Ed Schultz Falsely Claims Santorum's 'Phony Theology' Charge an 'Attack on the President's Faith'
As NewsBusters reported Monday, media outlets across America are cherry-picking a lengthy speech by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum to accuse him of impugning Barack Obama's religious beliefs.
Not surprisingly, MSNBC's Ed Schultz joined the hit parade (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
As the segment began, Schultz said, "Rick Santorum ramped up his radicalism this weekend big time. In addition to comparing President Obama to Hitler, Santorum said he wants the federal government out - I mean out - of public education. And on Saturday, he said this about President Obama's agenda."
Schultz then played the same exact snippet of Santorum's speech to the Columbus Tea Party that media outlets have been dishonestly airing for days:
RICK SANTORUM: It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your job. It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology. No less a theology.
After playing video clips from other Santorum speeches, Schultz said, "But by Sunday, Santorum had developed a new explanation for his theology comment."
A video clip of Santorum's interview with CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation followed:
SANTORUM: I wasn't suggesting the president's not a Christian. I accept the fact that the president is a Christian...I was talking about the radical environmentalist. That's why I was talking about energy, this idea that man is here to serve the Earth as opposed to husband its resources and be good stewards of the Earth. And I think that is a phony ideal.
When the clip ended, Schultz said, "Phony's a good word directed at the wrong person. I'm not buying a bit of it. You heard the tape. Santorum said President Obama was imposing a theology not based on the Bible. That is a direct attack on the President's faith."
Actually, Schultz's viewers didn't hear the tape. They heard six sentences out of a 41 minute speech.
Here's what Schultz dishonestly withheld from his viewers:
SANTORUM: The price of fuel right now, they’re talking maybe by the summer we’re looking at $5 a gallon. Why? Why? Because this president systematically is doing everything he can to raise the price of energy in this country. He’s shutting down all sorts of opportunities for us to drill for oil. He’s now trying to infuse not science when it comes to the environment, not environmental science when it comes to drilling wells for oil and gas in Pennsylvania and North Dakota and other places that use hydraulic fracking.
He’s trying to do again what he tried to do with global warming. Instead of using climate science or global science he uses political science. An
d political science in this case is suggesting that a technology that has been successfully used to drill hundreds of thousands of wells in this country, hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells, all of a sudden now that’s a dangerous technology. Why? Because it could lead to lower energy prices. That’s the dangerousness of this technology. It doesn’t fit his pattern of trying to drive down consumption, driving to drive up your cost of transportation to accomplish his political science goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
This is what the president’s agenda is. It’s not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.
Not even close to Santorum attacking the President's faith, is it?
But that's what Schultz said, and what media members have been reporting all around the country for days.
At this point, there really is only one conclusion: Obama's supporters in the press are engaging in a coordinated attack against this presidential candidate and they don't care about the facts or the truth.
If there's any other conclusion to draw from all of these media outlets cherry-picking exactly the same sentences offering exactly the same false opinion of them I'm all ears.
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How dare you question the
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:06pm.
How dare you question the president's faith! is 2012's How dare you question his patriotism!!
Santorum's right when he talks about the president's theology. It IS a theology.
It's a theology that makes a god of the earth. All things: man's convenience, man's comfort, even man's sustenance, at whatever cost, must take a back seat to what environmental worshippers claim is good for "the planet."
Let's analyze some facts
Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:12pm.
Obama is the only Christian I know who while claiming to be a Christian denounces Christianity.
But why throw around empty rhetoric, let's just look at the facts shall we?
The Bible makes it clear that a man that has sexual relations with another man as with a woman, this act is an abomination.
What Christian legislation has Obama sought to undertake to support this theological truth?
1) Obama signs DADT repeal:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/22/AR201012...
2) Obama supports repeal of DOMA
http://newsone.com/nation/washington-watch/ggaynor/obama-supports-repeal...
3) Obama Administration calls for ban on sodomy and bestiality in Military to be repealed
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/defense-bill-will-not-include-provision-...
