Sarah Palin and the Witch-Fighting Penecostalist
The Washington Note — This is a picture of Sarah Palin being prayed over by Thomas Muthee, who according to Max Blumenthal and his sources, "gained fame within Pentecostal circles by claming that he defeated a local witch [in Kenya], Mama Jane, in a great spiritual battle, thus liberating his town from sin and opening its people to the spirit of Jesus." I have to say I was pretty surprised when he was praying for her that Muthee said, "In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, every form of witchcraft. . ." I don't follow religious issues much, and I'm not one that has the confidence Blumenthal does in framing personal and ...

“We need God taking over our education system.”
Sadly, No! — The estimable Max Blumenthal does the leg work on Crazy Sarah Palin and her crazy-assed church: On September 20 and 21, I attended services at the church Sarah Palin belonged to since she was an adolescent, the Wasilla Assembly of God. Though Palin officially left the church in 2002, she is listed on its website as “a friend,” and spoke there as recently as June 8 of this year. I went specifically to see a pastor visiting from Kiambu, Kenya named Thomas Muthee. Muthee gained fame within Pentecostal circles by claiming that he defeated a local witch, Mama Jane, in a great spiritual battle, thus liberating his town from sin and ...

Campaign 08: Palin's Witchy Ways
The Nation: Top Stories — On September 20 and 21, I attended services at the church Sarah Palin belonged to since she was an adolescent, the Wasilla Assembly of God. Though Palin officially left the church in 2002, she is listed on its website as "a friend," ...

Video: Palin Shown Praying With "Witch Hunter"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — More information is emerging about the peculiar religious upbringing of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On Tuesday, progressive writer and documentarian Max Blumenthal reported on visits he had made to Palin's former church, the Wasilla Assembly of God, in late September, and the sermons of the controversial visiting pastor, Thomas Muthee. "Muthee implored his audience to wage 'spiritual warfare' against 'the enemy.' As I filmed, a nervous church staffer approached from behind and told me to put my camera away. I acceded to his demand, but as Muthee urged the church to crush 'the python spirit' of the unbeliever enemies by stomping ...

Video: Palin Shown Praying With "Witch Hunter"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — More information is emerging about the peculiar religious upbringing of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On Tuesday, progressive writer and documentarian Max Blumenthal reported on visits he had made to Palin's former church, the Wasilla Assembly of God, in late September, and the sermons of the controversial visiting pastor, Thomas Muthee. "Muthee implored his audience to wage 'spiritual warfare' against 'the enemy.' As I filmed, a nervous church staffer approached from behind and told me to put my camera away. I acceded to his demand, but as Muthee urged the church to crush 'the python spirit' of the unbeliever enemies by stomping ...

Crazy Pastor Update
Balloon Juice — Not Obama’s. Palin’s: This campaign is insane.

Casting Out ‘The Spirit Of Witchcraft’ Over Sarah Palin
Firedoglake — Max Blumenthal has been busy in Alaska: By the end of the second day of Muthee’s sermons, the church had been tipped off about me, the liberal media member in its midst. An associate pastor told me he had received an email from an anonymous source warning him about me. When I ...

Preacher Problem!
Daily Kos — You remember Hunter's story about the witch hunting preacher who prayed for Sarah Palin's election to the governor's office? There's more. Max Blumenthal's got video of that prayer. But that's not even the part of the video that moved me to write. Here's Max's set up: Muthee’s mounting stardom took him to Wasilla Assembly of God in May, 2005, where he prayed over Palin and called upon Jesus to propel her into the governor’s mansion — and beyond. Muthee also implored Jesus to protect Palin from "the spirit of witchcraft." The video archive of that startling sermon was scrubbed from ...

Witch Fighter Muthee annoints Sarah Palin
Majikthise — Seriously, folks... My good friend and esteemed colleague Max Blumenthal has uncovered some footage of Sarah Palin getting blessed against witchcraft at the Wasilla Assembly of God. In this clip visting pastor Muthee casts out the spirit of witchcraft (sic) over Sarah Palin, but only after he prays for campaign contributions for her ...

Overnight Open Thread: Season of the Witch
TalkLeft — Context: Associated Press: Palin Once Blessed to Be Free From Withcraft Max Blumenthal: The Witch Fighter Annoints Palin KagroX at Daily Kos: Preacher Problem John McCain may want to think twice before running new ads about Rev. Wright. His campaign said this week Wright could come up during the last 43 days of the election. Undoubtedly, the Obama campaign will ignore them and refuse to fight back with the Palin preacher videos, saying saying it's all about the economy, but the media won't and voters will see them. ...

