'misinformation' and now the Hearst Corporation bans Rense outright. We also have been informed that many US Military bases ban Rense as do...you're not gonna believe this...some US libraries. We also hear that France bans the site in several areas. Oh, and let's not forget to mention that fading Mideast Disneyland, Dubai, is also afraid of Rense.com content and has banned the site, as well.Hearst 'News' Corp Bans Rense!Labels: News and Politics
Sigh. Instead of pressuring the Republican Party embrace the long-forgotten philosophy of limited government so that they can actually compete in two years, Farah and WorldNetDaily.com are wasting day after day trying to get Obama thrown out on a technicality. A technicality that the Supreme Court has already refused to hear, no less. Targeting the Electoral CollegeLabels: News and Politics
Awesome. PW Insider.com is reporting that JBL was doing a bunch of typical JBL crap to Joey Styles during the Iraq tour, so Joey punched him out and gave him a black eye. Labels: Wrestling
There's a brand new student newspaper at UNL. It's called the "Student Newspaper" and is hoping to become the conservative alternative to the Daily Nebraskan. I wish 'em well, but they have a lot of work to do. Right now, the paper is just four pages and most commentary with summaries of articles from WorldNetDaily.com. Click the link to view their blog, and send them an encouraging email while you're at it. UNL Student Newspaper : Justice and MercyLabels: News and Politics
I'm not too happy to hear that Alan is leaving the show, but I think I'll like his new role on the FNC. Colmes will continue to have a presence on FNC as he will serve as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX Talk, a division of FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program.I wonder who they'll replace him with. I'm putting my money on Bob Beckel. Alan Colmes to Depart Top Rated Hannity & ColmesLabels: Entertainment, News and Politics
Right on the money here. I don't believe any moral case can be made for the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another. But that conclusion is not nearly as important as the fact that so many of my fellow Americans give wide support to using people. I would like to think it is because they haven't considered that more than $2 trillion of the over $3 trillion federal budget represents Americans using one another. Of course, they might consider it compensatory justice. For example, one American might think, "Farmers get Congress to use me to serve the needs of some farmers. I'm going to get Congress to use someone else to serve my needs by subsidizing my child's college education."Why socialism is evilLabels: News and Politics
Weaning Off Lincoln
I did something kind of sad the other day. I canceled my membership at UNL's Campus Rec Center and joined in gym in Omaha. I've been going to the Rec Center for almost ten years, but living in Omaha, I just don't get to lift as much as I need to. This way I can work out on weekends more and get back on a good mass-building program again. And that, combined with the karate, will make it easier to fight off the government thugs when they come to take away our guns. :) Labels: Exercise, Personal
Election results...
Hopefully I'll get around to writing about the election results in the next day or two. Until then, you can probably guess what I'll have to say anyhow :) Labels: News and Politics, Personal
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