TYT: John Kasich Wants New Government Religious Propaganda Agency

[WhoIsNumberNone]

John Kasich seems half reasonable compared to the rest of the GOP clown car, or at least he used to. He just announced his disastrous idea for a Judeo-Christian propaganda agency. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he'd set up an agency with a "mandate" to promote what he calls "Judeo-Christian values" overseas to counter Islamist propaganda.

The Ohio governor says he would create the new agency to promote the values of human rights, democracy and the freedoms of speech, religion and association. Kasich says the information would be distributed in the Middle East, China, Iran and Russia, to compete with the propaganda and misinformation purveyed by Islamic militants...

The agency's "job would be fundamentally to revive what we used to do when we beamed messages into the former Soviet Union," he told NBC News in a subsequent interview. "We need to beam messages around the world about what it means to have a Western ethic, to be part of a Judeo-Christian society. It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women, it means freedom to gather, it means so many things.””*

Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kasich-judeo-christian-values-agency_564bc6d9e4b08cda348b6727

[Demeter]

1. What's wrong with the one we've got?

(or did I just say something unsayable?)

[demwing]

2. What about the 1st Amendment?

did I miss something here?

the VERY first clause reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"

Done. End of a stupid idea.

[Enthusiast]

3. Kasich is campaining for the Republican nomination.

The Republican base believes Fox "News" (O'Reilly) when they say we were founded as a Christian nation. If you polled Republicans I bet that would go over 90%. They don't do nuance.