Bush prayer event on cable, satellite TV

[seemslikeadream]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's participation in a National Day of Prayer ceremony with evangelical Christian leaders at the White House will be shown Thursday night, for the first time in prime-time viewing hours, on Christian cable and satellite TV outlets nationwide. For the president, the broadcast is an opportunity to address a sympathetic evangelical audience without the risk of alienating secular or non-Christian viewers, since it will not be carried in full by any of the major television networks. Frank Wright, president of the National Association of Religious Broadcasters, said more than a million evangelicals are expected to see the broadcast.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2552246

[phantom power]

1. how can they be this deluded?

"not alienate secular viewers?" News flash: it alienates the crap out of me, and I bet plenty of other secular citizens.

Does anybody understand the difference between "democracy" and "theocracy"?

[psychopomp]

2. Un-reeeeal

I do wish I could record this event. Fuckin' unreal country, really.

[soleft]

3. Hi seemslikeadream, this was posted earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=533926