CNN's Rick Sanchez says that Black Liberation Theology is "communist".

[TacticalPeek]

DWIGHT HOPKINS, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: I think if we read the whole webpage explanation of those points and I think the point is...

RICK SANCHEZ: OK, what am I missing? You tell us, you tell the viewers.

HOPKINS: Yes. I think first of all we have to go back to the Bible. I want to refer back to Mr. Blackwell's lead in. The whole point about Black Liberation Theology is that it's a theology that arose out of a study of Jesus' words.

And there are two important passages in the Bible we have to look to. The first is the first public speech that Jesus ever makes on earth. It's found in Luke 4:18-19 and this passage is very important. You don't have to be a Christian. You just have to be a literate person to look at that passage in the New Testament.

SANCHEZ: But he seems to be saying, Mr. Blackwell, that you guys are just too political.

HOPKINS: Right. Well, that's what I'm...

(CROSSTALK)

SANCHEZ: That you should stick to God and Jesus and your personal relationship with your savior and not be going on for the direction that seems to be, his word for it, collective. My interpretation of it, leftist or communist.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/23/cnr.02.html

Rick Sanchez is an insufferable idiot.

[EFerrari]

1. He asked for email last night so I asked DU on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5221553&mesg_id=5221553

He's at least one idiot, possibly two.

[madrchsod]

2. my wife works with people who have more complex thoughts than ricky boy

the average iq of of her charges are in the 50-70 range. what is ricky`s excuse?

[Mz Pip]

3. What are they playing here?

Six degrees of separation? I suspect they are trying to imply that Obama thinks this was because someone he knows knows someone who might have read something that can be interpreted as leftist or communist. Sheesh.

[EFerrari]

5. Sanchez should be ashamed of himself. He should know about

Liberation theology -- he's a Latino for pete's sake, and it was huge in Latin America in the 80s.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Not very popular with Cubans in the US though. A lot of them see

"commies" behind every bush.

[EFerrari]

14. Not to mention, US goverment bribes. n/t

[IntravenousDemilo]

4. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Jesus and the apostles were all socialist. n/m

[kestrel91316]

6. But I thought Jesus openly and specifically advocated

what we now call socialism.........

I mean, there's something explicitly to that effect in the red letter part somewhere.

Jesus was in NO way into unfettered free-market capitalism, that's for sure. That socialism thing is why some serious biblical literalists like the Hutterites live in communes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite

[EFerrari]

8. No kidding. And, look at this:

SANCHEZ: But he seems to be saying, Mr. Blackwell, that you guys are just too political.

When was the last time anyone accused a "white" megachurch of being too political? Those black people should just shut up and let their votes be stolen all over the country just like they always are. What are they thinking? :sarcasm:

[lpbk2713]

7. He's a dingbat.

He's one of those people who should never be allowed in front of a TV camera.

[heidler1]

9. It does strike me as odd that the Christian Fundies are so obsessed with condemnation and

anti- socialist views which are very un-Jesus like, but still love the facade of being true believers and followers of the religion.

[EFerrari]

10. Picture of this "communist" attending to LBJ in the hospital:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5235385&mesg_id=5235385

[EFerrari]

11. Kick

For me, this isn't about Obama.

This is about a good man being smeared all over the country in the most blatant way.

:kick:

[Prophet 451]

12. aging cold warriors

It's pathetic really, how they just can't move on.