Only on Fox Could Bush’s Personal Friend Become Obama’s ‘Pastor Problem’

[babylonsister]

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Only on Fox Could Bush’s Personal Friend Become Obama’s ‘Pastor Problem’

By: Jason Easley
Apr. 1st, 2013


The right wing media has gotten so desperate to feed their Obama hate machine that they have labeled a pastor who George W. Bush considers a personal friend to be Obama’s latest ‘pastor problem.’

It has become an Easter tradition for the right to find something or someone to use to attack President Obama as anti-Christian.

With the pickings being a little slim this year, Media Matters grabbed a shot of a bizarre Fox Nation headline:



The pastor that Fox Nation was referring to was Reverend Luis Leon who you may also recognize from this picture:



Perhaps you know him from this picture taken at George W. Bush’s second inauguration:



In 2005, The Baltimore Sun reported that Rev. Leon was very close to then President Bush, “Seated in Pew 54, the one reserved for presidents at St. John’s, the younger Bush listened to the Rev. Luis Leon speak directly to him as the rest of the congregation listened. Leon, a Cuban immigrant who has become close to the president and who has been invited to the White House for dinner, said that after the Sept. 11 attacks, ‘we lost our known world.’”

The right is so desperate to come up with something to show that our ‘Secret Muslim Kenyan’ president really hates Christians that they have zeroed in on Rev. Leon for daring to suggest that past discrimination fuels right wing religious extremism. According to the Washington Post, Rev. Leon said during Easter service (with Obama in attendance), “”It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be back in the kitchen … for immigrants to be back on their side of the border.”

Right wing blogs and Fox have immediately seized on Rev. Leon’s remarks as an attack on Christianity, only it wasn’t. They have conflated Rev. Leon with Rev. Wright, but the two could be any more different.

For speaking the truth, Rev. Leon is being attacked by the right for delivering a “hateful rant” against Christians.

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[hrmjustin]

1. That priest said what is preached from Episcopal Churches all the time.

The religious right is neither! It was completely appropriate to preach from an Episcopalian Pulpit.

[Initech]

2. Doesn't take much to piss them off doesn't it?

I can't imagine how much it would suck to be that thin skinned.

[pa28]

3. This is why Fox is a colostomy bag rupturing at the seams.

Conservatives can be alienated too and the ratings over at Fox say their viewers are tired of being lied to and manipulated.

[malaise]

4. Great post

They are sick people


Rec

[mercymechap]

5. I'm so sick of the right picking at anything and

everything about Obama. I know I didn't like George Bush, and probably many Democrats felt the way I did, but, geez, we weren't making shit up left and right like the right wing does. It's becoming downright annoying.