Pickering Affair Raises New Questions About ‘Revolving Door’ Of Secretive Fellowship Group
Pickering Affair Raises New Questions About ‘Revolving Door’ Of Secretive Fellowship Group
Last night on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow reported the story that former Rep. Chip Pickering’s (R-MS) wife has filed a lawsuit against Pickering’s mistress Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd, exposing a long-running affair. Pickering, now a lobbyist for Capitol Resources LLC, campaigned on a platform of promising to bring family values to Washington. Pickering tried to force his own views on marriage upon the country by pushing a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and using marriage as a cudgel to demand that President Bill Clinton resign:
– While engaged in the affair with Creekore Byrd, Pickering said of President Bill Clinton: “I think for the good of the country and the good of his own family it would be better for him to resign. When someone puts himself forward for public office, then his personal conduct does become relevant.” [Washington Times, 8/20/98]
– Pickering explained his support of a constitutional gay marriage ban, stating: “Marriage as an institution between one man and one woman promotes the best interest of the husband and wife, and the best interests of children.” [Mississippi Link, 7/20/06]
The suit filed by Pickering’s wife also alleges that Pickering pursued the affair while living in the “C Street Complex,” the boarding house for the secretive right-wing Christian group known as “the Fellowship.” Pickering’s former colleagues embroiled in similar scandals, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC), were also members of the Fellowship.
Doug Coe, the group’s spiritual leader, once preached that the willingness to behead one’s own mother was a “covenant” tantamount to what “Jesus said.” The organization “Youth with a Mission” owns the C Street boarding house, which is registered tax-exempt as a church, advocates seizing the “mountain of government” as part of an evangelical crusade to advance the “kingdom of God.” Coe, who holds misogynist beliefs, once counseled a lawmaker that his wife — who complained of not being sexually satisfied — might be possessed by demons.
Speaking with Maddow about the influence of the Fellowship, author Jeff Sharlet noted that the complex operates as a “fundamentalist frat house” where “if you’re part of God’s chosen…morality, ethics, these things don’t apply to them.” He also noted Steve Largent, a former Oklahoma congressman and former resident of the C Street house, now president of a telecom trade group, arranged lobbyist-funded trips for other members in the group, including both Pickering and Ensign. Sharlet questioned the lawmaker-to-lobbyist “revolving door” that “seems to be facilitated by the family.” Watch it:
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Mike Moore, Oliver Stone or even Ron Howard this sounds like an Oscar worthy movie.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:03 pmAs always, it’s do as I say, not as I do.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:03 pmI wonder where they get the idea that the “rules” don’t apply to them.
as i recall from maddow, unless i am mistaken, the group is actually called “the family” and not “the fellowship.” …not that that makes it any less creepy.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:04 pmSunlight is the world’s best disinfectant.
Open the doors & windows of C St House & take a close look…
Christofascist politicians paid by our hard earned tax dollars elevating themselves to a pedestal of supreme rights with no consequences, while criticizing others.
Pickering, Largent, Ensign, Sanford, ad nauseum.
Yes, their churches will support them, as well as most of their wives.
Republics like to preach, but rarely do they practice…
July 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pmArt, part of their theology is that the rules literally do not apply to them because they are chosen by God. They say morality only applies to those “lesser” people who were not chosen. True story.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pmThat must be the house they let Norm Coleman live…
in the basement.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:08 pmAccording to the holy rollers, once they have accepted Jesus as their personal savior, then they are born again – and eligible to do whatever, apparently.
I never see any true humility or remorse from these triumphalist nannies.
Personally, I loathe and detest the publicly pious, who can’t shut up about their faith and how righteous they are.
I do know several Christians who quietly believe, who love their fellow human beings without question, and who dare not judge others. These people are lovely and gentle, and they stand in stark contrast to the pit bulls and the fire-breathing dragons of Holy Rollerdom.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:12 pmActually, it seems that they practice a little too much…
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July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pmHow in the hell can this residence be considered a “church” , especially when it seems as if it’s serving as many Republican politican’s cheap motel room and little else ?
July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pmI think that the IRS needs to take a close look at this so-called “church”.
All this is way too funny. The GOP has become a joke.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pmDaily Grill (TP)
Obama is attempting to lower expectations retroactively. …[He] never said if his stimulus were passed things might still get significantly worse in the following year.”
