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Rolling Stone Magazine political writer Matt Taibbi recently published this account of his undercover assignment in John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in Texas.  Taibbi, former sports editor of  The Moscow Times, brings his usual Murrow-with-tourettes style to this expose from the “evangelical front lines.”  Entitled Jesus Made Me Puke the story recounts Taibbi’s trip to an “Encounter Weekend.”  By recounts I mean cynically mocks and insults anyone and everyone there.

This is exactly the kind of liberal, elitist dreck that ensures the Democrats will continue playing identity politics roulette for years to come.  It’s like Obama’s “bitter” comment on steroids, chock full of the same perpetually sophomoric adolescent mocking that has become the hallmark of left-wing “criticism.”  Taibbi describes his “experience” as a cult-like exercise in self-emasculating pop psychology’ which he avoids by inventing personal troubles and singing in Russian.  I will never understand why the left has such disdain for people who lean on God but seem so eager to send a check to people who lean on welfare.  Oh that’s right, the welfare people vote for them.