McCain has not sat in Parsley's church Sunday after Sunday for twenty years - more than 1000 Sundays.

McCain has not sent his precious children to be indoctrinated at Parsley's church.

McCain did not appoint Parsley his spiritual advisor or mentor.

There is no comparison at all.

The hypocrisy of the MSM is stunning.

By BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and REHAB EL-BURI

I'm sure Rehab is very objective.

Apples. Oranges.

The important thing is that Wright hurt Obama when it needed to. I doubt McCain's preacher will have the same kind of impact.

So asking for Parsely's support is the same as going to Wright's racist "church" for 20 years, praising him, and giving large donations?

Besides, Islam does plan to conquer the world; they tell us that all the time.

re: #1 galloping granny

McCain has not sat in Parsley's church Sunday after Sunday for twenty years - more than 1000 Sundays.

McCain has not sent his precious children to be indoctrinated at Parsley's church.

McCain did not appoint Parsley his spiritual advisor or mentor.

There is no comparison at all.

Zactly.

Old New York saying:

"Money talks, bullshit walks"

How much money has Senator McCain contributed to Pastor Parsley's church and how long has he been a member of Parsley's congregation?

Sorry ABC -no equivalence to Wright/BO Not even close!

/TRY AGAIN!

re: #3 JammieWearingFool
y BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and REHAB EL-BURI

I'm sure Rehab is very objective.

Patel might be Muslim as well, although he could be Hindu.

Their Obama story has tis headline: Buried in Eloquence, Obama Contradictions About Pastor

Please.

In the Bitterlands Parsely's comments will yield a: "Yup, we know."

-J

My son and I watched this hit-piece on ABC this morning and nothing Pastor Rod Parsley said even comes close to the poison Rev. Wright spewed out.

This will backfire big time.

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world.”

But isn't that statement true?

re: #9 Kosh's Shadow

y BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and REHAB EL-BURI

Patel might be Muslim as well, although he could be Hindu.

I know plenty of Patels. I was talking about Rehab El-Buri.

I doubt he's Amish.

re: #1 galloping granny

McCain has not sat in Parsley's church Sunday after Sunday for twenty years - more than 1000 Sundays.

McCain has not sent his precious children to be indoctrinated at Parsley's church.

McCain did not appoint Parsley his spiritual advisor or mentor.

There is no comparison at all.

exactly

"Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,"

"and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore."

True, and true.

Wright made Osama, sorry, Obama look bad, This makes McCain look good.

re: #13 dolfan

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world.”

But isn't that statement true?

Yes it is. I hope that those who read this story pause and think about the nature of Islam, even research it.

It isn't really so much "evening the score" as it is citing facts.

The argument 'everything the pastor's saying is true' won't work, btw.

While some may not agree with me, what Parsley is saying about Islam is true. It does want to conquer the world, it wants no other religions but itself and has been trying to remove all other faiths since it was started by the Pedophile of the Desert (Peanut Butter Upon Him).

Plus the fact that McCain did not attend his church for 20+ years and give the guy $50K in the last 2 years. The moral equivalency of the MSM is unbelievable... not surprising but still unbelievable.

re: #14 JammieWearingFool

I know plenty of Patels. I was talking about Rehab El-Buri.

I doubt he's Amish.

I knew that; I was pointing out that 2 of the 3 could be ROP'ers.

Although I think the Patels I knew were Hindu

evangelical minister who describes Islam as “anti-Christ” and Mohammed as “the mouthpiece of a conspiracy of spiritual evil.”

So, that is supposed to be controversial?

Will CAIR sue The Rev and McCain now?

According to the MSM this statement is offensive and hurts McCain:

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,” Parsley says on the DVDs reviewed by ABC News.

But this statement is ignored and means nothing to the millions of Americans voting for Obama:

"We will rule the nations, by Allah's will, the USA will be conquered, Israel will be conquered, Rome and Britain will be conquered...
The Jihad for Allah... is the way of Truth and the way for Salvation and the way which will lead us to crush the Jews and expel them from our country Palestine. Just as the Jews ran from Gaza, the Americans will run from Iraq and Afghanistan and the Russians will run from Chechnya, and the Indian will run from Kashmir, and our children will be released from Guantanamo. The prisoners will be released by Allah's will, not by peaceful means and not by agreements, but they will be released by the sword, they will be released by the gun".

-Obama booster & Hamas spokesman, Yasser Ghalban

The libs and MSM will equate Parsley with Wright. Par for the course.

