Salon: Pawlenty 'Has His Own Rev. Wright'
Mild-mannered Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty may have his own Rev. Wright, Salon.com's Justin Elliott sensationally alerted readers of the War Room blog Thursday morning.
The reason, Elliott argues: the former Minnesota governor's preacher believes in manmade global warming and wants a liberal immigration reform policy enacted into law:
It's not quite "God damn America!" but this one bears watching. Tim Pawlenty may have his very own pastor problem.
The former Minnesota governor's longtime pastor is a man named Leith Anderson, who, while he is a national leader in evangelical circles, holds views on a few crucial political issues that are anathema to the typical GOP primary voter.
But whereas Wright was busy during Sunday morning worship services spewing anti-American screeds from the pulpit, it appears Anderson's decidedly more civil political activity has occurred outside the worship service in his role as president of the nonpartisan National Association of Evangelicals:
The influential conservative blogger Erick Erickson of RedState.com tweeted this week: "Prediction: Tim Pawlenty's preacher is going to cause him some problems in the primary."
Erickson included a link to a 2006 NPR story , headlined "Evangelical Leaders Urge Action on Climate Change," which leads with an anecdote told by Anderson.
"My wife and I took an excursion to Antarctica, and for a period of a few weeks, we heard some of the things that were related to global warning as we visited sites," he recalls. ...
"Climate changes in terms of famine, in terms of the inability to grow crops, in terms of the flooding of islands, most affects the poor," he says. "So we here in America probably can do many things to exempt ourselves from the immediate consequences, but the front edge of disaster is most going to affect those who have the least."
Anderson, who leads a mega-church of 5,000 worshippers, is one of 86 evangelical leaders who are challenging the Bush administration on global warming. Their "Evangelical Call to Action" argues that there's no real scientific debate about the dangers of climate change -- an assertion that many balk at. The group is calling on the government to act urgently, by, among other things, passing a federal law to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The climate change issue is particularly sensitive for Pawlenty, who had to apologize during the first Republican debate for his past support for a cap-and-trade plan to cut emissions. We've also seen Newt Gingrich attacked from the right on climate change.
Perhaps Elliott is just being a bit cheeky with his Rev. Wright comparison. Again, there's no doubt Anderson's views may raise questions about what Pawlenty thinks of his pastor's politics.
But absent Sunday morning sermons dedicated to these topics, the analogy is too far a stretch to credibly make; even if Anderson called for immigration amnesty or cap-and-tax from the pulpit, that's still light years away from condemning America as evil.
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God DAMN the mainstream media.......................
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:27pm.
This has gone beyond comical Ken........
We had VIDEO and first hand acknowledgement of Rev Wrights hateful anti-american, anti-white, anti-jew hatefests...................................
The LSM was kicked dragging and screaming in reporting on it.................
Pawlenty's Rev, disagrees with him on some policies or disagrees with some Republicans.......
Yeah, that is the same thing.
A cadre of reporters RAN to Alaska, but not one could make the sojourn to that far, far away place called "Chi-town"......
ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK.............
O'Reilly even schooled her, so she ran
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:28pm.
Doesn't that "genius" Joan Walsh work for this outfit?
Nuff said, the bar has been set soooooooooooooooooooo low.
Who cares, a RINO listening
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:39pm.
Who cares, a RINO listening to a crack pot preacher. Pawlenty isn't going anywhere.
Hyperbole
Submitted by ledurchi on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:44pm.
Comparing "Rev." Wright's deplorable antics to another pastor's questionable climate views is like comparing someone's heroin addiction to another’s habitual finger nail biting. A journalism tool only a journalist who is a tool would use.
Those who do run before the Liberals.
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 5:02pm.
There are many people who stood against the Global Warming Hoax at great expense to themselves. To be fair they are just better people than those who sign truce with the forces of Liberalism. Tim Pawlenty sold out the people and has to pay for having done so. It is up to him to prove that he won't sell out now. We have a dozen people who did not surrender and who have expressed an interest in running for President.
Tim Pawlenty has to dig his way out of that hole before he can start to run and I just do not see him doing it. He just is not a serious candidate just a Democrat's shill like Mitt Romney.
What people were "sold out?"
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 12:29pm.
What people were "sold out" by Pawlenty? It sure wasn't the GOP here in Minnesota.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
If it didn't damage Obama ...
Submitted by KC Mulville on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 6:15pm.
Why should it damage Pawlenty? Unless, of course, there's a possibility of unequal treatment.
Perish the thought ...
If Leith Anderson, slams the opposition like Rev Wright did..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 6:46pm.
Well, If Leith Anderson, slams the opposition like Rev Wright did.. back during the Democratic primary race in 2008, one should expect that the national MSM and the Democrat Party will play it front and center, rather than spike it as they did for Obama and the Clinton;s.
That clip where Reverend Wright is ranting as he thrusts his pelvic to and fro, suggesting that Hillary would be as Bill Clinton had been; Clinton f---ed the black community just as he did done Monica Lewinski. Wright didn't just hate America - he hated the Clinton's too.
Congregation: (cheers)
Oh, just imagine the outrage if a conservative's preacher/pastor/priest dare suggest that Obama did anything of the sort with the white community.. or the rabid support and attention one would get if they suggested that one of the Republican candidates had treated the black community the way Wright suggested that Clinton had.
(;~/ gary
The Two Are Not the Same
Submitted by Tenebrous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:17pm.
The comparison is crazy. Really, some pastor preaching leftist drivel outside of the pulpit is nothing new or shocking; a church I used to attend featured the pastor preaching that kind of trash as the sermon. In any case, it's nothing like Wright's profane, hate-America tirades. To say that it is just makes the person comparing them look stupid, or perhaps, reveals his stupidity.
Oh, and the NAE has been pushing the global warming lie for a few years now. It's an open secret in evangelical circles and it's one of the reasons why I gave up my membership. They talk all about like they're doing the Lord's work, but the upper echelons get together and push trendy leftism. The NAE is dead to me, and a lot of other Christians feel the same way. They don't have the punch they used to.
Visions and Principles blog
What's the big deal here?
Submitted by sherlock1 on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:54pm.
"Tim Pawlenty may have his very own pastor problem."
No problem: all Tim has to say to make this problem go away is that he never heard his preacher say anything like that in the 10 (or was it 20?) years he attended that church every Sunday. Even the stuff that was available for sale on CD.
Really, I can see only smooth sailing for Tim on this: it has already been established to be be a perfectly acceptable explanation by nearly every major media outlet in the US.
Another sign
Submitted by Boil It Down on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 1:07am.
The liberal media is just getting warmed up for the dirtiest campaign in American history. Slime like Salon will be on the front in this battle judging from pieces like this.
My dearest hope in this is that the liberal media will be exposed to many more millions of American people for their corruption and betrayal of the public.
Let's make 2012 a referendum on liberal media. -bidn-
Says who?
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 12:29pm.
"The former Minnesota governor's longtime pastor is a man named Leith Anderson, who, while he is a national leader in evangelical circles, holds views on a few crucial political issues that are anathema to the typical GOP primary voter."
It didn't seem to hurt his chances when he won the GOP nomination for Governor. Nor did it hurt his chances in the Gubernatorial election here is Minnesota. This is nothing more than a "Tempest in a Teapot," "red meat" for those Republicans who already oppose Pawlenty.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.