{"id":3762,"date":"2005-03-17T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3762.html"},"modified":"2005-03-17T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T17:56:57","slug":"a-match-made-in-somewhere-unpleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-match-made-in-somewhere-unpleasant\/","title":{"rendered":"A match made in … somewhere unpleasant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft had any number of possible places to go in his post-administration life. Think tanks, law firms, lobbying firms — after successfully “securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror<\/a>,” the right-wing world was his oyster.<\/p>\n

So, where does the most controversial attorney general in a generation end up? Where else? At a college run by a TV preacher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One month after leaving office, former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft has a new job: He’ll be a part-time professor at a Christian university run by television evangelist Pat Robertson. <\/p>\n

Ashcroft, 62, will begin teaching a one-week course on “leadership in times of crisis” on April 4 at Regent University in Virginia Beach. Jay Sekulow, a Regent University trustee, said the former attorney general will teach a two-week version of the same course during the college’s summer, fall and spring semesters beginning this year.<\/p>\n

Ashcroft also will lecture on national security law and meet informally with students, Sekulow said. Ashcroft will be a “distinguished fellow” of the new Law and Justice Institute, which plans to do research to support lawsuits aimed at upholding Christian values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course. What better way for a former attorney general to promote family values than to hook up with a TV preacher who blamed 9\/11 on Americans<\/a>; expresses his desire to see a nuclear bomb hit the State Department<\/a>; believes Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Methodists are the “spirit of the anti-Christ<\/a>“; and once wrote a book asserting that George H. W. Bush may be “carrying out the mission and mouthing the phrases of a tightly knit cabal whose goal is nothing less than a new order for the human race under the dominion of Lucifer and his followers<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I’m sure Ashcroft will be very happy at Regent; he’ll fit right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft had any number of possible places to go in his post-administration life. Think tanks, law firms, lobbying firms — after successfully “securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror,” the right-wing world was his oyster. So, where does the most controversial attorney general in a generation end up? Where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","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=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}