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Entry: Bill Donohue Is Right About the Huckster Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/bill_donohue_is_right_about_the_huckster#12170 Post contents: "Catholic League president Bill Donahue, who is surely no militant secular humanist" I'm not a political junkie and hence I don't know much about Donahue or Huckabee, but I would caution Mr. Raimondo (whose work & writing-skill I greatly admire) about this assumption. After all, a lot of people would probably make the same assumption about neojust war theorist Michael Novak. The criticism of Huckabee applies to Donahue himself: there is an entire industry of Judases who make their living by working as intellectual (I use the term loosely) janissaries on behalf of the Regime -- selling an unChristian agenda via use (or rather abuse) of Christian imagery and terminology. In any event, while we should not trust politicians who invoke Christianity falsely, neither should we trust those who criticize such invocations qua invocations. That's the question. Was Donahue criticizing Huckabee's invocation of Christianity per se, or did he make a case for that invocation somehow being dishonest or misleading when contrasted to Huckabee's actual stance and policies? If the latter, OK. If the former, there's a problem. If somebody is using symbols in an honest fashion, to express their actual orientation and aspirations and intentions, I'm not entirely certain what the problem is. Just because a false patriot wraps himself up in a flag is no reason for a true patriot to hide his flags under the bed. Of course realistically speaking, I expect Huckabee is a huckster, much like G.W. Bush... but to call people like Bush "fascist" is to commit an injustice to fascists. There's far worst varmints in this world than Falangists -- and most of those varmints occupy the NoVa-DC Beltway. Sent at: 2008 09 08