My take on the Rick Perry hunting camp named n-head

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First, let me be clear, hunting at a camp named n-head, certainly should be disqualifying since he also apparently had quite a lot of input at the camp. That said, this is what I find interesting.

Just before his campaign he had a national day of prayer featuring a bunch of hand picked nut bags who said all of the following things:

John Hagee: Hitler was doing God's will when he targeted Jews in Europe, Catholicism is a godless theology of hate

Bryan Fisher: Hitler discovered he could not get straight soldiers to be savage, brutal, and vicious enough but that homosexual soldiers had no limits in the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on anyone Hitler sent them after. Homosexuals are disqualified from public office since they practice sexually abhorent behavior.

John Benefiel: The Statue of Liberty is a demonic idol because we got it from French Freemasons.

Mike Bickel: Oprah Winfrey is the Harlot of Babylon preparing us for the anti-chirst

and these are just some of the nutbags who spoke at Perry's invite and on his dime and only some of the quotes.

Hagee courtesy of the Last Word, rest courtesy of Hardball both Aug 5, 2011

My problem is that here is an example of the coverage of that event

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/rick-perrys-positive-response/2011/08/07/gIQAg4kQ1I_blog.html

The religious gathering spearheaded by Texas Gov. Rick Perry this past weekend in Houston amounted to a major political gamble that paid off for the Texas Republican, who is widely expected to run for president in 2012.

Perry had begun organizing “The Response” — as the event was known — long before he started to entertain the possibility of running for president.

But with Perry now widely assumed to be a candidate in the not-too-distant future, a small(ish) crowd or a weak — or too heavily political — performance by the governor would assuredly have subjected him to criticism.

Instead, the crowd at Reliant Stadium was estimated at 30,000 — not too shabby — and Perry played a largely behind-the-scenes role in the event.

Mark McKinnon, a Texas-based Republican consultant unaligned in the 2012 presidential race, called the event “a pretty bold move for a guy about to throw his hat in the ring,” adding: “There were so many ways the event could have gone wrong ... it came off pretty smoothly overall.”
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This was an event that was a couple of hours of n-head brought to life. How is that hate fest event any different from hunting at that ranch? But they are treated very, very differently.

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1. If they got their way, and eliminated all those different from them,

they would turn on each other with a vengeance.

Haters need someone to hate, without having the *Other* to demonise, they would turn on themselves.

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2. I'll build my church, you build your church and we'll both

boycott the third son-of-a-bitch's church.

[Ikonoklast]

3. You poach any of my suck...er, ah, parishoners, and it is ON, pally.

Got to love Big Business, even when dressed up in sacred robes.

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4. The dirt of the Hateful

Religious Right is there for everybody to see we just dig up tapes and videos of them saying something foolish. I wonder what we would find if we dug up that hunting ranch????

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5. Very good point. Where is the media?

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6. where the media always is when the religious right behaves this way

excusing them and calling gay people bullies when we call them out on this behavior.