Evangelista!

I missed its first run last night, and hell, I normally miss all its runs. But after catching the stylistic, but ultimately empty 'Sin City' last night, I managed to catch the 'Capital Catholic Gang' last night on the Christianity News Network.

Holy crap. What a fucking odious smug-fest to Opus "DIE" advocate Douchebag Novak. I mean just speechless. If that show had been broadcast a quarter-century ago and Attaturk had watched it, I'd be suing for being the victim of virtual pederasty because I felt duly diddled.

James Wolcott describes it well (of course):

The Capital Gang went full metal Catholic in this week's edition, using the Pope's death as an altar to celebrate Novak's Catholic conversion as the fellow panelists reminisced about the great day he received his first communion. The centerpiece of the show was a segment devoted to Novak's embrace of the cross, tracing his spiritual development through a visual montage that showed a young Jewish boy from the Midwest evolving into a political reporter aging into a smug man in a banker's vest staring thoughtfully at church statuary and appearing on Crossfire with ashes smudged on his angry brow. He was even interviewed by Judy Woodruff (Hunt's wife) about his newfound faith! It was bad enough when pundits started fancying themselves as political players, now we're supposed to take them seriously as religious pilgrims too.

As many of you probably know, Frank Rich wrote a brilliant column on a similar topic in the NY Times, well worth reading.