Forget separation of church and state: how about we think about instituting the separation of media and state? Rush Limbaugh used to mock what he called our “state-run media” (along with calling it, with equal accuracy, the “drive-by media”), but he turned out to be literally correct, as we learned this week.
Not only millions to Politico, but the BBC admitted that it received 8 percent of its revenue from U.S. taxpayers:
Meanwhile, about that whole “separation of church and state” thing that is a First Principle of the secular left:
How come the ACLU or “Americans United for the Separation of Church and State” hasn’t filed a federal lawsuit to block federal grants to Christian-related media? Maybe because Christianity Today has been drifting left:
Incidentally, our Christian readers ought to get West’s book, which is just out: Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders are Failing—And What We Can Do About It. The book poses the simple question: “What if our culture isn’t collapsing because of crusading secularists, but because leading Christians identify more with secular elites than with their fellow believers?”
I plan to have John on a podcast some time soon to talk about his book.
Chaser—need anyone repeat that NPR must be defunded:
