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The Spectacle Blog
So what is he hiding?
After making much in an interview with a publication for the Yale Divinity School about his desire to bring YDS values to Washington, Chris Coons has suddenly gone silent as a church mouse. Coons, of course, is the self-described “Bearded Marxist” (from a college article at Amherst) who is now the Delaware Democrat opposing the GOP’s Christine O’Donnell for the U.S. Senate.
The liberal media pounced on O’Donnell after her surprise win over the Establishment-favored Congressman Mike Castle. They are ignoring Coons.
It is increasingly clear why. After looking into Coons’ love affair with the Marxism-as-Christianity “liberation theology” and specifically his volunteering for the South African Council of Churches, the Coons Yale Divinity School interview surfaced. It is clear the “Bearded Marxist” article was not, as Coons and his liberal media friends have tried to portray it, any kind of a joke.
After a serious look here at The American Spectator at the courses, assigned reading, and teachers of Yale Divinity School — Coons clammed up. Suddenly Coons has gone silent on the entire topic.
Five e-mails and a follow-up phone call from The American Spectator to the Coons campaign have been ignored. The request? Since Coons’ liberal friends have made much of a high-school date by O’Donnell with a guy into witchcraft, did Chris Coons take the “Witchcraft” course the school offers? How about the “Queer Worship,” “Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies” or “Introduction to Christian Ethics II” courses? The latter featuring readings by Black Liberation theology guru James Cone and social justice evangelist Ronald Sider? If not, what specific courses did Coons take while getting his Master of Arts in Religion at YDS — graduating in 1994. Who were his teachers? What was the assigned reading?
The kind of socialist values taught in these courses have a direct bearing on Americans since Coons insists he will bring these values to Washington with him.
But the once voluble Coons is suddenly doing the old Nixon stonewall routine — simply refusing to answer any questions even as questions pile up about just what he was taught and by whom while at the Yale Divinity School.
Sean Hannity has picked up the questioning now, raising the questions on both his radio and Fox News television shows.
Where is the rest of the media? Is it any wonder Americans have come to rely on Hannity, his talk radio friends and Fox News to learn the real truth of what’s going on? With little over a month to go, Coons is rapidly demonstrating that he has no intention if elected of serving in the U.S. Senate with the transparency and sunlight which Americans demand. So the questions keep piling up.
Meanwhile, the latest Rasmussen poll has O’Donnell gaining steam — now only nine points behind Coons.
Maybe this explains the abrupt Coons stonewall — and the silence of his liberal media friends?
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JASmius | 9.29.10 @ 12:33PM
O'Donnell officially debuted eleven points behind Coons in the polls. That deficit has ballooned to as much as sixteen points in one (Donk) poll. The Rasmussen survey showing her down nine ("picking up steam") had Mike Castle as a write-in in it pulling five percent. Since Castle is going to pull a lot more votes from Coons than CO'D - let's say four of that five percent - "redistributing" Castle's number puts Coons up 53-41, or virtually unchanged from the start of the general campaign two weeks ago.
Show me a poll that actually SHOWS O'Donnell "picking up steam" and I'll be happy to acknowledge it. Until one materializes, I wish you'd stop trying to make chicken salad from the wrong end of the allimentary tract.
Tim*| 9.29.10 @ 1:18PM
Then :
" September 16 ,2010 : Democrat Chris Coons holds a double-digit lead over Republican hopeful Christine O’Donnell in the first Rasmussen Reports post-primary survey of the U.S. Senate race in Delaware.
" Coons earns 53% of the vote to O’Donnell’s 42%, with leaners included. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. "
Now:
" Monday, September 27, 2010 : A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Delaware voters finds Coons with 49% support, while O’Donnell earns 40% of the vote. Castle, a longtime congressman who lost to O’Donnell in the state’s GOP Primary, picks up five percent (5%). Another five percent (5%) remain undecided."
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
We Can See November From Christine's House .
Tim*| 9.29.10 @ 1:01PM
Coons has been a A Serial Taxer In New Castle County .
Delawareans Want Jobs , Not Coons' Taxes .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
Rise Up !
Rob| 9.29.10 @ 1:14PM
Also, what were the titles of the courses he took in Kenya, and what were the names of Coons' professors? And what were the titles of all textbooks he studied at either school?
Perhaps some of Coons' classmates could shed light on questions like these. There must be someone who remembers having taken a course or two with Coons.
DRed| 9.29.10 @ 1:24PM
Mr. Lord,
I can tell you that Mr. Castle didn't read any of the books you mentioned in your article (at least while he was at Yale), as none of them appear to have been published before 1997.
Rob| 9.29.10 @ 2:17PM
Textbooks that are required in Yale's current courses would have a bearing on Yale's current values, and may be sufficient to obtain clarification from Coon as to what YDS values he had in mind.
