Remember James Dobson
James Dobson’s comments on “fruit cake” Barack Obama have been getting a lot of play this week. Journo Jeffrey Feldman can’t help but wonder why the press hasn’t been taking a closer look at Dobson, who definitely qualifies as a bit nutty:
This week, right-wing pundit and leader of the ‘beat your children’ movement, Dr. James Dobson, accused Sen. Barack Obama of committing violence against Biblical teachings.Despite Dobson being a best-selling self-help guru famous for advising parents to whip their children with sticks, every mainstream media outlet somehow managed to overlook this fact. Instead, media coverage of Dobson’s remarks stripped him any and all potential controversy with respect to his views on parenting and child beating, describing him instead with the vague and anodyne term ‘Evangelical.’
That one’s almost too easy…
I agree that Dobson has gotten a soft pass from everyone, including gays. While Fawell et al. have rightly been excoriated by the community, Dobson has largely been ignored. But, he is the real powder in the powderkeg. Lots of “middle America” hangs on his every syllable. The truth needs to be revealed about this nutbag.
If you vote McCain you will see this and more!
The moronic Info-tainment talking heads give credence to these ChristiNazis because they don’t know anything about them and they legitimize them by giving them the time of day.
For those who may have missed my previous posts, I will again refer folks – if you want a very reasoned, balanced look (what I mean by that is it is not just a hate-filled diatribe against the religious right but it is definitely against them and their methods):
Please read anything by Robert Boston affiliated with Americans United for Separation of Church & State. He is a great author, easy to read – can’t say enough good things about him.
bring back the fairness doctrine and these assholes will be out of business.
Umm…Kevin, I think you misspelled nutbag.
The proper spelling is “scumbag’. ;)
Jaroslaw, what is “balanced” about the hate-filled diatribe against the GLBT community at large?
Can you give me one good reason why any of us should listen to or read any viewpoint that makes these religious groups excoriate us to the point of asking for our criminalization and execution like the notorious Fred Phelps?
You turn the other cheek, if you like, but as for myself, I think turning the other cheek is for losers.
That’s my two-cents worth.