Palin's Pastor Problem

For the most part, I think pastors should be off-limits. Rev. Wright holds some far-left views that I sometimes sympathize with (America's foreign policy is too militarized, etc.) but he can also be a loud-mouthed asshole.

So, I don't really want to go after someone's pastor. But since Republicans had no reservation going after Rev. Wright, and are still running ads about it, we might as well point out that Sarah Palin's pastor, Rev. Thomas Muthee, isn't so clean himself. Go to 1:10 in this video:

The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today.

He goes on to say that when the top bankers and CEOs are people of faith (aka Christians) we won't have the corruption that we have now. I'm sure this will go over great in the Jewish community.

I get the impression that Sarah Palin's church never caught on to the Republican talking points about evangelicals and Jews working together and (at least for the evangelicals) bringing about the apocalypse and Second Coming. Jews are such a small segment of the population in Alaska that it was okay to reinforce stereotypes about them, to invite the "Jews for Jesus" guy to church, to wear Pat Buchanan buttons, etc. But that Jews vs. Christians stuff doesn't play so well in the lower 48, and especially not in Florida.

This video also has the weird image of Sarah Palin being "annointed" by the pastor, who condemns witchcraft in the process. But don't worry, Sarah Palin is Republican so the media won't bother.