How are evangelicals responding to Thursday night’s January 6th Select Committee hearing?
I think the real story here is how many public evangelicals said nothing so far, I am sure there are all kinds of reasons why these folks did not respond. But if their feeds are any indication, it seems many of them preferred to be morally outraged about other things.
Trump lawyer and former Liberty University Falkirk Center Fellow (now Standing for Freedom Center) kept it classy:
I wonder what part of Ellis’s “theology” teaches her to compare her enemies to pigs?:
Trump court journalist David Brody retweeted this:
Brody, who works for the Christian Broadcasting Network, also retweeted this:
Brody also retweeted this:
And he mocked Dan Rather:
Brody also retweeted this:
Gary Bauer shared this on his Facebook page:
Bauer also wrote this on his Facebook page:
Pelosiâs âMust See TVâ
For your viewing pleasure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are presenting a summer spectacular extravaganza. Itâs the January 6th Committee, live and in primetime! I know you just canât wait to tune in this evening.
Of course, there have been many televised congressional hearings before. Watergate. Iran Contra. Supreme Court confirmation hearings. But thereâs never been anything like this.
Hereâs one big difference: In every hearing held by Congress both sides are ALWAYS represented. But tonight, there will be no Republican representation during the Pelosi Show.
Every member of this committee was handpicked by Nancy Pelosi. In an unprecedented exercise of raw political power, Pelosi rejected the choices of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, and picked her own âRepublicansâ to sit on the committee. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are eagerly allowing themselves to be tools of the far left.
Not surprisingly, the American people have a dim view of this charade. Polling shows that just 28% of Americans believe the committee is a âserious attempt to find out what happenedâ on January 6th. Meanwhile, the approval rating of the Democrat-dominated Congress is a dismal 16%.
This is nothing more than a Soviet-style show trial. Youâre only going to hear one side. The committee is stacked and the witnesses are stacked. This is theater, not a legislative process.
Further proving the point, Democrats even brought in James Goldston, a former ABC executive, to produce tonightâs Pelosi Show. Rather fittingly, Goldston is perhaps best known for spiking stories about notorious sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
So, a man known for hiding the truth is in charge of tonightâs production. That speaks volumes.
And I guarantee it will be a good production because thatâs exactly what it is. Itâs propaganda. The kind of thing the Nazis really excelled at in order to demonize their enemies. The communists used this same technique from 1917 in Moscow to this very day in Beijing. Thatâs all this is â smearing Donald Trump and demonizing his supporters.
Family Research Council:
Jim Wallis responds here.
Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht:
This roundup on the January 6 hearing reassures me that I do not miss much when I only read twitter when a tweet is referenced in a report I’m reading.
Do high production vale mean the content is invalid? Deal with the evidence!
Is it ok for a President to agree that his Vice President should be executed?
Ron: I didn’t even think the production was that great. Pretty normal stuff in this day and age. There must also be some humanities majors on the committee because the storytelling was excellent.