Religion and Rightwing Politics: The Rhetoric at Prayer Rally / Tea Party Rally in Tampa Last Night
Radio talk show host and Master of Ceremonies Rusty Humphries compares the Obama campaign to Mao Tse-tung, calls for taking the country upward towards God, and then immediately compares liberals to dogs. Note that the rally in the video clip is taking place in the church following the Sunday night service and immediately after Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne turns over the podium to the Tea Partiers.
I will follow up this post with an overview of the five-hour event. Right Wing Watch has also posted video clips from the event.
[Update] Prayer Rally Segment
Video highlights from the Prayer Rally for America portion of the program including: Also speaking: John Stemberger, Florida Family Policy Council
Speakers not included in these clips include: Tea Party Unity Rally 2012
Neal Boortz - Radio Show Host Judson Phillips, Tea Party Nation Founder
Also speaking were: Conclusions One would hope that this joint pre-GOP convention event held at River Church indicates that everyone is finally abandoning the myth that the Tea Party is separate from the Religious Right, or that it has a completely different agenda, as well as the myth that the Tea Party movement is nonpartisan. However, after watching live-streaming of this event for five hours, I would conclude that the right flank of the GOP is not particularly happy with the Republican Party hierarchy right now. They are also not very excited about Mitt Romney and will try to motivate voters based on fear and their animosity toward President Obama. Also see coverage of the event in The Nation. The LA Times provides the following additional information. In the lobby of the church, several groups handed out literature and hawked conservative-themed merchandise. The most eye-catching of the works was by painter Jon McNaughton. It showed a shadowy Obama figure holding copy of the Constitution, set aflame. In the flames the word "obey" appears and, in the crumpled document, one can discern a hammer and sickle -- symbol of the old Communist Soviet Union.
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