– Karl Rove, 9/16/09
TP, unless you have a time machine, you may want to check your date on that posting.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pmI still think that TP should go right down the alphabetical list of Republicans and extreme right wingers looking for hypocrites, sinners, and law breakers. I’ll bet there won’t be too many letters that are skipped.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pmMCMetal says:
How in the hell can this residence be considered a “church” , especially when it seems as if it’s serving as many Republican politican’s cheap motel room and little else ?
It also seems to be a place where right wing politicians can get in touch with their inner adulterer.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pmDoes anyone have a list of current occupants of the C Street complex? I’d like to see that along with a list from the last 10 years or so.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pmI wonder what God thinks of all this?
July 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pmOnce again we are enlightened to the fact that we are represented (for lack of a better term) by self-aggrandizing lunatics. This too shall be swept under the proverbial rug. No wonder this country is in the tank. And so it goes…
July 17th, 2009 at 12:15 pmSo. This group wanted to bring “Family Values” to the American Public.
We just didn’t know that the family values that they wanted to bring to the American public consisted of Infidelity in marriage, stealing from the Treasury, Greed, Corruption and Graft.
Those sure are some interesting morals there.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:15 pmverskk, I was going to point out the same thing… this group is called “The Family”. Just like Charlie Manson’s followers.
I guess they should call themselves “The Righteous Fcukers”.
It would be interesting if someone went back to BlowJobGate, and did a chart of the GOPers most vocal in calling for Clinton’s resignation, and add a column for how many have been caught in sex scandals of their own.
We could start with Newt, Sanford, Ensign, Craig, …
PEACE
July 17th, 2009 at 12:16 pmThe C Street house isn’t a home. It’s a f***king wh0rehouse.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:17 pmNews accounts have reported that the housemates include U.S. Rep Zach Wamp , R-Tn , U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and U.S. Reps. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pmHubris and self-righteousness are two of the principal hallmarks of evangelicalism today, the movement which has totally taken over the repiggie party.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:20 pmPickering Affair Raises New Questions About ‘Revolving Door’ Of Secretive Fellowship Group
– - The Republican Reach-around Revolution.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:20 pmmisscoleopteramolly says:
“I wonder what God thinks of all this?”
God who?
July 17th, 2009 at 12:21 pmPickering explained his support of a constitutional gay marriage ban, stating: “Marriage as an institution between one man and one woman promotes the best interest of the husband and wife, and the best interests of children.”
Don’t they mean one man and multiple women…I think what makes me most mad is there hypocritical yet holier-than-thou behavior…
July 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pmljm says
July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I still think that TP should go right down the alphabetical list of Republicans and extreme right wingers looking for hypocrites, sinners, and law breakers. I’ll bet there won’t be too many letters that are skipped.
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To be perfectly fair, anybody going down a list looking for hypocrites, sinners, and lawbreakers should make sure that list includes both Democrats and Republicans, as there will be a few with (D) after their names.
However, when the score is tallied, I’m willing to bet that not only will there be more R’s in the black sheep pile, but that more of the R’s caught with their pants down (or their hand in the cookie jar) will be politicians who tout “family values” and were the first to criticize Bill Clinton for his extracurricular activities.
And the fact that they hide behind a wall of “Christianity” is just plain offensive on a number of levels.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pmAre there still idiots out there who are falling for this right wing political ‘family values’ horse****?
How many times do you have to get burned by these frauds before you wise up?
July 17th, 2009 at 12:27 pmBird of a feather flock together. In this flock, the glue that binds appears to be infidelity and hypocracy. Who else resides at this house? What have they been up to?
July 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pmBut HYPOCRISY IS a Republic Fascist Party value.
One more reason why religion is a plague on mankind.
Belief in something that does not exist is idiotic.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:30 pmChristian fellowship = comparing notes on your mistresses…
July 17th, 2009 at 12:31 pmTigger, Christian fellowship may also include comparing notes on your secret same-sex tryst.
The repiggie ranks are full of closet cases, who never miss a beat to make life difficult for gay men and women who live openly.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:33 pmmisscoleopteramolly says:
I wonder what God thinks of all this?
– - I don’t think Rush will be addressing this issue.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:36 pmSounds like a cult operating within Congress. I am even more amazed at the hypocrisy of it all. I wonder if someone could do an analysis of the congressional votes of the residents of this cult. The question is did this cult dictate the voting patterns of these so-called representatives.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pmThe “fellowship” sounds like a cult.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pmThe only thing that gets the attention of these people and their handlers (owners) is money (and nice racks and backs). If we find out who their major corporate contributors are and then procede to boycott whatever products they market the money stream will dry up. Maybe then these selfish cretins will go bye-bye.
