The term “crescendo” is usually associated with music. But its an appropriate description of Fox News analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. during an appearance this morning on Fox and Friends. in discussing the recent flap over Rev. Franklin Graham and National Day Of Prayer service at the White House.

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Johnson started calmly, built steadily, and culminated with “the government should keep its hands off what ministers are saying what to what group of people on National Prayer Day.”

Johnson: I think vindictiveness won over prayer. No one is out to make any excuses for the statements that Franklin Graham made. They were made nine years ago in the wake of 9-11, in the wake of 3,000 deaths. He doesn’t need excuses. He’s made his viewpoint clear as an evangelical minister, and someone who wants to proselytize the world in the words of Jesus Christ. What we’ve said now is that the army wants to decide what the religious content should be. we’ve seen now that the government wants to decide that the

old regime, that the old regime that is associated with Preacher Graham and President Bush is over and that we have an America light now where we are embarrassed by our sons. Should Preacher Graham and his son be embarrassed of each others conduct? Preacher Graham’s son is a 29-year-old west point graduate who was wounded in 2007, is on his fourth duty in Iraq. What does he say to the non-commissioned officers, to the captains, to the colonels on the ground in Iraq? Does he say, I’m embarrassed by my father, that I’m embarrassed by my family’s legacy of service to this country, of ministering to soldiers and to presidents and governors and senators and say he’s an embarrassment now to the world? is Franklin Graham an embarrassment to the world in in spite of one overstated, overblown statement that he probably now regrets, or if he doesn’t, he should, or we should allow him to redeem himself. What does that say to you?Gretchen: it says we live in a pc society where one person complains and then the whole thing is council.Johnson: There is no place for mass generalizations, but there is a place, Steve, I think, in this country for redemption, for forgiveness, and the government should keep its hands off what ministers are saying what to what group of people on National Prayer Day. That’s wrong. Maybe
it’s pay back, but it’s wrong.
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