Judeo-Christian values versus liberal/leftist feelings
This morning Dennis Prager read his latest article on his show. The article was about how the Left makes decisions based on feelings and the Right makes decisions based on traditional Judeo-Christian values. I wanted to know what Dennis makes of liberal religious movements and leaders. What do you tell the person who reads this article, says, "Hey, I should rely less on my own feelings and more on Judeo-Christian values," then goes to a church where the minister preaches divestment from Israel. Or to a synagogue where the rabbi preaches the evil of the war on Iraq and of George Bush in general.

You could easily argue another viewpoint - what if this person goes to a place of worship that preaches the necessity of racial segregation? I don't think the parallel is all that strong, since clearly this latter case is outside of the mainstream of public thought and the others are in step with most widespread media and/or the policies of big, established religious institutions.

Anyway, that's not even the point of this post. The point is I called the Prager show to ask how the liberal representatives of the religions referred to in the phrase "Judeo-Christian values" fit into this picture. You could do a lot with this - take it in a number of directions. But all the screener could say was "what is your question?" So I tried to phrase it another way. She said, "We're only taking questions on the article." I said my question was about the article. She asked if I had read it. Since Dennis wasn't through reading it (he read only a few lines per segment), and I was in my car, I said no. She said that my question would be answered by reading it. As I guessed, and as you can verify by clicking the title of this post and reading the article yourself, the article does not answer the question in the least. All you can say is, well, those liberal leaders are following their feelings and not traditional Judeo-Christian values. Well, duh to that. That's my question - how does this happen, how do you avoid such pitfalls, etc.

Look, maybe I wasn't expressing myself clearly while doing 65 on the freeway, but it was all I could do not to be banned from calling in by calling the screener an idiot. I'm no genius and the Prager show will go on without my brilliant insights, but I felt she was doing a disservice to the show by not allowing me to bring up this point so Dennis could comment and the audience could mull it over. It was almost as if she were acting as a firewall just to be a firewall - without any smart filters, if you know what I'm talking about.

This is not the first time this has happened to me. I called a few weeks back after I thought Dennis had made a misstatement. I had to explain it to the screener three times before she finally put me through. While I was on hold, Dennis wound up correcting himself, so I dropped off. But it was clear he had erred, and fairly obviously so, since he went back and corrected himself (without reviewing the tape, obviously).

What I'm trying to say is this woman ticks me off.

- served up by Ralphie @ 4:20 PM