{"id":256,"date":"2006-10-12T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-10-12T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T23:36:01","slug":"the-theo-con-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"The Theo-Con Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Kuo was a special assistant to the president in the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. He is a long-time conservative Christian activist who has also worked for Bill Bennett and John Ashcroft.<\/p>\n

Now he has written a book that demolishes BushCo’s disingenuous embrace of evangelical America. Tempting Faith<\/a> is Kuo’s confessional account of an office that was purported to assist communities of faith in their missions to help disadvantaged neighbors, but instead manipulated those groups for political gain.<\/p>\n

Kuo describes an office that has contempt for the groups they claim to serve. White House honchos like Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove would refer to their evangelical supporters as “the nuts.” Kuo writes:<\/p>\n

“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcridiculous,’ \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcout of control,’ and just plain \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgoofy,'”<\/span><\/p>\n

With support for the President and his party lurching ever lower, the story told by this book could severely damage their electoral prospects amongst their most reliable constituency. But the rest of us already knew that the usurpers in the White House were not to be trusted, didn’t we? Now the faithful will get a taste of how their false idol has betrayed them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Kuo was a special assistant to the president in the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. He is a long-time conservative Christian activist who has also worked for Bill Bennett and John Ashcroft. Now he has written a book that demolishes BushCo’s disingenuous embrace of evangelical America. Tempting Faith is Kuo’s confessional account of an office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-48","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45595,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45595","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":0},"title":"Apocalypse Wow! 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