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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-09-07 01:26 PM
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Hypocrites and Frauds Must Ignore George Santayana
Hypocrites and Frauds Must Ignore George Santayana

April 9 2007
Counterbias.com
MEL SEESHOLTZ


As George Santayana noted, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” From consummate conmen Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart to exposed hypocrites Paul Crouch, Ted Haggard and Rick Ousley, the pattern is the same: the holier-than-thou preach one thing but do another while deceiving, duping, and emptying the flock’s wallets along the way. When will the sheeple wake up and learn?

And then there are those paragons of theopolitical morality: the GOPhers of the Christian Right, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay.

At the same time he was cashing in on moral outrage over the Clinton-Lewinsky tryst, Gingrich was having a saucy extramarital affair with Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide more than twenty years his junior. He recently confessed to that “failing” on James Dobson’s radio program.
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