For the first time in my life I saw an episode of the 700 Club the other day. Okay, I didn't watch it all, I admit it, but I did see about 15mins or so... maybe more... it seemed like more. Anyway, Pat was mumbling lyrical about New Orleans and you could just feel it there, in every confused pause and steadying breath (how old is he anyway?), the desire to say the place was a den of iniquity and God had taken it down.
Give it a month and I'd say the Sodom and Gomorrah refs will be flying thick and fast. Maybe two. However long it takes to pass through the telethon-esque phase of the coverage.
Catherine
Quoting Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>:
> [from the Washington Wire, by John Harwood, in today's WSJ]
>
> House Republican campaign chief Reynolds touts chance to market
> conservative social-policy solutions; Rep. Baker of Baton Rouge is
> overheard telling lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in
> New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."
>
> Baker explains later he didn't intend flippancy but has long wanted
> to improve low-income housing.
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