[net-gold] UNITED STATES: STATES: DELAWARE: POLITICS: Sorceries of Information Indicate that Tea Party in Delaware is Stirring the Political Cauldron

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:25:49 -0400 (EDT)



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UNITED STATES: STATES: DELAWARE: POLITICS:
Sorceries of Information Indicate that Tea Party
in Delaware is Stirring the Political Cauldron




Political Cauldron Stirred by Old Video of Candidate
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: September 19, 2010

New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/politics/20odonnell.html

Critics of Christine ODonnell, the Tea Party-backed Republican Senatecandidate in Delaware, are going to the videotape, and there is plenty ofit.

New VHS-era video clips of Ms. ODonnell have popped up on television andon YouTube on a daily basis since last Tuesday, when she secured thenomination for the seat.

And there is the prospect of more to come. On Friday night, Bill Maher,the host of Real Time on HBO, broadcast a 1999 clip in which Ms. ODonnellsaid she had dabbled into witchcraft though she said, I never joined acoven.

One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didntknow it, she said. I mean, theres a little blood there and stuff likethat. We went to a movie and then we had a little midnight picnic on asatanic altar.

Mr. Maher gleefully told his audience that Ms. ODonnell had been a gueston 22 episodes of his defunct ABC series Politically Incorrect in the1990s, and that he still has all the clips.

Jokingly or not, Mr. Maher said that if Ms. ODonnell refused to appear onReal Time, Im going to show a clip every week.

Its like a hostage crisis, he said. Every week you dont show up, Im goingto throw another body out.

Quran-Burning and Republican Electoral Strategy: A Postscript fromAustraliaJack Miles.Senior Fellow for Religion and International Relations, PacificCouncil on International Policy; general editor, 'Norton Anthology ofWorld Religions'

Posted: September 16, 2010 12:36 AM
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-miles/quranburning-and-republic_b_715513.html




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What follows -- adapted from the conclusion of a longer article,"Waitingfor the Preacher: Obama's America in World Religious Context" -- was apart of my attempt this past week to contextualize the past American monthfor an Australian audience:

How on Earth, my new Australian friends have been asking me, can so largea fraction of the American public believe that its President is an illegalMuslim immigrant actively collaborating with Islamic terrorism?Australians tend to ask the question, and it has come several times now,with a smile and a shake of the head. Well, yes, America is a wild andcrazy country, no denying that. But let me suggest, if I may, that thisparticular piece of craziness is not a wildflower in the meadow ofAmerican craziness but a genetically engineered plant, in both senses ofthe word plant -- a plant designed for a specific function.

To begin with just a bit of recent history, Republican strategists andtheir allies in the media initially sought during the 2008 Presidentialcampaign to present Democratic candidate Barack Obama as an angry blackracist, patently playing to the still-strong elements of race hatred inthe Republican Party's southern base. That effort failed after Obama gavewhat many regard as an historic speech. A fallback strategy, aimed atgiving race hatred, increasingly a sin that dares not speak its name, anew hook to hang on, mobilized anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment byplanting and cultivating the bogus charge that the Democratic candidatewas an illegal Muslim immigrant. The Obama campaign buried this charge,rather than dignifying it with a response, by effectively celebratingMichelle Robinson Obama's picture-perfect black American family ratherthan the candidate's own during the Democratic nominating convention.

I pause to point out that if Republicans, then or now, actually believedthis charge, they would long since have sought to impeach Obama. For thatmatter, Democrats would have sought to impeach him. That no such attempthas been made or will ever be made ought to tell you that Republicanstrategists don't believe their own charge for a minute, and yetRepublican office-holders from the top down have meticulously abstainedfrom repudiating it. It may look to you like an urban myth. It may lookthat way to some Americans, as well. It is, in fact, a classic electoraldirty trick.






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