Was this guy a spiritual mentor, father figure, and inspiration for a book to McCain?

Did McCain attend his church for 20 years?

Did he officiate McCains' wedding, baptize his children?

None of the above?

OK, they WTF is the story here?

re: #1 galloping granny

McCain has not sat in Parsley's church Sunday after Sunday for twenty years - more than 1000 Sundays.

McCain has not sent his precious children to be indoctrinated at Parsley's church.

McCain did not appoint Parsley his spiritual advisor or mentor.

There is no comparison at all.

In the eyes of the Democrat shills that pass themselves off as "objective journalists", it's worse. It's a "stain" he can never wash away.

Like I said...the devil laughs!

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Al Moheet, a regional Arabic Web site operating in Egypt, carries the story with a picture of McCain and the headline: "McCain's Spiritual Adviser Calls for the Destruction of Islam."

I'm so glad the American msm is so thorough in it's research, and particular about framing that the muslim street is being brainwashed with this lovely propaganda.

No evidence presented, so far, that Parsley's statements are not absolutely true.

I heard about this Parsley strategy last week.

It won't work.

First of all, McCain's association with Parsley is pretty slim, and recent. He wasn't McCain's "mentor" for 20 solid years, didn't marry him and his wife, didn't baptize his kids, etc.

Second, I'd say a majority of Christians actually agree with what Parsley is saying -- so they won't take offense at McCain being associated with him.

Parsley may be a bit in-your-face, but he's not anti-American in the slightest. In fact, he's hyper-pro-American. Therein lies the difference.

Which would you choose: an outrageous preacher who's aggressively pro-America, or an out-of-control preacher who's aggressively anti-America?

This is a losing issue for the Democrats. Only keeps Wright in the public's mind.

Other than this comment: “America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” I think the guy is spot on the money myself. Or did I miss something?

Brain Ross isn't what I would call a credible reporter. (Something to do with exploding pickup trucks and sabotaged automatic transmissions.)

It's pathetic when the opposition has to accuse someone of speaking the truth.

Here's the word from the man Obama pledged to meet without preconditions: Islam will conquer the world.

You can just imagine a steamy room full of ABC scribes searching, googling for the pretense of anything resembling moral equivalence. Lo and behold, this is it. It doesn't matter if Parsley's assessment is correct or not, it just matters that he is criticizing another group. It won't be long until the "racism" meme is picked up and someone will have to calmly explain that Islam isn't a race. Meh, more MSM bile. I can't wait for these fools to go bankrupt.

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,...”

“...and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”

And Rev Parsley is wrong.....how?

The battle of the leafy vegetables--Parsley v. arugula--begins.

re: #33 JohnnyReb

Other than this comment: “America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” I think the guy is spot on the money myself. Or did I miss something?

No, no you didn't. That's the only comment that I could see that is a bit inaccurate.

Yah, I just happened to see this hoohah this morning. It went on and on, like a five-minute hit piece. Well, hey, I guess you have to expect this as part of the election process.

I suppose the lib MSM thinks this will ameliorate the effects of Wright on Obama, more than they think it will really hurt McCain. Heck, it probably helps McCain on the right and in the middle!

It wlil be curious to see what, if anything, McCain's campaign, and the candidate himself, says in response.

Where Parsley is wrong:

America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed...

Well, no actually, that's not why America was founded. That statement does make him sound nuts.

But I agree that this issue isn't going to gain any traction.

re: #1 galloping granny

Sorry Granny, no logic allowed here. Since when is the MSM expected to let the facts get in the way of making a political point? Take your inconvenient little assertions and move along. We've got an election to win you know...

This is beautiful!

In comparing religious leaders:
One the one side you have vitriolic racist "goddamn AmeriKKKa" from a radical leftist race pimp and on the other someone who "speaks truth(mostly - I'd question some of his stuff there) to power" in telling it as it is about islam...

Let the MSM go on like this, they will only help sow the seeds or defeat for the candidate they've collectively helped vault into the collectivist's party candidacy...

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,” Parsley says on the DVDs reviewed by ABC News. “America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” Parsley says, “and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”

Aside from the word "anti-Christ", what's to even disagree with? Hundreds of Muslim preachers have said exactly what Parsley says: they intend to conquer the world, by any means necessary (including violence). Just re-visit the MEMRI archives.

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,” Parsley says on the DVDs reviewed by ABC News. “America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” Parsley says, “and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”

And they make little effort to act otherwise, IMHO. This is the gist of most of the sermons preached by their imams. I would say Reverend Parsley has been watching their videos.

