Media Finally Discovers Army of Pat Robertson Acolytes in Bush Administration

[kurth]

Media Finally Discovers Army of Pat Robertson Acolytes in Bush Administration
By Max Blumenthal, HuffingtonPost.com
Posted on April 13, 2007

When Monica Goodling's name erupted into the news last week, the mainstream press discovered suddenly that Pat Robertson's Regent University exists. Not only that, the press learned that it has made a deep footprint in George W. Bush's Washington.

Since Robertson's failed presidential campaign, coverage of him has largely focused on his mercurial and bizarre personality. He seemed only to appear in the news when one of his many entertainingly outrageous gaffes or false prophecies earned publicity. While Robertson's hysterical episodes deserved all the coverage they generated, with a few notable exceptions, the mainstream press habitually ignored his political machinations. Robertson and his cadres exploited this lack of scrutiny to quietly erect a sophisticated and far-reaching political network that today propells the Christian right's ongoing march through the institutions...

But in the wake of Goodling's hotly publicized resignation, the mainstream press suddenly -- and correctly -- decided to judge Robertson by the fruits he has borne. In the Washington Post-owned Slate Magazine, Dahlia Lithwick published a penetrating look at "How Pat Robertson's law school is changing America." Lithwick notes that as early as 1997, when Goodling was enrolled at Regent and working as a spokesperson for the school's Office of Government, she was ducking pointed questions from reporters.

The Boston Globe also ran a insightful look at Regent Law's impact on public policy. The Globe cited (as I did days earlier right here) Kay Coles James as the key link between Regent and the Bush White House. The Globe's Charlie Savage wrote, "In 2001, the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent's government school, Kay Coles James, to be the director of the Office of Personnel Management -- essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent alumni."...

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/50408/

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Director of the Office of Personnel Mgmt.

wow.

pass the koolaid.

[daninthemoon]

2. Oberman was talking about it last night. A kid from this bizarre

3 year law school was instrumental in determining which AG's to fire. She had authority over prosecutors who had spent a lifetime going to real universities to get their degrees, and then working years through the ranks to prove themselves.

[rodeodance]

6. someone posted an article about this about week ago on DU also.

[rodeodance]

8. maybe it was that Globe story in the IP?

[rodeodance]

3. Rupugs have built up the form of INFRATRUCTURE thoughout America--

It seldom matters who is on top-----and if gets fired, or leaves)-----it is the infrastructre that holds it in place.

[tabasco]

4. The Bush mafia has corrupted our government completely.

Robertson is as corrupt and greedy as they come. He has supported murderous dictators who were his business partners. The Robertson empire is an empire of greed, not Christianity.

[daninthemoon]

5. Amen!

[ThomWV]

7. K&R This is how they are doing it folks

This filth they have reared will rot in the bowels of our country for the next 50 years.

[formercia]

12. That's the plan

and they hope it does our constitutional form of government in for good.


These people are out to murder the Constitution and all it stands for.

[tanyev]

9. Media finally uses both hands; discovers backside.

[TahitiNut]

15. We had to hold the flashlight, though.

The view hasn't been pretty. :puke:

[Bjorn Against]

10. Yes, the right-wing often likes to pretend that Pat Robertson is a nobody in the party...

They know most Americans would find him repulsive so they pretend he is really not that influential, but anyone who is able to get 150 of his people jobs for a pResidential administration is VERY influential. The GOP is the party of Pat Robertson and they can not deny it any longer.

[Wilber_Stool]

11. I see a day coming when

all we'll need tin foil for is freezing meat.
Although, I could be wrong.

[bobthedrummer]

13. The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

from the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University
http://4religious-right.info/

[FloridaJudy]

14. Bush only needs ONE ....

...rock to turn over in search of toadies. I used to look at the "quality" of Bush appointees and exclaim, "Sheesh! Where does he find these people?" Now I know.