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New Footage From Inside Palin's Church
A video report from the church where Gov. Sarah Palin was baptized.
This is the first original, on-the-ground video report from inside the church where Gov. Sarah Palin was baptized and spent over two decades as a member, the Wasilla Assembly of God. The video features the only known footage of the man who publicly anointed Palin for higher office, the Kenyan witch hunter Bishop Thomas Muthee, during his return to Wasilla this September. Though filming was not allowed, I managed to capture through hidden cameras Muthee's violent invocations against "The Enemy" and the "python spirits.” I also spoke with Rev. Howard Bess, whose book, "Pastor, I Am Gay," was removed from Wasilla's public library after Palin personally pressured the librarian. Those who embrace spiritual warfare see Palin as nothing less than the Anointed One, a modern day Queen Esther, as one anti-abortion protester told me on a rainy night in Anchorage. See for yourself.
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rdeanelder
Interesitng!
pixel105
Palin needs to go back to Alaska & McCain needs to move back to Arizona, where polygamy thrives in Colorado City, Arizona (McCain's home state) where thousands of American families (10,000 people) are systematically stripped of their democratic rights and women & children are abused. John McCain hasn't lifted a finger to stop it. What qualifies McCain to be president when he can't even clean up the Taliban in his own backyard?
Concordian
Everyone should see this! Sarah Palin is a superstitious, unenlightened woman who was first elected in a town where the average level of education achieved is 8th grade. They don't know any better, and neither does she. Fortunately, the rest of the country is better-informed.
nikkor
Can somebody please explain to my why this is not being plastered all over CNN? We had to listen about Jeremiah Wright for so long and I think turn around is fair play. She has been listening to this religious dribble since she was four and there is no doubt in my mind that she is brainwashed.
It will truly be a sad day if McCain/Palin is elected. The funny thing is, I actually respected McCain as a leader until he chose this fruitcake.
I am increasingly becoming more concerned about the religious fanatics in my own country than with the fanatics in the other parts of the world.
lrvetteman
If you watched the last debate you should have noticed that minorities have no value in McCain's view. Two moniorities asked questions and one was told he probably had no idea what freddie and frannie were about until recently and the other he never looked at her while he spoke directly to every other person that asked a question. I thought it was rather interesting.
bdaved
This seems so foreign to the idea of the Jesus I learned about that I almost think they must be saying "Cheeses". Is that what they're talking about?
ellsie
From "born again Bush" to pastoral Palin...do we really need to be bullied and preached at for 4 more years?
SweenyTodd
Sarah Palin is the epitome of Chbristian values in our country today. Just look at her family and their "values!"
Azoth23
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites" Thomas Jefferson
ste4ve
Time for Sarah to land back on planet earth, don'tcha think? Here's a Palin palate cleanser to help things along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4kXgF88wQ
pixel105
Palin should go back to Alaska and McCain should go back to Arizona, where polygamy thrives in Colorado City, Arizona (McCain's home state) where thousands of American families (10,000 people) are systematically stripped of their democratic rights and women & children are abused. John McCain hasn't lifted a finger to stop it. What qualifies McCain to be president when he can't even clean up the Taliban in his own backyard?
sonofeinar
I just spoke to Rev. Howard Bess who shared that Max Blumenthal misquoted him. His book, "Pastor, I'm Gay," was never removed from the Wasilla Public Library. Also, the librarian from that time period has never stated that Palin pressured her to remove the book.
I also spoke to a supervisor at the Wasilla Public Library. From 1986 through 2007, five books have been challenged but they all remained on the shelf. "Pastor, I'm Gay" is not part of that list.
Rev. Bess, a retired Baptist minister who never served in the Assembly of God denomination, revealed that he had heard that four copies of his book had disappeared at one time or another from the library.
kristieboo
i am just so still amazed that we have even gotten this far.
sonofeinar
I wrote that Rev. Bess's book "was never removed from the Wasilla Public Library." It was not "removed' in the context of being banned; in fact, official records show it was never challenged. Bess shared that it's not currently in circulation at Wasilla.
santi-jose
beware of false gods.
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