Focus REALLY Doesn’t Want You To See Its “Pray for Rain” Video

[ck4829]

As we noted earlier this week, Focus on the Family yanked its video featuring Stuart Shepard asking supporters to beseech God with prayers so that Barack Obama’s Democratic Convention speech at Mile High Stadium in Denver would be washed out with “rains of biblical proportion.”

The video and attempt to hide it generated so much attention that Shepard was forced to apologize, kind of, in his latest video.

Despite their efforts to remove the video, someone else uploaded a copy of it to YouTube which quickly generated more than 100,000 views. But now, Focus has gone after that version as well and gotten YouTube to remove it.

But try as they might, there are still several versions of the clip available on YouTube and now, News Blab 2008, which first posted the copy of the FOF video to YouTube, has gone ahead and posted it again on their own website, saying Focus “obviously (does) not understand Copyright ‘Fair Use’ when reporting a news story.”

On top of that, Good As You also has a copy of it posted on their website.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/08/focus_really_do.html

[kestrel91316]

1. I love the internets. Truly.

[MJW]

2. sometimes they are so transparent in their intentions

that they can't even stand Theirselves LOL

[wtmusic]

3. God wants you to see this video. nt

[HughMoran]

4. Right-wing Christian values

Can't hide the hate once it's on tape ass holes.

Gotta love Christians that hate.

[Quantess]

5. This was the silliest item of the week.

Go ahead and pray your brains out for rain, nitwits! The crops could probably use a shower, anyway.

Did you notice Stuart Shepard is a special-interest-obsessor? His pet topics are abortion and gays. That's why he doesn't like Obama (and presumably any pro-choice, non-homophobe candidate). This is the kind of thing that makes me worry about America's future.

[madmom]

6. Does this mean if they don't get "rains of biblical proportion" then god wants the dems to win?