WASHINGTON — The race for the United States Senate in Delaware
is a splendid example of what is called Kultursmog, and
the smog spreads untreated. One candidate, the
conservative, has been slandered repeatedly and no one objects, not
even most conservatives. The Liberal opposing her has been given
the proverbial free ride, even by most conservatives. Yet he is a
fruitcake. She “dabbled” in witchcraft in high school she tells us.
He may have studied it in grad school along with other
pseudo studies. Yet he is stonewalling, while the
press pillories her. No one objects save Talk Radio.
The Democrat is Chris Coons, the county executive of New
Castle County, and his record gets more bizarre as the weeks pass.
As a college student he converted from some kind of conservatism to
some kind of far left enthusiasm. He described himself as a
“Bearded Marxist” upon returning from Africa and reporting his
enlightened transformation in the student newspaper. Now the
mainstream Liberals are covering up for him. The Washington
Post reports that he “spent time in South Africa and Kenya
doing relief work,” but is mum on his Marxism. Howard Kurtz on his
CNN television show, in taking a swipe at Sean Hannity last
weekend, called Coons’ “Bearded Marxist” article a joke. One can
understand why the agelastic Kurtz would find it a joke. Nothing in
the piece was funny, except that Coons was becoming a Marxist about
the time that Communism was evaporating across the world and
leaving, according to The Black Book of Communism, 100
million graves.
But now, Jeffrey Lord who unearthed the aforementioned
information about Coons’ Marxism has filed a second installment in
The American Spectator. He brings our story a bit more up
to date. Lord tells us that this month Coons assured the Yale
Divinity School’s Notes from the Quad that serving in the
Senate would be a “great way for me to apply the principles and
values that were honed at YDS.” Coons got a Master of Arts in
Religion in 1994, specializing in ethics. He learned a
lot.
Now everyone who has followed the Delaware race knows that
the conservative, Christine O’Donnell, has been exposed by Bill
Maher the comic genius for appearing on his show sometime in the
1990s and claiming to have “dabbled” in witchcraft. But do you know
what was being taught at the Yale Divinity School when Coons was
there as a graduate student? Witchcraft! Had Christine been a bit
older and presumably sophisticated she could have attended classes
with Chris and been taught witchcraft by scholars. Perhaps she
could have earned a Ph.D. in the mysteries of reading chicken
entrails.
Along with classes in witchcraft, there were classes in
Queer Worship and Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies, and, in
the Introduction to Christian Ethics II, there was Black Liberation
Theology, a study Coons first picked up in Africa. Were the
“values” taught in these classes among those absorbed by Coons at
the YDS? We do not know because Coons is not answering Lord’s calls
for him to release his transcripts. I have instructed Lord the next
time he calls to adopt a deep baritone voice and announce that He
is “the Lord,” and He is becoming impatient. Test Coons’ faith, I
say.
Now while all this is being revealed, no one in the press
seems the least curious. If O’Donnell has a bad hair day it is
reported in the press. But Coons’ Marxism is at best treated as a
joke. His promise to apply the values he learned at YDS does not
even call into question what those values might be. Queer Worship?
Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theology? Black Liberation Theology?
Witchcraft? The press is too busy digging up dirt on
O’Donnell.
Yet there is hope. Hannity, Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh
are on the case. Maybe even Fox News will take an interest. Yet do
not expect the Liberal media to engage in fair and balanced
coverage of the Senate race in Delaware. Fairness is utterly alien
to them, which is another reason there is such a reaction building
among the American electorate. Fairness is an American value,
though it probably is not taught at the Yale Divinity
School.
