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Chris Coons: Volunteer for Liberation Theology
O’Donnell opponent aided advocates of James Cone, Jeremiah Wright Marxist doctrines.
Uh-oh.
Here we go again.
Chris Coons, the freshly minted Democrat selected as Tea Party favorite and Republican nominee Christine O’Donnell’s opponent in the Delaware U.S. Senate race traveled to Africa in the 1980s — emerging as a committed leftist after volunteering for an organization supporting Black Liberation Theology.
The controversial religious philosophy espoused by radical left-wing activist James Cone and President Obama’s one-time spiritual mentor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Black Liberation Theology is an off-shoot of liberation theology, a Marxist-driven interpretation of Christianity.
And the liberal media — alarmed at O’Donnell’s success and busily running all manner off stories designed to portray her as a right-wing crazy — has suddenly gone missing on Coons. Silent on a stunning revelation that could prove uniquely fatal to Chris Coons’ Senate candidacy in the year of Tea Party rebellion against the Obama Administration’s agenda of wealth redistribution.
The Washington Post curiously says of Coons in their Coons profile only that he “spent time in South Africa and Kenya doing relief work.” The New York Times never mentions Coons’ work in Africa, choosing instead to describe him as an attorney and mentioning only his work with the homeless, the Investor Responsibility Center, and the “I Have a Dream” Foundation. Plus his educational background, a B.A. from Amherst, a law degree from Yale and a Master’s in Ethics from Yale Divinity School.
Yet nary a word from the Times about the now-New Castle County Executive spending time in South Africa or Kenya.
What’s striking amid all the probing of O’Donnell is what’s missing from both the Washington Post and the New York Times accounts of Coons, the Delaware Senate nominee Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid describes as “my pet.”
Coincidentally it is the same startling detail that is missing from Coons own website.
Instead Coons operatives supply one brief sentence on the Coons website about his time in Africa: “Chris also studied at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.”
That’s it.
But there is more to this story. Much more.
According to his biography as presented by the Washington Post, Coons wasn’t just in Kenya, he was also in South Africa. While it is plain from this May interview in Politico that his experiences in Kenya began turning Coons to the left, the South Africa connection claimed by the Post is never mentioned with respect to the origins of Coons’ suddenly well-hidden leftward leanings.
A hint — and perhaps more than a hint since the Coons campaign states flatly in the Politico article that Coons’ time in Africa turned him into a left-winger — comes in, of all places, Wikipedia. There, before he became famous overnight as O’Donnell’s opponent, it states flatly that after graduating from college in 1985 and working in Washington — where he wrote a book on South Africa — Coons’ time in Africa was spent doing more than simply attending the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Says Wikipedia, with a description that picks up from the Post:
He then worked as a volunteer for the South African Council of Churches and as a relief worker in Kenya…
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drudge ette obama| 9.20.10 @ 6:20AM
Beware of anyone bearing an "Ethics Doctorate" - the classic worthless degree of the professional leftist student.
Strange last name for a liberation theologist - perhaps some white guilt there?
vtwin| 9.20.10 @ 7:23AM
Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell "dabbled into witchcraft."
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....is_on.html
drudge ette obama| 9.20.10 @ 7:45AM
Be honest, vtwin...... we're educated readers here, so we know this was all a high school thing. What did you do in high school?
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 7:55AM
He'd have a point if O'Donnell still 'dabbled' in witchcraft as Coons still 'dabbles' in black liberation theology. I do not find O'Donnell the best possible candidate but a silly little story like Lupica's - who is admittedly a silly little man - is less then meaningless.
Kelly| 9.20.10 @ 9:23AM
You are an idiot!!
Eric Cartman| 9.20.10 @ 12:14PM
Very true. But so vtwin can understand it, you must write like Obama speaks:
You. Are. An. Idiot!!
See? This way, vtwin can get it.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:24PM
Kelly,
How exactly am I am idiot? Because I do not think O'Donnell is the best candidate? She is not. Given the choice between Castle and her I'd vote for her everytime but that does not make her ideal. Or because I think Lupica is a silly little man? Or because I think the fact she dabbled in witchcraft in high school is meaningless? Tell me what you found idiotic in my statement and perhaps we can have a dialogue.
OH BTW your mom dresses you funny. See how easy it is to toss out meaningless insults in what is supposed to be a forum for discussion.
vtwin| 9.20.10 @ 3:21PM
I agree probably meaningless to you and me but it will cost her votes, though not a big voting bloc in Delaware, with fundamentalist Christians.
vtwin| 9.20.10 @ 8:39AM
I’m not the one seeking public office so what I did or don’t do in “high school” is irrelevant but I assure you my Christian upbringing precluded “dabbling into witchcraft.”
vtwin| 9.20.10 @ 8:40AM
Sorry, didn't do.
2Anglico| 9.20.10 @ 9:21AM
DUI manslaughter (at a mMINIMUM) was ok for Teddy.
Lyle| 9.20.10 @ 8:51AM
So using cocaine in your twenties gets you a pass to the presidency but dating some weirdo in high school precludes you from being senator??? Only depends on the letter following your name on the ballot. (D or R)
TBAuert| 9.21.10 @ 5:14PM
Are you talking about Bush? That was in college. Just like all the water buddha stuff with Rand Paul
rainmaker1145| 9.20.10 @ 9:07AM
Of course we believe you. You have always been SUCH a reliable source of information in the past that nobody would have reason for pause this time around either.
kent| 9.20.10 @ 10:37AM
Your 'upbringing' doesn't assure me of anything. Least of all that you ever opened a bible. Try 1st Corinthians, chapter 6. Pay special attention to verse 11, And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
I wish Christine would refer to it as well, as she does sound a little cavalier. Hopefully she's trying not to scare the 'biblephobes' in our midst. They out to 'koranophobes'.
zolon5| 9.20.10 @ 10:47AM
What part of MARXISM dressed up as CHRISTIANITY don't you get? As a Christian you must be aware that it is one degree of separation from Christianity to Marxism. You just have to eliminate God. The Church has been infiltrated and hijacked. It's just a matter of selecting a new leader.
Rmm| 9.20.10 @ 11:12AM
Kent;
Why bother throwing that in someone's face, there are plenty of us who have not opened a bible.
It is a non sequitur.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:26PM
Do you think Obama's use of cocaine in college is irrelevant for his holding higher office? Or Hillary Clinton's seances with Eleanor? Or is your disdain for youthful transgressions limited to anyone with an R after their name?
cl| 9.21.10 @ 3:12PM
it doesn't seem to bother the democrats, does it? hillary had her seance while she was first lady, not exactly a youthful indiscretion. Teddy's drowned Mary Joe when he was a senator. youthful indiscretion? we don't have time or space to list all of clinton's misdeeds while president, so i will just state his disbarrment and $100,000 fine for perjury, paying one million to paula for sexual harassment, etc.
Eric Cartman| 9.20.10 @ 7:08PM
Look, everybody. vtwin put quotes around high school, as in I never went to "high school". What's up with that?
ron| 9.21.10 @ 1:13PM
No little trangressions in your life you would prefer were not on the cover of the NYT.....
Luke 18:9
He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.
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"Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
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The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity--greedy, dishonest, adulterous--or even like this tax collector.
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I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.'
