SEESHOLTZ: As the November Elections Near...

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As the November Elections Near...

October 3 2006
Counterbias.com
MEL SEESHOLTZ


As the November elections near, the Republicans and the Christian Right are again using the pulpit to bully (and scare) people into voting as they want them to vote.

The term “bully pulpit” derives “from President Theodore Roosevelt’s reference to the White House as a ‘bully pulpit,’ meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda.” The Christian Right already control their bully puppet in the White House pulpit. Using church pulpits to propagate their political agenda was a natural for those intent on making America a theo-state, with themselves in charge of course.

(pretty long article so I'll only post that much, but give it a read!)

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