I think we should demand a thorough investigation of the “church” where, obviously, most, if not all, of these shenanigans originated or even took place. And since it’s allegedly a “church” lets give the IRS first crack at them. Let the games begin!
July 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pmI’m having a hard time making up my mind on this business. Which is better; the Nietzschean notion that this pack of C Street hypocrites think they’re above common morality and ethics (and probably the law), or the fact that Pickering, and God knows who else in the rat pack, is bootstraping himself up the economic ladder the same way “Straight Talk” McLiar did with Cindy – carry on with some heiress while weaseling out of an early marriage that is complete with a decent wife and the responsibility of a few children. They ought to be ashamed, but when you’re a superdude, ala Nietzsche, A. Hitler, and Doug Coe, you’re above all that, eh?
Republicrits; the gift that keeps on giving.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pmI know why I left religion….to many hypocrites!!!
I started my new religion….it’s called LOVE AND TOLLERANCE.
No membership fees
No praying to an unknown entity
No meetings or services to attend
No affiliations to political parties
ALL WELCOME NO MATTER RACE , SEXUAL ORIENTATION, COLOR OR CREED…All you have to do to be a memeber is allow your heart to accept “LOVE AND TOLLERANCE” AS YOUR CREED IN LIFE.
As for C house….WHO IS MAN ENOUGH TO SAY TO THERE SPOUSES THAT AN OPEN MARRAIGE IS WHAT I WANT????? NO ONE???
Just as I thought….ALL HYPOCRITES!!!!
July 17th, 2009 at 12:51 pmFred says The “fellowship” sounds like a cult.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:55 pmCorrection – Christianity itself is a cult. This is just one little sect within the larger cult. We don’t call it a cult because it’s been around so long, and so many people buy into it, but it’s still a cult – brainwashing and all.
Hey, in 2 weeks, I’m going to be in the D.C. area.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:56 pmThink I can convince my wife that I should “visit” this
Fellowship of the Bangs?
Probably not.
After all, I am a Democrat, a Christian, and a faithful husband, so I’m probably their anti-Christ!
NOLIESPLEASE,
Are you channeling your inner “republicanhatefacts”?
:-)
July 17th, 2009 at 12:57 pmYes, I agree but this sounds downright Jamestown like:
July 17th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Pickering did bring “family values to Washington.” Too bad they’re Gingrich, Ensign, and Sanford family values.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:59 pmNo separation of church and state at C Street whorehouse!
July 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pmThis is why churches do not and should not be tax exempt.
“The Family” sounds like a cult, an elitist cult where white males with entitlement syndrome hangout. Yeah for Rachel Maddow and Jeff Sharlet for exposing these rat bastards for their hypocrisy!
Jeff Skarlet’s book The Family is a very interesting, if not outright scary, read. I highly recommend it…it does give you an insight into the minds of these fake Christians.
There are also exerpts from it on killingthebuddha.com.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pmWhen a DC profitician talks about family values they are NOT talking about being like the Waltons…
July 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pmThe party of NO is filled with whores, who can be purchased for a price, and who think with the wrong head of the body. This, as they preach morals, fidelity and family values.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:09 pmFred says:
Yes, I agree but this sounds downright Jamestown like:
Doug Coe, the group’s spiritual leader, once preached that the willingness to behead one’s own mother was a “covenant”
And, the head guy is an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Nice bunch don’t you know.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:10 pmI don’t want any sort of “secret” organizations around me. Not on my street, not in my neighborhood, city or country. Get them out of here. Americans feel strongly that way.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:13 pmDoes anyone know if this cult dictated the votes these Congressmen made? If this was true it would be a thousand times worse.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:13 pmDRxJ says:
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NOLIESPLEASE,
Are you channeling your inner “republicanhatefacts”?
Now what do you mean by that????
July 17th, 2009 at 1:23 pmlm945 says:
The C Street house isn’t a home. It’s a f***king wh0rehouse.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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Can’t it be both?
Perhaps it’s a whorehome!
July 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pmA few disturbing articles about the secretive Fellowship, Youths With a Mission (the owners of the C Street house) and their goals of Christian world domination:
July 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pmhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/11/752404/-Ensign-House-Owned-By-Group-Proposing-Christian-World-Control-Plot
and
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/11/c-street-group-tied-to-ensign-is-linked-to-yet-another-secretive-group/
Arrogant and self-righteous people will always find a way to excuse their behavior.
