Michael Medved has driven me shrill!

[elfs]

Wow, Medved really dives for the crazy.

Michael Medved has posted an very special kind of crazy in his latest post. In an article entitled Americans are Right to Resist an Atheist President, Medved asserts that an atheist president would be incapable of performing his ceremonial roles. He would be incapable of reciting the amended Pledge of Allegiance, or singing any of our patriotic songs. He would be incapable of "identifying" with the vast majority of Americans.

But Medved really goes over the edge when he suggests that we must not elect an atheist president because it would enrage "Islamo-Naziists" (and if that phrase doesn't make your diaphragm clench in disgust, nothing will). Medved makes the same tired argument others have made: the best way to show our difference with Islamic Fundamentalists, who "hate us for our freedoms," is to give up the freedoms they hate and move closer to them. His proposal that a Christian is better suited to avoid enraging "moderate Muslims" is ridiculous: does the word "crusader" mean nothing to this man? In the final result, Medved is simply being cowardly: members of the version of Islam he fears have a reputation for sudden and extreme violence when one of them perceives "an insult," so to avoid that violence Medved proposes we become more like them and avoid the "insult" of exercising our freedoms.

What really galls me, though, is that the article, about how it would be bad to elect an atheist president, is accompanied by an illustration of Barak Obama, and a pointer to a second article claiming that Obama is an elitist humanist type who claim to believe in God only for the sake of political expedience.

Comments

[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

Michael Medved is like Ann Coulter, only less interesting and less attractive; since SHE is extremely uninteresting and unattractive, I generally manage to forget either one exists. Works great for me, especially since they're both completely irrelevant, as well.

I share your general distaste for the way that point-of-view has been warped into spin, then distortion, finally into wholesale fabrication - which is why I avoid Worldnet.