Saying no to witches
Ben Smith's Blog —   AP offers some background on a video of Palin receiving protection from an African pastor against "every form of witchcraft" -- not just some forms -- in May of 2005. Witches aside (!), the content of the blessing isn't particularly political. Huffington Post's Max Blumenthal first posted the video.

Palin, Muthee And The "Israelites"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — If you go to 1:20 into this Youtube, you will hear Muthee, who later anointed Palin, say the following words in Palin's presence: The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the ...

Pastor Muthee and Mayor Palin
Political Punch — So Much for Putting Politics Aside to Solve this Financial Crisis | Main Pastor Muthee and Mayor Palin September 25, 2008 12:19 PM A grainy 2005 video has emerged from the Wasilla Assembly of God featuring a Kenyan pastor named Thomas Muthee and then-Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin. Some commentators have mocked the moment where Muthee prays to God to protect Palin from "witchcraft." Catholic League president Bill Donohue said today that "For the past two decades, Americans have been lectured by educators and the chattering class that we must respect cultural, religious, racial and ethnic diversity. It seems that exceptions to the creed of ...

Isrealites
Rising Hegemon — The crazy witch-doctor obsessed Minister that annoints Sarah Palin later in the service has a telling quote about Jews made RIGHT in front of her -- that should go over big not only with Jewish voters, but sane people everywhere [possibly not a problem for Gregg Easterbrook or Pat Buchanan]: The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of ...

Praying over Sarah Palin: 'The spirit of witchcraft'
Orcinus — -- by Dave Max Blumenthal has been busy in Alaska: By the end of the second day of Muthee’s sermons, the church had been tipped off about me, the liberal media member in its midst. An associate pastor told me he had received an email from an anonymous source warning him about me. When I tried to interview members of the congregation in the church parking lot, my questions were either met with silence or open hostility. I strongly suspect the McCain campaign has mobilized the Wasilla Assembly of God against perceived threats from the media. But they ...

You want to talk nutty pastors? Well, here you go
Brilliant at Breakfast — Excerpt: The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are ...

Let's hear it for the witch-hunting anti-Semite.
Blah3 Feed — And to think people got all into a tizz about Reverend Wright. What about this guy? The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today. When we will see that, you ...

Pastor Muthee: A Real Witchhunter, All Right
Firedoglake — Bill Donohue of the Catholic League seems to think that Pastor Thomas Muthee, the self-proclaimed witchhunter who prayed over Sarah Palin in that video -- and who Palin credits with her electoral success -- is simply an exotic African kind of Christian evangelist doing God's work in his ...

Video: Visiting pastor prays over Palin for protection from witchcraft
Hot Air » Top Picks — Video: Visiting pastor prays over Palin for protection from witchcraft posted at 10:05 pm on September 25, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Tapper’s got a good quickie recap to bring you up to speed. Skip ahead to 8:30 for the money bit. The left wants payback for Wright ( Hagee and Parsley don’t quite suffice, evidently) so here’s their tu quoque for “God damn America,” I guess. Why prayers about witchcraft would be deemed alarmingly kooky or outre when prayers about angels, demons, or Satan are perfectly mundane and unexceptional escapes me, but then an atheist would say that, wouldn’t he? ...

Who do you trust to work with the Israelites?
Jesus' General — Sister Sarah Pain's witch fighting pastor: The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even ...

John McCain hires Sarah Palin’s Kenyan Pastor to "remove Witchcraft from U.S. economy"
Shakesville — WASILLA, Alaska -- In a move sure to enhance both his reputation as a maverick reformer and his relationship with conservative voters, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain has hired Kenyan Pastor Thomas Muthee as his chief negotiator in the ongoing financial bailout negotiations in Washington ...

Jerry Weinstein: The Palin Doctrine & The Culture Wars: Seeing "Spring Awakening" Through Sarah's Eyes - The Jerry Weinstein Report
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Spring Awakening, the Tony-award-winning Best Musical for 2007, launched the first leg of a national tour in San Francisco earlier this September. Far headier than the jukebox musicals lately filling the Rialto, this re-imagining of the 1891 Frank Wedekind play mashes-up its German fin de siècle setting with a lyrical vernacular that would be right at home in Juno (see Act Two's showstopper "Totally Fucked"). It's not for nothing that Wedekind is held to be the Father of Expressionism; Spring offers a far truer look at teen angst than Diablo Cody's candy cane of an indie flick served up earlier thisspring. ...