The Bible says that the shedding of innocent blood will not go unpunished.
1) Obama reaffirms his abortion support
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/01/obama-abortion.html
Our Founders understood that rights were UNALIENABLE, meaning God-given, and that no government had the right to take them away.
1) Obama forces contraception on religious institutions:
http://www.mercatornet.com/sheila_liaugminas/view/10223
2) Obama appointee opposes religious freedom
http://politicalnews.me/?id=11951
If Obama is a Christian, he's the most anti-Christian Christian I've ever seen.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Hope you're sitting down.....
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:15pm.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/messiah-college-professor-obama-may-be-t...
Sorry, Greg...
Submitted by NC Cop on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:41pm.
That opinion leaves a lot to be desired. Basically, he's saying that Obama knows a lot about the bible and knows how to quote it well. That doesn't make him an avid Christian. If I learn everything there is to know about the Koran and quote it at the appropriate time, does that make me a Muslim?
I noticed the professor didn't address how this "most Christian" president sat in the church of a racist hate monger for over 20 years. Interesting.
Also,
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:02am.
keep in mind, Satan knows every word in the Bible, too.
⇒ Yes he does
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:46am.
And like his servant, knows how to twist those words into something not said.
They WILL BE KNOWN by their FRUIT!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:16am.
Thanks for that Stage9! His actions and statements; fruit they are... poison apple anyone? So pretty!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
It's Ed Schultz.
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:13pm.
.......Mr "I'll cut off someone's sentence midstream if it helps push my agenda even if letting it finish would clearly be the opposite of my sinister intent."
Before Ed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRksFWeNmgw
After Ed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmkmIHtA1yQ
I guess these intellectuals
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:31pm.
just aren't all that smart. I mean they can't seem to get their collective (ugh) hands around the idea that one's theology today is taken to mean more than only religious belief. How surprising with all that Ivy League Schooling,
Why did you say Ed "falsely claimed" something about Santorum
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:08am.
Why "falsely"? That's just wasting an unnecessary, redundant adjective. When Ed "I hope my face doesn't freeze this way" Schmutz claims anything about a Republican, it's going to be a falsehood.
Ed's like the guy in the old joke: "Hello," he lied.
The President's "faith"? What faith?
Submitted by lgeubank on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:35am.
The President doesn't have a faith, unless it's "Hate America and whites," as preached by Jeremiah what's-his-name. He just trades on Christianity and capitalizes on it, to manipulate the people, just as everything else he says is for purposes of manipulating the people and getting his way.
He's a real low-life tin-horn dictator, a hypocrite, an Elmer Gantry, and a Mussolini for Dummies.
The Irrelevance of Obama's Religion
Submitted by berlet98 on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:48am.
The Irrelevance of Obama's Religion
According to Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you, and once a Muslim, always a Muslim.
That fact has become relevant in the campaign for the Republican nomination for the presidency ever since Sen. Rick Santorum called into question Barack Obama’s religion when Santorum alleged the president was motivated by “some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible” and also referred to Obama’s “radical Islamic policies.”
First of all, let’s stipulate that religion has no place in American politics–with one important exception: If someone has misstated his religion and misled the electorate, the issue becomes not one of religion but of truth and honesty.
Barack Hussein Obama’s Muslim father, Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, conferred his Islamic middle name, derived from Hussein Ibn Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, on Barack Hussein Obama, Junior. At least in the eyes of Islam, our president is a Muslim, although he has said that “Hussein” is an African name and that he is a Christian.
The case should be closed but isn’t for a variety of reasons.
The president has said that his Kenyan father denied abandoned his Islamic faith before he abandoned his family. He was raised–in part–by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama, an atheist.
Much of his upbringing was provided by his maternal grandparents after his mother married another Muslim, Lolo Soetero, took her son with her to live his formative years in Muslim Indonesia where he attended a Wahabi school in Jakarta and ultimately turned young Barry over to her parents while she pursued her education and career.
