Posts Tagged: Moral Majorities
Friday Holiday Linkarama
Posted by on Friday, August 3, 2007 in - 29 comments
Just a week off. Just one but, really, it's already begun in my mind. When did it start? When I began planning? When work got quiet from other people being away? It's always better on holiday. • Death to the animals update: We salute you, cougar choker! • Thanks for nothing, Norma. • So even …
God's Hand
Posted by on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 in - 5 comments
It was interesting to read these words in a Martin O'Malley bit hidden on CBC.ca somewhere quoting the Colorado Rockies Manager of all people: • “"You look at things that have happened to us this year. You look at some of the moves we made and didn't make. You look at some of the games we're …
Moral Majorities: Game On
Posted by on Thursday, December 2, 2004 in - leave a comment
This snippet from the Daily Kos, which I do not read much so don't bother, is interesting in light of my cogitations under this rubric: • “In all cases, Rove wants to force Democrats to defend taxes and lawyers. Trained in the ways of direct-mail targeting, he doesn't want to seduce the whole …
Moral Majorities: Communication
Posted by on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 in - 5 comments
About a month ago I proposed that, in light of the Republican sweep to the south, the left needed to get its act together to re-assert its control of the centre. I started a list of topics that needed discussion as part of the over-all plan and this is the first of those discussions. In relation …
Moral Majorities: Plan for the Left
Posted by on Thursday, November 4, 2004 in - 18 comments
So here we go. What are the elements of the plan to take back the middle? In this post I do not want to discuss the content of the elements so much as identify them in no particular order. • Communication - the right has spent over twenty five years creating shock-talk radio, evangelical TV and …
Moral Majorities
Posted by on Wednesday, November 3, 2004 in - 74 comments
The US after this election is witnessing the results of an effort which has taken the best part of forty years through which socially conservatism has become mainstream. It has been a comprehensive effort which has worked its way through the media, economics, academia, the churches and government …
Jesus Loves Me This I Know...
Posted by on Sunday, October 17, 2004 in - 9 comments
...'cause Dick Cheney tells me so... • Again, some months ago, I wrote about a PBS Frontline piece on the use of Biblical language by President Bush. Apparently the sublty of the implication of his speechification style has now been found lacking and, now, it has been confirmed that if you vote …
Frontline on Dubya
Posted by on Thursday, June 3, 2004 in - 1 comment
I watched PBS's Frontline and its hour long discussion of the faith of George W. Bush, "The Jesus Factor", this evening and was struck by one passage about the transformation of themes in the speeches of Bush after 9/11. • I generally follow the arguments of evangelicals and believe much the …