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But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.'
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I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Ramon 51| 9.22.10 @ 3:23PM
The key word is 'dabbled.' Under the influence of Harry Potter et al, lots of kids...even kids from good Christian families...have dabbled in witchcraft. Some of the kids in my Church youth group have done so. However, they have since repented. The question is, has O'Donnell?
JmsA| 9.20.10 @ 11:39AM
drudge ette obama,
Vtwin didn't do much in either high school or college. After all, he didn't even learn that Medicare and Social Security projections, as published by the government under "Actuarial Publications," are arrived at through statistical analysis. He's just a parrot, ceaseslessly repeating the lamestream's "media" talking points.
JmsA| 9.20.10 @ 11:47AM
Meant to write ceaselessly.
Steve B.| 9.20.10 @ 8:07AM
Big deal! Big deal! So, you never touched a weegie board, gone to a tarrot card reader for fun, or skimped threw a graveyard on Halloween? What a boring childhood you had.
Stephanie| 9.20.10 @ 8:10AM
And obama and several of his czars, aids and now, senate candidate dabble in marxism and communism. Response vtwin?
Witchcraft/wiccan love the earth, worship trees and many things "of the earth" I would think you lefties would be all about that.
Del| 9.20.10 @ 8:26AM
Exactly Stephanie..............the question now becomes does the GOP have the nerve to run ads telling it like it is, or are they gonna do the soft shoe around the hard hitting facts like McCain did, and claim the high road verses putting up a fight?
Steve A| 9.20.10 @ 8:38AM
Yeah Vtwin, Christine went on a few dates with a dude who thought he was the evil wizard from Lord Of The Rings while in HS. Barry O smoked a pile of dope & did blow while in college........Duh. Wow, what a persuasive argument you make. You are once again embarrasing yourself.
blackknights1802| 9.20.10 @ 8:43AM
It was once said- “It is better to remain silent and thought of as a fool, then to open thy mouth and remove all doubt.”
Troy| 9.24.10 @ 1:44AM
Actually, Abraham Licoln said that and; as he wasn't a Calvinist, he didn't say thy. You got the gist of his remarks, but you need to consult your Bartlett's, or go to your local library and read their's.
ds80| 9.20.10 @ 9:36AM
vtwin you are so laughably not credible. High school, indeed.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 1:03PM
Vtwin,
there's no hope for these GOP hairshirts, we'll have to put intense pressure on them this November, so they run inferior candidates in 2012 and 2016-- not dire.
coal carrier| 9.20.10 @ 2:29PM
Here is Johnny come lately again.
Albert| 9.20.10 @ 3:14PM
Cute remark, but there is no inferior candidate to President Bozo, nor can there be. Politicians do not come any more stupid and empty than his worshipfulness. BHO is a puppet for international socialists and nothing more.
David C| 9.20.10 @ 6:55PM
"we'll".....
Now did that hurt? What else do you want to share? Is it Alan or Arlene?
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 7:53PM
"but there is no inferior candidate to President Bozo"
I heard it all before. When Clinton was president: "[1995] Alan, I guarantee Clinton will never be re-elected... it wont happen."
Albert| 9.20.10 @ 11:39PM
If only! One can only dream. Imagine no Clintons! No bribes from the Communist Chinese! No sellouts of strategic technologies! But my main point stands. No one can be worse than Obama. Stupid. Empty. Vacuuous. No training, no experience, no knowledge. Totally incompetent. A puppet for international socialists. And he's your hero!
Eric Cartman| 9.20.10 @ 9:49AM
UH-oh. This isn't good. vtwin was up all weekend pacing and pacing in his mother's basement, wondering and wondering "What oh what can I think of to say about the O'Donnell woman? I only have 48-hours to write something truly devastating!" :
He thunk and he thunk, his thumbs twiddling behind his back. Occasionally stopping to yell up to his mother for a snack, "More mac & cheese", he would bellow, "with cracker crumbs on top, please!"
His nights were sleepless as he sweated in bed, tossing and turning and filled with dread. As he pulled his hair and hit his head, he prayed to Mr. Schultz for a ideas (that would be Ed).
As he slept and dreamed the few minutes he could, he drempt a dream of goblins in the wood. "That's it!", he yelled, all full of glee. "The witchcraft thing! Ed and Kieth will love me!"
He scamper from his bed - which is really a couch - stubbing his tow he let out an "Ouch!" Then a "Shhhhh!" he whispered, "I must be quiet. My idea is priceless - it's a laugh riot!"
vtwin's was sweating his brain working so hard, he would laugh while typing, thinking Just call me The Bard! But for all his thought and worry he gave to producing what he believed was art, he could only plop out this tiny brain fart:
Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell "dabbled into witchcraft."
He was quite pleased with himself, smugly thinking, Look what I did! When all he accomplished was pleasing his Id.
The End.
Loshooligan| 9.20.10 @ 10:51AM
loshooligan| 9.20.10 @ 10:53AM
Eric Cartman wins!!
JP| 9.20.10 @ 10:27AM
And our current President smoked crack as a teenager... and your point?
stephanie| 9.20.10 @ 2:31PM
Good grief.
vtwin| 9.20.10 @ 3:52PM
Google News: "Chris Coons Liberation Theology"
1 hit, the artical you just read.
Google News: "Christine O’Donnell Witchcraft"
737 hits
Eric Cartman| 9.20.10 @ 4:58PM
Now we know what vtwin is doing with his time - Googling stories about the anti-masturbation candidate. Wants to make sure his favorite form of recreation remains legal, I guess.
Albert| 9.20.10 @ 7:46PM
Mr. Twin: I don't think you realize that you just witlessly provided evidence that the main stream media is indeed biased in favor of Socialist Democrats. People search for things they have heard about. No MSM news reports on Coons means few hits, if any. MSM non-reporting is part of what Mr. Lord is writing about and you just proved him right. Even if you like Liberation Theology, Coons association with it is something that should be reported, and it isn't.
TR| 9.20.10 @ 11:34AM
Yeah, Vtwin, that changes everything. A young woman in her 20s dabbles on the fringes of witchcraft when she was a naive youngster (I'm glad that my stupid acts in my 20s are not published) before she finally grew up and matured. Knowing that she did that will cause me to support an avowed extreme marxist like Coons . Yeah, that's it. Boy, thank you vtwin, for changing my mind. Better to support a marxist than a girl who grew up and changed and is solidly conservative. Yeah, you are soooo good vtwin. What a loser you are.
Phill| 9.20.10 @ 12:19PM
And Bill Clinton didn't inhale.
So what is your point?
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:28PM
The did not inhale always bothered me. We either elected someone who lied effortlessly or someone to dumb to properly smoke a joint.
Nancy in NC| 9.20.10 @ 1:29PM
I go with the lied effortlessly part...seemed to be a pattern, if you know what is is.
Nunya| 9.20.10 @ 2:21PM
I think he was too dumb to properly smoke a joint, personally.
TR| 9.20.10 @ 4:20PM
By the time he took polls to find out what he should do, then assembled focus group teams to explore what action would best suit him politically, then after getting serviced by one of his hangers-on girlfriends, the joint was burned out. He didn't have time to inhale it.
