By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
Two mentions of Marci McDonald’s book on the National Post’s blog section of their website. The conservative national newspaper might have run these “Full Comment” items in the actual newspaper as well.
Charles Lewis listened to The Current interview of McDonald yesterday, and thought that it was a case of two people with the same world view talking to each other.
Although I was a few days before National Post columnist Don Martin noticing that infamous Faytene Kryskow quote that compared the good that she hopes to do to the, erm, Hitler Youth, that is probably only due to my getting the book earlier.
It’s only a matter of time before others in the media look at the various things that Faytene says and does and go “Whaaa”. She’s losing the opportunity to change her ways, and thinking, before reporters take her behind the woodshed.
Don Martin does a fairly even-handed column about the book, but he leads off with this:
There’s a particularly bizarre analogy in a just-released book on Canada’s religious right, in which a youth evangelist with strong connections to the federal Conservatives compares her Christian followers to the Hitler Youth.
“If they could mobilize their cause to become that mighty with the power of evil backing them,” militant evangelical Faytene Kryskow says, “how much more could we accomplish with the power of God backing us up?”
Yikes. Here’s some free and friendly advice, Faytene. If you aim to lead your Christian soldiers onward into political war, drop all Nazi references. Please.
I wonder if Faytene Kryskow will issue an apology. Or a libel writ.
(added by BD ) One or two people in this photo might be dismayed also.
But, but, but, BUT Rick!!! It was taken out of context!!!
It’s garbage!!! CanWest should fire him!!!
http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/don-martin-nazism-and-harper/
Bless you!!! ;^)
Commenter on the post Bene D cites:
“Payback time will come to those journalists who seek to destroy for no reason at all.”
*Rick buys fake mustache, sunglasses, floppy hat and bus ticket out of town.*
Seriously though, Martin is writing, as I tried to, “Faytene, er, this is really dumb to say if that’s not what you mean…”
Even if you try to be nice to Faytene in writing about it, it is 200 per cent newsworthy. Any journalist, even if they uncritically liked Faytene, would say the same thing.
Hopefully, someone will have a word with her.
Deborah Gyanong writes:
“Do not buy this book. Do not support this kind of anti-Christian propaganda.” http://tiny.cc/5t7v8
You get a mention. I don’t think Ms. Gyanong is aware of your so-con and charismatic creds any more than she is about NAR, Kryskow etc.
I think you get lumped in with ‘nice totalitarianism of the progressive left’ and the ‘brie and chardonnay set.’
It’s good to see Martin calling Faytene out, she is the news peg.
Check her Facebook page Rick, I think she has a march to do, she was all excited
Re: Earlier Comments by Rick Hiebert:
-In Article:
1.Change her ways before reporters take her behind the woodshed.
-In Reply #2 Rick Hiebert:
2.Hopefully someone will have a word with her
It won’t be me or Marci McDonald
It will have to be someone she won’t dare tangle with
Being nice, easy going honour system sadly doesn’t seem to work with Faytene, so, what is left to do to deal with her?
So, who will deal with her and how, time will tell ?
Maybe it might be a Supreme Court Judge ?
Faytene Kryskow you’ve pushed your luck further than I’d dare to do !
Hmmm. A sideways admiration of Nazi power by a practicing christofascist. Colour me surprised.
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“Hopefully, someone will have a word with her.”
Maybe a direct order would be more effective.
6 Jon H
With what has, is going on now, the way things are going, I think it is only a matter of time before -someone has a word with her and or maybe a direct order- probably could be quite ugly.
Faytene Kryskow’s beliefs verses what she confesses and or professes, I think, have been generating some controversy with a certain amount who’ve been observing her.
This whole New Apostolic Reformation, (NAR), for one thing, what they believe verses their transparency and -showing true colours- is interesting how it all unfolds.
The size, numbers and power of NAR are a little bit scary.
I’d though that looked like Mancy Greene Raine…but Laureen Harper. Eeep!