accusers. i think their default is they want to defend him but i feel like right wing media isn t sure. i haven t seen what sinclair news is doing with our traffic and weather whether they re defending moore, but it is a moment of confusion for the right because defending roy moore is what the base seems to want them to do. he s accused of something so heinous that how do you defend them. also, you can t defend and be against roy moore and not address donald trump. and if the deal becomes a party of trump and moore, they probably will be ignoring all of this. but the fact of the matter is is that their president and roy moore are both there s a pattern here. how long can they ignore that pattern? here s the thing. the genius of what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell did. senator franken s thing, that happens, they call for an ethics investigation. senator franken says, yes, let s do this. so did mitch mcconnell.
week. you had you had an alabama republican defending roy moore by essentially comparing him to joseph and his relationship to a teenage mary who in christian cosmology is supposedly a virgin. what did you think of that? yeah. well, first and foremost, there is nothing in the bible at all anywhere that says mary was a teenager when she married joseph. that s just something that we see, you know, on stained glass windows. and secondly, even if you were going to use that admittedly shameful defense for child molestation and pedophilia, you should probably remember that joseph actually didn t end up having sex with mary, right? if you believe in the virgin birth. so even joseph knew better than that. no, but in all seriousness, i think what you re seeing here is that donald trump in the same way that he has transformed the republican party has really
merger of politics and religion. i think this sound bite by alan keys exemplifies this. alan keys is a religious and political activist on the right talking about roy moore. take a listen on thursday. you ll hear a lot of politicians quote about the declaration. i stand with judge roy moore because he never leaves god out. because he always remembers that the logic of the declaration comes to nothing and the authority of the american people comes to nothing except for that evocation of the authority of god. i m sure the united states isn t the only country in the united states where people merge and fuse our political documents with god. how common is that in the world? well, it s not that common, particularly when it comes to developed nations. i mean, there s no question that the united states is by far the most religious country in the
frequently cite his christian values creating a discourse for evangelicals. this week there were two rallies led by religious leaders, one supporting roy moore, one condemning him. the anti-moore rally led by bishop barber focused on his alleged misconduct with teenagers and his policy positions. joining me now is someone who spent years studying religion and people of faith, rez reza athlon. he wrote god. great to talk to you. thank you. the whole moore thing has been fascinating. and these two rallies, the one by the more progressive christians, it s about the
god, family, faith, country, and i am very confident that when everything comes out they will make the best decision for their state. shouldn t be decided by me, by people, on television, by mitc mcconnell, washington. a puddle. joining me now is jennifer rubin and jonathan capeheart of the washington post and eric bowler of share blue media. bowler, you had the disadvantage of not being at the table to have fun with us. i m going to you first. the obedience to steve bannon is interesting. he is not a power player in republican politics. he s been credited with one primary race in alabama that everyone knew the way it was going anyway. he jumped on the roy moore bandwagon when it was already out of the station. but here is how bannon talks about the establishment and the way that it s responded to