Albert| 9.20.10 @ 7:48PM
Clinton didn't inhale joint because he was saving his breath to inhale the white powder, according to his brother, that is.
Anthony| 9.20.10 @ 1:25PM
Yes she did vtwin, and O'Donnell turned you and your fellow Marxists into a complete braying morons, repleat with those buck teeth of yours and Obama's.
ANOTHER 20 POINTS GRIFFENDOR.
Jack Bauer| 9.20.10 @ 1:33PM
And Obama was surrounded by commies as he dabbled with cocaine at the same age.
Any more Bitch Craft you wish me to knock down?
tellthetruth| 9.20.10 @ 8:20PM
As for looney.......I'll see you a Christine O'Donnell....and raise you an Alvin Greene, Alan Grayson and an Al Franken. I rest my case......
victor| 9.20.10 @ 11:44PM
Mike Lupica is a SPORTS COLUMNIST.
Why is he being taken seriously?
Is Keith Olbermann?
And what's the difference?
ike| 9.20.10 @ 9:02AM
James Cone is from Arkansas, not South Africa. I doubt if anyone from South Africa has ever heard of him.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 10:29AM
Blacks are just doing whatever they have to do to move up the food chain-- as Italians did in the past.
There's a vignette in Puzo's the Godfather wherein a don says "let the colored people lose their souls, they're animals anyway."
'this was not even heard', Puzo wrote; 'the blacks deserved it by allowing themselves to be stomped into the dirt'.
And Liberation Theology is no worse than Southern Baptism.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:29PM
Alan,
You are using a work of fiction to make some sort of argument? Since a fictional Mafia Dom was racist black liberation theology is ok? What exactly is the linkage?
Tom
Say what?| 9.20.10 @ 1:31PM
"Liberation Theology is no worse than Southern Baptism." What on earth does that mean? Please explain.
tellthetruth| 9.20.10 @ 8:22PM
That means he's never been in a Baptist Church in his lifetime...are you aware that the majority of (Protestant)blacks are Baptist?
Tim*| 9.20.10 @ 2:41PM
Brooks hates anything With " South " in it .
He's A Blue Neck Bigot .
Anthony| 9.20.10 @ 2:48PM
Brooks, you are a complete historical, religious, and literary moron.
The Italians, Jews, Irish and the Pols, had no such hand outs upon arivial in America.
My grandparents came with the clothes on their backs, 2 suitcases, 2 children, and the thrist for hard work and freedom.
There were no social service agencies awaiting these folks, no Red Cross and no welfare offices to report to. It was survival at the hands of family and friends that preceeded them.
Now, as to the line from Puzo's Godfather novel, a work of FICTION, (what this has to do with anything is beyond me, but this is coming from your warped mind) this is a rather distasteful comment made when various dons are debating getting into the drug traffic business. Corleone does not want to participate, but will not stand in the way of other dons, his comment is a warning not to sell drugs to their children. It is another don, as you say, that says drugs should be sold to the "darkies" as their souls are lost.
So what exactly was your point in bringing this up?
Finally, you equate Marxist, racist, hateful ,violent BLT to Southern Baptists???? Perhaps those drugs you read about made it into your neighborhood and to you in particular.
Having read your rants for months, I can only conclude that you are one screwed up dude.
Albert| 9.20.10 @ 3:21PM
Excuse me?! Liberation Theology is no worse than Southern Baptism? In the first place, baptism is a practice, not a religion, performed by Christians, including Baptists. In the second place, this remark is so absurd that rebuttal is not necessary. Go home. You bring nothing to the table.
Curtis Rasmussen| 9.20.10 @ 3:33PM
Alan Brooks, your argument is crap without facts.
One of my ancestors escaped slavery with his brother. Both traveled to America to make some money, working their asses off on a rural farm for what I am sure was a pittance. One brother was killed in a tragic accident, and the owners of the farm could do nothing but offer to allow the remaining brother to stay. Hard work and sacrifice got my family to where it is today.
On the other side, a full blooded Italian left the family for true love in an era of racism and discrimination. I am their legacy.
Your black argument is crap. Your Italian argument is crap. Your food chain work ethic argument is crap.
TR| 9.20.10 @ 4:29PM
Curtis, if you have read other vomit laden posts from Alan Brooks over the past few weeks as I have, you would find him to be a religious bigot (unless is defending the undefendable acts of muslims). You would find him to be a misogynist and a racist. He must have a sad life filled with his delusional corrupt thoughts, but then again most of his posts sound like they were lifted from the democrat socialist party, so that explains the delusional aspects. He and a few others of his ilk are necessary on this site to reveal what liberals are and how they think. Logical persons can then be better prepared.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 7:56PM
"He and a few others of his ilk are necessary on this site to reveal what liberals are and how they think. Logical persons can then be better prepared."
Well, there you go.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.20.10 @ 6:40AM
Mr. Lord
Thank you for laying it out.
Question: Did the Repub know all this about Coons and he scares the dickens out of them enough to think Castle "safe' by comparison?
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 8:04PM
My point is, you rightly mention the Reverend Jeremiah Wrights and Louis Farrakkhans, but you leave out their white counterparts: Reverend 'God Hates Fags' Phelps
and Reverend 'Burn the Koran' Jones.
mere citizen| 9.22.10 @ 3:06AM
Phelps is a Democrat, as was the original Rev. Jones as in Jim Jones and the koolaid massacre.
Terry Jones is a charismatic who was heavily involved in the Maranatha Campus Ministries, which at one time was under scrutiny because of it's cult like structure, kind like that other "Reverend" Jones. And I assure you that more than a few Orthodox Christians, and I don't mean Orthodox as in Eastern Orthodox but as in Christian Orthodoxy do not see Charismatics as Orthodox in any way, and just because some nut calls himself a Christian does not make it so. It only makes him a nut who calls himself a Christian. Only someone not acquainted with real Christianity and the Bible would see it any other way.
Crazy is as crazy does, and hate has no color.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.20.10 @ 6:47AM
Another interesting tidbit here is that both the Clintons and James Earl Carter as well as many other liberals have massive financial and political ties to Africa.
NVA Patriot| 9.20.10 @ 6:52AM
'bout time conservatives started firing on Coons vice ODonnell - thanks for moving the narrative to the target - great job.
I'm sure Beck, Rush, & Hannity will pick this up and drown out the Weakly Standard, Rove and others...
The Bishop| 9.20.10 @ 7:18AM
Is there not some irony that so many of these soul-awakening theories about how to improve humanity's lot emanate from places of enduring poverty and human degradation? Or, perhaps, it's because under-developed countries are useful laboratories of the Marxist experimenters. I echo the hope that this information on Coons gains traction. Remember, there's still a lot of witchcraft going taking place on the African continent.
Petronius| 9.20.10 @ 9:14AM
Coons must have also visited that part of Nigeria where the locals believe that witch doctors can shrink penises. For him it was far easier than growing up and becoming a man. Marxism is so attractive because it is grounded in childish sentiment. Both he and vtwin should be sent back to 1st grade and forced to read The Little Red Hen. It's still in print.
Bob K.| 9.20.10 @ 7:22AM
All Senators from Delaware are important. They represent Dupont first and Delaware next.
Have you ever been through that state? It takes about 2 hours to see it. Wilmington in the north; basically a suburb of Chester, Pa. which is a slum suburb of a bigger slum; Philadelphia.
