Mike Farrell on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/mike_farrell Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2011 2011-07-11T21:19:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Extremely Unctuous http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/extremely_unctuous_20110711/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/extremely_unctuous_20110711/ christianity, cult, islamophobia, jesus rifles, mike farrell, mikey weinstein, military, religion, scientology, west point,

To listen to the bloviators, “religious extremist” means Muslim, and too many Americans buy in without understanding that this “God is (only) on our side” nonsense infects elements in pretty much every belief system.

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The Hollywood-centric “Membership First” faction that has controlled the Screen Actors Guild’s national board for most of the last five years chooses tactics—misinformation, tough talk and over-promising—that undermine the union’s credibility.

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