{"id":7047,"date":"2006-04-04T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2006-04-04T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:26:19","slug":"talk-about-damning-with-faint-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/talk-about-damning-with-faint-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about damning with faint praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, at the bizarre &#8220;War on Christians&#8221; conference, pastor [tag]Rick Scarborough[\/tag] presented [tag]Tom DeLay[\/tag] as a martyr, compared DeLay to Jesus, and designated DeLay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/28\/AR2006032801566.html\">God&#8217;s official lawmaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe the most damaging thing that Tom [tag]DeLay[\/tag] has done in his life is take his faith seriously into public office, which made him a target for all those who despise the cause of Christ,&#8221; [tag]Scarborough[\/tag] said, introducing DeLay yesterday. When DeLay finished, the host reminded the politician: &#8220;God always does his best work right after a crucifixion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, in response to DeLay&#8217;s announcement that he will resign from Congress, Scarborough tried to praise DeLay again, though this time, the right-wing preacher <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=63493\">made a comparison<\/a> he probably wishes he could take back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m proud of Tom&#8217;s participation in our landmark conference,&#8221; Scarborough said. &#8220;And I would remind the media that in America, a man &#8212; <b>even a [tag]terrorist[\/tag] suspect<\/b> &#8212; is innocent until proven guilty.&#8221; (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I think I know what Scarborough meant, but it&#8217;s kind of amusing to hear one of DeLay&#8217;s biggest fans inadvertently praise DeLay by comparing him to a terrorist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, at the bizarre &#8220;War on Christians&#8221; conference, pastor [tag]Rick Scarborough[\/tag] presented [tag]Tom DeLay[\/tag] as a martyr, compared DeLay to Jesus, and designated DeLay God&#8217;s official lawmaker. &#8220;I believe the most damaging thing that Tom [tag]DeLay[\/tag] has done in his life is take his faith seriously into public office, which made him a target [&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-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","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=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}