Click here to see Chris Hedges saying that Operation Rescue is an equivalent of al-Qaeda and that Christian universities that teach Creationism are the equivalent of Wahhabism. This is roughly the most inane thing I’ve seen in months, the sort of thing that you would expect to be uttered by some thoroughly addled conspiracy theorist. But, as it happens, Mr. Hedges is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of the recent bestseller American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America. Anyway, read the interview: if you can forget how depressing it is to see somebody so smart be so stupid, it’s kind of amusing to see him repeatedly make outrageous claims and then end up more or less admitting, when challenged, that he has no evidence for his assertions. And, clearly, there’s no need to waste your money on the book, if he can’t even come up with enough evidence to back up an assertion or two for an interview.
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Alan Schmierer