Fundamentalists as birds of a feather? I once wrote to the JBS mag that they and Ayatollah Khomeini both thought the Federal Reserve was the usurious Great Satan, but they didn't print my letter. I have given up sending deeply true letters to editors. All they want is the journalistic equivalent of socially polite.
The capital of scientology is in Florida, Everclear or something like that. Florida and Alaska, hinterlands, fundamentalist rube ricks. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Robert Millegan <ramille...@...> wrote: > > > ------ Forwarded Message > > From: "dasg...@..." <dasg...@...> > > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:09:22 EDT > > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@...> > > Cc: <ema...@...>, <j...@...>, <jim6...@...>, <l...@...> > > Subject: Strange Bedfellows: Fox News Scientologists Pushing Sarah Palin for > > President > > > > > Palin Pallin' Around with Scientologists: > > Todd & Sarah & John & Greta > > Geoffrey Dunn <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn> (Award-winning > > journalist, filmmaker and historian) > > Posted March 21, 2009 | 10:00 PM (EST) > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-pallin-around-with_b_177709. > > html > > > > There is something absolutely bizarre and troubling going on in the > > political > > netherworld of Sarah and Todd Palin, Greta Van Susteren and her > > wannabe-queen-maker hubby, John Coale. > > > > At best, it's a clear case of journalistic conflict-of-interest on behalf of > > Van Susteren; at worst, it's a sleazy, national power play by a couple of > > practitioners of Scientology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology> -- > > the controversial cult that Time magazine described as "a hugely profitable > > global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a > > Mafia-like manner." > > > > Let's start with the easy stuff: Van Susteren > > <http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/greta.html> is a flat-out hypocrite > > and > > a con artist. Quote me. Ever since Palin was first selected as John McCain's > > running mate last August, Van Susteren --she of the rather severe face lift > > and right-wing tilt-- has been utterly infatuated with the Palins > > (especially > > with Todd) and has enjoyed unequaled access to the Last Frontier's first > > couple and their family. > > There's been the interviews in the kitchen with Sarah, the fawning (if not > > embarrassing) tête-à-tête > > <http://tete-a-tetehttp://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralOb > > ject=3091289&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/ontherec > > ord/> with the "First Dude" overlooking Lake Lucille, the softball > > conversation with Sarah after the GOP's defeat in November, and, most > > recently, the controversial interview with 18-year-old Bristol Palin and her > > infant son, Tripp. > > > > While there's something ironic about Alaska's most famous evangelical > > Christians pallin' around with a couple who believes > > <http://www.clambake.org/> that 75 million years ago an entity named Xenu > > <http://www.clambake.org/archive/leaflet/> brought billions of people to > > Earth in spacecraft resembling DC-8 airliners, it's all been good for Van > > Susteren's ratings. It's also expanded her television profile from the > > narrow > > confines of legal journalism to broader national political commentary. She's > > ridden Palin's conservative steed into an entirely new level of public > > exposure. > > > > Van Susteren first used her Fox blog to protect > > <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/greta-van-susteren-slams_n_155746.ht > > ml> Palin after CNN --with whom Van Susteren had a less-than-friendly > > break-up in 2002-- named her to its year-end list of "politicians who fell > > from grace in 2008." That particular all-star team included Eliot Spitzer, > > John Edwards and Rod Blagojevich. Van Susteren protested, and CNN quietly > > (and > > gutlessly) removed Palin from the list. > >> "Why didn't CNN PUBLICLY apologize for this one?" Van Susteren blogged. > >> "They sure unfairly trashed her publicly on that list." > > Unfairly? Palin's vicious and duplicitous attacks against Obama on the > > campaign trail alone reserved her a spot on that roster, not to mention all > > the lies and half-truths she spewed along the way, nor her > > moose-in-the-headlights moments with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. > > > > Two days ago, Van Susteren ripped into comedian David Letterman for his riff > > on Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston and the governor: > >> Letterman: You remember that Sarah, one of the deals was one of her > >> children, daughters, a very young girl, was pregnant and was going to get > >> married to the young man that knocked her up. And her name was Bristol, > >> and > >> the kid's name was Levi Johnston. You remember these kids? Well, they have > >> broken up. Yes. So if you were going to send them a gift...[Laughter] > > Okay. Let me say from the outset that I also found the jabs at Bristol and > > Levi insensitive--but then a lot of the humor on late-night talk shows tends > > toward the insensitive (that's why we laugh). It wasn't out of line by > > typical > > late-night standards. > > > > But Van Susteren threw a hissy fit about it. She brought on as a guest, Jane > > Swift, the former governor of Massachusetts, to tag-team Letterman and > > excoriate him for his joke: > >> Van Susteren: He took it 15 steps further and picks on the kid. We left > >> the > >> Bush children alone. We left Chelsea Clinton alone. That was always > >> something that people were respectful towards the children, recognizing it > >> was different....Do you really have to go that far to make a buck, to > >> make a > >> laugh? > > First of all, it's an outright lie that the Bush and Clinton kids were left > > alone. They took plenty of heat. It goes with the terrain. > > > > But more importantly, the reason that Bristol Palin has now been elevated to > > late-night talk show fodder is precisely because Van > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message >