William Kristol, Whoring For Sarah Palin
Daily Kos — Since the McCain campaign settled on the strategy of keeping Sarah Palin from any member of the media not safely in the back pocket of the Republican Party, they have only let her speak to carefully chosen people. And today's recipient of the whoring-for-Palin award goes to William Kristol of the New York Times. Kristol's mission? To assist in the McCain campaign's strategy to swift boat Barack Obama. It seems that Kristol just happened to chat with Sarah Palin on the phone and gosh, you betcha that she thinks saying that Obama "pals around with terrorists" is fair game, never mind that it's not true. And never mind that ...

Some People Call You Batshit Crazy. John McCain Calls You His Base
King of Zembla — Via Zemblan patriot J.D.: A Mr. Jim Bramlett of the online community site InJesus.com has been calling for all-out "spiritual warfare" since he received the extremely disturbing missive excerpted below. He describes the author, Flo Ellers, as a credentialed member of "the International Fellowship of Ministries which is based in Washington State. She is also a member of EndTime Handmaidens and Servants of Jasper, Arkansas" -- so we think it is safe to conclude that Ms. Ellers knows a thing or two about chicken sacrifice: Two days ago, I listened to a 9-6-08 message by Bree Keyton, a young woman evangelist who had just traveled to Kenya ...

Bruce Wilson: Katherine Harris Was in Sarah Palin's Spiritual Warfare Network
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Katherine Harris became notorious for her role in the U.S. 2000 presidential election when Harris, then Florida's Secretary of State, ordered the Florida election vote recount shut down amidst numerous charges of election fraud and irregularity and with Al Gore trailing George W. Bush by only several hundred votes in the contest for Florida's electoral votes which ultimately went to George W. Bush and so determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. A recording of an October 3, 2006 conference call [link to YouTube video with 3:26 segment from call] between Katherine Harris, then Florida U.S. Congressional Representative, and ...

Ignorant Rick Warren’s Ugandan BFF is Dangerously Crazy
Firedoglake — In a pre-election video, Rick Warren,who says he would never endorse a candidate but on "moral issues comes out very clear"--once again fondles a favorite rotting corpse of lies, that "for 5,000 years in every religion marriage has been one man and one woman." Then in an ...

Bruce Wilson: John Ensign Linked To "Do-it-Yourself Exorcism" Movement
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Beyond the obvious hypocrisy inherent in GOP Senator and Promise Keepers member John Ensign's recently disclosed extramarital sexual affair, there's another notable aspect to Ensign's religious affiliations that has so far escaped public notice: exorcism. Senator John Ensign belongs to a Pentecostal denomination, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, that promotes a new health care paradigm in which both physical and psychological maladies can be cured through the casting out of demons. In the new approach, individuals can even heal themselves by exorcising their own demons, through a process that a 2003 Associated Press story characterized as "do it ...

Bruce Wilson: Palin Pastors, Ensign C Street House Owner Promote Same Infiltration Plan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — As I described in a June 11, 2009 story Ensign's "C Street House" Owned By Group Touting Plans For Christian World Control, founder of Youth With a Mission Loren Cunningham, whose organization owns the house where GOP Senators John Ensign and Tom Coburn enjoy cheap rent, espouses a doctrine known as the "Seven Mountains Mandate" in which believers seek to gain world control, by gaining influence over seven key sectors of society: religion, government, media, education, arts and entertainment, family, and business. But the Seven Mountains idea is not unique to Loren Cunningham, and it is likely that Sarah Palin embraces the 7M Mandate's theocratic ...

Bruce Wilson: Palin Pastor's Re-education Scheme "May Seem Like Totalitarianism"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — While Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has recently raised the specter of totalitarian government by warning about "death panels" she claims are part of the Obama administration's health care plan, Palin herself has ties to a prominent Christian pastor who publicly advocates the establishment of a government regime that, in his own words, "may seem like totalitarianism" and would re-educate citizens in 'correct' decision making -- an approach reminiscent of re-education campaigns during the violence-wracked Chinese communist Cultural Revolution. Last March, Sarah Palin enjoyed an extended telephone consultation and pep talk with Morningstar ...

alicublog — THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GAAAAAAAAH! Just finished Max Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party. It has three big themes, two of which are not wholly convincing, but one of which is dead on. The overarching story is of the complete infestation of the Republican Party by fundamentalist Christians and, as the subtitle suggests, the disastrous results of those agents' many public downfalls in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Blumenthal could have made a whole book (and twice as long) about the origins of the fundamentalist political movement, starting with the theocrat R.J. Rushdoony and ...