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John Ashcroft's Sleeper Cells
Posted Apr 10th 2007 6:36PM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Politics, Young Turks, Democrats, Republicans, Religion, U.S. Attorneys, Alberto Gonzales
This is the Boston Globe article we refer to in the video above. Dahlia Lithwick, the legal correspondent for Slate is also concerned.
Some in the blogosphere are calling these under-qualified Bushie hacks "sleeper cells." Ready to do the bidding of the extreme right when there is a Democratic president. There is concern that these Pat Robertson trained robots are more interested in their own agenda than the work of the Justice Department. The Christian Taliban has infiltrated the Justice Department. God knows how much damage they can do.
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1. Hey Cenk, you sound bitter and tired. "Bushie Hacks", "Christian Taliban", "Pat Robertson trained robots". Politics can be sleezy stuff with all the pressure put on them by special interest groups (special interest groups, now there's something worth looking into).
Back to the point, if you don't like something Pat Robertson is doing, toss your opinion out there and see how it stacks up. You may have a following on the issue, then again, you could get run out of town.
Whatever, use your skills in a positive way (but keep that bus ticket handy just in case....well you know).
willet at 12:04AM on Apr 11th 2007
2. Cenk,
You referred to "super-servers" like Oprah and Stern and I thought how your show "super-served" me because of its stance on religious ideas. Then I thought, if TYT is "super-serving" me, you're probably stunting your radio career, because there are so many religious people. I mean, there are so few cranky atheists, etc..
Recently, on http://www.pointofinquiry.org/index.php?paged=5 the host of the site referred to people who like to start arguments with religious types as "village atheists". Basically, there's no chance of convincing them that their religion is unreasonable because they don't believe in it for reason's sake. And because they have sooo many babies, we will always be surrounded by them.
So the term "Christian Taliban" seems like a loser. It sounds like something the village atheist would say. I'm working on my own habitual insulting of the snake-n-tree crowd and decided to pipe in.
Later,
lil_turk at 8:25AM on Apr 11th 2007
3. Cenk:
Wow, that's incredible!! I suggest you keep looking for the other half your brain that you misplaced somewhere!!!
Bob Rogan at 10:51PM on Apr 11th 2007
4. Knowing how power hungry Bush and the neocons are, this honestly wouldn't surprise me. This is the most oppressive, repressive governmnent we've lived under since maybe the 1950's. Never before in my life have I feared my own country and felt it might be spying on me, not even in the days of really powerful Presidents like Johnson or Reagan. Since Bush isn't smart enough, it has to be Rove and the others. Our President acts like he's a king or dictator, not a leader, and certainly not a uniter. Give all this, "sleeper cells" do come into the realm of believability.
Lee at 3:46PM on Apr 12th 2007
5. THE NAZI PARTY HAD NOTHING ON THIS BUNCH, EXCEPT THEY AT LEAST HAD SOME PEOPLE IN POWER THAT HAD ABILITY, NOT THE TEXAS BUDDY, YOUNG REPUBLICANS - ALL INCOMPETENTS.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS INSPIRED THIS BUNCH, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL SUFFER THE SAME FATE AS THE NAZIS.
Jack F. Doyle at 3:58PM on Apr 13th 2007
6. Christian Taliban? I am offended and insulted by the term and, I suspect, so too a great many more people than on the Rutgers women's basketball team. Shall we get out of the way for the likes of Al Sharpton as they righteously defend offended Christians or members of the Taliban? Shall we look forward to the firing of the person who coined that term? I for one will be startled to see such equality in the response of the inteligentsia.
MisterPMD at 11:15AM on Apr 15th 2007
7. LOL - you wrote "God knows how much damage they may do." That is funny! Why would God know since they don't even know God? LOL!
Gigi Jones at 2:48AM on Apr 17th 2007