New York Times Sees Christian Right Being Led by Secret Club

by Bill Smith ARRA Editorial: A New Your Times article titled "Christian Right Labors to Find ’08 Candidate" by David D. Kirkpatrick also appeared in Sunday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and other papers across the nation. Kirkpatrick displays a blatant use of hot-button words, like "Christian Right" and "secretive club” in an effort to gain readers' interest; and it probably worked.

He begins by stating that the Christian Right as being led by a secretive club known as the Council for National Policy and is headed by leading Christians like James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Liberty University, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation. Amazingly the meeting was so secret that Kirpatrick and other left-wing reporters knew about the meeting, made their way to Amelia Island but were saddly "left out in the cold" while veryone else enjoyed the warm weather.

Kirkpatrick says that "The Council for National Policy was founded 25 years ago by the Rev. Tim LaHaye as a forum for conservative Christians to strategize about turning the country to the right. Its secrecy was intended to insulate the group from what its members considered the liberal bias of the news media. In recent years the group has brought together a cross-section of the right from Edwin J. Feulner to Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association." "The council’s bylaws forbid members from publicly disclosing its membership or activities, and participants agreed to discuss the Amelia Island meeting only on the condition of anonymity."

However after detailing the secrecy of the group, Kirkpatrick goes on reveal the alleged secretly expressed positions by Christian Right leaders about several GOP candidates He goes on to cite direct comments by Paul Weyrich, Gary Bauer, Mike Huckabee, and numerous unnamed sources. Even with Kirkpatrick left-wing biased approach, any reader with any sense of reason will see that it is no big secret that the Christian Conservatives have not settled on whom they believe will be the front runner for the GOP or suitable to the majority of "Christian Right." It is also no big secret that the Christian Right does not trust the left-wing press!
From the Left we may hear "Lord Forbid - are these people meeting!" But from the Right we will probably will hear, Thank God -- these people are meeting." And to Kirkpatrick and the New York Times, thank you for again revealing your left-wing bias so clearly to all readers.

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