Kudos to Rachel for continuing to expose these asshats.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm“Marriage is an institution between one man and one woman at a time.”
The Fellowship of Greedy ol’ Perverts
July 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pmWiz says:
Sounds like a cult operating within Congress. I am even more amazed at the hypocrisy of it all. I wonder if someone could do an analysis of the congressional votes of the residents of this cult. The question is did this cult dictate the voting patterns of these so-called representatives.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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Well I, for one, hope their comet gets here soon. The world will be a much better place once they’ve all raptured themselves with Flavor-Aid.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:27 pmIt figures…the same reichwing crowd hangs out with Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:28 pmI think a precedent is being set here. Bordellos across the country are going to apply for tax exempt status.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pmA Patriotic Anopheles Acting says:
A few disturbing articles about the secretive Fellowship, Youths With a Mission (the owners of the C Street house) and their goals of Christian world domination:
July 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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Disturbing is an understatement.
Holy living fuck.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:31 pmpaleolib says:
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“Marriage is an institution between one man and one woman at a time.”
I agree…but are we allowed to have sex outside the marraige if both partners agree???? I have no problem if someone wants to have sex outside there marraige as long as the other partner get to have the same.
The biggest industry growth in Canada….swingers clubs…see not being a hypocrite has its privliges…thank goodness Canada is SECULAR.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:31 pmfrom the above link:
YWAM founder leader Loren Cunningham has publicly outlined a vision for Christian world-control,” which involves establishing domination over government, education, business, the media, and other areas.
Jeebus, that sounds eerily familiar.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:36 pmLike around the late 1930’s.
In Europe.
chiroptera toasterhead says:
July 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pmAint nuthin “holy” about it toasterhead
Interesting that “father coe” supplied cheap housing for the republican puppetheads elected by rich backroom groups. Wonder how many Bills get voted on from Administrative Assistant’s understanding rather than people being paid to do it. Sure makes one feel safe….uh huh.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:42 pmTAX ALL RELIGIONS …PERIOD!!!!!!
We need that money to pay for all the unwanted babies that were born to people who were in no position to keep them….REPUBLICAN EVENGELICAL WHITE TRASH.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:43 pmOT, but Endeavor’s about 5 minutes away from docking with the ISS: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
July 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pmDRxJ says:
from the above link:
YWAM founder leader Loren Cunningham has publicly outlined a vision for Christian world-control,” which involves establishing domination over government, education, business, the media, and other areas.
Jeebus, that sounds eerily familiar.
Like around the late 1930’s.
In Europe.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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Yeah. Why are we worried about al-Qa’ida? These guys have the same basic plan, but with a LOT more funding.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:49 pmWhat is it with religious groups having to control everything ? Strange that those professing the most godliness are the worst offenders.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:51 pmI totally agree with tax religion, years ago churches didn’t make money, now they are corporations with no tax liability. And they use their sheeples to vote what one man thinks. I thought we had a law against that.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:54 pmtexaslady says:
What is it with religious groups having to control everything ? Strange that those professing the most godliness are the worst offenders.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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Perhaps it’s the other way around. I don’t see religion as the source of the problem – it’s just a convenient vehicle for controlling people. It seems to me that groups who already want to control everything just use religion as a means of getting there.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:57 pmIt’s not a fellowship so much as a family, much the same way organized crime calls itself a family.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:03 pmFrat houses, across the country, are modifying their pledges to incorporate this new theory of accountability. If it works for Congressmen, there’s no reason it shouldn’t work for freshmen.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pmA few questions:
1. Does living at C Street cost these politicians anything? If not, doesn’t it constitute a reportable political contribution?
2. Are they officially affiliated with C Street, the Family, or The Fellowship as their church? If not, can they really claim this as a kind of “religious” refuge, as they seem to claim?
3. If the Family, as has been widely reported, requires of its members that they reject any other allegiance that the one they own to the Family itself, aren’t any Family members who recite the Pledge of Allegiance in fact lying?
4. Considering that the Family explicitely advocates for the destruction of the American democratic state (to be replaced by a kingdom led by God through his chosen representatives, i.e. the members of the Family), aren’t any Family members, in fact, traitors?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:19 pmDidn’t Sarah Palin spend a weekend at ‘C St house’?
If you can’t go Argentinian, go Eskimo!
