Silly NewsMax

For some reason, Mr. Ronald Kessler (always billed as "chief Washington correspondent of NewsMax") is enamored—no, make that "infatuated," as in "in love"—with Mitt Romney. In this, he's actually worse than Hugh Hewitt.

Like Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Kessler has written his share of Mitt Romney puff pieces.


The latest puff piece from Mr. Kessler echoes my last post, following on the heels of The Drudge Report headline wondering if Senator McCain might choose Mitt Romney for his Veep. Mr. Kessler quotes someone named Andy Card, both trying to tell us why Mitt Romney would be a good Vice President. (If you click the link, you'll see the origin of my parody NewsMax Romney cover.)

April Fool!

I first noticed this irrational NewsMax bias in an April 1, 2007 article titled "Romney to the Rescue." (No fooling on the date! God has a wry sense of humor, doesn't He?) Among other things, this highly scholarly article (NOT!) about Mitt Romney mentions his hair.

First, he has sensational good looks. People magazine named him one of the 50 most beautiful people in America. Standing 6 feet, 2 inches tall, Romney has jet-black hair, graying naturally at the temples. Women - who will play a critical role in this coming election - have a word for him: hot.

Cool Conservative or Loonie Liberal?

This obsession about Mitt Romney's hair is silly. It's as silly as when Mr. Mark Leibovich wrote about Tom Daschle's "morning-fresh pompadour of excellent brown hair." You probably laughed at that. So you should be laughing at the same comments about Mitt Romney.

But wait! There's more!

I remember when NewsMax first started advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show. By associating with Rush, the implication was that it was Conservative. But here's more silliness from NewsMax about Ann Romney. This from The Carpetbagger Report.

But Ben Smith (Politico) noted yesterday that NewsMax wrote a profile about Ann Romney, Mitt's wife, that is so remarkably over-the-top, one almost wonders if it's a joke. Alas, it isn't. "Ann is warm and very natural. She has the look of an outdoors woman bred to be an equestrian, which she is — good carriage, rosy complexion, square jaw, and blond mane. "When she is not flashing her truly unbelievable smile, she may lower her eyes demurely. But Ann Romney is not demure — she may be modest, but she isn't meek. She is unpretentious, but she isn't shy. She lowers her eyes, thinking, and then looks up directly at her interviewer and dazzles him with that smile." Smith noted, "I think I've never seen writing, in a publication apparently written by and for grown-ups, like this passage." Agreed. There's flattery, there's sycophancy, and then there's this. It's truly breathtaking.

But here's the kicker.

But let's delve a little deeper. First, its worth noting that NewsMax was apparently humiliated for having published such tripe. Less than a day after running the profile on its site, NewsMax gave it a little touch-up. Without alerting readers to the fact that the article had been changed, the publication apparently removed most of the passage, including all of the adjectives. The reader no longer sees anything about Ann Romney's carriage, complexion, jaw, hair, or "truly unbelievable smile." (As a rule, its unethical to make substantive changes like this without alerting readers.)

I couldn't have said it any better. That's why I quoted them.

Love is blind

This is akin to Hugh Hewitt's "hagiography" of Mitt Romney. (Per Publisher's Weekly review of Mr. Hewitt's book on Amazon.) Mr. Hewitt has talked about Mitt Romney's hair too, but I don't think even he got this silly. (Although I never read the book. Maybe he did?).

Now, I hate to say Hillary was right, but I've learned from my blogging experience here that there is indeed a "vast right wing conspiracy" in the so-called "Conservative" side of the media. Some people "on the right" are just as bad as Carville on the Left. And just as double minded and hypocritical. They have an agenda and facts don't matter. They want Romney in office and will say and do anything to accomplish that goal.. Despite being soundly rejected by us (despite his 40 million dollar investment, trying to buy the election), they're trying the back door to break in. Don't fall for it.

[While I have always admitted to having an agenda here (just look at my masthead and my very first post), I have always been diligent to present facts about Mitt Romney and Mormonism. The facts why you don't want a Mormon in the White House. The White House includes the Vice Presidency, where Mitt Romney could really be a heartbeat away from fulfilling Mormon prophecy. ]

So it's not over yet. If you're a child of God (and most people are NOT), then, for the sake our our country, please keep praying that Senator McCain does not alienate the base by yoking himself with Mitt Romney. While I don't expect that Conservatives would vote for Hillary or Obama if Mitt Romney were on Senator McCain's ticket, I expect many of us would simply not vote for-and could not vote for-a Mormon as heir to our President.

Rush Limbaugh Smitten

I like Rush Limbaugh. What Conservative doesn't? But he doesn't get it when it comes to Mitt Romney.

That's not surprising. Rush isn't a Christian. Therefore he can't discern between the real and the counterfeit.


Given that Rush isn't a Bible believing Christian, and given he lives on the East Coast, far away from Mormon Utah, it's not surprising that he probably thinks Mormonism is just another Christian denomination.

I did when I lived on the East Coast and wasn't a Christian. I mean, the only thing I knew about Mormons was what they carefully pitched in their TV commercials. Had they said, "Want to be a god someday? Ask us How," I would've run. And they know that.

There wasn't an Internet back then, where you could search for "Mormonism" and learn what their nice commercials wouldn't tell you. That their god is just a puny little man who lives on another planet near the star Kolob with his many, many wives, having sex to make spirit babies to populate the earth. That they, like Satan, believe they can become "like" God. Not only "like" God, but they BE a god. (Shudder.)