The southern part of Delaware is basically a rural slum. One travels through it to get to the resorts on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia.
Delaware's Senator's are useful to the Ruling Class which is in trouble now and pundits like Rove and Krauthamer and writers for Journals of Opinion like "The Weekly Standard" are doing yeoman work trying to keep these Senators as lap dogs for the Ruling Class. They fear that O'Donnell will be too independent for them.
Bo| 9.20.10 @ 12:37PM
I think they feared O'Donnell would be too goofy to win as a Repub in Delaware and Coons would get a lifetime Senate seat to vote the USA into a Communist state.
R Martin| 9.20.10 @ 7:40AM
Give me a witch over a Marxist any day. Witchcraft is fantasy; Marxism is real.
There is an eerie similarity between Obama's philosophy, well hidden by the media during his campaign, and what appears to be in heart of Chris Coons. When those philosophies end up in power, real damage is done to the social and economic fabric of a society such as ours.
If Rove and Krauthamer want to make a real contribution they should come to Wilmington in November and volunteer as poll watchers, because ACORN is active here and black liberation theology has many apologists.
martin j smith| 9.20.10 @ 8:05AM
It is about time that we have something on the Demcrat Socialist candidate in Delaware-so much garbage about Odonnell. It time to turn the tables and in this contest this Socialist's background should be part --a big part-- of the campaign.
Its time to take over the language and terminology and define who is an extremist against the opposition. Enough playing defense.
coal carrier| 9.20.10 @ 8:11AM
Once again we don’t hear from the media. Oh we’ll hear all the misinformation about O’Donnell but nothing about Coons. He’ll be propped up as a man that loves walks on the beach and puppy dogs. We will not hear the real truth about which this man really is. To them it’s all smoke and mirrors. Just like the BS they gave us about JFK and Camelot, all the while he and his brother were tag-teaming Marilyn Monroe in the beach house in Malibu. That was 48 years ago. The media hasn't changed and they will not change.
yarrr| 9.20.10 @ 8:13AM
There may be something there, but this story is written pretty sloppy.
ds80| 9.20.10 @ 10:40PM
"written pretty sloppy"
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Tim*| 9.20.10 @ 8:19AM
COONS RAISED TAXES !
STICK A FORK IN COONS , HE'S DONE .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates
Rise Up !
albert constantine jr.| 9.20.10 @ 8:22AM
New Castle County's government has long been a hotbed of Democrat on Democrat squabbling with close ties to corruption. The VPOTUS has close lonks to most of the players. Perhaps an intrepid reporter should unearth the complaints from the lawsuit filed a couple of years back by the 091410 victor in the Democratic sheriff primary Trinidad Navarro (who defeated an incumbent who served over 20 years, sound familiar?). While basically it is politics as usual, it does give insight into what the administration of an "ethicist" considers to be acceptable in punishing political opponents in merit positions. If John McCormick is finished lunch with Mike Castle, perhaps he could go back to the USDC clerks office in the Boggs building and pull some of the Coons lawsuit complaints?
Mimi| 9.20.10 @ 8:25AM
Thanks Jeff for your work on bringing us the truth. Who would of thought, that the small state of Delaware would be a sharp-picture of where this country is at the this election. The contrasting views, to be in focus in these two Senate candidates. This gentleman...COONS an American turned inside out in his philosophy...no wonder the LEFT is giving O'DONNELL such vicious attention....A lot at stake here...American progress, prosperity and FREEDOM vs spreading the wealth with stunted growth resulting in the POVERTY for all and creeping enslavement for all. Get the SHOW on the road. Note to REPUBS: Hire that GIRL some smart, wise advisors!!!!
Doctor Right| 9.20.10 @ 9:00AM
I am so often struck by a very simple question:
WHY are these socialist bastards (the Democrats) so hard to defeat???
WHY are they even a functional Party???
There is so much ammunition to use against these people in an election that it's staggering!!!
Beating back the RINO hordes is step 1. Making the GOP leadership grow some balls and crate some SERIOUS attack ads is another.
It is time to go on offense. Take the fight to these bastards and expose them for what they are: anti-American, socialist scum.
That sounds like a winning campaign to me.
Nunya| 9.20.10 @ 2:29PM
To answer your question, I think it has a lot to do with those that are receiving benefits from the government. Socialism is hard to defeat once put in place, because those that receive the benefits are not likely to vote themselves what is essentially a pay decrease. Handouts from the government are like heroin--once someone gets hooked, it's a nightmare to get them to stop even though it's the right thing to do.
The American people are addicted to handouts from the government. The only cure is going to be incredibly painful, but the only other option is death--or in our case, destruction of the republic, and replacement by a dictatorship.
stephanie| 9.20.10 @ 2:39PM
Not to mention the leftist government run media doesn't tell the truth about progressive candidates. Or imams or the president. Nothing that would do the progressives harm is reported by the leftist government run media. NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS. And that's just television.
TURK| 9.20.10 @ 9:05AM
Karl Rove was the genious who masterminded 7 yrs of Bush kissing leftist d rears. When a strong Repub took on a rino, Rove/Bush and the RNC strangled the conservative before they could get out of the crib--example: Arlen Specter, then repub now dem and washed up! He will be replaced by the conservative who would have been there but for Rove/Bush.
A good example of the rinos loving leftist democrats, especially when they are being exposed by good conservatives, is 1963, when AFTER THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION CHOSE GOLDWATER, the three key rinos, Rockefeller, Scranton and ROMNEY trashed the repub nominee in favor of the raging disaster that was Lyndon Johnson(he of No Win in Viet-Nam, Great Socialist Society fame). Rino's were despicable in the 60's and they are the same today. We can be glad Rove erupted in such a disgusting manner. A lot of folks who do not always pay attention now know what we are talking about when we use the term rino.
Anthony| 9.20.10 @ 11:49AM
For eight years we rubes were screaming at Bush to push back at the lies and distortions of the Left. We told Bush that his Marquis of Queensbury no response, was not only destroying his presidency, but by implication, his supporters as well.
Bush's greatest failure was allowing the Left to define him and his presidency, as a result we now have Obozo.
Karl Rove was the " architect" of this policy. Only now has he admitted that his and Bush's response was weak and diasterous.
And still Rove thinks he knows what's best for us.
Rmm| 9.20.10 @ 12:30PM
Bush dissed us foot soldiers by not grooming his replacement and keeping Dick "in yo face" Chaney on the ticket in 04.
But then again I think it was Chaney calling the shots anyway.
jd| 9.20.10 @ 12:41PM
Agree, Anthony. Rove was behind Bush's failure to respond to the liberal Democratic assault. The last thing Rove should be doing is opining about the Republican Party. Step one in taking back our country is taking back our Republican Party from the RINOS.
Tim*| 9.20.10 @ 9:06AM
Remember , We are in a War with The Liberal Mainstream Media ,The State Run Media of The Democrat Party
The Alternate Media Rises Up .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
We Rise Up !