DRed| 9.29.10 @ 3:26PM
Looking at the syllabus, I found that one of the classes required The Harper Collins Study Bible, authored (according the yale website) by someone named 'God'. I'm not familiar with him? Was he a prominent marxist as well?
SoCon| 9.29.10 @ 4:06PM
If the books hadn't been published yet, as you claim, why is the Bearded Marxist scaredy cat running and hiding from Sean Hannity? Why won't he just answer Lord's questions? Truth will set you free, right, troll?
DRed| 9.29.10 @ 4:12PM
Maybe he thinks Hannity is a partisan hack? I don't know. Perhaps he read Mr. Lord's article and thought it was too ridiculous to deserve a response?
SoCon| 9.29.10 @ 4:55PM
If Lord's article is so ridiculous why did you respond?
I would think Coons would want to prove Hannity wrong. It's only logical.
More likely, Coons is the Bearded Marxist he himself has claimed to be. He's just another idiot college kid brainwashed by Leftist professors who never grew out of it.
DRed| 9.29.10 @ 5:10PM
Here's what Mr. Lord wrote:
The request? Since Coons' liberal friends have made much of a high-school date by O'Donnell with a guy into witchcraft, did Chris Coons take the "Witchcraft" course the school offers? How about the "Queer Worship," "Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies" or "Introduction to Christian Ethics II" courses? The latter featuring readings by Black Liberation theology guru James Cone and social justice evangelist Ronald Sider?
As I said earlier, Mr. Lord could have discovered that it would have been impossible for someone who graduated YDS in 1992 to read any of those books, because they hadn't been published. I discovered that by looking at the links to the books on amazon.com that Mr. Lord himself provided. It took me 2 minutes. It's hard for me to believe that those are serious questions. Do most schools teach the same courses now that they did 18 years ago? We all know the answer to that one.
SoCon| 9.29.10 @ 6:17PM
You still haven't answered my question: If it's so easy to clear up any confusion, why won't the Bearded Marxist just offer your explanation? Why does it fall on liberal water-carriers like you to do it?
Are you financially compensated by your political masters on the Left?
DRed| 9.29.10 @ 8:44PM
You think he should have to tell Mr. Lord that he didn't read books in school that weren't yet written? Or that he didn't take classes that weren't being taught?
I'm my own master, thank you.
SoCon| 9.29.10 @ 10:07PM
Yes, he's the one running for office; he should clear up any misunderstandings. So, you think the Bearded Marxist should just be given a free pass?
Why? What are you and BM afraid of?
DRed| 9.29.10 @ 10:53PM
I don't see that there's anything to misunderstand.
SoCon| 9.30.10 @ 12:01AM
I want to know why Coons identified himself as the Bearded Marxist. It might not bother a flaming Leftist like you but it would cause most Americans like me to take pause.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Johan Strauss| 9.30.10 @ 11:07AM
I read Mein Kampf in college, not to adopt the rationale but to understand Adolf Hitlers, the point of view, arguments, rhetoric, values and thinking that led to the Nazi movement. My freinds joked that I was Hitler Youth. I never joined the Nazi Party. I am an independent conservative, always have been.
SoCon| 9.30.10 @ 12:26PM
Well, if you were running for the US Senate right now and had called yourself "Little Hitler" when you were in school, I would want to know why, too.
So would all the liberals like DRed; in fact they'd be demanding an explanation. Trust me.
Nate| 9.29.10 @ 1:31PM
Why has Coons avoided your emails?
Well.... Because you're not acting in good faith.
Conflating "liberation theology" with Marxism is a good example of the bad faith in which you're acting.
You probably know there's a difference, but you know most of your readers don't.
Claiming that a course that studies the role of women in western theology is "Marxist" is just out and out fraudulent. It would be a stupid claim if one thought you were just ignorant. But again, you're not ignorant of the baseless nature of your claim. You're exploiting the fact that your readers don't really know what you're talking about in the first place.
Should Coons answer your emails?
No. He should answer the emails of journalists.
ncatty| 9.29.10 @ 2:13PM
I agree that Karl Marx was not a liberation theologist. However, if he attended Yale Div. he might have converted to it.
marcia| 9.30.10 @ 11:31AM
You have never been to Yale Divinity School, have no idea what is taught, and are participating in the disparagment of an entire school because of your biased polictical view. You should be ashamed of yourself. You ALL should. You are an example of what is WRONG with American Politics, not Mr. Coons.
SoCon| 9.30.10 @ 12:28PM
No, marcia, it's braindead liberals like you who should be ashamed of yourselves. Don't be afraid to question those who want to govern you. I'm not.
SoCon| 9.29.10 @ 4:12PM
Nate, are you the Bearded Marxist's spokesman? You seem to think so.
What's Coons afraid of? Surely, he could clear up any misunderstanding with just one phone call. Why don't you just advise Coons to come clean?
Weak.
