{"id":11546,"date":"2007-07-21T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11546.html"},"modified":"2007-07-21T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:35:11","slug":"clinton-derangement-syndrome-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clinton-derangement-syndrome-in-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Derangement Syndrome &#8211; in print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I worked at Americans United for Separation of Church and State for seven years, I read <i>a lot<\/i> of direct mail from bizarre religious-right groups. It was the &#8217;90s, so most of it had a straightforward pitch: Bill Clinton will turn you into an atheist unless you send (fill in the blank) all of your money right now.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Hillary Clinton is running strong, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0707\/Great_moments_in_Clinton_hatred.html\">Ben Smith noticed<\/a>, right-wing direct mail is compensating. This was a letter from Robert Grant, founder of the Unification Church-linked Americans for Faith and Freedom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Fellow Christian,<br \/>\nBill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have never made it a secret. They hate you. I know that because the Clintons hate me, too. Because you and I stood up to Bill Clinton. And now he wants revenge. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One-by-one, Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken revenge against the brave Congressmen who managed to impeach him. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Just as God&#8217;s grace helped David with his battle with Goliath, you and I have won battles with Bill Clinton before. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[I]f the Clintons and the ACLU get their way, one day it will be illegal to wear a cross around your neck&#8230; And it could be illegal to even say a private prayer unless you close your drapes first&#8230;. The radical ACLU has already succeeded in making The 10 Commandments illegal in Alabama. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t put this letter aside for even a day or two. Please sign your United Christian Voice Petition and return it to me today. And please include your emergency donation of at least $14&#8230;. If you and I don&#8217;t fight back, he&#8217;ll destroy us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, some people will see this and write a check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I worked at Americans United for Separation of Church and State for seven years, I read a lot of direct mail from bizarre religious-right groups. It was the &#8217;90s, so most of it had a straightforward pitch: Bill Clinton will turn you into an atheist unless you send (fill in the blank) all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}