Clinton nee Publius | 9.20.10 @ 9:09AM
It won't matter. In the end, it won't matter. Coons will be rolled, folded, spindled and mutilated. He will have no cash value.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.20.10 @ 9:15AM
WHY are they even a functional Party??? Well, because "some" people just want free crap, and free money!! Not that there's anything free about that crap, there's nothing's free (not even the damn lunch). But they want what doesn't belong to them anyway, because they have no pride, and no drive in life. If Delaware votes for this Commie, I don't want to hear them complain about it later!! "My taxes are to high, I have to pay for 911 calls when my neighbors throw a block party in the middle of the week because they don't have a job!!" Shut up, I don't care!! I'll take Looney Witch O'Donnell any day of the week, over another Democratic Party Commie (pardon the shorthand)!!
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.20.10 @ 12:06PM
LLL,
I will pardon your shorthand.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.20.10 @ 8:22PM
I hope you don't mind me lifting you line Ken, it's too good to pass up.
Kishego| 9.20.10 @ 9:29AM
The liberals first tried accusing the Tea Party of being potentialy violent. As it turned out, there wasn't a single documented case of Tea Party violence. We did, however, see SEIU thugs beat Kenneth Gladney in St. Louis, bite off a Tea Party supporters finger in California, attack and beat a couple in New Orleans, and terrorize a 14 yr old in his own home.
Now they are trying to characerize the Tea Part supported candidates as radical and extreme.
Let's see, they have Alvine Greene, Alan Greyson, Pete Stark, Barny Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Al Franken. Not to mention 70+ congressional democrats are card carrying members of the Democrat Socialist Party, (all but 2 or 3 of the progressive caucus).
They want the government to control health care, ALL energy in the U.S. (through cap & tax), the internet (through net neutrality), student loans, and they want to make non-union workers subject to intimidation from union thugs (through card check). They have heaped over a trillion dollars of debt on us with nothing to show for it except an even more bloated government. They refuse to enforce current immigration laws for purely political reasons, virtualy allowing an invasion.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see who the radicals and extremists are here. The arrogant elitists have completely ignored the will of the people with their "shut up, we know better than you" attitude. They have insulted main stream Americans who dare to disagree with them as ignorant racists and bigots. Some have even suggested that we need to be "RE-EDUCATED". Sound a bit elitist and condescending to you?
It's time to vote the arrogant elitists of both parties out of our government. It can't be done in one election cycle, butwe can get a good start in November.
Louis Jenkins| 9.20.10 @ 9:42AM
Kishego:
Yes, and we're the ones who are screwed up? They couldn't mess up the Tea Party with their wildest claims because we're faceless, and it won't stop the media from trying. Seems evertime a conservative gets the nod for the Nov. election we get "Stop! It was a bad mistake!" And then they begin grasping at straws to justify their position. It's not a mistake. We know who we're voting for. We've got to keep hammering away.
Bob| 9.20.10 @ 9:57AM
exactly Kishego! The libs only comeback for facts is that you are a right wing fanatic, bigot, and a hater. The fact that you don't believe that it is the governments' responsibility to carry us from cradle to grave makes you as one. That you would actually hold to the antiquated ideals of the Constitution makes you a fringe radical. I guess guys like Washington, Adams, Lincoln, hell even Kennedy would be radicals today!
Nunya| 9.20.10 @ 2:34PM
Kishego, you're absolutely right. Excellent post.
P.Smith| 9.20.10 @ 9:43AM
Well at the very least Christine O'Donnell has Coons in the looks department.
I haven’t heard anything that Coons has said, I can guess from his resume that it would be a bunch of Marxist dribble, but from the sound of things he will probably have his hands full, because Ms. O'Donnell seems rather articulate.
Bob| 9.20.10 @ 9:59AM
No, Coons will come out in typical pre-election chameleon style and talk about fiscal responsibility :D
Turnditch| 9.20.10 @ 9:45AM
I agree with the above posters for what is an excellent and informative article Mr. Lord.
If O'Donnell's campaign doesn't run with these facts, there's something terribly wrong.
Take heed Ms. O'Donnell: It's time to pull the gloves off.
hardcard| 9.20.10 @ 9:59AM
lupica is terrible as a sports writer. morty zuckerman (lupica's boss) is turning him loose on politics. as did NBC with olberman.they both stink
like (goat dung and cow pies) PU
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:35PM
Hardcard,
I agree with you on Lupica; he is a little nonentity that should consider himself the luckiest man on the face of the planet because he has a well paying job. He cannot even write sports without blatant political bias coming through. He is reason number 1 never to buy the NY Daily News.
Eric Cartman| 9.20.10 @ 10:22AM
Not to worry, everyone! The Republicans are here to make sure Coons gets elected! They will through their balls under the bus and do what it takes to help the Commie. Dumbasses.
Vic| 9.20.10 @ 11:34AM
Yes Mr. Cartman,
All this hay from Karl and Charles is a futile attempt to discredit the T-party. They just keep throwing too many wrenches in the gears of the rhino machine.
A rhino is a Marxist too, and they will take their ball and go home if they loose. They will even vote for the democrat to keep up the lie that only those without conservative principles can win the general. Its the same crap sandwich the rhinos have been offering us for years. We must vote for the lesser of two evils they scream when the primary vote goes their way, while they themselves will vote democrat when it don't. They will swap parties at the drop of a hat if it means stopping conservative governance.
The T-party must be stopped even if that means rewarding the seat to an admitted Marxist opponent. Karl & Co. are trying to accomplish exactly that. Like all other opressives, rhinos are do as I say, not as I do.
TR| 9.20.10 @ 11:46AM
Every time an article like Jeffrey Lord's is published in American Spectator, it makes me so grateful that we are not locked into the one-sided leftist lies that the so-called MSM spews. We used to have few alternatives to find out the truth. Thank God for TAS and investigative writers like Mr. Lord. Of course, no "MSM" source will spend one ounce of time to do their own fact checking. That would require actual investigation. It is so much easier to get your orders from the Democrat Socialist Party leaders. They vomit their talking points, the WashPost/NYTimes/ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN eat it up and spew it back verbatim.
davelnaf| 9.20.10 @ 11:47AM
Good article. One hopes that the information about Coons get around Delaware, as it should. I began reading about Marxist Liberation Theology, its Latin American version, in the seventies and the silliness of its assumptions was obvious even then.
Just why anyone allegedly in their right mind would go to Africa and not see that the cause of poverty there is largely self-inflicted is beyond me. More than anything else people like Coons probably go there to re-charge their Marxist batteries. The idea that he went to Africa as an innocent waif and came back as a committed liberationist is something only the MSM would buy.
When they have their public debates Connelly should hammer away at the implications of dishonesty, or stupidity, in Coons’ assertion that he went to Black Africa expecting to find something there besides mind-numbing poverty and rampant disease. She should also use against him anything he has written about his African sojourn regarding the idea that people in America, or any other developed country, are better off just because people elsewhere are poor. And why is it always America's fault? Why not Japan and even China? Coons is another one of those not so stealth Marxists trying to join his pals already in Washington. To use your own country as a foil in your ideological-scheme-of things is despicable.
davelnaf| 9.20.10 @ 11:53AM
Correction: Ms O'Donnell.
geekmom | 9.20.10 @ 11:50AM
Here is how I sum it up. Democrats don't really give a damn about how their candidate thinks as they only care about what freebies he can continue to give them at the time or future off the expense of the country or his brother. The Gimme Generation. The babies of the 60s on.
