MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell went on the attack against Mormonism and Mitt Romney. O’Donnell tried to mask his attack as a response to comments made by Romney about “secularism” but we all know what this is about. Mitt Romney doesn’t have a religion problem, as O’Donnell asserts, the liberal media does.
Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it. Forty-eight wives later, Joseph Smith’s lifestyle was completely sanctified in the religion he invented to go with it, which Mitt Romney says he believes.
It didn’t take long for Kevin Williamson to completely debunk O’Donnell’s assertions.
Thanks for the Muppet News Flash, Larry. The exact nature of Smith’s polygamy is contested (his only children were from his first wife, leading some to believe that his polygamy was of a non-sexual nature), but, yes, he was a polygamist. So was Solomon. So was Abraham. And, oddly enough, Lawrence O’Donnell plays a polygamist’s attorney on television — there’s nothing quite so satisfying as profiting from the prurient interest in a subject you denounce. Charlemagne was a polygamist. We can do this all day: Muhammad married a nine-year-old girl; Mohandas Gandhi married a 14-year-old girl in an arranged marriage and was kind of a weirdo. Wikipedia informs us that Lawrence O’Donnell has half as many ex-wives as Newt Gingrich.
Mormons gave up polygamy a long time ago. It’s not the 19th century any more. (Read More)
American Power has video of O’Donnell’s pious bigoted rant if you care to view it, even if just to get an idea of what’s to come. NBC’s David Gregory made it a point to stress that Morminism is “at the core of who Mitt Romney is.” But just because it’s expected doesn’t mean it’s right.
Remember, the progressive media has no problem with Harry Reid being a Mormon, and went out of their way to shield viewers from the racist, anti-American rants of Obama’s Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I guess it’s up to us to continue to point out the bigotry they reserve for Republicans.
I would make it a point to see if I could find someone of the Mormon persuasion in the middle of a highly liberal area, say upstate NY, shake his hand and exclaim loud and defiantly that you are now going to vote Romney instead of odumb-dumb JUST BECAUSE at the least Romney has a true moral center!
The Main Stream Socialist Propaganda Spewers are trying to make us feel embarrassed that a conservative has a religious faith he believes in.
We need to let lib/socialists know we are not going to continue to allow them to embarrass us for holding to our spirituality or be allowed to be treated as intellectual Neanderthals. We are the majority, we need to start asserting ourselves. IMHO
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O’Donnell has a big union, pro Obama attitude and will attack every aspect of any candidate that will oppose either unions or Obama. He’s another Ed Schultz in his approach to the news. Since he is not a journalist, he uses his position at MSNBC to create propaganda that bashes anyone who he perceives as a threat to his medieval ideology!
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I find all this talk about religion to simply be a diversion from the main topic. That topic in any political arena should be Obama’s ineptitude as the 44th President and his abysmal record. The Left will continue to use any attack they find that fits their agenda to degrade any and all GOP candidates and their proposals to get America back on the right track. Perhaps the media hacks should begin vetting Obama; something they deliberately neglected (refused?) to do in the 2008 election cycle. For example; there’s only been a few passing comments about Obama being raised by a Muslim father from Kenya, an Atheist mother from Kansas and later a Muslim step-father from Japan. Less has been said about Obama’s step-father – Lolo Soetoro – enrolling Obama as a Muslim in a Catholic school in Indonesia in the early 1970′s where Obama studied the koran while his Catholic classmates read their Bibles. And later, Obama denounced his Muslim faith and declared he was an Atheist. As an adult, Obama joined Rev. Wright’s church to gain access to those in the know in order to advance his agenda for the future.
Obama has had one goal in mind since getting involved in politics and with the help of Bill Ayers, that has been to destroy Capitalism. It is more than clear to see his anti-American agenda is presently in operation with his anti-gun, anti-gun owner, anti-Second Amendment, anti-oil, anti-coal, anti-industry, anti-business, anti-Israel, anti-U.S. military, anti-Super Power, anti-American nuclear; but pro-Soviet nuclear program; AND a few dozen other anti’s in Obama’s backpack for the transformation of the United States of America to the United Socialist States of America coming to a Third World Nation near you beginning in 2013 IF re-elected to a second term. It is Obama’s desire to become our Ruler, our Dictator who answers to no one; NOT our elected Commander in Chief who must answer to We the People for his actions.
Obama’s defeat in November 2012 would unquestionably be the salvation of the USA and something we’ve called the Constitution.
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Isn’t O’donnell the one who viciously attacked Michelle Malkin when he was sitting in for somebody on ms-lsd ? I pretty much stopped watching that station after that.
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I’m so glad this subject came up. As a Bible-believing Baptist I have absolutely no problem with Mit Romney’s religion. My lack of respect for Romney is because he has no moral compass.
I know very little about the Mormon faith, but if it teaches as mine does, that abortion is murder and that gay marriage is immoral, then my problem with Romney is not that he practices his faith, but that he doesn’t! How can you trust a guy who changes his stance on these issues depending on the campaign and the audience? That’s one reason I respect Rick Santorum. We know the Dem’s are going to jump all over these flip-flops in the campaign.
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This might disappoint you.
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This isn’t the first time Lawrence O’Donnell has attacked Mormonism.
4 years ago, when Romney was running against McCain for the GOP nomination, O’Donnell went much further:
O’Donnell said Mormonism was a racist faith with a “demented Scientology-like notion.” He said that Mormonism was the work of “a lying fraudulent criminal named Joseph Smith.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aWjIpkxcak
I would like to show this video to that teacher in Fairfax County who claimed that Democrats are smarter than Republicans, and ask her if she thinks this is an exception to that rule.
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I have created a petition for this please go to the petition and sign if you agree:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/say-no-to-the-journalistic-bigotry-of-msnbc-s-lawrence.html
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Seems to me it’s not so much Romney’s religion as it is the issue of separation of church and state.
When a presidential candidate of the LDS faith, who is known to be a High Priest, having sworn an oath of loyalty by consecrating all that he has (his time, talent and resources) to the Mormon church – and doing so as a covenant made with God in their holiest of places, the temple – it seems this person’s worldview should merit further scrutiny.
I suspect there are many in the electorate who have concerns about the issue over any inappropriate influence between Romney and the LDS Church.
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Which of course is much different than the Zionists in our government who swear to their God under the auspices of Judaism. They of course don’t let their religion sway their view of governmental duties. Do they?
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I am LDS and a Democrat. I didn’t like what Lawrence O’Donnell did one bit. However, I notice conservatives do not point out what people on the Fox News network do that is basically the same. I do not think any kind of yellow journalism is good on what is suppose to be considered a news network. Whether it be on Fox or on MSNBC. Whether it be Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Lawrence O’Donnell, etc.
Mr. O’Donnell should get on his show and apologize. And NBC should take him off the air for quite sometime whether or not he apologizes.
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