Future Ron Paul voter?

Did you know there is a Web site called GodTube.com? Neither did I, until I saw a link to the following video in Sarah Posner's "FundamentList" column of 11/14/07 at The American Prospect Online. Their home page as of this writing was featuring a video of a Catholic priest suggesting that Britney Spears is not "a friend of God." (I'm telling you, the fundis hate her!) The video below is of a fundi guy condemning Pat Robertson for endorsing Benito Giuliani for the Republican Presidential nomination.

I'm not posting this because I think it's unintentionally humorous, or because the guy has any particular insight. But I think it is a useful glimpse at a set of attitudes that is very common among grassroots Christian Rightists. He evidently hasn't picked up on the idea which most people learned in, oh, the 1970s, that "girl" is usually not the appropriate description for an adult female.



This guy did have a bit of a problem around the fact that Robertson is a successful evangelist who presumably saved many souls from Hail. But he reconciled it by saying, "Let's face it. According to the Bible, God spoke through a jackass". Lordy, it almost sounds like he thinks Robertson has become a, a ... liberal!!!

This guy admits to the semi-scandalous act of having once voted for a Democrat himself. He's pushing Mike Huckabee here to beat "the odious Hillary Clinton". Speaking of Brother Huckabee, Matt Taibbi just profiled him in Mike Huckabee, Our Favorite Right-Wing Nut Job 11/14/07 Rolling Stone.

Tags: authoritarianism, christian right, matt taibbi, mike huckabee, pat robertson

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