Jeffrey Lord| 9.29.10 @ 4:16PM
Nate...
I'm happy to publish their response verbatim.
The problem is they obviously think a verbatim reply will get Coons into trouble. that's the real problem. By the way...how many courses were teaching the theology of the free market?
Umm..ummm...ummmm
Chris Lynch| 9.30.10 @ 10:54AM
Since you know what "they obviously think" why don't you write their response yourself. That could be no less intellectually dishonest than what you're written to date.
SoCon| 9.30.10 @ 1:35PM
Why the new found hesitancy to declare your inner Marxist, Chris? After all, Van Jones is a proud, self-avowed Communist and we all know Anita Dunn worships at Mao's altar.
I thought you liberals were proud of your Marxist bona fides--just not in a tough election season, huh? Wonder why that is?
Pathetic liars.
Tim*| 9.29.10 @ 1:38PM
Coons Is A Serial Taxer .
Jeffrey Lord , "........ after promising in his 2004 election campaign that he wouldn't raise taxes Coons raised property taxes by 5% in 2006, then again by 17.5% in 2007, and again by 25% in 2009. Coons has proposed to raise hotel taxes, paramedic taxes, and, in a hilariously stereotypical move reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York -- even taxes on 911 calls!"
Delawareans Want Jobs , Not Taxes .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
We Remember On November 2nd .
Mark C| 9.29.10 @ 2:45PM
Lord, could you possibly be a bigger clown?
Tim*| 9.29.10 @ 2:55PM
Sure Mark.
He Could Be Coons .
Mad Hatter| 9.29.10 @ 4:44PM
Christine’s win neither aided nor abetted,
GOP “talks about her like a dog” so fetid,
Tea Partiers sheeshed,
“She should be unleashed,
Instead of constantly being vetted!”
After not contributing time or treasure,
They tore into Christine for good measure,
It seems what the GOP did,
After seeing her MTV vid,
It’s her that they beat for self-pleasure!
Patriot| 9.29.10 @ 5:06PM
Kind of gross, Mad Hatter; unfortunately, it's true, too.
albert constantine jr.| 9.29.10 @ 8:51PM
With apologies to the Limerick Master Mad Hatter,
I offer the following not so iambic pentameter:
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Call Bill Maher up on the double
Voters don’t care if O’Donnell’s a witch
Make me a video with a new switch
Dub in her words in a special dark twist
So she calls herself a bearded Marxist
Frank Jones | 9.29.10 @ 9:25PM
This "article" is laughable. That anyone would read this and give it credence is in and of itself evidentiary of the dumbing down of America. And those in the Tea Party lament our decline ... got news for you. It isnt because of those gosh-darn educated elites out there.
Y'all need to visit the FB page http://www.facebook.com/TeaPar.....Distortion .... does a good job having fun with the Tea Party's systematic assault on intelligent political discourse. Amusingly, a steady stream of TPM faithful keep joining the page and posting compliments, apparently under the impression that "cognitive distortion" is a flattering term for the TP. It takes them a while to understand the sarcasm.
SoCon| 9.29.10 @ 10:15PM
Sorry, Frank; according to the latest surveys, Tea Party folks are much better educated and informed than typical braindead, Kool-Aid swilling liberals like you.
Our country is a financial and educational disaster--doesn't say much for those "gosh-darn educated elites" in the Ruling Class, does it?
BoxwoodDE| 9.30.10 @ 10:03AM
Still no comment from Jeffery Lord on how Chris Coons could have studied books that weren't published until years after he graduated. In fact he's been 'quiet as a church mouse' on that subject. Maybe he's hiding under his desk...
Kudos DRed!
SoCon| 9.30.10 @ 12:29PM
Where is the Bearded Marxist's explanation?
We're waiting.
COONS-DELAWARE BLUE BLOOD | 10.2.10 @ 12:06AM
This election is simple: if you want to know what Coons will do in the Senate-look at what he did in New Castle County. He raised taxes each year he has been in office. He spent a $200 million dollar surplus. On Coons watch, Chrysler and GM closed in Delaware. And these plants closed while the Democrats controlled the House, Senate and White House. As for the environment, Coons sat back and did nothing while a developer-Stoltz-worked to ram through a commercial development at a former DuPont office complex that the PEOPLE in the nearby communities did not want. Now, why would an erstwhile liberal like Coons sit back while an out of state developer built what we do not need-another shopping/business center? Maybe because the developer-Stoltz-sold to Joe Biden land at a bargain price off Barley Mill Road so Biden could build a $2.5-$3 million dollar home. Funny how such a strong leftist was able to refrain from fighting that particular developer. (There's a story there that the MSM will not pursue). At the end of the day, the lack of any review of Coons record and the absolute dissection of O'Donnell's tells you all you need to know about the ongoing double standard applied to conservative women and leftists white males like Coons.