July 17th, 2009 at 2:20 pmI don’t know but I’ve been told
July 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pmEskimo women are mighty cold
Amazing how the family value GOP hypocrites are now coming out of the woodwork. The hypocrite hounds are being released and exposed. How many more GOP Reps are tied to “C Street Complex?” “C Street Complex” should be renamed the C Street Brothel. C stands for Corrupt and Cheating.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pmnanlichi says:
I don’t know but I’ve been told
Eskimo women are mighty cold
I’m from Minnesota :)
July 17th, 2009 at 2:44 pmor, as Tom Waits sang so well…
‘Warm Beer & Cold Women’
I can’t help but wondering, after ready Sharlet’s Harpers piece, if this whole Family affair, rather than being about religion as a cover for infidelity, is more a cover for hanky big-business deals…
July 17th, 2009 at 3:01 pm*reading a bit of
July 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pmZimzone says:
“Didn’t Sarah Palin spend a weekend at ‘C St house’?”
She wanted to be a Crew S|ut!
July 17th, 2009 at 3:25 pmThe Republicans think their extramarital affairs fall under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:33 pm. ..
doggie…?
:)
July 17th, 2009 at 3:48 pmLividLib says:
She wanted to be a Crew S|ut!
July 17th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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Do you think they introduced her to Warren?
July 17th, 2009 at 4:27 pm… … …
brad looks like
beaver’s friend gilbert.
:|
July 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pm-
Powerful coercion and blackmail news about “the Fellowship” was reported last weekend, for leading readers (such as Maddow) who stay ahead of sick-secret news and stir it into newscycle circulation. Here (below) are excerpts of (July 13) Wayne Madsen Report (.COM), self-called ‘WMR,’ a revealing primary channel for intelligence community whistleblowers. Maybe Maddow or some staffer on her show subscribes! and reads! Madsen’s investigative reporting, as many Congresspersons (and staffers) do, which is a good thing! With Maddow, Olberman, and now Ed Schultz on TV shows that constantly need news tips to feed the demanding ogre of the hungry camera, perhaps we can expect seeing more exposures from whistleblowers come to light, as promised in the time-tested advice of old WashDC powerbroker Clark Clifford, who said, “there are no secrets in this town — the most you can hope for is a two-hour headstart.”
This resignation-ready Pickering scandal, (and Sanford’s, and Ensign’s, and …), had a 5-day headstart between Madsen leaking it and Maddow airing it to millions — including tipping off Thom Hartmann who talked it up with Christy Harvey today, at the top of the show’s second hour. A week’s pre-warning and “the (Pickering, Sanford, Ensign, Coburn, DeMint, Brownback, et alii) Fellowship” still blew it — hypocrites too shackled and stumbling for a getaway, now they face being hauled away to Court and put away for good.
More than that, Madsen named names and pinpointed non-charity C Street way back before Katrina in 2005; and Sharlett’s book The Family added more indictments last year, 2008. What takes so long for congressional Ethics charges to show up, and DoJ/FBI investigators to show up, and Capital Police to show up?
Furthermore, as WMR details in years of (archived) reports, “the Fellowship,” a k a “The Family,” a k a the “Christian Mafia” coercion has cut a deeper and wider swath of influence than the modest brick house on C Street we see today — the proverbial ‘tip of an iceberg’ indicating ten times more mass below the surface. The (linked) 2005 report lays out the underground roots from 1945, and seeds before then, which have grown to “the Fellowship” and crops out in Sharlett’s book today — at least 60 years deep. And wide: All across WashDC (and beyond) are brothels and blackmail pits, like embassies recording who enters, what they say, and their predilections for room service — so-called ‘honey pots’ like got the DC Madam piles of money and bookfuls of phone numbers, like got Eliot Spitzer caught spicy red-handed — and what happens in hidden cameras, or eavesdropped emails, or C Street, stays in force on the floors of Congress when the rolls are called ‘up there’ for the Aye’s and Nay’s.
Consider then, before Maddow, (but also FYI, Rachel — luv you, luuuv your show), the backstory Madsen posted last weekend:
(Subscription required, WMR permission granted for this placement.)
July 13, 2009 — EARLY EDITION. The Christian Mafia, Ensign, and Coburn
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Reference 1.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
If we assume there is a Christian mafia, it would explain the behavior of the GOP. Organized crime is the best explaination for the Bush administration. Let the prosecutions begin.
