Frank Rich At His Best
If you don’t ingest anything else from the news media this month (and who could blame you?) at least read Frank Rich in the Sunday Times Op-Ed pages: “Latter-Day Republicans and the Church of Oprah.” (You no longer have to be a subscriber to access NYTimes.com)
Some quick quotes:
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referring to The McLaughlin Group:
“…one of the Beltway’s more repellent Sunday bloviations.”
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“When I wrote here two weeks ago that racism is the dog that hasn’t barked in this campaign, some readers wrote in to say that only a fool would believe that white Americans would ever elect an African-American president, no matter what polls indicate. We’ll find out soon enough. If that’s the case, Mr. Obama can’t win in Iowa, which roughly 95 percent white, or in New Hampshire, which is 96 percent white.”
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“After hearing someone like Mitt Romney preach his narrow, exclusionist idea of ‘Faith in America,’ some Americans may simply see a vote for Mr. Obama as a vote for faith in America itself.”
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“This country has had its fill of often hypocritical family-values politicians dictating what is and is not acceptable religious and moral practice. Instead of handing down tablets of what constitutes faith in America, Romney-style, the Oprah-Obama movement practices an American form of ecumenicalism. It preaches a bit of heaven on earth in the form of a unified, live-and-let-live democracy…”
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