PAX-TV to air special about Bush's religious faith

[MellowOne]

Press Release Source: Grizzly Adams Productions


PAX-TV to Air Special on June 28th Examining President Bush's Religious Faith
Wednesday June 22, 7:50 am ET


DENVER, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Not since the days of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln has a president put so much stock in his Christian faith and prayer life for making decisions and leading the United States in its hour of crisis. According to BBC correspondent Justin Webb, "Nobody spends more time on his knees than George W. Bush. The Bush administration hums to the sound of prayer. Prayer meetings take place day and night."
Grizzly Adams Productions (GAP) announced today that its "Faith in the White House" documentary, airing on the PAX-TV Network June 28th (9-10 PM ET/PT, 8-9 PM CT/MT), examines the extraordinary faith and prayer life of President George W. Bush, and how it impacts his personal life and decision-making.

"President Bush's faith has been resolute and unshakeable in dealing with the 9/11 terrorist attack, fighting al-Qaeda, ridding Iraq of the Saddam Hussein regime, rooting out terrorists in Afghanistan, and in promoting his domestic agenda," says GAP's President Charles E. Sellier. "You'll witness George W. Bush's remarkable journey of faith - from the bar room to the Oval Office - in this behind-the-scenes documentary."

According to Newsweek magazine, "This presidency is the most resolutely faith-based in modern times - an enterprise founded, supported and guided by trust in the temporal and spiritual power of God."

"Our Bush Faith television documentary was produced independent of any contact with the White House, the Bush administration or influence from the Bush-Cheney Election Campaign," says David Balsiger, director of the Bush documentary. "It's based entirely on independent research, and in part on two best-selling books examining President Bush's personal faith."

The TV special is largely based on recently released best-selling books - "George W. Bush On God and Country," by Tom Freiling, and "A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush," by David Aikman, former senior correspondent for Time Magazine. Viewers will also see extensive interview segments with Stephen Mansfield, author of "The Faith of George W. Bush."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050622/phw011.html?.v=16


For further information, contact Ann Strauss at 970-663-3820, http://www.grizzlyadams.tv.

[RPM]

1. puke

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[MellowOne]

3. You beat me to the punch

I was going to say the same thing.

[earthboundmisfit]

31. My sentiments exactly.

I've lost my appetite for the next several days over this one!

[soleft]

2. What will they come out with when he sinks into the 30's

:scared:

[Deep13]

4. If Bush is on his knees ...

... it is to blow his friends in the oil industry.

[Theres-a]

14. Well said.

[louis-t]

5. Pu-h-leease!

I just ate lunch. I wish I could find the photo of the blond woman with the 'raptured' look in her eyes as Hitler walks by. That photo says it all.

[NYCGirl]

6. PAX is where crap like that belongs. Anyone who is a regular PAX TV

watcher will probably love it.

[Initech]

19. Uh, to beg the question

Who IS a regular viewer of Pax TV?

Better yet, who watches Pax TV, period?

[NYCGirl]

29. Well...

there's probably not enough people to take a good sample. They could hold a meeting of regular Pax TV viewers in a phone booth.

:evilgrin:

And dig this from April 2005:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20780.html


Plans by Paxson Communications to turn its ailing US broadcast TV network, Pax TV, into an all-infomercial channel have dismayed NBC Universal, which has a 32% stake in the network.

In a statement, NBC Universal said:
"Paxson Communications Corporation has notified NBC Universal that it seeks to terminate Paxson’s network, national and local sales agreements with NBC Universal, as well as the joint sales agreements between Paxson and stations affiliated with the NBC network. Paxson apparently intends to abandon network programming and rely primarily on infomercials, direct response advertising and paid programming as revenue sources.

—snipped—

Pax TV launched in 1998 with a view to becoming America's seventh broadcast network. Its schedule of "family-friendly" programming failed to ignite ratings; Broadcasting and Cable reports that around 50 jobs were cut at the network in February.

[lawladyprof]

37. Just sad that we have an all-informercial network

but can't get one for progressives (anti-FOX) or even unbiased news.

[damntexdem]

7. The most-corrupt adminstration in American history ...

trying to hide behind claims of religion.

[madrchsod]

8. somewhere goebbels is smiling

and saying-"good work ,i see you have studied well my son".
it`s a good thing no one watches pax tv.

[karynnj]

9. Blessed are the war makers?

Blessed are the greedy? Blessed are those who condone character assisination? Blessed are those who take from the poor and give to the rich?

Not any religion I ever knew - they need to look at his actions

[warrens]

10. BS

It's all hype. Yeah, there are a lot of fundies in the administration, but Smirky and Oildick just use it to cloud minds. Or to attract pre-clouded ones.

[RethugAssKicker]

11. Disgusting....

Evil always hides behind religion.... In America, main stream religion is evil.

[gratuitous]

12. Are we going to get all Bible based?

How about "by your fruits you shall know them": War, poverty, kiss up kick down, favoring the wealthy and the greedy over the poor and the needy. Not a very good record, judging by the fruits of the Bush administration. "Not everyone who says 'Lord, Lord'" will be recognized as a follower of Jesus. "You are my friends if you do what I command."

Nope, looks to me like Chimpy would have an uphill battle establishing his Christian bona fides (pun intended) in an objective arena. Thankfully, no such factual inconveniences look liable to intrude according to the program capsule.

[MellowOne]

16. Well said.

He is using God to further his agenda.

There are several businesses in my area, I'm in the heart of the red states Bible belt, who display religious signs and quotations on their wall but are the biggest rip-off artists around. One is a car repair, they even advertise in the paper they are Christ-centered business. They put in the wrong year and model transmission in my car. Even after going through the BBB, I finally had to go to small claims court to get my money.

[OneBlueSky]

13. they're gonna call it "Fairy Tale Theatre" . . . n/t

.

