Richard Land: Everybody is being mean to me!

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Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, yesterday took up a defiant tone against charges that he used racially-insensitive language during his radio show in his attack on President Obama and civil rights activists over the Trayvon Martin case, saying that he is being “mugged” by the media for simply “criticizing this rush to judgment.” Land on his show had said that “it was Mr. Obama” who turned the Trayvon Martin shooting into a national issue” by pouring “gasoline on the racialist fires” in order to help “gin up the black vote” for his re-election with the aid of “race hustlers.”

But black SBC pastors, including the incoming-president of the convention, criticized Land’s comments and one threatened to introduce a resolution condemning Land at an upcoming meeting, and other Baptists commented that it was reminiscent of Southern Baptists’ past work against the civil rights movement and helped feed “the deep-seated resentment toward people of color held by some white Southern Baptists.”

Land’s problems didn’t end there.

Baptist author and blogger Aaron Weaver found that Land not only plagiarized his controversial rant from a Washington Times column by Jeffrey Kuhner, but also that Land has repeatedly plagiarized editorials verbatim from other right-wing publications like the Washington Examiner and Investor’s Business Daily.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/richard-land-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day

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1. Cornered with no way out, Land grabs for the mantle of victimhood

It's his only hope! The mantle has served him and others so well in the past. Will it pay off again??? Tune in next week, True Believers.

[Warpy]

2. Just another right wing hate merchant who never had

an original thought in his empty head. I think while the racism will be accepted by his organization, the plagiarism will land him in hot water. He'll have to go find hisself a church to preach hate in because his days of pretending he knows anything about ethics are over.

[Lint Head]

3. Condemning Land at an upcoming meeting would at least be a start. I am so glad to finally see

some of these right wing hate mongers and organizations get what's coming to them.

[JHB]

4. Obama did NOT make this into a national issue, he just answered a question

It was people who criticize him even if they have to invent things to do it who made an issue of his answer.

[Aerows]

8. It IS an entirely invented issue

It boggles my mind how Obama's comment could be taken as racist in any way, shape or form, and I'm white. Trayvon Martin looks like a lot of people's sons, in that he was a teenager that did typical teenager things, and get blown away on his way home for the crime of being a teenager that looked "scary" to a person carrying a gun.

I would think that ANYONE who has a teenage son, black, white, brown - whatever color - would be heartbroken by this story and worried about their son getting shot down like this. I would also think that a minister could manage to drum up enough compassion in his soul to look at the situation from the perspective that this was a young man cut down before his time, and not fomenting racial bigotry. That's apparently too much to ask of Land.

Unfortunately, it's too much to ask of a lot of old white farts like him. I've lived in the South all of my life, and the things I've heard old white male farts just like him say make me want to throw up. Trying to drag some of the Cro-Magnons into the future is damn near impossible if they aren't repeatedly, forcefully and frequently reminded that you won't tolerate their racist comments (and usually sexist ones, too).

[Tom Ripley]

5. Apparently he was dunked in piss

[cali]

6. He's a disgusting pigfucker and if there is a hell, he's going to burn brightly

bigoted turd.

[Bake]

7. He and the rest of the fundies are going to be utterly surprised on Judgment Day

When they hear the words "Depart from me, I never knew you."

Bake