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Why Bill Donohue is treated as a real voice for religious tolerance?
Why Jerry Falwell is treated as a real man of the cloth?
Why Bill O'Reilly is treated as a real journalist?
Why Pat Robertson is treated as a real missionary and humanitarian?
Why George W Bush is treated as a politician and office holder?
As a certain circus owner once put it: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can fool all of the people all of the time." (I paraphrase) Its a rather sad commentary on our public discourse that blantant and self-interested ideologues like these command both creditability and respect. Sadly, we can't simply call the Man in the Red Hat anymore and have them all dragged off to a dungeon somewhere.
But that's the price of the Bill of Rights, I suppose.
