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One: Vanity Fair's profile of the astoundingly unlikable Karl Rove,
BushCo's master architect and one of the dirtiest, nastiest, most evasive, least ethical, most difficult to pin down Evil Geniuses in political history, which is why the GOP adores him like Lynne Cheney adores lesbians but which is also why he is deeply feared on both sides of the aisle. Karl has no friends. He is geeky and ungainly and women shun him like cats shun hydrochloric acid. He is the thick sweaty uber-geek from high school, now getting his revenge on all of America, deep and nasty and chortling. And he is almost single-handedly responsible for keeping Bush in office, shockingly impeachment-free, all these painful, regressive years. Two: Hanna Rosin's New Yorker piece on the ultra-creepy, meta-saccharine Patrick Henry College in Virginia, the tiny Christian feeder college for the GOP which basically "trains" (read: washes their brains spotlessly clean and replaces all those nasty "thoughts" with happy political sycophantism) young, sweet, sex-free, home-schooled Christian zealot kids to go work like slaves on the Hill and blithely follow the above-mentioned Evil Genius Rove to the bathroom so they may wash his feet and coo. More mandatory articles after the jump... mcphee.com He loves you, and your dashboard Three: a two-parter in Harper's. Soldiers of Christ, Part One: Jeff Sharlet's deeply disturbing look at the world's most powerful megachurch, Colorado Springs' New Life Church, founded and headed by Islam-hatin', war-lovin' Pastor Ted Haggard, the man who has the ear of our bumblin' war-happy president on a weekly basis and who oversees a huge and madly growing flock of rabid evangelical Christians in a sprawling megaplex of glimmering buildings, tents, sanctuaries and temples on a hill. Pastor Ted also presides over the National Association of Evangelicals, 45,000 churches and 30 million followers strong and in nasty possession one of the most powerful religious lobbies in Washington. He, along with Dr. James Dobson (see below) are directly responsible for much of the homophobia, religious intolerance, and general seething hate toward liberals, gays, women and alternative religions in America today. Four: Also from Harper's: Soldiers of Christ, Part Two: Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters. Focusing on Dominionist ubergod Dr. James Dobson (among others) the powerful, deeply homophobic, hatemongering firebrand founder of nipple-hating, FCC-whipping Focus on the Family, whose radio programs (according to Sharlet's piece above), are the most extensive in the world, and whose videos, magazines and books reach more than 200 million people worldwide. Also in this piece (which is by Chris Hedges): Dobson's creepy son, Ryan. Bush as herald of the Second Coming of the Messiah. Violence as a means to serve God. Militant Christianity. Radical Christianity. Bashing Islam. Stomping out "deviants," sexual and otherwise, by whatever means necessary. Hate speech on the radio. Comparing Dobson and his ilk of violent Christian Right wing hatemongers, quite justifiably, to Hitler |
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