Tim| 9.20.10 @ 11:56AM
Imagine if we politically disqualified everyone who ever witnessed or dabbled in any strange fraternal rituals?
Especially those folks that attended Harvard or Yale.
Heck if that were the case we would have no one left to fill these seats of congress.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:36PM
"Imagine if we politically disqualified everyone who ever witnessed or dabbled in any strange fraternal rituals?
Especially those folks that attended Harvard or Yale."
And this would be a bad thing?
Spyder308| 9.20.10 @ 12:24PM
Liberation theology is a movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions. Isn't that why we rebelled against England in 1776.
It has been described by proponents as "an interpretation of Christian faith through the poor's suffering, their struggle and hope.
Liberation theology arose principally as a moral reaction to the poverty caused by social injustice in that region. Aren't we in favor of freedom and justice for all. Or maybe it is "how much justice can you afford."
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:38PM
And marxism looks good on paper too. The problem in practice is liberation theology is almost without exception marxist. And marxism is one of the biggest destroyers of human worth in history.
Nunya| 9.20.10 @ 2:43PM
Spyder, read the New Testament for yourself. Its meanings are perfectly clear, and don't need to be interpreted "in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions", which are patently Marxist in their interpretations.
Me? I stand with Paul, and say "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" Gal 1:8
Kishego| 9.20.10 @ 2:45PM
Liberation Theology was designed to corrupt and bastardize true Christianity. You don't need to "interpret" the teachings of Jesus. You only need to read and study them in order to apply them to the way you live your life. The Bible IS the word of GOD. Any interpretation is a deception and anti-Christian.
The Big E| 9.20.10 @ 3:11PM
Funny, I've read the New Testament and I don't recall the passages where Christ admonished governments to redistribute wealth in His name. Reckon you cite those particular passages for me?
ds80| 9.20.10 @ 10:52PM
Marxist liberation theology of the Coons flavor was discredited and denounced by the Catholic Church.
See the "Instruction on Certain Aspects of "Theology of Liberation", Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, August 6, 1984
Mojo Risin| 9.20.10 @ 12:27PM
Didn't someone write a song about "Witchcraft" and did it ever promote "necklacing" as Coons adopted philosophy has? Coons past should be exploited relentlessly to point out his association with all things "bearded and Marxist."
chris lynch| 9.20.10 @ 12:31PM
Seems like guilt by association is an acceptable standard of reasoning in intellectual conservative circles these days. This is dog-whistle politics and it's a discredit to Jeffrey Lord's intellect... or is it?
Jeffrey Lord, the won, who was so wrong about Shirley Sherrod. Maybe Jeffrey Lord spends too much time reading Breitbart without doing any critical thinking.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 12:41PM
I do not understand how and why guilt by association has become so derided. How about you are known by the company you keep. If I hang out with white supremacists would I have any real beef in complaining because people suspect I am a racist?
chris lynch| 9.20.10 @ 12:49PM
If you do racist things then you are a racist.
If your friend is racist then he is racist and he is your friend. You probably don't want to be around him when he's doing racist things. You may want to influence him or you may not. That depends on your friendship and what you want.
If you have a conversation with a racist, that association is not sufficient to make you one too.
Coons campaigned for Reagan and worked for GOP Sen Roth of Delaware. He was a Republican who changed his affiliation to Democrat his junior year of college. For so doing, his friends - and they remained his friends - called him a bearded Marxist. Chris used the term to poke fun at himself. He had become a Democrat. Too many conservatives claim that he said 'bearded Marxist' as proof he's a Marxist. It not true. Too many conservatives abandon the truth in pursuit of what i don't know.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 1:47PM
Chris,
That is weak. No one is going to have a white supremacist as a friend who finds his views abhorrent. I did not say talk with a racist I said hang out. And people do not freely associate with those who views they find abhorrent. And frankly one can be a racist without doing racist things; there are a whole host of incentives NOT to do racist acts, criminal, civil, and social.
The fact he campaigned for Reagan is rather meaningless in the equation of the person he is today. He has very publicly repudiated any conservative leaning he may once have had.
I do not know what too many conservatives do or say. I know what I said. Guilt by association can be and often is a valid way of examining what is truly in one's heart. While I do not think someone should be imprisioned because of whom he associated it I certainly feel justified in forming an opinion by the company he keeps.
Mojo Risin| 9.20.10 @ 12:59PM
Hypocrisy alert: The only time guilt by association is valid is when the target is a conservative!!!
Vic| 9.20.10 @ 2:09PM
I suppose defending a repeatedly failed philosophy of governance counts as critical thinking these days?
The Big E| 9.20.10 @ 3:41PM
A man is known by the company he keeps.
If you lay down with dogs, you will wake up with fleas.
Never get down in the ud with a pig. You'll both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Personally, I prefer the last one. Of course, if more people had utilized ANY of the above sayings in choosing who to vote for in 2008 . . .
So tell me Chris, how exactly do you make judgment calls about the character of candidates for office if not by the company they keep? We can't possibly meet them all, and certainly can't "get to know" them in a manner that we would a new neighbor. Do we just take their word on it?
Sorry. I'm not willing to do that. From EITHER side. So since I will probably never get to know either candidate for major office beyond a handshake - if I'm "lucky" (or unlucky) enough to meet them, what do I do? Vote for the one with best handshake? The one who looks the best in a suit? The one who has the coolest pet?
Kishego| 9.20.10 @ 4:01PM
Shirley Sherrod was and still is a racist, and a thief as well. According to liberal logic, since I am a minority, I can speak about it with impunity.
chris lynch| 9.20.10 @ 12:52PM
Most people wouldn't deride Christian theology of any stripe until Glenn Beck came around and made it popular. Did you know Beck became a Mormon to get sex, not that there's anything wrong with it but it kind of puts a dent in his moral authority.
Oldefarte| 9.20.10 @ 1:09PM
Beck DOES NOT HOLD POLITICAL OFFICE and is NOT ATTEMPTING, AS AN ELECTED GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIAL, TO EFFECTIVELY TRANSFORM SAME TO HIS PREFERRED THEOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chris lynch| 9.20.10 @ 1:21PM
You are old, scared, angry and misled.
Mojo Risin| 9.20.10 @ 1:46PM
Irony alert: You MUST be young and dumb!!!
TR| 9.20.10 @ 4:37PM
You are an ageist, just as bad as a sexist and racist.
Maybe you will not live long enough to be insulted for simply living a long life. Then you can be spared invectives from a**holes like you.
As for scared, you are also ignorant. This man oldefarte has written some excellent and well thought posts.
And he is correct. Beck does not hold public poffice and has made it clear no plans to ever rum for office. And your thinly veiled insult to his decision to convert to mormon reveals you to be a religious bigot also (I see through your "not that there's anything wrong with it comment).
Thanks for posting. We need to see liberal bigotry in action.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 1:52PM
Wow, only Mormon girls put out. And here I was thinking I was dating mainly Catholics. Furthermore, when did Beck claim any moral authority?
Beck converted to have sex with the woman he loved. Leaving that part out kind of changes the context.
Nunya| 9.20.10 @ 2:48PM
Chris, your libelous statement about Beck adds completely NOTHING to this discussion, it only shows that you have nothing intelligent to say. I find it hard to believe you actually had the gall to post this crap.