I believe he is correct in his statement concerning America founded to see this false religion destroyed, in that America was founded to stand against tyranny, and Islam is tyranny.

re: #38 buzzsawmonkey

The battle of the leafy vegetables--Parsley v. arugula--begins.

LOL!

BTW, you never got back to me about my Obama campaign sign Cafe Press idea. I await your communique!

OT:

Help yourself, Lizards. :)

(celebrating my 10,000^th comment :)

re: #41 Charles

Well false religions aren't going to do well in a free nation.

Is it just me, or might this actually i>get McCain some votes out in hillbilly country.....you know, the very areas that Obama ain't winning?

re: #47 Ma Sands

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Plain speech. Can't have plain speech. Anyone who engages in plain speech must be marginalized, and punished by loss of reputation as severely as possible. Let the populace become accustomed to the clean, bracing air of plain speech and they will gag on the perfumed laughing gas of euphemism.

We cannot have that.

re: #33 JohnnyReb

Other than this comment: “America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” I think the guy is spot on the money myself. Or did I miss something?

this is a battle of Principalities.....good vs. evil.....GOD THE FATHER vs. the father of all lies & subterfuge. or good is evil & evil is truth.
"is it tomorow,...or just the end of Time!" J.Hendrix

re: #13 dolfan

“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world.”

But isn't that statement true?

It is, the truth has a certain ring to it. All the spin doctors in the world can't change that.

November 5th cannot get here fast enough.

#11 In the Bitterlands Parsely's comments will yield a: "Yup, we know."

Joshin, you just redrew my Atlas.

#3 JammieWearingFool

By BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and REHAB EL-BURI

I'm sure Rehab is very objective.

I don't wanna read stuff by Rehab, no, no, no.

re: #38 buzzsawmonkey

The battle of the leafy vegetables--Parsley v. arugula--begins.

It will be a bitter battle to say the least. Leeks will out, sprinkling the campaign with the aroma of a nutty edom cheese.

Well, according to Michael Oren, we ditched the Articles of Confederation for a federal government in order to raise the money to build the navy we needed to combat Muslim pirates.

re: #47 Ma Sands

Thank you!
And heartfelt congratulations!

"God damn America," said Rev. Jeremiah Wright. And it's on video. Rev. Parsley says what again that is equivalent to this statement by Rev. Wright?

Oh well.

The MSM completely misunderstands religion anyway.

Its about love.

re: #44 zombie

Re: the anti-Christ

I know you're not into the scriptural interpretations of the apocalypse in current events, but Muslim eschatology describes a Mahdi who bears a striking resemblance to the anti-Christ in Christian theology. It's something to think about.

re: #57 lawhawk

It will be a bitter battle to say the least. Leeks will out, sprinkling the campaign with the aroma of a nutty edom cheese.

Well, I think Rev Parsley made some sage comments, at a good thyme.

“America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,”

That's not true at all.

Christianity teaches than Jesus died on the cross in place of all men.
Islam teaches that a man died in the place of Jesus on the cross.

You can't get more "anti-Christ" than that in a religion. It is the exact opposite of what Christianity teaches.

So that part is true.

The God of Islam is not the God of Christianity. You can see that by looking at what the two Gods teach. You can't argue that apples are oranges because they both are fruit, grow on trees and have a colorful skin. Or that I'm Charles because I have legs, feet, eyes and ears just like him.

The other issue is claiming that there is no difference between moderate Muslims and extremist Muslims.

That's semantics and definitions. By definition that's a false claim. The real issue is what does "moderate" mean and do those Muslims exist. I've had a hard time finding a Muslim that supports Israel.

Trying to conquer the world through violence was true. Now they're a little more political about it. CAIR is not influencing politicians by blowing up IEDs on major US highways.

But again you have to look at how Islam is trying to get its way around the world. In some parts of the world it is true. Other parts, not so much.

The left will have nothing good to say about this but even the secular right can agree with the basic ideas of his message. Even if he goes over the top with some of the details.

re: #51 buzzsawmonkey

Plain speech isn't very nuanced.

re: #47 Ma Sands

OT:

Help yourself, Lizards. :)

(celebrating my 10,000^th comment :)

Happy 10K.

Yesterday I found out I need reading glasses.
*spit*
Today is my 48th (according to my mother), tomorrow according to County records.

Youth is wasted on the young.

re: #41 Charles

Where Parsley is wrong:

America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed...

