Meet the Press "Faith in America"

Six guests for the hour. I guess we're lucky Timmeh
included at least one Muslim and one Jew in the
conversation. No women though, and no African American
representative.

Timmeh opened "framing" the debate with a quote from
the radical RWinger.

:gaack:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3898804/

Reza Aslan, Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., Dr. Richard Land, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Jon Meacham, Rev. Jim Wallis
NBC News

Updated: 11:26 a.m. ET March 25, 2005As part of NBC News' weeklong series looking at religion, we have a special edition of "Meet the Press" this Easter Sunday, with an in-depth look at Faith in America. From the moral issues surrounding the story of Terry Schiavo to religious diplomacy in the Middle East, faith permeates the people and the politics of the United States of America. Sunday's show will bring together prominent leaders from some of the nation's largest religions to discuss the complex and profound role of Faith in America: Islamic scholar Reza Aslan, author of "No god but God," Georgetown Law's Rev. Richard Drinan, author of "Can God and Caesar Coexist?," the Southern Baptist Convention's Dr. Richard Land, author of "Real Homeland Security: The America God Will Bless," Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), the first Jewish American to be nominated for Vice President, Newsweek's Jon Meacham, the author of the magazine's current cover story, "How Jesus Became Christ," and Rev. Jim Wallis, author of "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't

one wonders how unbiased these people are. I don't know the Muslim scholar to know if he's liberal or conservative, but I would ask Jewish DUers if they think Lieberman is a good representative of their faith.

...is like asking a rapist to give a talk on sexual harassment.

fixing a snack for the men after all their hard "thinking"

That kinda stuff can wear a fella out.

all did a pretty good job thrashing religious
fundamentalism, and in the shots of the Christian
fundy on the panel while they were talking, he had
this look of pent-up rage on his face like he wanted
God to smite them.

Wallis actually also said that religion in politics
should be "progressive" and had lead progressive
movements for reform in things like civil rights,
women's suffrage, child labor laws.

Then Timmeh moved on to Ashlee Simpson (the girl
in Atlanta who got kidnapped by Brian Nichols).
Lost me.

that the entire show was framed in the sense that

the coursts are defying, majority opinion, re: Terry Shaivo

Not once did they mention that poll after poll after poll shows the vast majority of Americans are siding with the husband, not the parents and yet, the whole conversation ASSUMED THE RIGHTNESS OF THE PARENTS CAUSE!

This was sickening folks....who were they pimping for?...certainly not us!!

I wondered how he would manage to whore for Bush and
not talk directly about Bush.

Well, there you go.