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“Plunging necklines and navel-bearing tops” are not appropriate for Halloween, says Couric. In her “Katie Couric’s Notebook” segment Monday night, the CBS Evening News anchor lashed out against the “$5 billion Halloween industry” for marketing “sleazy” costumes to girls. What’s interesting is that this came from an “Only On the Web” videocast. As far as I know, this segment never made it on over-the-air television.
Following up on Sunday’s post regarding this new breed of religious Democrats, I want to highlight an excellent comment by one of our readers:
Did you hear what I heard? There are Democrats out there who are religious. In an attempt to grab a slice of that voter bloc that supposedly put George W. Bush a second term in 2004, Democrats are not shy talking about their faith. And journalists are picking up on it.
How does a reporter write a balanced profile of a guy who thinks that anyone who believes in God is an idiot and “that religion is the root of all evil”?
Can anyone guess what the top two books at Amazon were Tuesday afternoon? If you guessed that the books had anything to do with religion, you would be correct.
The BBC doesn’t like Christians, and there are discussions of ways to change this. As revealed by the British conservative tabloid the Daily Mail, “the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.” To most on the right, this is not shocking news.
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s ability to be an effective member of Congress’s upper chamber is directly tied into her affiliation with a lawmakers’ prayer group sponsored by the Fellowship. It was in this group that Clinton first started turning herself into “the consummate Washington player,” as documented by Joshua Green in the cover piece of the November Atlantic.
A day before the David Kuo book leaked onto the airwaves, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on The Chris Matthews Show that “the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power.” Republicans were pandering to the values vote by bringing up gay marriage, all the while holding contempt for evangelicals, Carlson said. Was this a faint rumble or was this old news to those closely covering Bush’s faith-based initiative?
If the leaders of the United States don’t understand the basic differences between Shiites and Sunnis, then what should one expect from the average American?
