Jeff Sharlet's Book "The Family" Makes NYT Best Seller List

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1. From Sharlet's '04 God's Senator e.g. Sam Brownback did weekly radio broadcasts from SENATE OFFICE

building to thousands of Christian owned radio stations, during the build up to his primary run in 2004. Please NOTE, these radio programs very likely could have occurred during the whole propaganda program for Bush's war on Iraq.

http://www.kansasprairie.net/kansasprairieblog/?p=11445

VAT is like a closed communication circuit with Brownback at the switch: The power flows through him. Every Wednesday at noon, he trots upstairs from his office to a radio studio maintained by the Republican leadership to rally support from Christian America for VAT’s agenda. One participant in the broadcast, Salem Radio Network News, reaches more than 1,500 Christian stations nationwide, and Focus on the Family offers access to an audience of 1.5 million. During a recent broadcast Brownback explains that with the help of the VAT, he’s working to defeat a measure that would stiffen penalties for violent attacks on gays and lesbians. Members of VAT help by mobilizing their flocks: An e-mail sent out by the Family Research Council warned that the hate-crime bill would lead, inexorably, to the criminalization of Christianity.

VAT = Values Action Team