Baptism By Fire: The Marxist Media's Bigoted, Anti-Christian Attacks vs. GOP Candidates

By Jared Law
December 5, 2011 at 9:19am
Elections, Issues, Media Bias, News, & Politics

The bigoted, anti-Christian attacks against the faith of the GOP candidates is disgusting. It's reprehensible. And in some cases, it's even hypocritical.

The coarsening of America's culture is definitely being driven by our entertainment & media industries; from Hollywood movies to television shows to the music industry, to the news media, religion in general, and Christian faiths in particular, have been under brutal, sustained attack, for generations, now.

And the News Media, which used to be much closer to the culture of the American people, is now much closer to the Communist Party's goals, than to America's culture. Jjust look at what the Communist Party envisioned in the 1963 goals of Communists in America:

...20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis...

Sadly, today, in accordance with the desires of the Communist Party, the rights of Bible-believing Christians, devout Jews, and those of other 'biblical faiths' are under very brutal, sustained, attack.

One of America's UNALIENABLE rights that is guaranteed is the FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION; the Constitution prohibits Congress from passing any law that restricts religious liberty, or from establishing a national church:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

Remember what two of our Founding Fathers, America's first two Presidents, both very religious men, have said on the subject of religion and morality:

While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

-President John Adams, Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798

Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity.

-President George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 September 1796

Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

-President George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 September 1796

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

-General George Washington, General Orders 2 May 1778

So between opposing Communists, and conforming our attitudes toward religion to mirror those of our Founders, even atheist patriots must recognize the benefit of religion here in America, and should not be against its spread, so long as we don't enable a trashing of the Constitution by allowing a single denomination of Christianity (or another faith), or Christian (or any other type of ) Church, to be elevated to the status of the 'official religion' of the United States of America.

Personally, I know a lot of Christians, but I don't know a single Christian who wants that to see that happen!

So back to the point of this discussion thread: the Marxist Media's attacks against Republicans' Christian Faiths.

The Marxist Media has proven that they are an enemy to Christian America, and it's past time we hold them accountable.

Personally, I REFUSE to go to the websites of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, LAT, WaPo, HuffPo, or any other member of the Marxist Media, unless I absolutely have to.

I also refuse to turn to the CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and other broadcast and cable news networks, unless it's the only way to see a particular event, or timely coverage.

I sincerely hope that eventually, the rest of our movement does the same, if they aren't already so doing.

Here's the disturbing story, from Newsbusters:

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New CMI Special Report: Baptism by Fire

By Matthew Philbin | December 05, 2011

With the 2012 elections less than a year away, the liberal media are attacking President Obama's potential opponents on a number of fronts, but especially on religion. ABC, CBS and NBC have used religion in two ways, either painting the field of GOP primary challengers as a God Squad of religious zealots or playing up differences in their faith. Whether they're letting viewers know that "Rick Perry's gonna have to answer some questions about the people" he prays with, fretting that God "told Michele Bachmann," to enter politics, or devoting no less than 40 segments to the question of whether Mormonism is "a cult" or if "Mitt Romney is a Christian," the networks have repeatedly used faith against the GOP field.

Media preoccupation with the GOP candidates' faith is the exact opposite of how they covered (or didn't) candidate Obama's 20-year attendance at the church of a racist, anti-American pastor who subscribed to "black liberation theology," or Obama's half-Muslim heritage. The MRC's Culture and Media Institute studied network news reporting on the GOP candidates and religion from Jan. 1-Oct. 31, 2011, and compared it to coverage of the Democratic presidential primary candidates over the same period in 2007. The discrepancy, in both the amount and tone of the coverage, was striking. Network reporters, so disinterested in the beliefs of Obama and his rivals for the 2008 nomination, took every opportunity to inject religion into their coverage of the GOP field. (CMI's key findings after the jump)

Networks Get Religion 7 times more for GOP: ABC, CBS and NBC mentioned GOP candidates' religion 143 times in the first 10 months of 2011. By contrast, Democratic candidates' faith was brought up only 19 times in the same period of the 2008 election cycle.

Journalists Confront, Criticize and Question Conservatives on Faith: In 2007, reporters accepted at face value liberal candidates' statements about religion. Not so for 2011's conservatives. The networks were nearly 13 times more likely to be critical or challenging of conservative candidates' faith than liberals'. And more than half the religion mentions in 2011 sought to create and exploit controversy over how many Christian denominations regard Mormonism.

Grilled about God: The media have already targeted three of the top Republican candidates for scrutiny of their beliefs, and the primaries haven't even begun. Networks covered Michele Bachmann's beliefs, her husband's Christian-based therapy practice and her interpretation of wifely "submission" 15 times. Journalists found Rick Perry's unapologetically public faith worth noting 10 times and asked most of the candidates what they thought of Mormonism.

Networks Create more than 100 "Mormon Moments": The three networks brought up Mormonism more than 100 times in 10 months. The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints is the fourth largest religious denomination in America. Yet network reporters clearly think having two Mormon candidates (Romney and Huntsman) of the nine in the race is newsworthy. Before October 8, they mentioned the candidates' Mormonism 61 times, and 13 times wondered if conservative Christians would vote for them. When an evangelical pastor and Rick Perry supporter said Mormonism is "a cult," the networks brought up the incident 40 times over the next 22 days.

Incurious About Democratic Faith in '07: The networks had plenty of opportunities to question Democrats about their beliefs during the 2008 election cycle. Several candidates were Roman Catholics whose voting records on abortion were at odds with their church. None of the three networks mentioned that. Questions about Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, surfaced in early in March 2007 and were covered on Fox News and in newspapers, but it took an entire year for any of the networks to mention Wright. Out of 11 mentions of Obama's religion, not one challenged, criticized or took his statements at anything other than face value.

Recommendations

Tell the Story That's There: The 2011 elections are likely to be decided on economic issues - unemployment, inflation, regulation, public debt and the housing market. They impact and interest religious voters every bit as much as secular ones. Reporters should refrain from injecting religion where it doesn't belong.

Don't be Foreign Correspondents: According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, more than 75 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians of one denomination or another, and 93 percent say they believe in God. But too often network reporters covering religious conservatives sound as though they're reporting back from an encounter with remote, primitive tribes. In vast swaths of the United States, people attend church regularly, pray publicly and don't find expressions of faith uncomfortable or alarming. Those people are news consumers too.

Democrats' Faith Matters Too: A candidate's religious convictions - or lack of them - are worth reporting on, as long as it's done even-handedly. Obama listened to radical, racist sermons at Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for more than two decades. Joe Biden's support for abortion rights is fundamentally at odds with his professed Catholicism. These examples are at least as compelling as an evangelical pastor's opinions on Mormonism or who Rick Perry prays with.

This is the Executive Summary of Baptism by Fire, a new report from the MRC's Culture and Media Institute. For the full report, click link below:

http://www.mrc.org/cmi/reports/2011/Bap ... _Fire.html

http://www.the912project.us/forum/topic ... hare_topic