Do you actually proofread your stuff before you post it?
Oldefarte| 9.20.10 @ 1:07PM
This great, great article by Jeffrey completely explains the stealth-type candidacy [along with the domestic terroristic political maneuvering within our government] that sadly was not known or understood prior to 11/4/08. This wealth-redistributing mantra needs to be stopped now, beginning in November!!!!!
Suzanne| 9.20.10 @ 1:13PM
How many of us played the Ouja board game when we were young? It would be condsidered a game of the occult in some circles. The Puritans were condemned for the Salem Witch Hunt trials but now the left is conducting a witch hunt on Christine O'Donnell !!!
chris lynch| 9.20.10 @ 1:27PM
Let's just say Christine was a little wack when she was in high school.
She told Bill Maher she “dabbled into witchcraft” and went on a date with a witch “a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”
That's wack, right?
I can look past most of it except the satanic alter part. That's a little creepy. She said there was blood.
She's said a lot of things over years on topics not always discussed in polite company. She's says she's not interesting in legislating on those issues. I hope we don't find out.
The Big E| 9.20.10 @ 3:47PM
Yeah, we don't want people in the government who made mistakes when they were young but learned the error of their ways. We want those folks who never learned the error of their ways and therefore keep making the same mistakes over and over and over. Yeah. That's logical.
Oldefarte| 9.21.10 @ 4:12PM
Absolutely THE BIG E, all of us made youthful errors........it's called GROWING UP. Who among us would be willing to expose some of the things we did/said when we were 15 years old? O'Donnell needs to be supported from these typical radically liberal [and yes establishment Republican] attacks!!!!!
Loshooligan| 9.21.10 @ 8:56PM
Lynch
This is typical farcical leftist BS. You care that this woman “dabbled” in witchcraft? Really?! ......When the majority of the Democratic Party practices humanism that’s actually veiled soft core paganism. Most of the policies that your people support are neo pagan world views. Most of you leftist believe yourselves to be their own God by new age standards. If this was a leftist dabbling, you would be spouting off at how experienced they were with dealing with devils, and how this experience would do well when dealing with evil conservatives.
At least she is honest and has the integrity to admit her wrong doings. Why don’t you spend some time reading up on how your leftist leaders screw up bible quotes, trying to portray themselves as “Christians” to their electorate. That’s real honest isn’t it?
I don’t care if this gal has cloven hooves, sacrifices virgins on alters, is Marie Laveau incarnate, and uses Ouija boards to write policy. As long as she limits government, balances budgets, and sends the power back to the local level, she would get my vote.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 1:15PM
"Since a fictional Mafia Dom was racist black liberation theology is ok? What exactly is the linkage?"
Blacks are just trying to get ahead, just as Italians did- and we respect Italians for pushing their upward mobility via the Church.
Black liberation theology is of course racist-- but how is it worse than a great deal of white theology? why is mindless radic-liberalism (which black liberation theology admittedly is) worse than hundreds of white creeds?
You covertly think: we can do what we want, but blacks can't-- they aren't as pretty as we are.
Mojo Risin| 9.20.10 @ 1:41PM
AB---
Well, you've discovered the keys to the universe. How you have somehow seen into the dark regions of conservative souls is profoundly revealing and so blithely spewed, with no spittle spilled on yourself, amazing!!!
Remember the words of that slippery theologian: G-D America, G-D America!!!
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 2:31PM
Alan,
I have never responded to any remark you have made with anything that can remotely be construed as a personal attack. It is nice to know you can see into my heart and know that I covertly think: "we can do what we want, but blacks can't-- they aren't as pretty as we are." Thanks
You still did not answer the question. What possible relevance does a fictional Dom -racist or not - have to do with the any criticism of black liberation theology?
I give you the benefit of the doubt; I believe your intentions are good. Rather than thinking I am some covert racist - without any real evidence - why not give me the benefit of the doubt and accept my argument at face value. My problem with black liberation theology - and liberation theology in general - is that it is in practice Marxist.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 8:14PM
The mafia don in 'The Godfather' wasn't quite as fictional as you think. When Puzo was growing up he witnessed that sort of talk. Puzo was a v. bright guy, and a good writer-- though his characters were sometimes too voluble. But Puzo was much more realistic than many writers.
Puzo changed the names of real-life characters, and disguised their actions in fictional reconstructions.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 8:40PM
Alan,
That is just risible. Puzo's inspiration for the Godfather was not his upbringing it was material he gathered as an adult working as a journalist. He was interviewd numerous times on just this subject.
Even if The Godfather was a non-fiction book whatever did you mean your quote to represent? That some thug held racist views? So liberation theology is ok? One does not need to balance every article with "Well that guy/group/political party did this". When writing about a politician who has ties with the Aryan brotherhood there is no need to bring up the Black Panthers to balance the books. Nor is there any reason to bring up the fictional rantings of some thug to justify black liberation theology. Those blacks who have succeeded have done so not because of black liberation theology but because they worked harder and smarter than other people and were rewarded for doing so.
I am still curious how you know I am a covert racist. Please feel happy to supply any evidence you may have.
Martin Treptow| 9.20.10 @ 4:52PM
Alan,
I am a Roman Catholic.
Please tell me what part of my particular doctrine is white racist.
That would be ironic, especially considering my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, was a Semite who probably had darker skin than our sitting president.
But, as the old saying goes about Liberals, "don't confuse me with facts!"
Troll.
Fail.
Cheers!
LettyPack| 9.20.10 @ 1:20PM
The ideology of Liberation Theology brings to mind an old Russian parable: two farmers, Ivan and Mikhail. Both are miserable poor. They have nothing, nil. One day Ivan gets a cow. Just one cow. But big difference! Cow can plow field: cow can give milk; cow can produce calves. Now Ivan's life is much better.
So Mikhail kneels down, starts to pray. 'Oh, God', he says, 'Ivan and I were always equal. When I had nothing, he had nothing. And now look at him. Rich, like apparatchiks. So, God, please make us equal again." And you know what? God hears Misha's prayer. He appears to Mikhail, in his miserable farmhouse, and he says, 'Mikhail Yuriyevich, you prayers are answered. You're equal again!" Misha is overjoyed at the News. 'Praise God' he exclaimed. ' You are going to kill Ivan's cow.'
JeffT| 9.20.10 @ 1:49PM
And the ever compliant media starts running with the "witch craft" comment, as if it has anything to do with the upcoming election. Coons beliefs are extremely relevant.
jrjr| 9.20.10 @ 4:52PM
Excellent article. And to those who spent time trying to deal with posters like VTWIN, you have wasted your breath, instead of commenting about the information in the article. Have you ever seen a liberal with his/her mouth closed? Karl and Charles have both struck out with the bases loaded in the ninth, one out and the worst pitcher in the league tossing up a 64 mph fast ball in the final game of the greatest World Series, with every fielder having a broken arm and wearing one-inch thick glasses.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 6:48PM
I do NOT say that whites or their creeds are worse than black theology liberation any or black houses of worship. I DO say that Reverend Wright is no worse than many white-bigot men of the cloth.
