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Andrew Sullivan gives us an excerpt of an interview between the dancing pundit, Tucker Carlson, and Chris Matthews, in which Carlson gives out a strong line for the idea that Republican leaders are really only playing cynical politics when they push Evangelical issues for that base, which is presumably being brought out by the Foley scandal, I guess. Sullivan seems to think that this is only brutal honesty.
I am a bit skeptical, and Tucker Carlson is not exactly our era's Walter Cronkite. We only see these Republican politicos on TV and in the news for the most part, but a lot of those Republicans have struck me as being disturbingly sincere when they pimp God into our lives and try to chase gays out. I would hate to imagine a more forceful prosecution of those fundamentalist goals!
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CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in ...
MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?
CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. they live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.
MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?
CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out.
-- "Chris Matthews Show" as quoted by Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan gives us an excerpt of an interview between the dancing pundit, Tucker Carlson, and Chris Matthews, in which Carlson gives out a strong line for the idea that Republican leaders are really only playing cynical politics when they push Evangelical issues for that base, which is presumably being brought out by the Foley scandal, I guess. Sullivan seems to think that this is only brutal honesty.
I am a bit skeptical, and Tucker Carlson is not exactly our era's Walter Cronkite. We only see these Republican politicos on TV and in the news for the most part, but a lot of those Republicans have struck me as being disturbingly sincere when they pimp God into our lives and try to chase gays out. I would hate to imagine a more forceful prosecution of those fundamentalist goals!
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CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in ...
MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?
CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. they live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.
MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?
CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out.
-- "Chris Matthews Show" as quoted by Andrew Sullivan
