Feb. 23, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
03:33
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| Hi, I'm Dr. | |
| Pchenik. | |
| I'd like to talk about a race that occurred in the 9th Congressional District in North Carolina that turned out to be corrupt and something that was a black mark on the Republican Party and the Evangelical Party. | |
| What am I talking about? | |
| Mark Harris was running against a friend of mine whom I've known, Dan McCready. | |
| Mark Harris is a Baptist preacher. | |
| He went to Appalachia College. | |
| Dan McCready, 35, went to Duke University. | |
| Mark Harris went then to Southern Baptist University and became a Baptist preacher. | |
| Built his own Baptist congregation where Dan McCready, 34-year-old, had a discussion with me 10 years ago. | |
| He talked about going into Iraq. | |
| He joined the Marine Corps. | |
| He went two tours of duty, had two platoons in the Marine Corps, came out and then went to Harvard, MBA at Harvard. | |
| Then created his own business, solar panels, as well as selling American goods. | |
| In contrast, we had a fundamentalist preacher who basically had hired a man by the name of Leslie who bought ballots and bought votes from the people of North Carolina. | |
| Now, Mark Harris, a Baptist minister, knew that very well, but he claimed in the hearings that were going on this past week that he didn't know anything about it. | |
| Well, he was a liar. | |
| He knew everything about it. | |
| Not only was he a liar, but his own son claimed that he had warned his father about the miscreant behavior. | |
| His father then retorted that my son is arrogant and really doesn't know anything. | |
| The point of fact is we know a lot about Mark Harris. | |
| I know about Mark Harris because I've been dealing with the evangelical right for over 30 to 40 years, starting with Pat Robertson, going on with Jerry Falwell, and coming out of the conservative party, I began to know quite a few of the evangelical ministers and Fundamentalist Baptist in the areas that I live here in the South. | |
| Many of them have the same dynamics as Mark Harris. | |
| Number one, they are Jesus-oriented. | |
| Number two, they are not Jesus-oriented in terms of their good deeds. | |
| They're Jesus-oriented in terms of the rationalizations that they make, even though their behavior may be corrupt, hypocritical, and totally opposite from the dictates of Christianity. | |
| So hypocrisy becomes one of their elements of dynamic. | |
| Corruption becomes another element of their dynamic. | |
| And basically what we call them is malignant narcissists. | |
| What they want is the support of people based on the fact that they're preaching on behalf of God or Jesus. | |
| None of which is correct. | |
| All they want to say is how important they are, and they couch it in the terms of God and a prophet called Jesus Christ, but they themselves do nothing for the Republic. | |
| Most of these fundamentalist preachers have never joined the military. | |
| They've done nothing for the Republic. | |
| Let me tell you about a character that I know named Elmer Gantry. | |
| Sinclair Lewis talked about this hypocrite, this liar, and this corrupt individual. | |
| That's Mark Harris and the other name is Elmer Gantry. |
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