Giving McCarthyism A Bad Name
That’s Chuck Colson’s first impression of Defcon’s attack ad against Ralph Reed, Jim Dobson and Lou Sheldon. I couldn’t agree with Mr. Colson more. DefCon is the George Soros-funded hate group that bought the ad in the NY Times. Here’s the most objectionable line in the ad (titled “The Religious Right Has a Gambling Problem”):
“all the time they must have been betting that they would not get caught taking their thirty pieces of silver and selling out the millions who believed them. [But] they were wrong.”
This isn’t just another looney left hate website. They’re looney alright but they’re far from ordinary. Here’s the link to Defcon’s Advisory Board staff.
The attack on these Christians is sponsored by a group called Defcon. Its website lists the people, a Who’s Who of the extreme left, including same-sex “marriage” and pro-abortion activists, liberal professors, and ACLU luminaries. And they have the nerve to say that Dobson, Reed, and Sheldon have “waged war against our Constitution.”
Suffice it to say that these people aren’t part of the mainstream of American politics. Anything that’s a Tides Center project is anything but conservative, or even centrist, in nature. To say that they’re part of the most extreme wing of the Democratic Party isn’t a bit out of line. The truth is that these people will say anything to villainize Christian conservatives.
The ad that ran last week was on TV and in all the major metropolitan newspapers. The ad was a mixture of truth, wild-eyed guesses and lies. Ralph Reed did accept money from Abramoff or an Abramoff-related group. That’s the truthful part of the ad. The makers of the ad can’t know if Mr. Sheldon accepted money from Abramoff, though it’s doubtful that he did. As for them saying that Dr. Dobson accepted money from Abramoff, why would he? AFter all, Dobson’s been railing for years against gambling of any sort. The implication, of course, is to portray Dr. Dobson as a religious hypocrite.
The best way to beat these charges is to live in such a way as to make the charges seem totally absurd or to make the people who launched the attack look absurd for even thinking it. Actions speak much louder than words in instances like this. Thus far, the known actions of the three gentlemen are quite above board.
Perhaps that’s why Mr. Colson said “I was called the Nixon “hatchet man,” so I ought to know a “hatchet job” when I see one, though I am not sure that I have ever seen anything quite this vicious since the McCarthy era.”
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
March 12th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Just a little off topic, here’s a funny thing about McCarthy. Nobody he accused and interrogated were ever charged with anything, but it was later found out that some of the people who he was suspicious of were actually guilty. So who is the real victom?
March 12th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Vent: That’s not funny, and not a bit off-topic. It’s pathetic, and the longer the lie is around that McCarthy was an evil person the longer it will be before decent people can stand and make just claims about the disintegrating fabric of our public officials, elected and unelected.
The Soros/Moore/moron segment of the looney left hate Christianity because it has standards for everyone, them included. They have never gotten past “I have freedom” to I have a responsibility to my family, my community and my nation.” They have never understood freedom includes responsibility, and Christianity is based upon one’s own responsibility.
They are a sad and sick lot. Even if I wasn’t a Christian (which I am), I would hate to see a world in which their ilk ruled. A society without rules always ends up being ruled by evil despots, cruel people who care not for anyone but themselves (sounds like Soros et al, n’est pas?)
November 28th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Do you feel McCarthyism still exists today?