Clearly, this is anathema to Christians. (Even Satan knows he's not going to be a god.) But you'd have to be reading your Bible and be a follower of Christ to be repelled by Mormon doctrine.

Taking the Faith Speech on faith

But Rush has clearly fallen for Mitt Romey's faith speech and seems to have crowned him a saint.

While I agree with some things Mitt Romney said in his speech, he was more wrong than he was right. (And "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.") I'll plan to post fuller someday, but for example, he tried to invoke Article 6 of the Constitution on you.


Fair enough. The government—not you, but the GOVERNMENT— cannot require a religious test to qualify the aforementioned candidates for office. That means that the government cannot make a law saying, for example, "The President must be a member of the Church of England."

You see, the Founders had just come out of a system where you had to be a member of the King's church to be in government.

In that country [England] no man can be a member in the House of Commons, or hold any office under the crown, without taking the sacrament according to the rites of the Church. (From Richard Dobbs Spaight, a framer, during the North Carolina ratification debates of the U.S. Constitution.)

Article VI has nothing to do with YOU—a voter— not having a religious test for a Presidential candidate. This is so patently obvious, I shouldn't have to say it. (Cal Thomas gets that much. Sadly, his faith must not influence his convictions, for he loses it after that.)

If you're a Christian, would you want an atheist for President? Would you want an overt, blood drinking Satan worshiper for President? [I trust the answer is, "no." If not, I have to wonder what your faith means to you.]

Would you vote for Mittmoud Romnidinejad, a fundamental Muslim for President? Unless you're a Mor... errr, Muslim yourself, I hope not. And you would be justified because you know that, as Mitt Romney said in his own "faith speech,"

Radical violent Islam seeks to destroy us!

I trust even Mitt Romney would not vote a radical violent Muslim for President.

Boy, where's the Irony Award for that?

Counterfeit Conservative

Lost on Rush Limbaugh are the parts of Mitt Romney's speech where he says

I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind.

But when Mitt Romney says that, he literally means that his jesus is A son, in the most literal sense of the word, a son of the Mormon god. That his god has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's. That this man-god came to earth and had sex with Mary. ("Sired" is the word their 'living prophet' used.)

Catholics? Would you want a President who can't understand the miracle of the virgin birth? What else does he not understand about fundamental truths?

My church's beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths.

He got that right. As his own 'living prophet' said,

In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints 'do not believe in the traditional Christ. "No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. He together with His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph smith in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages."'

(Notice their veneration of Joseph Smith, something they hide now. Have you heard Mitt Romney speak publicly of his devotion to Joseph Smith at all? Suppose he was more forthcoming in his admiration for Joseph Smith, as he probably is in his ward meetings. Would you still want him for President? (Anyone got a You Tube video of Mitt Romney at a Fast & Testimony Sunday?)

Then he said something that makes no sense. Even those who aren't spiritual ought to recognize the irrationality of this statement.

I believe that every faith I have encountered draws its adherents closer to God.

No, I'm sorry, but that's just stupid. Is he saying that radical Islam, those who seek to destroy us (his words) draws its very faithful adherents closer to God?

He's just pandering to the ecumenical masses. Like Rush Limbaugh? (Hopefully, Rush's brother, David, is a true Christian and will speak the truth to Rush.)

Medved getting it

Forgetting the spiritual, I don't understand why Rush can't see through flip flopping Mitt Romney, who will say anything to get elected. Michael Medved has been saying for a few weeks now that Mitt Romney "lacks integrity." Glad you finally see it Mr. Medved! But is Rush blinded by party politics? Why does he believe "life long" member of the NRA (for a year now) is a Conservative. Didn't John Kerry do the same thing when he bought me a huntin' license here"?

Mittens

Well, as usual, I've digressed quite a lot from my original subject. Getting back on point, Rush is smitten with Mitt Romney.

Now, on his show yesterday (Wednesday, January 16, 2008) a few women called in expressing their irrational Bill Clinton-esqe lust for Mitt Romney.


Maybe the women callers were all Mormons? I don't know. Rush isn't savvy enough to ask if the callers who gush for Mitt Romney if they're LDS. (One today reading talking points.) Rush was impressed with the series of women callers and decided to nickname these would be plural wive wannabes "Mittens."

Ladies, do you know anything about Mormonism? Do you know what you're in for?

Welcome to Stepford, wives

Well, this was a long post to send you to a previous post, "Love & Marriage - Mitt Romney (Mormon) style."

The key sentence is

You see, in Mormonism, the husband is resurrected first. And then, IF HE DECIDES, he calls his wife out.

Isn't that God's job, to resurrect the dead? (See Luke 23:42) But never mind. This is Mormonism we're talking about, where men become gods. (Shudder.)

It's not all it's cracked up to be for the women. In fact, it's documented to be very depressing, being a Mormon wife. (More so if you're one of many Mormon wives.) Essentially, you get to look forward to being eternally pregnant. But you'd better be perfect now or it'll be the death of you. (If your husband doesn't call you out of the resurrection.)

But go ahead. Be politically correct. Put a Scientologist or a radical Muslim - or a Mormon in the White House. Be like a Liberal. Be godless and don't consider someone else's "god" when you choose them for your leader.

You Mittens out there who like Mitt Romney because of his hair. You may find yourself spitting up hairballs. (Sorry, it was my only line.)

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