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Dogwhistling the anti-christ?
Ben Smith's Blog — ... , and their allies at the pro-Obama PAC Matthew 25, are claiming that McCain's "The One" ad is (below) meant to suggest to Evangelical Christians that Obama is the anti-christ, and ...

The Liberal Bletchley Park Breaks New Ground
The Corner — ... " ad, a Democratic consulting group put out a frightfully lengthy memo deconstructing it. This excerpt will give you the general thrust of it: This is the use of religion at its very worst in politics because it is an attempt to subtly and perhaps even subconsciously play on some of the deepest fears of millions of evangelical Americans. From the title of the ad (that immediately reminds anyone familiar with the Left Behind series of the name of the false church set up by the anti-Christ) to the quotes (with no respect to context) and images that the McCain camp chose to use, ...

New theory: McCain wants Christians to think Obama’s the Antichrist
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... about her take on l’affaire Wright) and the piece itself follows hot on the heels of Democratic consultants circulating a memo that pushes the Antichrist read. Then again, the Journal has an article about this ...

Unsubtle
slacktivist — ... has documented many more of these visual cues and allusions to Left Behind in a memo excerpted by Steve Waldman on BeliefNet. Sapp notes that: ...

CNN Forwards Idea That McCain Ad Hints That Obama is the Antichrist
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Earlier this month, Waldman posted on his blog about the McCain ad’s supposed hint about Obama, and posted a memo from a Democratic consulting agency called the Eleison Group, whose website he linked to in the post. One of the four consultants for the Eleison Group is Eric Sapp, whom Mattingly featured in the second sound bite. Sapp accused the McCain campaign of using the politics of fear: ...