July 17th, 2009 at 6:34 pmThink about it . . . not just on the surface. These guys are invited into the “big boy’s club”. They are indoctrinated – “YOU are chosen to lead . . . you will gain power and great wealth — that’s what a leader does so he has the power to control. YOU must do whatever it takes — you must be willing to sacrifice and do what it takes to be a true leader”
They admire Hitler, Genghis Kahn, etc. People who wrenched power by squashing everyone else. People who were ruthless in their pursuit of power and wealth. That’s why they become narcissists in their own lives even. “Family values” is a con — this is NOT a religion. It is a syndicate. It explains why the Republicans vote as one — The leaders are in the key positions on Committees. They say — you want the RNC to support your re-election campaign? You want the lobbyists to run ads for your re-election campaign? Well, buddy, this is how you vote! Oh, you think global warming IS hurting the planet? That’s too bad. Pack your bags and move back home, go to work selling cars, we’ll be supporting someone else come time for re-election.
The Republicans even SPEAK as one. Those leaders tell them, okay, well Obama’s weak spot is the stimulus bill — so every time their is a mic in front of you say something like . . yada yada yada.
It is really scary. This is why they are willing to re-write the constitution, break the law, stack the deck at the Justice Dept, “whatever it takes”.
July 17th, 2009 at 7:24 pmThere’s a very big News story about this “C-STREET COMPLEX”, and it is yet to come out. I can’t wait to see all those Republicans running for cover.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:01 pmBlack people make racial slurs all the time and it’s okay. Obama listened to–and by tolerating Jeremiah Wright’s hate speech for 20 years–supported it.
It’s okay for the liberals to slam Palin, why? Because she’s white and female?
Btw, Jesus wasn’t black.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:09 pmPeople who make sexist slurs against Palin are no better.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:11 pmCarmella,
How do you know Jesus wasn’t black? Please post a link to prove your assertion that Jesus wasn’t black
When you make a claim like that, you show your ignorance. Before you post anything online, you really need to learn to use your brain first.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:22 pmThe first Rule of C Sreet: Don’t talk about C Street. I just think it is delicious irony that these homophobic hypocrites were exposed on national television by AN OUT GAY WOMAN!
July 18th, 2009 at 12:08 amAnd, BTW Carmella–Jesus was not white. He was born a Jew in the Middle East where most people had dark hair and swarthy features–much like the Iraqis or the Arabs of today. The only way Jesus could have been white at that time would be if he were born someplace like the Scandinavian countries or extreme Northern Europe. I think you better take a refresher (or an initial) course in world history.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:14 amThere’s nothing sinister about the Fellowship. The group just believes that “Love thy neighbor” trumps the Ten Commandments.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/c-street-sex-scandal
July 18th, 2009 at 12:56 amcarmela says:
It’s okay for the liberals to slam Palin, why? Because she’s white and female?
Palin gets slammed, not because she is white or a woman, but because she is stupid. Her VP nomination was way out of her league. Palin has difficulty put two coherent sentences together.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:03 ami would ignore carmela people, s/he’s using tried and true tactics to distract from this much larger and more sinister issue of C-Street.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:37 amcarmela says:
My GOD you are stupid. How can you be so ignorant and brainwashed?
Black people make racial slurs all the time and it’s okay. Obama listened to–and by tolerating Jeremiah Wright’s hate speech for 20 years–supported it.
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WOW. Even for someone as dumb as you that was really stupid. The woman spewed hatred and divisiveness speech after speech and you want to snivel that we are mean to her? The woman is stupid and its ok to call people stupid because they are STUPID, kind of like YOU are, whether or not they are white or female. Please give up the poor oppressed white people stupidity. I am white and its embarassing. Not as embarassing as your stupidity but still pretty embarassing.
Btw, Jesus wasn’t black.
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Ah, OK. So what? How in the WORLD could that possibly matter?
July 18th, 2009 at 3:58 amCaremela
What sexist slurs? You must hang around some really stupid people. As stupid and dishonest as Sarah was. As much as she lied and spewed moronity. There was plenty of legitimate criticisms to make of her. I didnt really see any sexist slurs.
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lol…Like minds?
http://theworldofhowey.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/update-the-brainwashing-of-republicans/
July 18th, 2009 at 7:49 amGod knows the idiots that use religion as a political tool or as a cover for behavior that hurts others, have deminished its value.
Many people think they know what God wants and what we think, individually, is as good as what anyone else thinks.
A link to another tip of the “C Street” iceberg is http://www.talk2action.org/
July 18th, 2009 at 9:33 am