The Reverend Phelps in Kansas got away with saying 'God Hates fags', that Matthew Shepard was trolling in WY, and Phelps and his ilk protested at funerals for servicemen killed defending the Matt Shepards of this world.
That is: for every Wright, there is a Phelps.
Truth to Power| 9.20.10 @ 6:59PM
They are both Democrats.
Tom| 9.20.10 @ 8:44PM
And when someone is tied with a Reverend Phelps then it is appropriate to bring him up. But the fact such people exists does not mitigate whatsoever the impact of someone associating with a Reverend Wright.
Unless the article is claiming only black clerics are racist idiots trotting out the fact there are white cleric racist idiots everytime someone or other is tied to a black cleric of questionable qualities does not further any discussion at all.
Curtis Rasmussen| 9.20.10 @ 7:04PM
For every Alan Brooks, there are 10 people with a functioning, logical brain.
Alan Brooks| 9.20.10 @ 8:17PM
So public education is better than we both thought.
Truth to Power| 9.20.10 @ 8:51PM
Fred Phelps is a Democrat and has run for governor several times. He never made it out of the primary but might had a chance if he was black. In the earlier part of his life he was a civil rights lawyer. Life is funny sometimes. It wouldn't surprise me if the Reverend Wright and Fred saw eye to eye on gays too. Alan could do an experiment. He could appear in both churches and announce his preference. We then would find out which church is worse. Certainly 50 people can give a good beating but 7000 can go on night and day for week with nobody getting tired.
DRed| 9.20.10 @ 7:38PM
Good lord, this article is ridiculous. Does anyone know what Chris Coons did in South Africa? I don't. It's obvious Jeff Lord doesn't. I must say, though, it's impressive that he was able to write six pages of fevered speculation based on one sentence in a wikipedia article.
Isabella| 9.20.10 @ 8:26PM
This is not Bushes fault, this John McCain's fault. If I have one person to blame it is John.. John McCain, during the campaign, had the opportunity to inform the American people (those who were not informed) of Obama's radical nature. In an appearance, I believe in Florida, right before the election..a lady asked him, "should we be afraid of Obama.?" McCain answered no. "He is a nice man." Well, I don't think he is a nice man. McCain should have come clean and answered this lady with the truth. It may have been a turning point. If he wouldn't answer it honestly, I will. Yes, lady, I believe you should be very afraid...he is a Marxist, Communist, Liberal, Progressive, with I believe, aspirations of a dictatorship. McCain failed us in more ways than just handing the presidency over to this MARXIST. He was not truthful with this country, or else he didn't know Obama...Either way, worries me..People need to stop defending this horrible president, who is consuming all our freedoms and then thirsts for more. Tea Party is our only hope. Republicans have sold out also...except for a few. "WE THE PEOPLE" VOTE!....Independents, Conservatives, traditional Democrats, everyone must unite and come together to stop this Marxist take-over of our country. Coons is representative of what the Democratic Party has become. He should be ashamed to show his face...much less run for office in this country.
Earl Triplett| 9.20.10 @ 8:46PM
Well if Pelosi is the Wicked Witch of the West, then O'Donnell is the Good Witch of the East!
laura| 9.20.10 @ 10:16PM
why are so many people so out of touch and so unknowledgable about so many things? chris coons in his own words is an avowed communist, at least he was at 21yrs old. however, if he wasn't still a communist he'd have turned to the right. as for christine o'donnell,what a refresing change. exactly what is so threatening to the marxist communist socialist extreme left? perhaps it's because she hasn't sold her soul and her humanity to obtain elective office.how many have?
Yosemeti Sam| 9.21.10 @ 2:51AM
Folks, here we have a classic example of a choice between the lesser to two evils - A GOP candidate who engaged in a faddish exploration of 'black magic' juxtaposed to a Democrat candidate who immersed himself in the Satanic religion of Marxism.
Speaking of black magic before our very eyes ....
sad sad sad| 9.21.10 @ 12:24PM
I can't believe this article passes for real journalism. Your source is a Wikipedia entry? Seriously? I heard Chris Coons walked past a ladies clothing store recently. In your "guilt by association" fishing game, I guess that makes him a cross-dresser.
ron| 9.21.10 @ 1:23PM
Will Coons vote to continue the Obama agenda?
4 year of a Democrat controlled Congress + 2 years of Obama WH....$1.6T deficit, $1T failed stimulus that just spent $11o million of 55 jobs in LA and gave us rising unemployment at 9.6%, 1000s of pages of unread, unwanted , corruptly passed laws , glacial, thuggish response to the oil spill + unneeded political oil drilling moratorium that cost jobs,etc.
Bob Miller| 9.21.10 @ 1:07PM
Those with an interest in sorcery can watch ACORN (by whatever alias it now uses) make Democratic votes out of nothing, often after polls are closed.
Mandy| 9.21.10 @ 2:35PM
Sorry but there's a total media scrub on the issue. They won't mention it.
Evidently a "Sojourn to Kenya" where he came back a "bearded marxist" doesn't fit the narrative they want to push.
Dawn from Dover| 9.21.10 @ 9:57PM
So, O'Donnell is into black magic but that' OK because Chris Coons is secretly black. Am I the only one on this forum who actually lives in this state?
Elliott| 9.22.10 @ 3:57AM
*gasp*
OH SNAP
You mean Chris Coons actually volunteered to go help the underprivileged and oppressed in Africa?? HOW DARE HE! But not just that... you mean, he actually views his faith not as a self-serving road to personal salvation, but as a means to empower those who live in abhorrent conditions of servitude not fit for any human being?? The NERVE of some people! I mean really, the sheer unmitigated GALL!!
Seriously though, this piece should be required reading for Introduction to Logic classes... as an example of how NOT to formulate an argument. There are so many oversimplifications, bare assertions, ungrounded extrapolations, and tenuous links between people and organizations that my head was spinning just half-way through.
stmichrick| 9.22.10 @ 10:45AM
You all realize, of course, the emerging media narrative about this race:
'Coons, having spent time in South Africa fighting apartheid while O'Donnell was experimenting with witchcraft.'
Hannity can talk til he is blue about the formative years of these leftists, but to the folks who don't pay attention until Election Day, the media narrative I stated will stick.
That's how we got Obama.
smarter | 9.23.10 @ 6:50AM
Nothing anyone does in highschool matters.
Jonathon Moseley | 9.28.10 @ 5:54PM
Many people have only a shallow understanding of Christine O'Donnell from superficial and badly distorted news coverage.
People should hear Christine O'Donnell for herself in her speeches and TV appearances.
http://www.MeetChristineODonnell.com
Jonathon Moseley | 9.28.10 @ 5:57PM
Dawn: Can you explain why you knowingly lie?
I could tell you that Christine made a dramatic conversion to Christianity in college.
But you already know that.
I could tell you that Christine hanging out with rebellious teenagers who claim to be dabbling in witchcraft. But you already knew that.
I could tell you that Christine dramatically REJECTED such non-Christian influences when she turned to Christianity in college. But you already know that.
I could point out that Christine's conversion to Christianity was AFTER this incident in high school.
But you already know that.
I could point out that the Bill Maher show was the Halloween episode in which CHristine was CONDEMNING the promotion of withcraft in Halloween. But you already knew that.
So why do you say things knowing them to be false?
That's the only unknown element here.