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Sensationalism on Sarah Palin Overshadows Factual Reporting
In an October 16, 2006 ceremony at the Wasilla Assembly of God, prior to blessing and anointing Sarah Palin as a political leader (during Palin's successful bid for the Alaska governor's seat), Bishop Thomas Muthee called for the "kingdom of God" to "infiltrate" seven key sectors of society including government and the financial sector which, according to Muthee (and as noted by the JTA news service) was currently controlled by "Israelites". [video, below: Thomas Muthee calls on "God's kingdom" (believers in his movement, that is) to "infiltrate", "penetrate" and influence seven key sectors of society including business and finance and government and politics.]
Perhaps Thomas Muthee's unabashed exhortations, to members in his movement, for a revolutionary sectarian Christian takeover would have received more notice if the video footage had shown the nakedly theocratic Muthee endorsing and blessing the political career of a naked Sarah Palin. We can only wonder. From September 2008 through early November of this year, America was faced with the prospect of a GOP vice presidential candidate who probably never (in reality) appeared naked in any public photograph but who was (quite demonstrably) nakedly theocratic. Indeed, by the end of October it had been confirmed that Sarah Palin was tied to two living religious leaders who claimed to have fought witches. In fact, AP reporters had discovered, in Palin's mayoral records, evidence that Palin herself had borrowed an inspirational instructional video on how to (it was alleged) citizens can reduce crime and addiction by fighting witches and driving out demons, from geographic regions. Talk To Action, the website I co-founded with journalist Frederick Clarkson back in late 2005, can lay claim to having shifted the course of the 2008 election by spawning one of the most successful political viral videos of all time, shown around the world and which was credited (by scores of mainstream media outlets) with forcing John McCain to renounce the political endorsement of John Hagee. But despite absurd amounts of evidence tying Sarah Palin to an almost unimaginably bigoted and politically extreme religious movement, Talk To Action writers weren't able to repeat the feat. In the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, readers could access enough (heavily documented) writing demonstrating Sarah Palin's (close) association, with a movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which advocates the witch and demon fighting approach to reducing crime and addiction, to fill an average sized book. The fact that this received negligible media attention probably had something to do with the efforts of various media figures who effectively policed the bounds of the discourse (with ad hominem attacks that ignored the facts) and so ruled out (at least in the public mind if not in actuality) the existence of a vice presidential candidate who appeared to subscribe to a program of reducing murder and drug addiction by fighting alleged witches and by expelling "territorial demons". But in the end those journalistic policing efforts probably paled in comparison with another, rather glumly predictable, factor; Any day of the week and in any political season, in terms of raw media pull, Sarah Palin, nakedly theocratic, loses to Sarah Palin, naked. [Also see The Palin Scandal in The Living Room] Below, in a new 10 minute documentary video, I examine, in the context of its heavily anti-Semitic undertone, the New Apostolic Reformation's recently launched program encouraging and equipping Christians to begin taking control of business and finance: "The Seven Mountains Mandate" (or "7M Mandate").
[At 24, Sarah Palin joined Mary Glazier's Wasilla prayer group. Glazier fought a witch in '95 and now advocates religious cleansing of entire lands, by believers in her movement. The video documentary includes Sarah Palin's October 2008 appearance on Focus on the Family head James Dobson's radio show, during which Palin thanked "our prayer warriors across the nation."]
[below: 73 second video showing virulent anti-Catholic nature of New Apostolic Reformation movement tied to Sarah Palin]
[below: 10 minute video documentary examines virulently anti-Catholic nature of New Apostolic Reformation movement. "Places like Brazil, they are Catholic strongholds," declared Thomas Muthee on March 14, 2004 at a United Kingdom church, "but people are getting saved anyway! Five hundred every single hour!" A colleague of Muthee's planned a "spiritual warfare" expedition to Mount Everest that New Apostolic Reformation leaders later claimed helped contribute to the death of Mother Theresa. This video also examines advocacy of violence by top NAR leaders. As an additional feature, the video shows the actual video footage of pastor John Hagee's now notorious "God sent Hitler" sermon which this author put into a three minute and forty second YouTube video that went viral, was broadcast around the world, and was widely credited in mainstream media for causing John McCain to renounce his political endorsement from John Hagee. In the video footage of the late 2005 sermon, Pastor John Hagee pantomimes a Nazi holding a rifle aimed at Jews.]
[below: another treatment of the relationship between Mary Glazier and Sarah Palin.]
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