All that abandonment had to have warped her child but none of the above proves Obama is a closet Muslim or a religious hypocrite who followed in his father’s footsteps by turning his back on Islam.
The president’s collegiate life is still cloaked in mystery although it is known that he had Muslim roommates and travelled to Indonesia during his years at Columbia University and subsequently visited his father’s Muslim family in Kenya. And, of course, he fondly wrote of dreams inherited from the Marxist father he resented for dumping his family but, again, none of that proves he is really a Muslim and not a Christian.
Antagonizing America’s only ally in the Mideast, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=13822.)
Just exactly how much more Muslim ass does B. Hussein Obama...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:51am.
...have to kiss before you all finally figure it out?
The only people who still believe this fraud to be a Christian are complete idiots, who haven't the foggiest clue as to what a Christian actually is in the first place.
And I can tell you now, it ain't friggin' Barack Hussein Obama.
Andt just wait until you see what the mullah Dear Ruler has planned for his "October Surprise."
I'll give you all three guesses as to what that is going to be, and I doubt anyone will get even close.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Bambi is obviously a "good Christian."
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 8:02am.
Why, he said himself, that he sat in the Reverend Wright's church for 20 years, 20 FREAKING YEARS, and didn't hear anything that the Rev said!
So exactly when and where did he learn about Christianity? Maybe while he was listening to "the most beautiful sound on Earth," that "call to prayer" screaming cat-fight noise of a adhan from the top of some tower each morning? Maybe from his atheist mom, or his commie grandparents? Maybe from his step father? Perhaps while attending the Islamic school?
I guess his conversion to Christ will forever remain a mystery along with everything else that we don't know about this Manchurian Candidate.
If anyone is ever allowed to write the history of Barack Hussein Obama in the future, this could go down as the biggest fraud in the history of the world, and WE are the ones who let it happen.
Nb, We're so f'cked it isn't even funny anymore
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 9:07am.
The Kenyan Muslim comrade Dear Ruler has a $1 billion + war chest, almost total control of the MSM, and is working to buy the votes of the 99.5% of the net tax consumers, and has the support of the stoopid sheeple, 49.5% of which no-longer pay federal income taxes.
Yet so many "conservatives" are still deluded into believing we still have a chance if we only vote repub(e)lican come November.
Bullshit.
(And yes, I really said BULLS*H*I*T!)*
*And grow the Hell up, wienies, because if the term bullshit offends you, then you are a wuss, and probably headed for some form of government slavery - sooner than you think.
We have been voting "republican" for 40+ years, and about the only brick on the road to Hell that they have helped the dems lay that we have managed to pull up is the 55 mph speed limit - and that was due to most Americans voting with their right foot.
I'm guessing today they would all cave like Boehner & Co., and we would all be driving government-issued golf carts at 12 mph.
But what would one expect from a nation of sheeple who will allow their children's lunch to be confiscated by a government goons, as well as allow thier children to be molested at airports all across America.
It's all over but the crying.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
More power to the sheepdogs, Dave.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:18am.
Rock and roll.
On full auto if---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:36pm.
you catch 'em bunched up. :o)
MD
I know what you are saying Dave!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 11:29pm.
I am seeing to some degree that the biased news is setting more and more people against Obama and his ilk. It is getting so crazy that even liberals are getting pissed at what is happening. We won't forget this treason and I hope the media all go out to lunch permanently. The level of treason again is just hard to take. They have no clue and are busy selling out America and what it stands for. No respect for our founders and what they stood for. What made America great; a God fearing, generous nation.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
O
Submitted by lilium479 on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 8:25am.
What Faith?
Obama and his religion
Submitted by Steve Cakouros on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:54pm.
Obama has no faith. In his world, governed as it is by pragmatism, religion is not an end but a means to an end. It gets you elected.
I have never seen it to fail. Those who use the name of Christ in order to feather their nest in any way always pay a price for their duplicity.
Obama will be no exception to that rule.