{"id":112,"date":"2004-07-13T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=112"},"modified":"2004-07-13T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T08:02:24","slug":"more-from-the-mumbo-jumbo-whitehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"More from the Mumbo-Jumbo Whitehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move <br \/><big>The Jesus Landing Pad<\/big><\/strong><br \/>\nby Rick Perlstein &nbsp; &nbsp; May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM\n<\/p>\n<p>It was an e-mail we weren&#8217;t meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that &#8220;the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level&#8221; this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we&#8217;re not supposed to know the National Security Council&#8217;s top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut now we know.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Everything that you&#8217;re discussing is information you&#8217;re not supposed to have,&#8221; barked Pentecostal minister Robert G. Upton when asked about the off-the-record briefing his delegation received on March 25. Details of that meeting appear in a confidential memo signed by Upton and obtained by the (Village) Voice.\n<\/p>\n<p> See the whole story at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0420\/perlstein.php\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0420\/perlstein.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move The Jesus Landing Pad by Rick Perlstein &nbsp; &nbsp; May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM It was an e-mail we weren&#8217;t meant to see. Not for our eyes were the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}