http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755883/vp/46475340#46475694
Laurence O'Donnell, a royalist and pedigreed liberal on MSNBC, one of MSNBC's sharper wits, engages the ham-fisted and hapless (Rev.) Franklin Graham. O'Donnell's criticism can be rebutted handily enough, but Graham reveals the dangers of an uneducated, inarticulate, unformed, un-theological, non-confessional, and non-liturgical ministry. O'Donnell pummels Graham as a "rich" and "famous" celebrity-seeker making an annual income of $750,000 and one who speaks on a level "lower than any under average Southern Baptist minister." While O'Donnell trades on "a" stereotype of SBC backwoodsman clerics, there is "some" truth in the stereotype. Graham hardly speaks with caution, nuance or even a "fundamental respectability," that is, "substantial credibility" that all listeners must engage. Ergo, O'Donnell rightly dismisses the son of Billy Graham as a serious interlocutor.
Laurence O'Donnell, a royalist and pedigreed liberal on MSNBC, one of MSNBC's sharper wits, engages the ham-fisted and hapless (Rev.) Franklin Graham. O'Donnell's criticism can be rebutted handily enough, but Graham reveals the dangers of an uneducated, inarticulate, unformed, un-theological, non-confessional, and non-liturgical ministry. O'Donnell pummels Graham as a "rich" and "famous" celebrity-seeker making an annual income of $750,000 and one who speaks on a level "lower than any under average Southern Baptist minister." While O'Donnell trades on "a" stereotype of SBC backwoodsman clerics, there is "some" truth in the stereotype. Graham hardly speaks with caution, nuance or even a "fundamental respectability," that is, "substantial credibility" that all listeners must engage. Ergo, O'Donnell rightly dismisses the son of Billy Graham as a serious interlocutor.
2 comments:
These uneducated types create havoc in the church!
Dave:
They do. Graham had nothing compelling to say and, due to incompetence, left the frontline wide open to attack. Embarrassing.
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