Dispatches From Fox Nation: Obama’s New Pastor Is Definitely Not Jeremiah Wright

Steve KrakauerOct 15th, 2009, 11:11 am

Dispatches From Fox Nation:

Now that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is out of the picture, and Pres. Barack Obama and family have settled in D.C., it was time for a new church. But while the First Family haven’t made a definitive choice, his most-frequented pastor has raised some eyebrows for, as The Fox Nation puts it, saying ‘Islam Is Violent.’ Wait, what?

That’s right, one of the main stories at The Fox Nation right now is headlined, “Obama’s New Pastor: ‘Islam Is Violent’“. It links to a Times of London piece on Carey Cash, the navy chaplain at Camp David. Here’s the key part highlighted by the Fox News-owned opinion/community site:

More than a year after he was forced to disown his Chicago pastor, President Obama has begun to attend services led by a Christian chaplain who views Islam as a violent faith.

Mr Obama has been an irregular church attender since becoming President, but has expressed a fondness for Carey Cash, the navy chaplain at the Camp David presidential retreat who has been criticised for proselytising in the military and his mistrust of Islam.

A couple things here: first of all, Cash didn’t actually say the words that are in the headline. He implied it in a book he wrote in 2004, writing Islam “from its very birth has used the edge of the sword as a means to convert or conquer those with different religious convictions.” Slightly different.

But more importantly – this is person who’s the chaplain at Camp David? It certainly is a far cry from rhetoric of Rev. Wright. Fun fact: Rev. Cash is the great-nephew of Johnny Cash.

Our regular Fox Nation commenters, as can be expected, are a bit conflicted on this one. “Georgie Girl” thinks this is great: “Very interesting…we’ll see if he continues to listen to him.”

But “BS Police” thinks he has figured out what’s really going on here: