Joshua Green at The Atlantic  says that Doug Coe, the secretive leader of The Family, has "never made any controversial public utterance that I am aware of."   But if he had read Bruce Wilson's post here at Talk to Action last week, he would have learned of this Doug Coe quote from Jeff Sharlet's forthcoming book on The Family:  

"Jesus says, 'You have to put me before other people, and you have to put me before yourself.' Hitler, that was the demand of the Nazi Party. You have to put the Nazi Party and its objectives in front of your own life and ahead of other people!"

"I've seen pictures of young men in the Red Guard of China, a table laid out like a butcher table, they would bring in this young man's mother and father, lay her on the table with a basket on the end, he would take an axe and cut her head off."

"They have to put the purposes of the Red Guard ahead of the mother-father-brother-sister---their own life !"

"That was a covenant. A pledge. That was what Jesus said."

 I have a review copy of the book, and I can fairly say that there is much more to come. While Senator Clinton cannot necessarily be held responsible for Coe's views -- she has been a member of this very, very small elite fundamentalist group since the early 90s:  Almost as long as Obama has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ. But she refuses to talk about it at all, let alone explain her relationship to Coe and his shocking views. and the media seem to be neglecting to look into it.

Meanwhile, Media Matters for America has been tracking the issue of disparity of coverage between Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright as against coverage of John McCain's relationship to Hagee and Parsely, with whom he has sought close political relationships. He has also described Parsley as a "spritual guide."

Media continue to ignore McCain endorsers' controversial comments

Summary: Media Matters has extensively documented the disparity in media coverage devoted to controversial comments made by supporters of Sen. Barack Obama and to those made by supporters of Sen. John McCain. Several major publications have reported only on the controversy over remarks by McCain supporter John Hagee targeting Catholics, but not his controversial statements about Hurricane Katrina, Islam, women, and homosexuality. Most of those same publications have yet to report on pastor Rod Parsley and his controversial remarks in the context of McCain's campaign.

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Media Matters zeros in on one TV talking head, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz:  

On CNN's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz has devoted a total of approximately 18 minutes to the controversy surrounding remarks made by Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In contrast, Kurtz has led only brief discussions on two religious figures who have endorsed Sen. John McCain and who have made controversial comments -- a single two-minute discussion on Rev. John Hagee and only seven seconds on Rev. Rod Parsley.

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