CNN's Kagyn just said that Bishop T.D. Jakes

[UnityDem]

is accompanying Bush to stricken areas to comfort the victims.
Take that for what it is worth.

[SheilaT]

1. Who is Bishop T.D. Jakes?

For those of us who've never heard of him.

[tanyev]

4. Texas preacher - megachurch. Dallas? Fort Worth?

He is black, congregation is mostly black, the Bush team is hoping this will deflect some of the criticism.

[booksenkatz]

7. Using him as a human shield? Whatta coward. nt

[SheilaT]

13. Thank you.

I live in Kansas and do my best to ignore the mega churches here, so I'm quite ignorant of those elsewhere.

[Obamanaut]

22. T D Jakes satellite services go to many FLA prisons. n/t

[JohnnyBoots]

5. A black Republican. One of those 20 million dollar mega church preachers.

[still_one]

2. is he going to help like Al Gore, or Sean Penn?

[BootinUp]

3. Just another photo op.

[UnityDem]

14. yes, but a very smart one

brilliant move by Rove....I hope that New Orleans mayor and others don't fall for it. Jakes won't let Bush be the fall guy. That role has now been given to Gov.Blanco.

[slor]

6. Was he one of the Black clergy...

that supported bush and his anti-gay marriage assault on America? Was he one of my fellow African Americans that brought shame on my community by supporting this kind of discrimination? And finally, was he one of the many people that somehow ignored one of the biggest, and largely underreported flip-flops by bush, when a week before election, while trailing in the polls, he said, he had nothing against gay marriage?

[mzteris]

8. Worth?

probably a lot for the freeper types.

Why can't people see through their pandering?

Bush et al isn't worth spit.

[Spazito]

9. I heard an interview on CNN with him yesterday, he is a major bushbot

He refused to say anything of consequence, kept dancing around all the issues including the one of race. I give full credit to the CNN person, she (cannot remember who it was)kept hammering him, trying to get an honest response from him but it was a no go.

[Window]

12. Yes, I saw the interview but expected TD Jakes to skirt the issue of

race. Therefore, I was not surprised when he did just that.

[linazelle]

10. He's a piece of worthless crap. Saw him interviewed on CNN last nite

When asked if there were racist undertones ala Kanye West, he danced around the answer saying he won't make assumptions until the facts are in. Newsreader ended interview saying somebody in the newsroom felt that Jakes should have been on a play with a bullhorn in the early days of the tragedy to help calm things down--or something to that effect. :eyes:

[oasis]

23. "Exclusive" interview by CNN's resident Bushbot, Carol Lin.

[bluedog]

11. did you notice.......10 cars traveling with bush?

what a f'ing waste of gas.....are all airlifts stopped when * is in the air?.Are all rescue efforts stopped when * is on the grouns?....If so then he should keep his ass home......like they say.enough of the conferences and photo-ops........we have had it!

[bribri16]

15. Trying to keep the victims from being pissed at Bush. How much cover

does this incompetent fool need? I hope the poor people don't fall for this crap but they haven't had the advantage of watching TV and hearing what was really going on. They will believe Jakes as will many of his followers. You have to hand it to them, these neocons know how to push all the buttons.

[Swamp Rat]

16. Like South Park's "get behind the darkies: Operation Human Shield"

:puke:

[0007]

17. and "Starving Marvin"

[onager]

18. Jakes is famous for his so-called "ministry to women"

He cranks out a lot of Instant Best-Sellers with titles like "Woman, Thou Art Loosed!"

Grumpy (Male) Atheist must note that any woman with a lick of sense will spot this as the same old "submit to anything with a penis" message preached by Phyllis Schlafly, et. al.

A google will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about this slimy, money-grubbing God-Botherer.

[Pithy Cherub]

19. So bush is taken along his personal "Aid & Comfort" for pics.

:puke: T.D. Jakes :puke:

[Obamarama]

20. What's the "T" in T.D. stand for? Tom? As in Uncle Tom?

[linazelle]

21. Yeah...not exactly sure, but I think that's it. n/t

[belle]

24. "tithe"

[itzamirakul]

25. Jakes spoke out last night about the slowness of the response but he would

not "blame" Bush. He wants some of that money that will be directed to church charitites that are taking the place of Government agencies. So now, the ministers can pocket what they want, spread it out among family and friends and then decide on who should get the leftovers

[oasis]

26. T.D. moving to be first in line to receive federal "faith based" funds

for his operation.