The Rumble Is ON!
This morning I thought I was being cute with videos – turns out I was prophetic, and late. Instead of “let’s get ready to rumble” – the rumble is on! Just an hour ago, Lowell showed us Joe Klein. And now – thanks to David French, we have our old friend Larry O’Donnell:
Two quick comments here. Firstly, this is so utterly transparent. Now that it is apparent to all but the delusional that Romney has the primary sewn up, the left has decided to start shoot. I started Politico’s new eBook this morning and it seems to be singing the same tune, though in a muted fashion. I honestly thought the left would be smarter than this kind of frontal assault, but they are not playing this for the general just yet – what they are trying to do is create a revolt inside the Republican caucus. As David French said:
If You’re An Evangelical Who Doesn’t Like Mormons, You Should Still Be Outraged At This
We cannot take this bait. These kinds of assaults – the “weirdness” of proxy baptism, polygamy as a justification for illicit sex – may have some appeal if you think Mormonism a “false” religion. But here is the thing. In a religiously pluralistic society like ours, if it stands against them, something similar will stand against us. For example, there is the old canard that has floated in back rooms for years that Jesus wasn’t celibate, he was gay. Let’s say for a minute that Larry O’Donnell passed that one off – I don’t think we’d sit still for it for very long. Now, Mormons don’t equate Joseph Smith with Christ, so don’t lay that on me – but they do revere him and O’Donnell has gravely insulted them.
These attacks by Klein and O’Donnell are no different really than Obama’s attempts to force contraceptive insurance coverage down the throats of our Catholic friends. They are straightforward attempts to stifle, control, and limit the religious voice. We cannot stand for it – we must in fact unite against it.
Lowell adds . . .
Update: Thanks to a tweet by Guy P. Benson, here’s an excerpt from Kevin Williamson’s NRO response to O’Donnell:
I am announcing the creation of a new award, which I will call the Golden Ass, to be presented to those who resort to anti-Mormon bigotry in their campaign against Mitt Romney. Today’s Golden Ass is Lawrence O’Donnell, an asinus aureus if ever there was one, an ass of exceptional asininity.
Read the whole thing.
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JosephKemper on 04 Apr 2012 at 1:25 pm #
One thing that I find funny is about the attacks on the supposed racist views held by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that there is more support in the actual doctrine and scripture of the Church for the idea of racist views held towards Native Americans and possibly even anyone of Latin American decent than there is proof of racist doctrine relating to Blacks, or those of African decent.
I have composed a blog detailing this in much more thoroughly if anyone is interested in it.
http://amormonsmind.blogspot.com/2012/04/racism-and-mormons.html
JLF9999 on 04 Apr 2012 at 2:07 pm #
I know that if I drop a piece of anything remotely edible on the floor my dog will eat it. He stands around in the kitchen just waiting for me or my wife to inadvertantly drop something and then it becomes his. He jumps on it. Like my dog, a 20 pound light weight, so does Mr O’Donnell. Any time he gets an opportunity to lay into Mormons he does so. He doesn’t think about it, he jumps. It is his nature. Like with my dog, I can’t hold him “accountable” for being a dog. He just is. So it is with O’Donnell. You can’t take him seriously because he does not respond to people who caution him. He just doesn’t. One thing about my dog: I have finally broken him from eating yesterday’s dinner again.
CarlH on 04 Apr 2012 at 3:09 pm #
When I first heard about the latest infamy from O’Donnell, I tried to file it in my “well-it’s-MSNBC” file, but it’s now been picked up by a lot of places, including RealClearPolitics. I am afraid that it really has only just begun in earnest. What a sorry spectacle from the self-proclaimed “enlightened” supposed proponents of “civility.” Balderdash!
coltakashi on 04 Apr 2012 at 5:14 pm #
It is one thing to report abput religious bigots, but it is another when a TV network is paying a guy to spout his bigotry on national TV.
I recommend that everyone offended by O’Donnell’s slander contact KSL Television in Salt Lake. It is an LDS Church-owned station that is affiliated with NBC. KSL is in a position to demand O’Donnell be fired for uttering false and defamatory attacks on Mormons and giving his bigotry legitimacy by letting him air it with the apparent agreement of his company. KSL should tell NBC that it will not cross-promote MSNBC and will refuse to carry any appearance by O’Donnell on any NBC program.
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Rockgod28 on 04 Apr 2012 at 8:52 pm #
Lawrence O’Donnell is the kind of man who in 1844 would have and practically did on his show endorse the murder of Joseph Smith Junior.
Never mind there are Democrat Mormons they are already in office (Harry Reid) and will be forgotten by next year as long as Romney is slammed for belonging to a racist, marriage corrupting, hypocritical, sham of a spiritual leader religion follower.
Can you imagine if Romney wins? Atheists and GLAAD will unite immediately. Anti-war protests will be back on warning Romney off of Iran, Syria and the Middle East in general.
The MSM will be on RomneyWatch 24 hours a day, seven days a week ranting about every tax cut, every benefit, and looking for any way to cause Romney to appear as a capitalist failure only looking out for his crony capitalist friends at Bain (The new Haliburton).
Of course what happens when Gitmo is closed. Unemployment goes down to 6% or lower. Gas goes down to $2.00 or less. Obamacare is gone. The Ryan Budget passes putting a dent in the debt.
With Romney this is entirely possible.
So while the Left howls in rage at President Romney for bringing government under control, limiting government power, respecting the Supreme Court, our allies, and the people, Romney will continue to the business of the people.
No marital scandles, no improper government manipulation and the bread and butter of DC insiders looking for White House missteps will dry up.
I am not saying gaffes won’t happen or mistakes won’t be made, but Fast and Furious, transmissions to Russia, as well as Solyndra loan loses along with New Black Panther intimidation, plus a host of other White House Justice Department EPA scandels will be over.
Real journalists will call out the Larry O’Donnells on their lies and bigotry.
Romney will win and as Allen West said recently Obama is getting deperate. Class warfare and bigotry which goes hand in hand with outright lies to get re-elected is all Obama has left.
He can’t run on his policies, he can’t run on his accomplishments, the economy is junk, and all he has to use is empty promises which Romney can prove is a sham by his flexablitiy comment to the Russians.
Romney will win because Obama said it himself, if he can’t turn the economy around by this third year he will be a one term president.
Self-Prophecy to be confirmed by the prophet Obama in November.
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nickgrivas on 06 Apr 2012 at 9:34 am #
O’Donnell asserted that Joseph Smith started the Mormon Church because he got caught having sex with the maid and needed an excuse. Joseph Smith established the Church in 1830. He didn’t preach polygamy or take plural wives until over ten year later.
Even then, it appears that Smith’s polygamous marriages were spiritual in nature. They bound the women to Smith for eternity and to the greater Mormon family for eternity. It appears that Smith did not have sex with any of these plural wives. None of the women to whom Smith was sealed ever had any children by him except for his first wife Emma who had eight children with him. So, he wasn’t infertile. He was sealed to these other women in a spiritual sense and didn’t have sex with them.
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