Title: “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”

Author: Jeff Sharlet

Rank: 6

Blurb: “Sharlet is present when a leader tells a dozen men living there, ‘You guys are here to learn how to rule the world.'” (Publishers Weekly)

Review: “This book is very poorly written about a group of people who are insignificant.”

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The late, great Walter Cronkite was:

a. the most trusted man in America

b. the greatest news anchor of all time

c. an avid sailor

d. a Volvo endurance racer

e. all of the above

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Because we take pride in ignoring things until absolutely unavoidable, we had no idea that Wonkette desecrator Ken Layne existed before showing up at Sploid, Gawker Media’s brief foray into Drudge-abatement. And hey, we liked him there. Heck, we even liked him at Brand W, before he fired Megan, and then we hated him. But that was before Megan hated us. Long story.

And we would have remained ignorant of Ken’s Dark Past had we not stumbled across a reference to predictions for 2003 from the likes of Little Green Footballs, Instapundit, and assorted other wingnuts.

Or, to use the jargon of the day: warbloggers.

Let’s enjoy a few of Ken’s predictions:

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Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies [NYT]

blogenfreude adds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sWmD6NvMY

Apparently, this sort of thing has happened before:

Hillary and Doug and Hitler, Too!

Psychopathic Jesunazi Douglas Coe, as leader of the dominionist parachurch cult, The Family, is a mentor to all manner of reactionary monsters in the Congress, including the recent crowd of GOP sex maniacs who’ve spooged the headlines with their insane, relentless pursuit of illicit, extra-marital poon-tang – and his most notorious spiritual protege, Hillary ‘Swampsow’ Clinton, the insane, ineffectual Secretary of State and perpetual candidate for everything everywhere.

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I’m guessing that Doug Coe is the passenger in this photo, but my Norwegian sucks.

Think Progress:

Doug Coe, the group’s spiritual leader, once preached that the willingness to behead one’s own mother was a “covenant” tantamount to what “Jesus said.” The organization “Youth with a Mission” owns the C Street boarding house, which is registered tax-exempt as a church, advocates seizing the “mountain of government” as part of an evangelical crusade to advance the “kingdom of God.” Coe, who holds misogynist beliefs, once counseled a lawmaker that his wife — who complained of not being sexually satisfied — might be possessed by demons.

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