Regent Univ. scrubs references to administration

[RedEarth]

Regent Univ. scrubs references to administration.The Carpetbagger Report notes: “About a week ago, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick noted a tidbit that the rest of us missed: TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Regent University boasts that 150 of its graduates, including former top DoJ aide Monica Goodling, are serving in some capacity in the Bush administration. … hortly after Lithwick’s piece was published and the 150 figure quickly drew national attention (and a Paul Krugman column), Regent edited its About Us page — and removed the reference to the 150 Bush-hired alumni.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/regent-univ-scrubs-references-to-administration/

[WCGreen]

1. It was god's will.....

[SoCalDem]

2. And that's why God created "cache" & "Screen-cap"

:rofl:

[BuyingThyme]

3. Goodling kills.

[babylonsister]

4. You need to delete the brackets around that 'S' to remove strikeouts.

And here's Lithwick's original story:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=273376

Come to think of it, I saw that story all over the internets; so busted, Regent U!

[Justice]

5. that is very interesting - Regent wants to dissassociate themselves

from administration?

[MissMarple]

6. Probably just from the fundie infiltration of the civil service system.

Which they have indeed done. How on earth do we move these religiously insane twits out? Maybe it all will come down to job performance.

[jmowreader]

7. I think there's something more sinister afoot

I read something once--IIRC it was in Mother Jones in the 1980s--about how the fundamentalists were planning to take over the country.

Said the piece, they didn't want people to notice what they were doing--until it was too late. They'd go after the school boards first, then local government, then state government and Congress before finally taking over the White House.

People talk about Bush being bad value for money for the fundamentalists, but he's really not--you can't go from the Clinton Administration, which the BTs consider to be the resurrection of Sodom and Gomorrah, to Gilead in one fell swoop. You've got to have stages, and Bush is the first stage. He's putting a little more Christianity in the government every year.

Now let's move to 2008. I just did a very detailed examination of the 2008 candidates for another website; of all the top-tier Republican candidates now in the race, Newt meets the needs of the fundies the best. Unfortunately, he isn't electable; the electorate's memory isn't THAT short. So I don't know who they're going to run.

According to the Master Plan for Christian Domination®, they'll pick someone who's very much a Christian Reconstructionist and get everyone behind him. It won't be any of the players we're seeing now: Newt is unelectable, Mitt's a cultist, Fred Thompson won't put up with their shit, Rudy is worse than Clinton and McCain's too fucking old. Their ideal candidate is Tom Tancredo, but Tom Tancredo can't even win the Colorado primary. Expect to see someone really attractive come into the race and get a lot of Christian backing.

Back to Regent University's problem. They MUST infiltrate their people into the government so that, when they get the right candidate, they'll be ready to work. However, they can't let the rest of the world know what's going on. Normally, having a hundred and fifty of your graduates working for the President of the United States would be a wonderful selling point--UNLESS YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW THEY'RE THERE!!! So they've been delisted from Regent's website.

I figure someone in Regent's Institutional Development Office put this up because they thought it was a good selling point. She's probably looking for a job right now.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. CNP

that's the nexus

[underpants]

9. See! Problem solved Regent no longer has 150 drones appointed by this administration

so all of your whiny libs who thought this was tantamount to creating sleeper cells in the US government should just go away and be ashamed of yourselves.

:sarcasm:

[jmowreader]

10. Oh my

Never. Ever. Again. Call these people drones.

"Drone" implies they're just sitting around marking time.

These 150 hard-working civil servants are performing at top efficiency to turn the United States into exactly the kind of country Pat Robertson would be proud to call his own. If they were just sitting on their asses waiting for 4:30pm to come around, there wouldn't be any problem.

Unfortunately, these 150 people are the precursors to Mullah Pat's muttawa.