“I saw Goody Winfrey with the Devil!”

The Bootlicking Corporate Media continued its attacks on Barack Obama and his pastor today.  CNN is especially relentless about this topic, it seems, dragging every person of color they can find who will answer their inane questions in front of a camera for a “response” or a “reaction.”  And then there are the talk radio moonbats, who are just obsessed with this.  And the callers are even better.  Some of the people who actually want to share their opinions on this topic with the whole, wide world know no more about this than you or I do: one admitted to only having seen partof one of the “controversial” sermons on YouTube.  I even saw CNN going after Oprah Winfrey today, as she apparently is or has been a member of Pastor Wright’s church at some point.  Karl Rove (who is probably behind this whole smear) was on Fake News tonight, expressing his feigned exasperated outrage, while the network rolled footage of Fake News “producers” who waited for people outside of Wright’s church yesterday so they could waylay parishioners with stupid questions about their faith and their minister.

I guess now anyone who has ever set foot in that church is fair game.  Funny, but I don’t remember seeing, say, Catholics being ambushed by Murdoch’s brownshirts outside of their churches during the sex abuse scandals…

Not that they should be.  No one should be.  That’s my point there.

I just have one last question about all this nonsense:  How come John McCain gets a free pass for this guy?:

Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam with the aim of destroying it.

On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a “strong, true, consistent conservative.” The endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain’s effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a “spiritual guide.”

The leader of a 12,000-member congregation, Parsley has written several books outlining his fundamentalist religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More. In this work, Parsley decries the “spiritual desperation” of the United States, and he blasts away at the usual suspects: activist judges, civil libertarians who advocate the separation of church and state, the homosexual “culture” (”homosexuals are anything but happy and carefree”), the “abortion industry,” and the crass and profane entertainment industry. And Parsley targets another profound threat to the United States: the religion of Islam.

In a chapter titled “Islam: The Deception of Allah,” Parsley warns there is a “war between Islam and Christian civilization.” He continues:

I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.

Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No More, he notes —approvingly — that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: “It was to defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492… Columbus dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New World. It was this dream that, in part, began America.” He urges his readers to realize that a confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable: “We find now we have no choice. The time has come.” And he has bad news: “We may already be losing the battle. As I scan the world, I find that Islam is responsible for more pain, more bloodshed, and more devastation than nearly any other force on earth at this moment.”

Parsley claims that Islam is an “anti-Christ religion” predicated on “deception.” The Muslim prophet Muhammad, he writes, “received revelations from demons and not from the true God.” And he emphasizes this point: “Allah was a demon spirit.” Parsley does not differentiate between violent Islamic extremists and other followers of the religion:

There are some, of course, who will say that the violence I cite is the exception and not the rule. I beg to differ. I will counter, respectfully, that what some call “extremists” are instead mainstream believers who are drawing from the well at the very heart of Islam.

The spirit of Islam, he maintains, is one of hostility. He asserts that the religion “inspired” the 9/11 attacks. He bemoans the fact that in the years after 9/11, 34,000 Americans “have become Muslim” and that there are “some 1,209 mosques” in America. Islam, he declares, is a “faith that fully intends to conquer the world” through violence. The United States, he insists, “has historically understood herself as a bastion against Islam,” but “history is crashing in upon us.”

At the end of his chapter on Islam, Parsley asks, “Are we a Christian nation? I say yes.” Without specifying what actions should be taken to eradicate the religion, he essentially calls for a new crusade…

The rest is here, from Mother Jones magazine.

We can’t call what’s being done to Barack Obama mere “Swiftboating.”  There’s too much of an obvious racial component here.  Yes, I do believe these attacks are racist.  So what then gives the “Rev.” Parsley the right to call for the extermination of hundreds of millions of people, which is exactly what he’s doing with these words?  How does he get away with his hate?  How does he get a free pass for advocating genocide?

Where are the questions to John McCain about HIS “spiritual advisor”?

Just askin’…

Tomorrow, Barack Obama is giving a speech in my hometown where, apparently, he’s going to address all this silliness.  What I also hope he’ll say is that after tomorrow, he will not address it any more.  That will be it.  It’ll be his Mitt Romney moment.  If Romney could basically say to the country, “I’m a Mormon: now get over it,” then Obama should be able to say, “You asked the questions, I answered them…

“Now get over it.”