[Bridget Burke]

15. "Frontline" did a show on the same topic--with a different slant.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/

You can see the whole thing here. Having survived his governorship, I haven't felt like watching the whole thing.

[VOX]

17. Check out some of the other scintillating titles that GAP offers:

They fall somewhere between overly-fundie and just plain weird:
http://www.grizzlyadams.tv/
Breaking the Da Vinci Code
The Search for Heaven
The Da Vinci Code Deception
Ancient Secrets of the Bible Series
Encounters with the Unexplained
etc.

[VOX]

18. BULLSHIT ALERT: PR claims there was NO * Campaign influence...

Grizzly Adams Production's wording: "produced independent of any contact with the White House, the Bush administration or influence from the Bush-Cheney Election Campaign..."

http://www.tln.com/leadership_sellier_bio.html
Charles "Chuck" Sellier is an author and TV/film producer of 30+ feature films and 82 TV programs and pilots-Knight Rider 2000, Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, Greatest Heroes of the Bible...
<snip>
Charles E. Sellier is the CEO of Grizzly Adams Productions, Inc. He is married, has one son and lives in Baker City, Oregon.
- - - - -

Now, check out the campaign donations of Charles E. Sellier of Baker City, Oregon:
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=OR&last=sellier
$2,000 - BUSH-CHENEY '04 COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE INC. 04/21/04
$750 - REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R) 08/05/03
$2,000 - BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC. 06/30/03
etc. :grr:

Legally, the claim may be "correct," but it implies that there is/was NO involvement with the WH or the * Campaign, which is utterly false and misleading.

[Piperay]

22. Also PAX is owned by NBC which

is owned by General Electric, nough said.x(

[NYCGirl]

30. They don't own it; NBC/Universal has a 32% share.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAX_Network

[Piperay]

35. Very interesting...

I thought that it was fully owned by them but learn something new everyday :-) THANKS!

[KharmaTrain]

36. Even Better...Meet Mr. Pax TV...Bud Paxon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_%27Bud%27_Paxson

Lowell 'Bud' Paxson is the brainchild behind the Home Shopping Network. Along with money man Roy Spear, Bud launched an entire industry. Paxson also is the founder of the PAX broadcast network, which airs supposedly "family freindly" programs, but has a schedule of mainly infomercials during the day and a prime time lineup of mainly re-runs from other networks. Paxson is a born again Christian.



You know who this is being programmed for. And watch it sponsored by Wal-Mart and ADM.

Everyone makes money on this scam

On edit: Too late and lazy to look, but today's paper mentioned the local Pax TV station had just fired all of its sales and "creative" staff...all that's left is the janitor/engineer. Yep, this company is a sure blue chipper. More stairmasters, please.

What a waste of a PUBLIC license

[msongs]

20. on his knees with jeff gannon? eom

[Piperay]

21. "This presidency is the most resolutely faith-based

in modern times - an enterprise founded, supported and guided by trust in the temporal and spiritual power of God."

and yet he is the most Godless man to ever hold the office. Bush sure doesn't let the teachings of Jesus Christ guide him, if he did he would care about the poor etc.

[CatholicEdHead]

23. Ugh

this gets really old, really, really fast.

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. Bush mocks death row inmate: "Please don't kill me"

Now that's some good-old-boy KKKristianity, lemme tell yuh.

http://tinyurl.com/a445t

[Vickers]

25. He's getting his 30 pieces of silver selling out our country to

Halliburton et al. Fucking Judas.

[CBHagman]

26. Vindictiveness is not one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit

I seem to recall the Bush family is generally noted for its grudges and vindictiveness, and of course George W. Bush has conducted campaigns that didn't merely question his opponents' qualifications but openly sought to destroy them, often with the use of whispering campaigns, lies, and the like. Check out the South Carolina campaign of 2000 and what he did to John McCain.

Tell me, does the following REALLY sound like this secretive, on-message, self-righteous Bush administration?

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit." Galatians 5:22-25 NIV

Kindness? Not to the people who depend on housing programs.

"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." Galatians 5:19-21 NIV

But they do factions and dissensions very well.

Yeah, yeah, I know our fiends -- er, friends in the Republican Party will claim the Dems are the party of debauchery, but no one would mistake the dear old GOP for Guys of Purity. No, not since you-know-who (choose your favorite lecher or hussy).

The words of Jesus:

“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Luke 16:13

“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much,” Luke 16:10

From the Epistle of James:

"What the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him? Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what the profit? So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself. But some one will say, Thou hast faith and I have works. Show me thy faith without works, and I from my works will show thee my faith. Thou believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected. And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God. Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only. But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put forth by another way? For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” James 2:14-26

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Never watch that

Someone bang a board over my head first!

[ebayfool]

28. Bush's religious faith? Should be a real short show, then!

Like an infomercial.

[leesa]

32. A show about war profiteering? It is his only belief.

[u2spirit]

33. We need to tell anyone who is within earshot

that W couldn't hold Jimmy Carters jockstrap. jimmy is the epitomy of what Christianity is supposed to be. Imagine W wielding a hammer trying to build a house for a poor family!

[moondust]

34. Blessed are the aggressive executioners and warmongers.

For they shall line their pockets with gold.

The End.

[salin]

38. Wonder if they will raise the question

if bush has confused his "faith" - with a sense of "infallibility"... that is - if he believes he was "chosen by God" to lead - that suddenly he believes that because he was chosen, God would know what he (bush) was going to do and thus blesses/sanctions his every move. Such a belief would mean that he doesn't pray for guidance - just rather prays for "thanks" (for letting me do x and y and z and a and b...) And fuels a delusional belief that leads to arrogance - as in he believes that he KNOWS what God wants/desires/intends...

Somehow doubt it.