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newsbusters.org - 8/18/2008
NBC's Todd: Obama to Prevent 'Personal Hatred' from Evangelicals
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On a special Saturday edition of MSNBC's Hardball, while previewing that night's presidential candidates forum hosted by evangelical leader Rick Warren, NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd seemed to suggest that it is not out of the ordinary for evangelical Christians to feel "personal hatred" toward a Democratic presidential candidate, as he contended that the forum would give ...

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Carol Platt Liebau: What Elite Media Think of Evangelicals?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Two remarkable items show, pretty dramatically, why there is an urgent need for anyone truly serious about "diversity" to start lobbying for more evangelical Christians in newsrooms . . . now. First, via Newbusters : Chuck Todd -- who generally strikes me as pretty fair -- actually opined as follows before the Saddleback Forum on Saturday night: So it's a huge opportunity for Obama tonight to at least not be hated by the evange-, look, these folks are not going to ever support him. . . But they're not going to, if they don't have a personal hatred of him, then that's a good ...

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