Well, no actually, that's not why America was founded. That statement does make him sound nuts.

But I agree that this issue isn't going to gain any traction.

I think he's referring to the Barbary Wars, which is the first thing the independent US did as a foreign policy action -- smash Islamic pirates.

Sure, obviously, Parsley's statement is hyperbolic, but as long as he's not "damn"ing America, I don't think the public cares.

re: #54 Ziggy

November 5th cannot get here fast enough.

Nov. 6th for Democrats, pass the word.

What always gets me about these counter attacks wherein they say in essence, 'he did it too', is that they are admitting that their guy did something wrong and don't care. They seem to believe that hypocrisy trumps fault; so if they can find examples where the other guy is just as bad they suppose that their guy is okay, rubbish. Wrong is wrong no matter how many others do the same wrong thing, so Obama can not get a pass even if they make a real claim that McCain does the same; that would just make them both wrong.

Of course, Obama was wrong for twenty years of his life, plus for all the years it took off our lives while making the point for his edification.

Perhaps this might be a good thing, but this might fade from the MSM's view as fast as the Hagee thing, seeing as how they tend to move from one "instance" of "Islamophobia" to the next so quickly.

re: #41 Charles

Where Parsley is wrong:

Well, no actually, that's not why America was founded. That statement does make him sound nuts.

But I agree that this issue isn't going to gain any traction.

Charles, it's a stretch, but I think it was Jefferson who owned a copy of the Koran with an inscription inside the front cover that indicated the purpose of learning its passages was so that the U.S. may better understand its enemies. This was during a time when the Barbary pirates were taking down U.S. shipments and demanding ransom (as always, the European response to this was appeasement).

It's not exactly formal policy, but if there was any recorded intent among America's founders to consider this Islamic extremist culture a threat, that would be it.

Well, let's put the vote to this, then: Do more voters fear/distrust/hate Islam, or do more fear/distrust/hate America?

OT:

Biased headline of the day from the AP...

Iraqi official says US strike kills children

Sounds a bit like Fallaci. Is Parsley Italian?

From the linked article:

"Al Moheet, a regional Arabic Web site operating in Egypt, carries the story with a picture of McCain and the headline: "McCain's Spiritual Adviser Calls for the Destruction of Islam."

"If there is a McCain presidency, he will start with a serious handicap in the Arab world," said former CIA intelligence officer John Kiriakou. "And the handicap is that it is already assumed in Muslim countries that they will not get a fair shake from a McCain administration," said Kiriakou. "

Ahem. This is the American Presidential election, iirc?
Should you be worried that perhaps, maybe, some Arabs feel they don't get a 'fair shake' if McCain is elected?
Should that influence your choice?

Thought not ...

re: #67 zombie

I think he's referring to the Barbary Wars, which is the first thing the independent US did as a foreign policy action -- smash Islamic pirates.

America don't wanna fight no Barbary wars. America wants to fight the Burberry wars, going to the mall to battle for name-brand merchandise.

re: #74 godfrey

Sounds a bit like Fallaci. Is Parsley Italian?

I have Italian Parsley growing in flowerpots on my deck.

re: #24 Kenneth

According to the MSM this statement is offensive and hurts McCain:

-Obama booster & Hamas spokesman, Yasser Ghalban

Good catch!

(Charles, I think your anti-quote function has become too harsh. I think you should allow the citiation of a single depth of quoted text -- it was designed to prevent quotes-of-quotes-of-quotes-of-quotes, but the restriction now prevents some reasonable quotes-of-quotes.)

re: #67 zombie

I think he's referring to the Barbary Wars, which is the first thing the independent US did as a foreign policy action -- smash Islamic pirates.

Sure, obviously, Parsley's statement is hyperbolic, but as long as he's not "damn"ing America, I don't think the public cares.

The Barbary Wars were not about "destroying a false religion," though. The motivations behind that conflict on both sides were economic; the US tried the appeasement/ransom money route for many years, until forced to take stronger action. It was definitely not any kind of religious war.

Injured man arrested in 'nail bomb' explosion at city centre restaurant

A man who is believed to have set off an explosive device in a city centre restaurant is in police custody tonight.

The centre of Exeter was evacuated at lunchtime following a blast at the Giraffe restaurant at the Princesshay shopping centre.

Devon and Cornwall Police said a 22-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the incident.

The man was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the area was sealed off by police. Officers said he suffered lacerations to his eye and some facial burning.

re: #76 buzzsawmonkey

Besides, the only Barbra left standing is Streisand.