Steinem - Palin was used

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Steinem - Palin was used
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Wed, 11-05-2008 - 7:39pm

did anyone watch Oprah today?

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sun, 11-09-2008 - 5:51pm

I seriously don't understand how you think the way you do.

 

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Sun, 11-09-2008 - 6:08pm
Well you have to admit it is really hard to come up with ways to justify some of the things that have gone on this election season, after awhile it just stops making sense.
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sun, 11-09-2008 - 7:35pm
That doesn't surprise me at all.

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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 11:27pm

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Hagan was angry because she felt the ad suggested that she, herself believed there was no God, I guess because of the "There is no God" voiceover. We'll see if a judge agrees with her, and grants her an award for libel. As I see it, I don't care for the fear-mongering tone of the ad, but I don't see it as libel, since it really did just state the facts.

Anyway, you make an excellent point. Hagan is willing to take money from the Godless Americans PAC, but she obviously doesn't want to be publicly associated with that group. Let's be honest, athiests are about as popular in America as the KKK or OJ Simpson. So Hagan did wuss out instead of take the opportunity to stand up for athiest Americans.

That said, the ad was so very cringeworthy. Replace "Godless Americans" with "Jews" and you can see how this ad might have played to the worst fears of some North Carolinians 30-40 years ago. Heck, maybe even today. It seems to me to be appeal to those who fear the idea that "freedom of religion" applies to non-Christian Americans.

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