Posts about Politics as of October 6, 2009

Glenn Beck is back in the news again and this time it is the remarks of others that have put him there. James Carville has this to say about Beck.“Just out-and-out nuts. And I also think that he’s a blatant hypocrite,” Carville said. “Here’s somebody that sits on his show … weeping about how much he loves America and … and then he’s absolutely giddy when his country doesn’t get the Olympics. And this is — I’ll tell you another thing about Glenn Beck. He wouldn’t know the difference between a football, a bat and a hockey court.

There’s a lot of amused commentary today at the expense of the chuckleheads at Conservapedia, whose latest clash with the parts of the world that don’t fit their preconceptions involves . . . the Bible. Naturally, they’ve set out to do what conservatives do with any text they don’t like: censor the parts they can’t handle, and rewrite the parts they want to.

This is a review found in the NY Times, but I thought it fit with the book review this week: The Bush era was a difficult time for liberal religion in America. The events of 9/11 were not exactly an advertisement for the compatibility of faith and reason, faith and modernity, or faith and left-of-center politics. Nor was the domestic culture war that blazed up in their wake, which lent a “with us or against us” quality to nearly every God-related controversy.